Abstract
Purpose
Genotoxic agents (GAs) including cisplatin, doxorubicin, gemcitabine, and topotecan are often used in cancer treatment. However, the response to GAs is variable among patients and predictive biomarkers are inadequate to select patients for treatment. Accurate and rapid pharmacodynamics measures of response can, thus, be useful for monitoring therapy and improve clinical outcomes.
Methods
This study focuses on integrating a database of genome-wide response to treatment (The NCI Transcriptional Pharmacodynamics Workbench) with a database of baseline gene expression (GSE32474) for the NCI-60 cell lines to identify mechanisms of response and pharmacodynamic (PD) biomarkers.
Results and conclusions
Our analysis suggests that GA-induced endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress may signal for GA-induced cell death. Reducing the uptake of GA, activating DNA repair, and blocking ER-stress induction cooperate to prevent GA-induced cell death in the GA-resistant cells. ATF3, DDIT3, CARS, and PPP1R15A appear as possible candidate PD biomarkers for monitoring the progress of GA treatment. Further validation studies on the proposed intrinsic drug-resistant mechanism and candidate genes are needed using in vivo data from either patient-derived xenograft models or clinical chemotherapy trials.
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Min, DJ., Zhao, Y., Monks, A. et al. Identification of pharmacodynamic biomarkers and common molecular mechanisms of response to genotoxic agents in cancer cell lines. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 84, 771–780 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-019-03898-z
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