The ALK Inhibitor Ceritinib Overcomes Crizotinib Resistance in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Cancer Discovery - Tập 4 Số 6 - Trang 662-673 - 2014
Luc Friboulet1,2,3, Nanxin Li1,2,3,4, Ryohei Katayama1,3, Christian C. Lee1,2,3,4, Justin F. Gainor1,2,3, Adam S. Crystal1,2,3, Pierre‐Yves Michellys1,2,3,4, Mark M. Awad1,2,3, Noriko Yanagitani1,2,3,4, Sung Joon Kim1,2,3,4, AnneMarie Culazzo Pferdekamper1,2,3,4, Jie Li1,2,3,4, Shailaja Kasibhatla1,2,3,4, Frank F. Sun1,2,3,4, Xiuying Sun1,2,3,4, Su Hua1,2,3,4, Peter McNamara1,2,3,4, Sidra Mahmood1,2,3, Elizabeth L. Lockerman1,2,3, Naoya Fujita1,2,3,4, Makoto Nishio1,2,3,4, Jennifer L. Harris1,2,3,4, Alice T. Shaw1,2,3, Jeffrey A. Engelman1,2,3
1Authors' Affiliations: 1Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; 2Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California; 4Cancer Chemotherapy Center and 5Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
2Authors' Affiliations:Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
3Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
4Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California

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Abstract

Non–small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) harboring anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements invariably develop resistance to the ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) crizotinib. Herein, we report the first preclinical evaluation of the next-generation ALK TKI, ceritinib (LDK378), in the setting of crizotinib resistance. An interrogation of in vitro and in vivo models of acquired resistance to crizotinib, including cell lines established from biopsies of patients with crizotinib-resistant NSCLC, revealed that ceritinib potently overcomes crizotinib-resistant mutations. In particular, ceritinib effectively inhibits ALK harboring L1196M, G1269A, I1171T, and S1206Y mutations, and a cocrystal structure of ceritinib bound to ALK provides structural bases for this increased potency. However, we observed that ceritinib did not overcome two crizotinib-resistant ALK mutations, G1202R and F1174C, and one of these mutations was identified in 5 of 11 biopsies from patients with acquired resistance to ceritinib. Altogether, our results demonstrate that ceritinib can overcome crizotinib resistance, consistent with clinical data showing marked efficacy of ceritinib in patients with crizotinib-resistant disease.

Significance: The second-generation ALK inhibitor ceritinib can overcome several crizotinib-resistant mutations and is potent against several in vitro and in vivo laboratory models of acquired resistance to crizotinib. These findings provide the molecular basis for the marked clinical activity of ceritinib in patients with ALK-positive NSCLC with crizotinib-resistant disease. Cancer Discov; 4(6); 662–73. ©2014 AACR.

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