Neratinib inhibits Hippo/YAP signaling, reduces mutant K-RAS expression, and kills pancreatic and blood cancer cells

Dent, P., Booth, L., Roberts, J. L., Liu, J., Poklepovic, A., Lalani, A. S., Tuveson, D., Martinez, J., Hancock, J. F. (June 2019) Neratinib inhibits Hippo/YAP signaling, reduces mutant K-RAS expression, and kills pancreatic and blood cancer cells. Oncogene. ISSN 0950-9232

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31253872
DOI: 10.1038/s41388-019-0849-8

Abstract

Prior studies demonstrated that the irreversible ERBB1/2/4 inhibitor neratinib caused plasma membrane-associated mutant K-RAS to localize in intracellular vesicles, concomitant with its degradation. Herein, we discovered that neratinib interacted with the chemically distinct irreversible ERBB1/2/4 inhibitor afatinib to reduce expression of ERBB1, ERBB2, K-RAS and N-RAS; this was associated with greater-than-additive cell killing of pancreatic tumor cells. Knock down of Beclin1, ATG16L1, Rubicon or cathepsin B significantly lowered the ability of neratinib to reduce ERBB1 and K-RAS expression, and to cause tumor cell death. Knock down of ATM-AMPK suppressed vesicle formation and knock down of cathepsin B-AIF significantly reduced neratinib lethality. PKG phosphorylates K-RAS and HMG CoA reductase inhibitors reduce K-RAS farnesylation both of which remove K-RAS from the plasma membrane, abolishing its activity. Neratinib interacted with the PKG activator sildenafil and the HMG CoA reductase inhibitor atorvastatin to further reduce K-RAS expression, and to further enhance cell killing. Neratinib is also a Ste20 kinase family inhibitor and in carcinoma cells, and hematopoietic cancer cells lacking ERBB1/2/4, it reduced K-RAS expression and the phosphorylation of MST1/3/4/Ezrin by ~ 30%. Neratinib increased LATS1 phosphorylation as well as that of YAP and TAZ also by ~ 30%, caused the majority of YAP to translocate into the cytosol and reduced YAP/TAZ protein levels. Neratinib lethality was enhanced by knock down of YAP. Neratinib, in a Rubicon-dependent fashion, reduced PAK1 phosphorylation and that of its substrate Merlin. Our data demonstrate that neratinib coordinately suppresses both mutant K-RAS and YAP function to kill pancreatic tumor cells.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: bioinformatics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification
diseases & disorders
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > genes: types > ErbB
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
diseases & disorders > neoplasms
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell types > cell line
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell types > cell line
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell types > cell line
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell types
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell types
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions > cell types
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > cell types and functions
diseases & disorders > cancer > drugs and therapies > chemotherapy
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > enzymes
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > genes: types
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > enzymes > kinase
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions
diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types > pancreatic cancer
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > G protein > Ras
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > signal transduction
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Tuveson lab
CSHL Cancer Center Program > Cellular Communication in Cancer Program
Depositing User: Matthew Dunn
Date: 28 June 2019
Date Deposited: 29 Jul 2019 13:37
Last Modified: 02 Feb 2024 14:41
PMCID: PMC7133220
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/38152

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