Journal article
Rationale for co-targeting IGF-1R and ALK in ALK fusion-positive lung cancer
CM Lovly, NT McDonald, H Chen, S Ortiz-Cuaran, LC Heukamp, Y Yan, A Florin, L Ozretić, D Lim, L Wang, Z Chen, X Chen, P Lu, PK Paik, R Shen, H Jin, R Buettner, S Ansén, S Perner, M Brockmann Show all
Nature Medicine | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3667
Abstract
Crizotinib, a selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), shows marked activity in patients whose lung cancers harbor fusions in the gene encoding anaplastic lymphoma receptor tyrosine kinase (ALK), but its efficacy is limited by variable primary responses and acquired resistance. In work arising from the clinical observation of a patient with ALK fusion-positive lung cancer who had an exceptional response to an insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R)-specific antibody, we define a therapeutic synergism between ALK and IGF-1R inhibitors. Similar to IGF-1R, ALK fusion proteins bind to the adaptor insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1), and IRS-1 knockdown enhances the antitumor effects of..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Core grant (P30-CA68485), a career development award from the Vanderbilt Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Lung Cancer grant (CA90949), US National Cancer Institute grants R01CA121210 and P01CA129243 and the Joyce Family Foundation. C.M.L. was additionally supported by a US National Institutes of Health (NIH) K12 training grant (K12 CA9060625), an American Society of Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award, a Uniting Against Lung Cancer grant and a Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award. C.M.L. was the Carol and Jim O'Hare chief fellow from 7/1/2011 through 6/30/2012. L.C.H. and R.B. were supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 832, Tumormicromilieu) and the German Cancer Aid (Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Koln-Bonn). M. Bos was supported by the European Regional Development Fund grant number FKZ:005-111-0027. G.M.W. was supported by the Victorian Cancer Agency grant TS10_01. K.-K.W. is supported by the NIH CA122794, CA140594, CA163896, CA166480 and CA154303 grants. P.K.P. was supported by a Uniting Against Lung Cancer grant. R.K.T. is supported by the EU-Framework Programme CURELUNG (HEALTH-F2-2010-258677), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through TH1386/3-1 and SFB832 (TP6), the German Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF) as part of the NGFNplus program (grant 01GS08100) and the Deutsche Krebshilfe as part of the Oncology Centers of Excellence funding program. S.P. was supported by a grant from the Rudolph Becker Foundation. J.W. was supported by the German Cancer Aid (CIO Koln-Bonn), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (NGFNplus) and the Ministry of Economy, Energy, Industry and Craft of North Rhine-Westfalia (NRW) in the PerMed NRW framework program. Z.Z. was supported by NIH R01LM011177. We thank J. Sosman and C. Arteaga for their critical review of this manuscript, C. Liang (Xcovery) for providing X-376 and A. Nashabi for administrative assistance. Australian specimens were processed by the Victorian Cancer Biobank. The human anaplastic lymphoma cell line, SUDHL-1, was a generous gift from S. Morris of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.