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  3. The kinase ALK stimulates the kinase ERK5 to promote the expression of the oncogene MYCN in neuroblastoma

The kinase ALK stimulates the kinase ERK5 to promote the expression of the oncogene MYCN in neuroblastoma

  • Sci Signal. 2014 Oct 28;7(349):ra102. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.2005470.
Ganesh Umapathy 1,  Abeer El Wakil 2,  Barbara Witek 2,  Louis Chesler 3,  Laura Danielson 3,  Xianming Deng 4,  Nathanael S Gray 5,  Mikael Johansson 6,  Samuel Kvarnbrink 6,  Kristina Ruuth 2,  Christina Schönherr 2,  Ruth H Palmer 7,  Bengt Hallberg 8
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden.
  • 2 Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6L, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
  • 3 The Institute of Cancer Research, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK.
  • 4 School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Seeley G. Mudd Building, 628A, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • 5 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Seeley G. Mudd Building, 628A, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
  • 6 Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umea, Sweden.
  • 7 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. Department of Molecular Biology, Building 6L, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
  • 8 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. bengt.hallberg@gu.se.
PMID: 25351247 DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2005470
Abstract

Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) is an important molecular target in neuroblastoma. Although tyrosine kinase inhibitors abrogating ALK activity are currently in clinical use for the treatment of ALK-positive (ALK(+)) disease, monotherapy with ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors may not be an adequate solution for ALK(+) neuroblastoma patients. Increased expression of the gene encoding the transcription factor MYCN is common in neuroblastomas and correlates with poor prognosis. We found that the kinase ERK5 [also known as big mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) 1 (BMK1)] is activated by ALK through a pathway mediated by phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), Akt, MAPK kinase kinase 3 (MEKK3), and MAPK kinase 5 (MEK5). ALK-induced transcription of MYCN and stimulation of cell proliferation required ERK5. Pharmacological or RNA interference-mediated inhibition of ERK5 suppressed the proliferation of neuroblastoma cells in culture and enhanced the antitumor efficacy of the ALK inhibitor crizotinib in both cells and xenograft models. Together, our results indicate that ERK5 mediates ALK-induced transcription of MYCN and proliferation of neuroblastoma, suggesting that targeting both ERK5 and ALK may be beneficial in neuroblastoma patients.

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