Addiction to Golgi-Resident PI4P Synthesis in Chromosome 1Q21.3–Amplified Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells
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Addiction to Golgi-resident PI4P synthesis in chromosome 1q21.3–amplified lung adenocarcinoma cells Lei Shia, Xiaochao Tana, Xin Liua, Jiang Yua, Neus Bota-Rabassedasa, Yichi Niub,c, Jiayi Luob,d, Yuanxin Xie, Chenghang Zongb, Chad J. Creightone,f,g, Jeffrey S. Glennh,i, Jing Wange, and Jonathan M. Kuriea,1 aDepartment of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030; bDepartment of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; cGenetics and Genomics Graduate Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; dCancer and Cell Biology Graduate Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; eDepartment of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030; fDepartment of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; gDan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; hDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305; and iDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 Edited by Melanie H. Cobb, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, and approved May 13, 2021 (received for review November 12, 2020) A chromosome 1q21.3 region that is frequently amplified in diverse here, we postulated that chromosome 1q21.3 amplifications confer cancer types encodes phosphatidylinositol (PI)-4 kinase IIIβ (PI4KIIIβ), an addiction to Golgi-resident PI-4 kinase activity. a key regulator of secretory vesicle biogenesis and trafficking. Chro- mosome 1q21.3–amplified lung adenocarcinoma (1q-LUAD) cells rely Results on PI4KIIIβ for Golgi-resident PI-4-phosphate (PI4P) synthesis, prosur- 1q-LUAD Cells Are Addicted to Golgi-Resident PI-4 Kinase Activity. vival effector protein secretion, and cell viability. Here, we show that Using small molecules IN-9 or compound B, which inhibit PI4KIIIβ 1q-LUAD cells subjected to prolonged PI4KIIIβ antagonist treatment with >1,000-fold selectivity over related PI-3 kinase family members acquire tolerance by activating an miR-218-5p–dependent competing (11), we exposed 1q-LUAD cell lines H2122 and H3122 to esca- endogenous RNA network that up-regulates PI4KIIα, which provides lating doses and found that, after 12 wk in culture, the cells dem- an alternative source of Golgi-resident PI4P that maintains prosur- onstrated three- to fivefold reduced sensitivity to these compounds CELL BIOLOGY vival effector protein secretion and cell viability. These findings dem- in proliferation, colony formation, and apoptosis assays (Fig. 1 A–D onstrate an addiction to Golgi-resident PI4P synthesis in a genetically and SI Appendix,Fig.S1). PI4KB gene copy numbers and PI4KIIIβ defined subset of cancers. protein levels were lower in drug-tolerant than parental 1q-LUAD cells (Fig. 1 E and F), suggesting reduced selection pressure on the cancer | oncogene addiction | Golgi | lipids 1q21.3 amplicon. However, small-interfering RNA (siRNA)-medi- ated depletion of the PI4KIIIβ–dependent secreted proteins clus- he term “oncogene addiction” was coined to describe cancer terin (CLU) and stanniocalcin-2 (STC2) induced apoptosis of drug- Tcells’ exquisite dependence on individual oncogenes to sustain tolerant cells (Fig. 1G), suggesting that drug-tolerant cells remained the malignant phenotype (1, 2). Examples include the BCR-ABL dependent on PI4P-driven effector protein secretion for survival. oncogene produced by a chromosome 9:22 translocation in chronic Golgi-resident PI4P levels, Golgi localization of the PI4P-binding myelogenous leukemia and the somatically mutated EGFR onco- protein GOLPH3, and the levels of PI4KIIIβ–dependent secreted gene in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) (3–5).Inbothcancertypes, proteins in conditioned medium (CM) samples decreased in pa- the mutant kinases are bona fide oncogenes in vitro and in vivo rental but not drug-tolerant 1q-LUAD cells (Fig. 2 A–F and SI (6, 7). Although patients treated with selective kinase inhibitors Appendix,Figs.S2andS3), and Golgi-resident PI4P levels remained attain profound clinical responses (8), chronic exposure of patients stable following short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-mediated PI4KIIIβ to targeted therapeutics is followed by disease relapse owing to an depletion in parental 1q-LUAD cells (Fig. 2G), supporting a almost universal reactivation of mutant kinase activity, demonstrat- ing that most cancers retain an underlying addiction to oncogene- Significance induced signaling pathways (2, 9). Elucidating the molecular under- pinnings of oncogene reactivation may lead to improved therapeutic Our findings identify a type of oncogene addiction process driven strategies. by a lipid that controls prosurvival effector protein secretion. The Heightened secretion of protumorigenic effector proteins pro- crosstalk between functionally redundant phosphatidylinositol motes metastasis and acquired resistance to targeted therapeutics (PI) 4-kinases maintains addiction and can be targeted with small (10, 11). The conventional secretory pathway directs the transport molecule kinase inhibitors that might be applicable to a geneti- of secretory vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma cally defined subset of cancers for which there are no effective membrane via the Golgi apparatus (12). Tensile forces exerted targeted therapies. on Golgi membranes activate secretory vesicle biogenesis and are mediated by a Golgi phosphoprotein-3 (GOLPH3)/F-actin protein Author contributions: L.S., X.T., and J.M.K. designed research; L.S., X.T., X.L., J.Y., N.B-R., complex (13). GOLPH3 binds to phosphatidylinositol (PI)-4-phos- Y.N., J.L., and C.Z. performed research; J.S.G. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; L.S., phate (PI4P), which tethers GOLPH3 to Golgi membranes and is Y.X., C.Z., C.J.C., and J.W. analyzed data; and J.M.K. wrote the paper. generated by the Golgi-resident PI-4 kinases PI4KIIα and PI4KIIIβ Competing interest statement: J.M.K. has received consulting fees from Halozyme. This (10, 13, 14). activity is unrelated to the current study. A chromosome 1q21.3 region that is frequently amplified in di- This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. verse cancer types encodes PI4KIIIβ (11, 15). Chromosome 1q21.3– This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- amplified LUAD (1q-LUAD) cells undergo apoptosis following NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND). treatment with small-molecule PI4KIIIβ antagonists or depletion 1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: [email protected]. of PI4KIIIβ–dependent secreted proteins (11), establishing that This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/ PI4KIIIβ–dependent secreted proteins are prosurvival effectors doi:10.1073/pnas.2023537118/-/DCSupplemental. in 1q-LUAD cells. On the basis of this conceptual framework, Published June 21, 2021. PNAS 2021 Vol. 118 No. 25 e2023537118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023537118 | 1of9 Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 AB Comp B(μM) : 0 1 2 IN-9 (μM) : 0 1 2 H2122-P H2122-P H2122-BT H2122-9T D C E F G PI4KIIIβ 1 0.7 0.6 TGN46 Golgi fraction Fig. 1. Characterization of PI4KIIIβ antagonist-tolerant 1q-LUAD cells. (A) Proliferation assays on parental (P), compound B-tolerant (BT), and IN-9–tolerant (9T) H2122 cells. Cells were treated for 4 d with the indicated concentrations of compound B or IN-9. Half-maximal inhibitory (IC50) concentrations were determined. (B) Anchorage-independent colony formation assays on cell lines described in A. Values were normalized to DMSO controls. (C) Apoptosis quantified by Annexin V/Propidium iodide (PI) flow cytometry analysis on cells after treatment with compound B (Left)orIN-9(Right). (D) WB analysis of cleaved caspase-3 in cells treated with indicated concentrations of compound B (Upper)orIN-9(Lower). (E) Quantitative real-time PCR analysis of PI4KB gene copy numbers. (F) WB analysis of PI4KIIIβ in Golgi-enriched cellular fractions. TGN46 served as loading control. (G) Apoptosis quantified by Annexin V/PI flow cytometry analysis on H2122-BT cells and H2122-9T cells transfected with control (CTRL) or targeted siRNAs (siCLU or siSTC2). Data are shown as mean ± SEM of triplicate biological replicates. P values: two-sided t test in B and C and one-way ANOVA in E and G.*P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01. reactivation of PI-4 kinase activity in PI4KIIIβ–deficient cells. but not ectopic PI4KIIα–expressing H2122 cells (SI Appendix,Fig. Moreover, siRNA-mediated GOLPH3 depletion induced apopto- S4), suggesting that the increase in PI4KIIα–derived PI4P synthesis sis to a similar extent in parental and drug-tolerant cells (Fig. 2H), in ectopic PI4KIIα–expressing cells uncoupled GOLPH3 function suggesting that drug-tolerant cells remain dependent on GOLPH3- from PI4KIIIβ activity. Thus, PI4KIIα reactivated Golgi-resident driven secreted proteins for survival. PI4P synthesis in drug-tolerant cells. To assess the molecular basis for PI4KIIα up-regulation in PI4KIIIβ Inhibition Activates an miR-218-5p–Dependent Competing drug-tolerant cells, we performed chromatin immunoprecipitation Endogenous RNA Network to Up-Regulate PI4KIIα Expression. We (ChIP) assays on the PI4K2A gene promoter and found no evi- sought to identify an alternative source of PI-4 kinase activity in dence for enhanced recruitment of RNA polymerase II or active drug-tolerant