Cheng, D. K., Oni, T. E., Park, Y., Thalappillil, J. S, Ting, H.-C., Alagesan, B., Prasad, N. V., Rivera, K. D., Pappin, D. J., Van Aelst, L., Tuveson, D. A. (September 2020) Oncogenic KRAS engages an RSK1/NF1 complex in pancreatic cancer. BioRxiv. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal malignancy with limited treatment options. Although activating mutations of the KRAS GTPase are the predominant dependency present in >90% of PDAC patients, targeting KRAS mutants directly has been challenging in PDAC. Similarly, strategies targeting known KRAS downstream effectors have had limited clinical success due to feedback mechanisms, alternate pathways and toxicity due to the targeting of normal tissues. Therefore, identifying additional functionally relevant KRAS interactions in PDAC may allow for a better understanding of feedback mechanisms and unveil new potential therapeutic targets. Here, we used proximity labelling to identify protein interactors of active KRAS in PDAC cells. Fusions of wildtype (BirA-KRAS4B), mutant (BirA-KRAS4BG12D) and non-transforming and cytosolic double mutant (BirA-KRAS4BG12D/C185S) KRAS with the BirA biotin ligase were expressed in murine PDAC cells. Mass spectrometry analysis revealed that RSK1 was enriched among proteins that selectively interacted with membrane-bound KRASG12D. RSK1 required the NF1 and SPRED proteins to interact with KRAS-GTP at the membrane. In both murine and human PDAC lines, membrane-targeted RSK1 was tolerated but inhibited cell proliferation following oncogenic KRAS abrogation to reveal a negative feedback role for membrane-localized RSK1 on wild-type KRAS. Inhibition of the wild-type KRAS, which has been previously proposed to suppress KRAS oncogenesis, may partially explain how RSK1 has been identified as a dependency in some KRAS mutant cells and may provide an additional function for NF1 in tumorigenesis.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene regulation bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function > gene regulation diseases & disorders > cancer > cancer types > pancreatic cancer |
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| Communities: | CSHL Cancer Center Program > Cellular Communication in Cancer Program CSHL labs > Pappin lab CSHL labs > Tuveson lab CSHL labs > Van Aelst lab |
| Depositing User: | Sasha Luks-Morgan |
| Date: | 14 September 2020 |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2021 16:11 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2021 16:11 |
| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/40204 |
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