Role of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling in RAS-Driven Melanoma

Author:

Bardeesy Nabeel1,Kim Minjung1,Xu Jin1,Kim Ryung-Suk2,Shen Qiong1,Bosenberg Marcus W.3,Wong Wing H.2,Chin Lynda14

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

2. Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

3. Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

4. Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Abstract

ABSTRACT The identification of essential genetic elements in pathways governing the maintenance of fully established tumors is critical to the development of effective antioncologic agents. Previous studies revealed an essential role for H-RAS V12G in melanoma maintenance in an inducible transgenic model. Here, we sought to define the molecular basis for RAS-dependent tumor maintenance through determination of the H-RAS V12G -directed transcriptional program and subsequent functional validation of potential signaling surrogates. The extinction of H-RAS V12G expression in established tumors was associated with alterations in the expression of proliferative, antiapoptotic, and angiogenic genes, a profile consistent with the observed phenotype of tumor cell proliferative arrest and death and endothelial cell apoptosis during tumor regression. In particular, these melanomas displayed a prominent RAS-dependent regulation of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family, leading to establishment of an EGF receptor signaling loop. Genetic complementation and interference studies demonstrated that this signaling loop is essential to H-RAS V12G -directed tumorigenesis. Thus, this inducible tumor model system permits the identification and validation of alternative points of therapeutic intervention without neutralization of the primary genetic lesion.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Cell Biology,Molecular Biology

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