The ErbB2-targeting antibody, trastuzumab (Herceptin), has remarkable therapeutic efficacy in certain patients with ErbB2-overexpressing tumors. The overall trastuzumab response rate, however, is limited and what determines trastuzumab response is poorly understood. Here we report that PTEN activation contributes to trastuzumab's antitumor activity. Trastuzumab treatment quickly increased PTEN membrane localization and phosphatase activity by reducing PTEN tyrosine phosphorylation via Src inhibition. Reducing PTEN in breast cancer cells by antisense oligonucleotides conferred trastuzumab resistance in vitro and in vivo. Patients with PTEN-deficient breast cancers had significantly poorer responses to trastuzumab-based therapy than those with normal PTEN. Thus, PTEN deficiency is a powerful predictor for trastuzumab resistance. Additionally, PI3K inhibitors rescued PTEN loss-induced trastuzumab resistance, suggesting that PI3K-targeting therapies could overcome this resistance.
PTEN activation contributes to tumor inhibition by trastuzumab, and loss of PTEN predicts trastuzumab resistance in patients.
Yoichi Nagata,K. Lan,Xiaoyan Zhou,M. Tan,F. Esteva,A. Sahin,Kristine S. Klos,Ping Li,B. Monia,Nina T. Nguyen,G. Hortobagyi,M. Hung,Dihua Yu
Published 2004 in Cancer Cell
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- Publication year
2004
- Venue
Cancer Cell
- Publication date
2004-04-01
- Fields of study
Medicine
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- Source metadata
Semantic Scholar, PubMed
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- antisense oligonucleotides
Synthetic nucleic acids used here to reduce PTEN expression in breast cancer cells.
Aliases: ASOs
- pi3k inhibitors
Small-molecule inhibitors targeting phosphoinositide 3-kinase signaling in the rescue experiments described here.
Aliases: phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitors
- pten
A tumor suppressor phosphatase examined for its membrane localization, phosphorylation state, and activity in relation to trastuzumab response.
- pten-deficient breast cancers
Breast cancers characterized by low or absent PTEN expression or function in the patient samples discussed here.
Aliases: PTEN loss breast cancers
- src
A tyrosine kinase implicated here in regulating PTEN tyrosine phosphorylation.
- trastuzumab
A monoclonal antibody used here as the ErbB2-targeting therapy evaluated for antitumor effects.
Aliases: Herceptin
- trastuzumab-based therapy
Treatment regimens that include trastuzumab and were used to assess clinical response in patients.
- trastuzumab resistance
The reduced sensitivity to trastuzumab observed in cells and patients in this paper.
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