title: Receptor activation and inhibition in cellular response to chemotherapeutic combinational mimicries: the concept of divergent targeting.
abstract: The antiproliferative effect of tandem somatostatin receptor (SSTR) activation, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibition, and induction of DNA damage was analyzed using octreotide (OCT), a SSTR agonist, the clinical DNA methylating agent temozolomide (TMZ), Iressa, an EGFR inhibitor, and dual EGFR-DNA targeting agents termed "combi-molecules". Using SSTR-expressing glioma cells harbouring low levels of EGFR (U87MG) or transfected to overexpress EGFR (U87/EGFR) or a variant (U87/EGFRvIII), we showed that Iressa, alone or in combination with the DNA damaging agent TMZ, and combi-molecules RA2 and RA5 inhibited EGF-induced phosphorylation of EGFR in U87MG and more moderately in U87/EGFR and U87/EGFRvIII transfected cells. This translated into equivalent levels of Erk 1/2 inhibition. Activation of SSTRs with OCT did not modulate the effects of the various treatments on Erk 1/2 phosphorylation. Likewise, SSTR activation did not alter TMZ- or DNA-damaging combi-molecules, RA2 and RA5, induced p53 activation nor upregulation. However, SSTR activation significantly shifted TMZ-, RA2- and RA5-induced cell-cycle arrest to earlier phases (i.e., G2/M to late S, late S to S, S to G1). Further analysis showed that apoptosis was not induced. This was in agreement with the fact that p53 activation did not induce Bax upregulation nor did EGFR inhibition promote Bad dephosphorylation. Moreover, enhancement of survivin, an anti-apoptotic protein, expression was observed. The results in toto suggest that the combination of SSTR activation with EGFR inhibition and DNA damage affects cell-cycle progression but a disconnection between the targeted signalling pathways in these brain tumour cells precludes synergistic cell-killing by the triple growth inhibitory events.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre/Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Watt
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Rachid
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Jean-Claude
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D004249:DNA Damage; D003606:Dacarbazine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D000077156:Gefitinib; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects*; D005910:Glioma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D015282:Octreotide / Q000494:pharmacology; D010766:Phosphorylation / Q000187:drug effects; D011799:Quinazolines / Q000494:pharmacology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects; D000077204:Temozolomide; D013997:Time Factors; D014162:Transfection / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D011799:Quinazolines; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor; D003606:Dacarbazine; D066246:ErbB Receptors; D015282:Octreotide; D000077156:Gefitinib; D000077204:Temozolomide
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