Name: a method for screening and validation of resistant mutations against kinase inhibitors
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This study was supported by grants to M.A. from NCI (1RO1CA155091), NHLBI (1R21HL114074) and the Leukemia Research Foundation. M.A. is a recipient of V-Scholar award from the V- Foundation. Authors are thankful to Dr. Sara Rohrabaugh for editing.

NOTE: All procedures in this protocol were conducted according to the National Institute of Health guidelines for the ethical treatment and care of animals, and according to an approved IACUC animal use protocol.
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The clinical success of Imatinib in treating CML demonstrated not only the potential of targeting the rouge kinases by small molecule inhibitors, but also uncovered limitations of targeted therapy: clinical relapse and emergence of drug resistance mutations in the target gene. Identification of resistance mutations helps in better clinical management and development of next-generation inhibitors. This protocol describes a methodology to identify drug-resistant mutations in the targeted gene. This method uses a randomly m...

Protein kinases are key regulatory enzymes of intracellular signal transduction pathways that seemingly modulate every cellular function. A proper control of kinase mediated signaling is crucial to homeostasis and development, which mostly relies on proper regulation of kinases, phosphatases and its degradation by UPS (ubiquitin proteasome system). Deregulated kinases are at the center stage of many cancers and implicated in host of human diseases 1. Human genome encodes more than 500 protein kinases that have been linked, directly or indirectly, to ~400 human diseases 2. These observations supported the concept for therapeutic targeting of kinases by small molecule inhibitors 3-5.
The demonstration of ABL kinase inhibitors, such as Imatinib, in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) provided the proof of concept for this approach6,7. This observation not only revolutionized the anti-kinase therapy but also enforced the idea to identify the genetic lesions in other neoplastic diseases for therapeutic targeting, which lead to discovery of oncogenic mutations in the JAK2 from polycythemia vera (PV) and patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN). This discovery generated great interest in treating MPNs by targeting JAK2 with small molecule kinase inhibitors. Now, almost a dozen of JAK2 inhibitors are in clinical trials and one of them has been approved recently for the treatment of myelofibrosis. While specific targeting of oncogenic kinases by small molecule inhibitors in cancers bring promising outcome, it also suffers from developing resistance to the treatment. In fact, so far, patients treated with kinase inhibitors, such as Imatinib, Gefitinib, Erlotinib and Dasatinib developed resistance mutations mostly by acquiring mutations in the kinase domain to which drug targets 8-10. Resistance as a result of gene mutation highlights the limitations of targeted monotherapy against the oncogenic kinases, and represents the next challenge in the development of ever more successful cancer chemotherapy. Mechanistic and functional consequences of drug resistance should provide a rationale for selection and design of complimentary compounds for drug development. Mutations identified via in vitro screens, have shown a high degree of correlation with those found in patients. Therefore, in vitro screening for mutations that confer drug-resistance for a given drug target pairs in clinical or preclinical development assists in identifying the resistance patterns that are likely to cause clinical relapse. The identification of these mutant forms is not only helpful in monitoring the patients for drug response and relapse but also essential for the design of more robust next generation inhibitors. For instance, development of next generation BCR/ABL inhibitors, Nilotinib and Ponatinib, were made possible because of greater mechanistic understandings gained from mutagenesis, structural, and functional studies.
Earlier, we have reported the results of our screen using random mutagenesis of BCR/ABL to reveal the spectrum of mutations conferring resistance to inhibitors such as Imatinib11,12, PD16632612, and AP2416313. The results not only identified the mutations conferring clinical resistance and disease relapse, but also provided the mechanistic understanding of drug resistance and principles governing the kinase function11,14. Here we provide additional methodological detail, using Ruxolitinib and JAK2 as a drug target pair, to enable a broader application of this screening strategy.

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a method for screening and validation of resistant mutations against kinase inhibitors

The discovery of BCR/ABL as a driver oncogene in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) resulted in the development of Imatinib, which, in fact, demonstrated the potential of targeting the kinase in cancers by effectively treating the CML patients. This observation revolutionized drug development to target the oncogenic kinases implicated in various other malignancies, such as, EGFR, B-RAF, KIT and PDGFRs. However, one major drawback of anti-kinase therapies is the emergence of drug resistance mutations rendering the target to have reduced or lost affinity for the drug. Understanding the mechanisms employed by resistant variants not only helps in developing the next generation inhibitors but also gives impetus to clinical management using personalized medicine. We reported a retroviral vector based screening strategy to identify the spectrum of resistance conferring mutations in BCR/ABL, which has helped in developing the next generation BCR/ABL inhibitors. Using Ruxolitinib and JAK2 as a drug target pair, here we describe in vitro screening methods that utilizes the mouse BAF3 cells expressing the random mutation library of JAK2 kinase.

Emergence of genetic mutations poses great challenge for the targeted anti kinase therapy. Mutational studies, besides providing mechanistic and functional insights that are instrumental in selection and design of next-generation drug development, also allows better clinical management and may in future be more helpful for personalized treatment. In this experiment, we show screening for ruxolitinib resistance mutations in JAK2-V617F kinase (Figure 1). We constructed pMSCV-JAK2-V617F-cherry.gateway vecto...

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A Method for Screening and Validation of Resistant Mutations Against Kinase Inhibitors

Emergence of genetic resistance against kinase inhibitor therapy poses significant challenge for effective cancer therapy. Identification and characterization of resistant mutations against a newly developed drug helps in better clinical management and next generation drug design. Here, we describe our protocol for in vitro screening and validation of resistant mutations.

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