Transcriptomic evidence for tumor-specific beneficial or adverse effects of TGFβ pathway inhibition on the prognosis of patients with liver cancer
2023
Desoteux, Matthis | Maillot, Betty | Bévant, Kevin | Ferlier, Tanguy | Leroux, Raffaele | Angenard, Gaëlle | Louis, Corentin | Sulpice, Laurent | Boudjema, Karim | Coulouarn, Cédric | Oncogenesis, Stress, Signaling (OSS) ; Université de Rennes (UR)-CRLCC Eugène Marquis (CRLCC) ; UNICANCER-UNICANCER-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) | CRLCC Eugène Marquis (CRLCC) ; UNICANCER | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes [CHU Rennes] = Rennes University Hospital [Pontchaillou] | Nutrition, Métabolismes et Cancer (NuMeCan) ; Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | The authors are supported by Inserm, Université de Rennes 1, Région Bretagne, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Ligue Contre le Cancer (CD22, CD35, CD44, CD85) (R22026NN), Fondation ARC (R21043NN), INCa and ITMO Cancer AVIESAN (Alliance Nationale pour les Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé) dans le cadre du Plan cancer (Noncoding RNA in cancerology: fundamental to translational) (C20014NS). This work was supported by a grant from the French Ministry of Health and the French National Cancer Institute, PRT-K20-136, CHU Rennes, CLCC Eugène Marquis, Rennes (R21095NN). BM was supported from a fellowship from Association de Chirurgie Hépato-Bilio-Pancréatique et Transplantation Hépatique (ACHBT) and CHU Rennes.
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. Therapeutic targeting of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) pathway in cancer represents a clinical challenge since TGFβ exhibits either tumor suppressive or tumor promoting properties, depending on the tumor stage. Thus, treatment with galunisertib, a small molecule inhibitor of TGFβ receptor type 1, demonstrated clinical benefits only in subsets of patients. Due to the functional duality of TGFβ in cancer, one can hypothesize that inhibiting this pathway could result in beneficial or adverse effects depending on tumor subtypes. Here, we report distinct gene expression signatures in response to galunisertib in PLC/PRF/5 and SNU-449, two cell lines that recapitulate human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with good and poor prognosis, respectively. More importantly, integrative transcriptomics using independent cohorts of patients with HCC demonstrates that galunisertib-induced transcriptional reprogramming in SNU-449 is associated with human HCC with a better clinical outcome (i.e., increased overall survival), while galunisertib-induced transcriptional reprogramming in PLC/PRF/5 is associated with human HCC with a worse clinical outcome (i.e., reduced overall survival), demonstrating that galunisertib could indeed be beneficial or detrimental depending on HCC subtypes. Collectively, our study highlights the importance of patient selection to demonstrate a clinical benefit of TGFβ pathway inhibition and identifies Serpin Family F Member 2 (SERPINF2) as a putative companion biomarker for galunisertib in HCC.
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