title: Allele-dependent variation in the relative cellular potency of distinct EGFR inhibitors.
abstract: Targeted cancer therapies impede cancer cell growth by inhibiting the function of activated oncogene products. Patients with non-small cell lung cancer and somatic mutations of EGFR can have a dramatic response to treatment with erlotinib and gefitinib; different somatic mutations are associated with different times to progression and survival. In this study, the relative and absolute potencies of two distinct EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors, erlotinib and an investigational irreversible inhibitor, HKI-272, were found to vary significantly in a panel of Ba/F3 cells transformed by representative EGFR somatic mutations. HKI-272 more potently inhibited the primary exon 20 insertion mutants, the secondary erlotinib-resistance mutants including T790M and many erlotinib-sensitive mutants including L858R. In contrast, erlotinib is a more potent inhibitor of the major exon 19 deletion mutants than is HKI-272. Analyses of EGFR autophosphorylation patterns confirmed the mutation-specific variation in relative potency of these tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Our finding that distinct EGFR inhibitors are more effective in vitro for different mutant forms of the protein suggests that tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment could be tailored to specific EGFR mutations. More broadly, these results imply that the development and deployment of targeted therapies should focus on inhibition of specific cancer-causing mutations, not only on the mutated target.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yuza
authors.forename: Karen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Glatt
authors.forename: Jingrui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Greulich
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Minami
authors.forename: Michele S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimamura
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shapiro
authors.forename: Jeffrey C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Hongbin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Whei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Tzu-Hsiu
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yanagisawa
authors.forename: Kwok-Kin
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meyerson
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D000818:Animals; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000737:chemistry; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000235:genetics*; D000069347:Erlotinib Hydrochloride; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D010766:Phosphorylation; D017354:Point Mutation; D054448:Precursor Cells, B-Lymphoid / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011804:Quinolines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000235:genetics; D017384:Sequence Deletion
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors; D011799:Quinazolines; D011804:Quinolines; D000069347:Erlotinib Hydrochloride; D066246:ErbB Receptors; C487932:neratinib