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The First-In-Class Anti-EGFR Antibody Mixture Sym004 Overcomes Cetuximab Resistance Mediated by EGFR Extracellular Domain Mutations in Colorectal Cancer Francisco J Published OnlineFirst February 17, 2016; DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-2400 Personalized Medicine and Imaging Clinical Cancer Research The First-in-class Anti-EGFR Antibody Mixture Sym004 Overcomes Cetuximab Resistance Mediated by EGFR Extracellular Domain Mutations in Colorectal Cancer Francisco J. Sanchez-Martín 1, Beatriz Bellosillo1,2, Mariona Gelabert-Baldrich1, Alba Dalmases1,2, Israel Canadas~ 1, Joana Vidal3, Alejandro Martinez1,3, Guillem Argiles 4, Giulia Siravegna5,6, Sabrina Arena5,6, Klaus Koefoed7, Laura Visa3, Oriol Arpí1, Ivan David Horak7, Mar Iglesias2, Christopher Stroh8, Michael Kragh7, Ana Rovira1, Joan Albanell1,3,9, Josep Tabernero4, Alberto Bardelli5,6, and Clara Montagut1,3 Abstract Purpose: Approved anti-EGFR antibodies cetuximab and patients progressing to cetuximab that harbored EGFR mutation panitumumab provide significant clinical benefitinpatients in the post-cetuximab tumor sample. with metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC). However, patients Results: Contrary to cetuximab and panitumumab, Sym004 ultimately develop disease progression, often driven by acqui- effectively bound and abrogated ligand-induced phosphorylation sition of mutations in the extracellular domain (ECD) of EGFR. of all individual EGFR mutants. Cells resistant to cetuximab Sym004 is a novel 1:1 mixture of two nonoverlapping anti- harboring mutations in EGFR maintained sensitivity to Sym004, EGFR mAbs that recently showed promising clinical activity in a which was consistent with an effective suppression of EGFR phase I trial in MCRC. Our aim was to determine the efficacy of downstream signaling, translating into profound and sustained Sym004 to circumvent cetuximab resistance driven by EGFR tumor regression in the xenograft model. As proof-of-principle, a ECD mutations. patient with a tumor harboring an EGFR mutation (G465R) Experimental Design: Functional studies were performed to following cetuximab therapy benefited from Sym004 therapy. assess drug–receptor binding as well as ligand-dependent activa- Conclusions: Sym004 is an active drug in MCRC resistant to tion of individual EGFR mutants in the presence of cetuximab, cetuximab/panitumumab mediated by EGFR mutations. EGFR panitumumab, and Sym004. Cell viability and molecular effects mutations are potential biomarkers of response to Sym004 to be of the drugs were assayed in cetuximab-resistant cell lines and in evaluated in ongoing large clinical trials. Clin Cancer Res; 1–8. Ó2016 tumor xenograft models. Efficacy of Sym004 was evaluated in AACR. Introduction mens for these patients, either alone or in combination with chemotherapy (1, 2). Unfortunately, clinical efficacy of anti-EGFR Approved mAbs directed against the EGFR, cetuximab and mAb is limited by the emergence of acquired resistance that panitumumab, provide significant survival benefit to patients eventually develops in all initially responding tumors. with wild-type (WT) KRAS and NRAS metastatic colorectal cancer Preclinical models, tumor tissue genotyping, and circulating (MCRC) and are now standard components of treatment regi- tumor (ct) DNA obtained from patients following progression to cetuximab or panitumumab have led to the identification of several mechanisms that mediate acquired resistance to anti-EGFR therapy 1Cancer Research Program, IMIM, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain. 2Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain. in MCRC (3–5). The most frequent strategy used by cancer cells to 3Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain. evade EGFR blockade involves downstream pathway reactivation 4 Department of Medical Oncology,Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology by either mutations or, less frequently, amplification in EGFR (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain. 5Candiolo Cancer Institute – FPO, IRCCS, Candiolo,Torino, Italy. 6Department of Oncology, University of Torino, downstream effectors including KRAS, NRAS, or activation of Candiolo, Torino, Italy. 7Symphogen A/S, Ballerup, Denmark. 8Merck- alternative tyrosine kinase receptors such as HER2 or c-MET 9 Serono, Darmstadt Germany. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, (6–8). A second mechanism of resistance entails mutations in the Spain. extracellular domain (ECD) of EGFR that prevent binding of the Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Clinical Cancer drug to the receptor. The first reported mutation of resistance was a Research Online (http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/). change of a Serine to an Arginine at position 492 (S492R; ref. 3), Corresponding Author: Clara Montagut, Medical Oncology Department, Hos- which occurs in approximately 16% of patients treated with cetux- pital del Mar, Passeig Maritim 25–29, Barcelona 08003, Spain. Phone: 349-3248- imab, as assessed by ctDNA (9, 10). More recently, other mutations 3137; Fax: 349-3248-3366; E-mail: [email protected] in EGFR ECD have been identified in patients treated with anti- doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-2400 EGFR mAb (R451C, K467T, G465R) and in preclinical models of Ó2016 American Association for Cancer Research. resistance to anti-EGFR therapy (S464L, I491M; refs. 11, 12). www.aacrjournals.org OF1 Downloaded from clincancerres.aacrjournals.org on October 1, 2021. © 2016 American Association for Cancer Research. Published OnlineFirst February 17, 2016; DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-2400 Sanchez-Martín et al. with 10% FBS. All media also contained 2 nmol/L L-glutamine Translational Relevance (Gibco) and antibiotics (100 U/mL penicillin and 100 mg/mL The anti-EGFR mAb cetuximab is effective for the treatment streptomycin, Gibco). The cells were maintained at 37Cin of patients with KRAS and NRAS wild-type metastatic colo- humidified atmosphere with 5% CO2. The identity of each cell rectal cancer (MCRC). Unfortunately, patients ultimately line was tested and authenticated by Cell ID System and by Gene develop disease progression, driven by acquisition of muta- Print 10 System (Promega), through short tandem repeats (STR) tions in the extracellular domain (ECD) of EGFR in approx- at 10 different loci (D5S818, D13S317, D7S820, D16S539, imately 20% of the cases. Therapeutic strategies to circumvent D21S11, vWA, TH01, TPOX, CSF1PO, and amelogenin). Ampli- resistance driven by ECD mutations are an unmet need. In the cons form multiplex PCRs were separated by capillary electro- current study, we evaluate the efficacy of Sym004 in in vitro and phoresis (3730 DNA Analyzer, Applied Biosystems) and analyzed in vivo cetuximab-resistant CRC models and find that Sym004 using GeneMapperID software form Life Technologies. Resulting is a valid strategy to treat CRC tumors harboring EGFR ECD cell line STR profiles were cross-compared and matched with the mutations. As a proof-of-concept, one patient with an EGFR available STR from ATCC, ECACC, and CellBank Australia repos- ECD mutation (G465R) benefited from treatment with itories online database. Cetuximab (Erbitux) and panitumumab Sym004. Accordingly, identification of EGR ECD mutations (Vectibix) were obtained from the Hospital del Mar clinical in cetuximab refractory MCRC patients will be paramount to pharmacy and Sym004 from Symphogen A/S. We acquired design additional lines of therapy that include Sym004. recombinant human EGF protein from Calbiochem. DNA constructs and mutagenesis The EGFR DNA constructs (S492R, G465R, R451C, and K467T) Several targeted therapeutic strategies designed to circumvent created by site-directed mutagenesis were described previously. fi resistance driven by downstream pathway reactivation are being The presence of mutations was con rmed by DNA direct sequenc- investigated in ongoing clinical trials that combine an anti-EGFR ing (3, 11). drug with other targeted therapies such as the HER2 inhibitor trastuzumab or MEK inhibitors (13, 14). However, therapeutic Flow cytometry strategies to overcome resistance mediated by mutations in EGFR To determine cetuximab and Sym004 binding to cells that are poorly characterized. A subset of mutations that mediate stably express the EGFR mutants, the cells were trypsinized and resistance to cetuximab are sensitive to panitumumab (3, 11) washed with PBS twice. Then, the samples were incubated with Fc and as a proof-of-concept, one patient with a EGFR S492R blocking solution (Miltenyi Biotec) for 15 minutes on ice to block mutation achieved a partial response to panitumumab (3). How- nonspecific Fc binding of Igs. The samples were then washed twice ever, a subset of EGFR mutations show cross-resistance to pani- with PBS and incubated with the mAbs for EGFR binding, cetux- tumumab in preclinical models (11, 12) and the G465R mutation imab or Sym004, during 30 minutes at 100 ng/mL on ice. To has also been identified in patients progressing to panitumumab visualize the primary antibody a goat anti-human IgGg phyco- (15). Therefore, there remains a significant unmet need for a erythrin-conjugated (Invitrogen) was used as a secondary anti- therapeutic strategy to overcome resistance driven by EGFR body. EGFR binding was analyzed using the FACScan flow mutations. Cytometer (BD Biosciences) in the Flow Cytometry Core Facility Sym004 is a 1:1 mixture of two recombinant, human–mouse of Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). chimeric mAbs directed against nonoverlapping EGFR epitopes (mAb992 and mAb1024). A unique feature of Sym004 is its Protein detection ability to mediate rapid EGFR internalization and subsequent We subjected total cell lysates to Western blot analysis as degradation of the receptor (16, 17). Preclinical studies with reported previously
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