Systematic Mapping of Kinase Addiction Combinations in Breast Cancer Cells by Integrating Drug Sensitivity and Selectivity Profiles

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  • Agnieszka Szwajda
  • Prson Gautam
  • Leena Karhinen
  • Sawan Kumar Jha
  • Jani Saarela
  • Sushil Shakyawar
  • Laura Turunen
  • Bhagwan Yadav
  • Jing Tang
  • Wennerberg, Krister
  • Tero Aittokallio

Chemical perturbation screens offer the possibility to identify actionable sets of cancer-specific vulnerabilities. However, most inhibitors of kinases or other cancer targets result in polypharmacological effects, which complicate the identification of target dependencies directly from the drug-response phenotypes. In this study, we developed a chemical systems biology approach that integrates comprehensive drug sensitivity and selectivity profiling to provide functional insights into both single and multi-target oncogenic signal addictions. When applied to 21 breast cancer cell lines, perturbed with 40 kinase inhibitors, the subtype-specific addiction patterns clustered in agreement with patient-derived subtypes, while showing considerable variability between the heterogeneous breast cancers. Experimental validation of the top predictions revealed a number of co-dependencies between kinase targets that led to unexpected synergistic combinations between their inhibitors, such as dasatinib and axitinib in the triple-negative basal-like HCC1937 cell line.

Original languageEnglish
JournalChemistry & Biology
Volume22
Issue number8
Pages (from-to)1144-55
Number of pages12
ISSN2451-9448
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Aug 2015
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Apoptosis/drug effects, Breast Neoplasms/drug therapy, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Proliferation/drug effects, Computer Simulation, Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, Female, Humans, Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology, Systems Biology/methods

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