2016, The majority of cancer-related deaths are happened due to metastasis from the primary tumor site to distant organs. MLN8237 is a small, highly selective molecule inhibitor of Aurora A kinase (AURKA), which results in disruption of the mitotic spindle, chromosome segregation collapse, and inhibition of cell proliferation. Numerous studies have showed that levels of AURKA are elevated in many types of cancer, including breast cancer. Our previous studies indicated that MLN8237 is extremely potent against pulmonary metastases, but not the primary tumor in orthotropic xenograft models. To further enhance MLN8237 based regiment, its combination with other therapeutic compounds can be used. As a potential candidate the FDA approved fully synthetic macrocyclic analogue of the marine natural product halichondrin B, eribulin (Halaven) was tested. Eribulin belong to the class of non-taxane microtubule destabilizing molecules, currently used in clinic to treat taxol resistant metastatic breast ca
2016, Varvara K. Kozyreva*, Anna A. Kiseleva*, Ryan J. Ice, Brandon C. Jones, Yuriy V. Loskutov, Fatimah Matalkah, Mathew B. Smolkin, Kristina Marinak, Ryan H. Livengood, Mohamad A. Salkeni, Sijin Wen, Hannah W. Hazard, Ginger P. Layne, Callee M. Walsh, Pamela S. Cantrell, Greg W. Kilby, Sricharan Mahavadi, Neal Shah, and Elena N. Pugacheva Combination of eribulin and Aurora A inhibitor MLN8237 prevents metastatic colonization and induces cytotoxic autophagy in breast cancer / Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 2016
2017, The primary cilium is an antenna-like structure protruding from the cell
surface, which provides a platform for receptors for signaling systems including
PDGF-alpha, Hedgehog, Wnt, and others that influence cell differentiation and
proliferation decisions. Under normal physiological growth conditions, the cilium
forms after mitosis and in quiescent cells, extending from a basal body
centered at a centriole, with timed resorption in G0 or early G1. Cancer cells
have altered ciliary dynamics, with some (medulloblastomas and basal cell carcinomas)
often dependent on cilia, and other tumor types downregulating them.
In prior work, we defıned Aurora-A, an oncogenic kinase typically thought of as
a mitotic regulator, as transiently activated at the basal body, and absolutely
required for resorption of cilia at the G0/G1 boundary, and we showed the
targeted Aurora-A inhibitor entirely blocked ciliary resorption. In subsequent
work, we found that a second drug, the EGFR inhibitor erlotinib, al