- Title
- The receptor tyrosine kinase trka is increased and targetable in HER2-positive breast cancer
- Creator
- Griffin, Nathan; Marsland, Mark; Roselli, Severine; Oldmeadow, Christopher; Attia, John; Walker, Marjorie M.; Hondermarck, Hubert; Faulkner, Sam
- Relation
- Biomolecules Vol. 10, Issue 9, no. 1329
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom10091329
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The tyrosine kinase receptor A (NTRK1/TrkA) is increasingly regarded as a therapeutic target in oncology. In breast cancer, TrkA contributes to metastasis but the clinicopathological significance remains unclear. In this study, TrkA expression was assessed via immunohistochemistry of 158 invasive ductal carcinomas (IDC), 158 invasive lobular carcinomas (ILC) and 50 ductal carcinomas in situ (DCIS). TrkA was expressed in cancer epithelial and myoepithelial cells, with higher levels of TrkA positively associated with IDC (39% of cases) (p < 0.0001). Interestingly, TrkA was significantly increased in tumours expressing the human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2), with expression in 49% of HER2-positive compared to 25% of HER2-negative tumours (p = 0.0027). A panel of breast cancer cells were used to confirm TrkA protein expression, demonstrating higher levels of TrkA (total and phosphorylated) in HER2-positive cell lines. Functional investigations using four different HER2-positive breast cancer cell lines indicated that the Trk tyrosine kinase inhibitor GNF-5837 reduced cell viability, through decreased phospho-TrkA (Tyr490) and downstream AKT (Ser473) activation, but did not display synergy with Herceptin. Overall, these data highlight a relationship between the tyrosine kinase receptors TrkA and HER2 and suggest the potential of TrkA as a novel or adjunct target for HER2-positive breast tumours.
- Subject
- breast cancer; tyrosine kinase receptor A (NTRK1/TrkA); human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2); clinical biomarker; therapeutic target
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1421169
- Identifier
- uon:37693
- Identifier
- ISSN:2218-273X
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
- Language
- eng
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