Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-15-2017
Abstract
Purpose: Aging is a poor prognostic factor for melanoma. We have shown that melanoma cells in an aged microenvironment are more resistant to targeted therapy than identical cells in a young microenvironment. This is dependent on age-related secreted factors. Klotho is an age-related protein whose serum levels decrease dramatically by age 40. Most studies on klotho in cancer have focused on the expression of klotho in the tumor cell. We have shown that exogenous klotho inhibits internalization and signaling of Wnt5A, which drives melanoma metastasis and resistance to targeted therapy. We investigate here whether increasing klotho in the aged microenvironment could be an effective strategy for the treatment of melanoma. Experimental Design: PPARg increases klotho levels and is increased by glitazones. Using rosiglitazone, we queried the effects of rosiglitazone on Klotho/Wnt5A cross-talk, in vitro and in vivo, and the implications of that for targeted therapy in young versus aged animals. Results: We show that rosiglitazone increases klotho and decreases Wnt5A in tumor cells, reducing the burden of both BRAF inhibitor-sensitive and BRAF inhibitor-resistant tumors in aged, but not young mice. However, when used in combination with PLX4720, tumor burden was reduced in both young and aged mice, even in resistant tumors. Conclusions: Using glitazones as adjuvant therapy for melanoma may provide a new treatment strategy for older melanoma patients who have developed resistance to vemurafenib. As klotho has been shown to play a role in other cancers too, our results may have wide relevance for multiple tumor types. ©2017 AACR.
Recommended Citation
Behera, Reeti; Kaur, Amanpreet; Webster, Marie R.; Kim, Suyeon; Ndoye, Abibatou; Kugel, Curtis H.; Alicea, Gretchen M.; Wang, Joshua; Ghosh, Kanad; Cheng, Phil; Lisanti, Sofia; Marchbank, Katie; Dang, Vanessa; Levesque, Mitchell; Dummer, Reinhard; Xu, Xiaowei; Herlyn, Meenhard; Aplin, Andrew E.; Roesch, Alexander; Caino, Cecilia; Altieri, Dario C.; and Weeraratna, Ashani T., "Inhibition of Age-Related Therapy Resistance in Melanoma by Rosiglitazone-Mediated Induction of Klotho." (2017). Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers. Paper 138.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/cbfp/138
PubMed ID
28232477
Language
English
Comments
This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors' final version prior to publication in Clinical Cancer Research, Volume 23, Issue 12, June 2017, Pages 3181-3190.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-0201. Copyright © AACR