Gene expression profile identifies tyrosine kinase c-Met as a targetable mediator of antiangiogenic therapy resistance.
Gene expression profile identifies tyrosine kinase c-Met as a targetable mediator of antiangiogenic therapy resistance.
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10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-12-1281
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2013-04-01
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Aghi MK
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Jahangiri A;De Lay M;Miller LM;Carbonell WS;Hu YL;Lu K;Tom MW;Paquette J;Tokuyasu TA;Tsao S;Marshall R;Perry A;Bjorgan KM;Chaumeil MM;Ronen SM;Bergers G;Aghi MK
To identify mediators of glioblastoma anti-angiogenic therapy resistance and target these mediators in xenografts. We performed microarray analysis comparing bevacizumab-resistant glioblastomas (BRGs) to pre-treatment tumors from the same patients. We established novel xenograft models of anti-angiogenic therapy resistance to target candidate resistance mediator(s). BRG microarray analysis revealed upregulation versus pre-treatment of receptor tyrosine kinase c-Met, which underwent further investigation because of its prior biologic plausibility as a bevacizumab resistance mediator. BRGs exhibited increased hypoxia versus pre-treatment in a manner correlating with their c-Met upregulation, increased c-Met phosphorylation, and increased phosphorylation of c-Met-activated focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and STAT3. We developed two novel xenograft models of anti-angiogenic therapy resistance. In the first model, serial bevacizumab treatment of an initially responsive xenograft generated a xenograft with acquired bevacizumab resistance, which exhibited upregulated c-Met expression versus pre-treatment. In the second model, a BRG-derived xenograft maintained refractoriness to the MRI tumor vasculature alterations and survival-promoting effects of bevacizumab. Growth of this BRG-derived xenograft was inhibited by a c-Met inhibitor. Transducing these xenograft cells with c-Met shRNA inhibited their invasion and survival in hypoxia, disrupted their mesenchymal morphology, and converted them from bevacizumab-resistant to bevacizumab-responsive. Engineering bevacizumab-responsive cells to express constitutively active c-Met caused these cells to form bevacizumab-resistant xenografts. These findings support the role of c-Met in survival in hypoxia and invasion, features associated with anti-angiogenic therapy resistance; and growth and therapeutic resistance of xenografts resistant to anti-angiogenic therapy. Therapeutically targeting c-Met could prevent or overcome anti-angiogenic therapy resistance.