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A drug discovery pipeline for MAPK/ERK pathway Inhibitors in caenorhabditis elegans
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diagnostics and Intervention. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4340-7316
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diagnostics and Intervention. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5824-6263
Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diagnostics and Intervention. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Umeå University (WCMM). Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Surgery.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1732-168x
2024 (English)In: Cancer Research Communications, E-ISSN 2767-9764, Vol. 4, no 9, p. 2454-2462Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Oncogenic signaling through the MAPK/ERK pathway drives tumor progression in many cancers. Although targeted MAPK/ERK pathway inhibitors improve survival in selected patients, most tumors are resistant. New drugs could be identified in small-animal models that, unlike in vitro models, can address oral uptake, compound bioavailability, and toxicity. This requires pharmacologic conformity between human and model MAPK/ERK pathways and available phenotypic assays. In this study, we test if the conserved MAPK/ERK pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans could serve as a model for pharmacological inhibition and develop in vivo pipelines for high-throughput compound screens. Using fluorescencebased image analysis of vulva development as a readout for MAPK/ERK activity, we obtained excellent assay Z-scores for the MEK inhibitors trametinib (Z = 0.95), mirdametinib (Z = 0.93), and AZD8330 (Z = 0.87), as well as the ERK inhibitor temuterkib (Z = 0.86). The throughput was 800 wells per hour, with an average seed density of 25.5 animals per well. Readouts included drug efficacy, toxicity, and pathway specificity, which was tested against pathway activating upstream (lin-15)- and downstream (lin-1) mutants. To validate the model in a high-throughput setting, we screened a blinded library of 433 anticancer compounds and identified four MEK inhibitors among seven positive hits. Our results highlight a high degree of pharmacological conformity between C. elegans and human MAPK/ERK pathways, and the presented high-throughput pipeline may discover and characterize novel inhibitors in vivo.

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American Association For Cancer Research (AACR), 2024. Vol. 4, no 9, p. 2454-2462
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-230151DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-24-0221ISI: 001316045400003PubMedID: 39212544Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85204511558OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-230151DiVA, id: diva2:1903428
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, RV-769711Wenner-Gren Foundations, 11-08-2015Region Västerbotten, RV-939390Cancerforskningsfonden i Norrland, LP 23-2341Available from: 2024-10-04 Created: 2024-10-04 Last updated: 2025-03-24Bibliographically approved

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