CDK6 overexpression

Overexpression of CDK6 neutralized the positive effects of fisetin on the improvement of cisplatin sensitivity in RCC cells. In conclusion, fisetin may enhance the sensitivity of RCC cells to cisplatin via the CDK6/PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway.

The current treatment regimen comprising surgical resectioning, chemotherapy with Temozolomide (TMZ), and adjuvant radiotherapy does not achieve total patient cure. We used in silico molecular docking to analyze and validate our objective to repurpose Dapagliflozin against CDK1/PBK/CHEK1. Our results showed that Dapagliflozin forms putative conventional hydrogen bonds with CDK1, PBK, and CHEK1 and arrests the cell cycle with the lowest energies as Abemaciclib.

Knockout of Sting is sufficient to reverse and partially reverse the anti-tumor effect of Cdk4 and Cdk6 deficiency respectively. Therefore, our findings suggest that CDK4/6 inhibitors may enhance anti-tumor immunity through the STING-dependent type I interferon response.

The kinase function of CDK4/6 has been the primary target of current CDK4/6 inhibitors used in clinic. Our studies show that non-kinase function of CDK6 plays a critical role in palbociclib resistance. We also provide a novel therapeutic strategy to overcome CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance, thereby setting the stage for development of next generation drugs that eliminate both the kinase and non-kinase functions of this class of proteins.

Mechanistically, CCRK activates STAT3/E4BP4 signaling in MDSCs to acquire immunosuppressive activity through transcriptional IL-10 induction and IL-12 suppression. Taken together, our findings unravel mechanistic insights into MDSC-mediated immunosuppression and offer a therapeutic kinase-target for cancer immunotherapy.

We identified overexpressers of CDK and cyclin genes among a heterogeneous sample of sarcoma patients. By setting a threshold of 2 SD above the mean of each gene we captured the top ~2% of expressers, and by considering subtypes with ≥ 25% of cases above that threshold we accurately identified known associations between CDK4/LPS and CCND1/Ewing sarcoma while also revealing new associations. The most notable overexpressers were chordoma (CDK7, CDK18), CCS (CDK2, CCNA1), RCS (CCND2), and RMS (CDK6, CDK8, CCND2, CCNE1).

Furthermore, the AuNP/siCDK7 system ameliorated the immunosuppressive microenvironment and enhanced the efficacy of anti-PD-1 treatment by increasing CD8+ T cell infiltration and decreasing M2 macrophage infiltration. Hence, this iRGD-conjugated AuNP/siCDK7 system is a potential treatment strategy for lung adenocarcinoma, which exerts its effects by triggering tumor cell necroptosis and immunotherapeutic responses.

Immuno-histochemical study of brain sections with intracranial tumor xenografts revealed the pro-apoptotic and anti-proliferative activity of miR-3174. In conclusion, we demonstrated that miR-3174 has a tumor-suppressive role in GBM and could be exploited for therapeutic purposes.

We found that SUZ12 exerted its effects by promoting the expression of downstream cyclin CDK6. At the animal level, the mice xenografted with SUZ12-overexpressing MFC cells exhibited larger tumor volumes, as well as elevated cyclin expression. SUZ12 promotes the proliferation and malignant behavior of gastric cancer cells by regulating the expression of downstream CDK6.

Despite these findings on the role of new emerging biomarkers, we wondered if the clinicopathological characteristics could be useful to identify the patients that will respond to CDK4/6 inhibitors by the analysis of a retrospective case series of patients with HR+ mBC treated with hormone therapy plus CDK4/6 inhibitors (ribociclib, palbociclib, abemaciclib) at IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori" (Meldola, Italy). 177 mBC patients 66 of whom were treated with CD4/6 inhibitors plus letrozole and 111 treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors and fulvestrant were enrolled in the study...Finally, the neutropenia status was associated with a more than double risk of progression/death with respect to patients without neutropenia (HR=2.311; p=0.025). Given that we identified a set of factors associated with the probability to develop neutropenia and considering that neutropenia itself is associated with an increased risk of progression, these baseline characteristics should be taken into account in order to reduce the occurrence of both neutropenia and disease progression.

While there are some successful treatments, like use of cetuximab in patients with EGFR expressing tumors, there is still a major unmet need in this area. Targeting CDK7 with TGN-1062 in combination with SOC therapy is a promising approach for treatment of HNSCC. TGN-1062 is a potent CDK7 inhibitor with potential for clinical development.

MFAP4 can serve as molecular marker for HCC diagnosis and prognosis. Additionally, MFAP4 acted as an important HCC tumor suppressor by inducing S phase arrest, and promoting apoptosis, cell migration, and invasion.

The combination of baicalin treatment and CDK16 knockdown further inhibited tumor growth of xenografted tumor mice compared with the groups injected with only sh-CDK16 or baicalin in vivo. In conclusion, baicalin inhibited colon cancer growth by modulating the miR-139-3p/CDK16 axis.

Overall, these results established that nc-RNA-mediated high expression of CDK6 is associated with patient outcomes and immune invasion in pancreatic cancer.

Taken together, miR-15 negatively regulates growth, migration and invasion of osteosarcoma cells by targeting CDK6 at post-transcriptional level. These findings suggest the therapeutic potential of miR-15/CDK6 in human osteosarcoma.

Data mining results and experiments revealed and confirmed multi-level evidence for the importance of CDK6 in DLBCL; hence, CDK6 may be a potential marker in DLBCL. Thus, our study will perhaps lay the foundation for further research on the role of CDK6 in the genesis and development of DLBCL.

Further investigations revealed that Palbociclib does not affect BCL-2 activity but downregulated the anti-apoptotic proteins MCL-1 and BCL-X, making AML cells more sensitive to Venetoclax/Azacitidine treatment. Our results propose that the Palbociclib/Venetoclax/Azacitidine regimen warrants further preclinical research for clinical application in AML patients.

Moreover, overexpression of miR-29C suppressed the role of overexpression of PLAC2 in cell proliferation and cell cycle progression. In conclusion, PLAC2 upregulates CDK6 by downregulating miR-29C to promote LSCC cell proliferation.

In addition, ISO-induced cell death was attenuated by treatment with chloroquine or knockdown of autophagy-related genes (ATG5 or ULK1)...Finally, ISO suppressed the hepatocarcinogenesis in the HepG2 xenograft mice and the diethylnitrosamine+carbon tetrachloride (DEN+CCl)-induced primary HCC mice and we confirmed SLC2A1/GLUT1 and CDK6 as promising oncogenes in HCC by analysis of TCGA data and human HCC tissues. Our results provide a new molecular mechanism by which ISO treatment or CDK6 deletion promotes autophagy; that is, ISO targeting the N terminus of CDK6 for degradation inhibits the expression of SLC2A1/GLUT1 by decreasing the enhancer activity of SLC2A1/GLUT1, resulting in decreased glucose levels and inducing the AMPK-ULK1 pathway.

However, overexpression of CDK6 could partially block the inhibitory role of HAND2-AS1 on cell proliferation as well as cell invasion and migration in glioma cell lines. LncRNA HAND2-AS1 may play a critical anti-tumorigenic role in glioma by negatively regulating CDK6 expression.

The study proved that the abnormal overexpression of CDK6 may be a reason behind EnzR CRPC occurrence and suppression CDK6 expression may help treat EnzR CRPC.

The immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs) lenalidomide and pomalidomide are highly effective treatments for multiple myeloma. Overexpression of CDK6 in multiple myeloma cell lines reduces sensitivity to IMiDs while CDK6 inhibition by palbociclib or CDK6 degradation by proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) is highly synergistic with IMiDs in vitro and in vivo. This work identifies CDK6 upregulation as a druggable target in IMiD-resistant multiple myeloma and highlights the use of proteomic studies to uncover non-genetic resistance mechanisms in cancer.

Our findings revealed that the down-regulation or antagonism of miR-21 protects myocardial cells against LPS-induced apoptosis and inflammation through up-regulating Bcl-2 and CDK6 expression, which provided a new insight for prevention and treatment of myocardial injury.

"Rescue" experiments revealed that miR-520 h down-modulation or CDK6 overexpression remarkably counteracted the inhibitory effect of circSKA3 knockdown on Daoy cells. circSKA3 facilitates medulloblastoma progression through miR-520 h/CDK6.

High CDK9 expression predicts a favorable prognosis in urothelial carcinoma and is associated with clinicopathological features characteristic for early-stage disease. The decrease in CDK9 expression can be associated with the build-up of genetic instability and may indicate a key role for CDK9 in the early stages of urothelial carcinoma.

Our study revealed a potential tumor-suppressive role of miR-500a-3p in CRC, specifically targeting CDK6 and inhibiting cancer cell proliferation and aerobic glycolysis, which may provide new insights into novel prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets for CRC.

Our potent and selective small molecule inhibitor of CDK7, TGN-1062, shows promise in pancreatic cancer models as a single or in combination with SOC . Preliminary data suggests that TGN-1062 can be developed further in multiple cancer indications.

In summary, these findings suggest important molecular mechanisms for the miR-138-5p-mediated Taxol sensitivity of ovarian cancer via directly targeting CDK6, suggesting miR-138-5p is an effective therapeutic target for the noncoding RNA-based anti-chemoresistance treatment.

Indeed, using two-dimensional (n = 7) and three-dimensional (n = 3) cultures of human osteosarcoma cell lines, it was shown that osteosarcoma cells with defective p16 are sensitive to the CDK4/CDK6 inhibitor palbociclib after 72-hour treatment. A tissue microarray analysis of 109 primary tumour biopsies revealed a subset of patients (20-23%) with intact Rb, but defective p16 or overexpression of CDK4 and/or CDK6. These patients might benefit from CDK4/CDK6 inhibition, therefore our results are promising and might be translated to the clinic.

In vivo, the combination of tigecycline and cytarabine reduced leukemia progression in the AML-PDX model with high CDK6-AS1 levels, supporting the concept of a mitochondrial vulnerability. Together, these findings uncover CDK6-AS1 as crucial in myeloid differentiation and mitochondrial mass regulation.

miR-135a-5p knockdown or CDK6 overexpression reversed the inhibition on cell proliferation and apoptosis following FOXD3-AS1 knockdown. Altogether, the present study suggests that FOXD3-AS1 sponges miR-135a-5p to promote cell proliferation and concomitantly inhibit apoptosis by regulating CDK6 expression in NSCLC cells.

KSHV infected SH-SY5Y cells and promoted the cell proliferation. KSHV infection increased the expression of Notch signaling pathway proteins, which may have been associated with the enhanced cell proliferation.

A triple regulatory network of PVT1-hsa-miR-145-5p/hsa-miR-30c-5p-CDK1 was constructed using in silico analysis. In summary, overexpression of CDK1 is closely related to ESCC tumorigenesis.

In conclusion, IGF2-AS is a tumor-suppressor in HCC, and lower IGF2-AS expression is associated with poor prognosis of HCC patients; IGF2-AS inhibits HCC oncogenesis and development by IGF2-AS/miR-520h/CDKN1A pathway. Therefore, IGF2-AS may serve as a new biomarker for HCC management.

CDK6 overexpression reversed the effects of miR-148a-3p on AML cells. Collectively, miR-148a-3p inhibited the process of AML cells through disturbing the CDK-6 expression, implying that the trageting miR-148a-3p might be regarded as effective therapy of AML.

HCK maintains the self-renewal of leukaemia stem cells via CDK6 in AML and may be an ideal therapeutic target for eradicating LSCs without influencing normal haematopoiesis.

Therapeutically, we show that CDK7 knockdown with siRNA or selective inhibition with BS-181 decreases proliferation and induces apoptosis of osteosarcoma cells. This study supports CDK7 overexpression as an independent predictor of poor prognosis and promising therapeutic target for osteosarcoma.