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  2. Metabolic plasticity underpins innate and acquired resistance to LDHA inhibition

Metabolic plasticity underpins innate and acquired resistance to LDHA inhibition

  • Nat Chem Biol. 2016 Oct;12(10):779-86. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2143.
Aaron Boudreau 1 Hans E Purkey 2 Anna Hitz 3 Kirk Robarge 2 David Peterson 1 Sharada Labadie 2 Mandy Kwong 3 Rebecca Hong 3 Min Gao 3 Christopher Del Nagro 3 Raju Pusapati 1 Shuguang Ma 4 Laurent Salphati 4 Jodie Pang 4 Aihe Zhou 2 Tommy Lai 5 Yingjie Li 6 Zhongguo Chen 6 Binqing Wei 2 Ivana Yen 7 Steve Sideris 7 Mark McCleland 8 Ron Firestein 8 Laura Corson 3 Alex Vanderbilt 9 Simon Williams 9 Anneleen Daemen 10 Marcia Belvin 3 Charles Eigenbrot 11 Peter K Jackson 3 Shiva Malek 7 Georgia Hatzivassiliou 3 Deepak Sampath 3 Marie Evangelista 1 Thomas O'Brien 3
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Discovery Oncology, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 2 Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 3 Translational Oncology, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 4 Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 5 Chemistry, WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China.
  • 6 Structural Biology, WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China.
  • 7 Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 8 Department of Pathology, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 9 Biomedical Imaging, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 10 Bioinformatics, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
  • 11 Structural Biology, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Abstract

Metabolic reprogramming in tumors represents a potential therapeutic target. Herein we used shRNA depletion and a novel Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDHA) inhibitor, GNE-140, to probe the role of LDHA in tumor growth in vitro and in vivo. In MIA PaCa-2 human pancreatic cells, LDHA inhibition rapidly affected global metabolism, although cell death only occurred after 2 d of continuous LDHA inhibition. Pancreatic cell lines that utilize Oxidative Phosphorylation (OXPHOS) rather than glycolysis were inherently resistant to GNE-140, but could be resensitized to GNE-140 with the OXPHOS inhibitor phenformin. Acquired resistance to GNE-140 was driven by activation of the AMPK-mTOR-S6K signaling pathway, which led to increased OXPHOS, and inhibitors targeting this pathway could prevent resistance. Thus, combining an LDHA inhibitor with compounds targeting the mitochondrial or AMPK-S6K signaling axis may not only broaden the clinical utility of LDHA inhibitors beyond glycolytically dependent tumors but also reduce the emergence of resistance to LDHA inhibition.

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