Acquired Resistance to a MET Antibody In Vivo Can Be Overcome by the MET Antibody Mixture Sym015

Failure of clinical trials due to development of resistance to MET-targeting therapeutic agents is an emerging problem. Mechanisms of acquired resistance to MET tyrosine kinase inhibitors are well described, whereas characterization of mechanisms of resistance toward MET-targeting antibodies is limi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Molecular cancer therapeutics 2018-06, Vol.17 (6), p.1259-1270
Hauptverfasser: Pollmann, Sofie Ellebaek, Calvert, Valerie S, Rao, Shruti, Boca, Simina M, Madhavan, Subha, Horak, Ivan D, Kjaer, Andreas, Petricoin, Emanuel F, Kragh, Michael, Poulsen, Thomas Tuxen
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Zusammenfassung:Failure of clinical trials due to development of resistance to MET-targeting therapeutic agents is an emerging problem. Mechanisms of acquired resistance to MET tyrosine kinase inhibitors are well described, whereas characterization of mechanisms of resistance toward MET-targeting antibodies is limited. This study investigated mechanisms underlying resistance to two antibody therapeutics currently in clinical development: an analogue of the MET-targeting antibody emibetuzumab and Sym015, a mixture of two antibodies targeting nonoverlapping epitopes of MET. Upon long-term treatment of a -amplified gastric cancer xenograft model (SNU-5), emibetuzumab-resistant, but not Sym015-resistant, tumors emerged. Resistant tumors were isolated and used to establish resistant cell lines. Characterization of both tumors and cell lines using extensive protein and signaling pathway activation mapping along with next-generation sequencing revealed two distinct resistance profiles, one involving loss and the other involving activation of the PI3K pathway, likely via and copy number gains. loss left one model unaffected by PI3K/AKT targeting but sensitive to mTOR targeting, while the PI3K pathway-activated model was partly sensitive to targeting of multiple PI3K pathway proteins. Importantly, both resistant models were sensitive to treatment with Sym015 due to antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity-mediated tumor growth inhibition, MET degradation, and signaling inhibition. Taken together, our data provide key insights into potential mechanisms of resistance to a single MET-targeting antibody, demonstrate superiority of Sym015 in preventing acquired resistance, and confirm Sym015 antitumor activity in tumors resistant to a single MET antibody. .
ISSN:1535-7163
1538-8514
DOI:10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-17-0787