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  2. Uveal Melanoma Cell Line Proliferation Is Inhibited by Ricolinostat, a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor

Uveal Melanoma Cell Line Proliferation Is Inhibited by Ricolinostat, a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor

  • Cancers (Basel). 2022 Feb 3;14(3):782. doi: 10.3390/cancers14030782.
Husvinee Sundaramurthi 1 2 3 4 Sandra García-Mulero 5 6 Valentina Tonelotto 1 2 7 Kayleigh Slater 1 2 Simone Marcone 8 Josep M Piulats 5 9 Ronald William Watson 1 4 Desmond J Tobin 1 10 Lasse D Jensen 11 Breandán N Kennedy 1 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
  • 2 UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
  • 3 Systems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
  • 4 UCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
  • 5 Cancer Immunotherapy (CIT) Group-iPROCURE, Program in Molecular Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy in Oncology (Oncobell), IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908 Barcelona, Spain.
  • 6 Unit of Biomarkers and Susceptibility, Oncology Data Analytics Program (ODAP), Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908 Barcelona, Spain.
  • 7 Xenopat S.L., Business Bioincubator, Bellvitge Health Science Campus, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain.
  • 8 Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin St. James's Hospital, D08 W9RT Dublin, Ireland.
  • 9 Medical Oncology Department, Catalan Institute of Cancer (ICO) and CIBERONC, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908 Barcelona, Spain.
  • 10 The Charles Institute for Dermatology, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8 Dublin, Ireland.
  • 11 BioReperia AB, Wahlbecksgatan, 582 16 Linköping, Sweden.
Abstract

Metastatic uveal melanoma (MUM) is characterized by poor patient survival. Unfortunately, current treatment options demonstrate limited benefits. In this study, we evaluate the efficacy of ACY-1215, a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi), to attenuate growth of primary ocular UM cell lines and, in particular, a liver MUM cell line in vitro and in vivo, and elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms. A significant (p = 0.0001) dose-dependent reduction in surviving clones of the primary ocular UM cells, Mel270, was observed upon treatment with increasing doses of ACY-1215. Treatment of OMM2.5 MUM cells with ACY-1215 resulted in a significant (p = 0.0001), dose-dependent reduction in cell survival and proliferation in vitro, and in vivo attenuation of primary OMM2.5 xenografts in zebrafish larvae. Furthermore, flow cytometry revealed that ACY-1215 significantly arrested the OMM2.5 cell cycle in S phase (p = 0.0001) following 24 h of treatment, and significant Apoptosis was triggered in a time- and dose-dependent manner (p < 0.0001). Additionally, ACY-1215 treatment resulted in a significant reduction in OMM2.5 p-ERK expression levels. Through proteome profiling, the attenuation of the microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) signaling pathway was linked to the observed anti-cancer effects of ACY-1215. In agreement, pharmacological inhibition of MITF signaling with ML329 significantly reduced OMM2.5 cell survival and viability in vitro (p = 0.0001) and reduced OMM2.5 cells in vivo (p = 0.0006). Our findings provide evidence that ACY-1215 and ML329 are efficacious against growth and survival of OMM2.5 MUM cells.

Keywords

ACY-1215; HDAC inhibitor; MITF; ML329; metastatic uveal melanoma; p-ERK; zebrafish xenografts.

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