Overall, our findings strongly support the mechanism of action that E7130 alters the TME in therapeutically beneficial ways. Importantly, from a translational perspective, our data demonstrated MRI as a non-invasive biomarker to detect TME amelioration by E7130, supported by consistent changes in plasma biomarkers.
The vascular remodeling effect of E7130 increased ERα expression in cancer cells in vivo, and sensitized ER+ breast cancer against fulvestrant to achieve promising combinational anti-tumor activity. Our data provides compelling evidence that E7130 attenuates tumor malignancy by its tumor microenvironment ameliorating effects and improves current anti-cancer therapy in combination with other drugs.
over 2 years ago
ER (Estrogen receptor) • CD31 (Platelet and endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1)
Drug discovery using halichondrins was based on their outstanding in vivo antitumor (inhibitory) activity in mice and bone metastasis in mouse melanoma model first reported in 1996. From these results, we hypothesized that halichondrins are not simple microtubule-targeted compounds in tumor cell, and have developed E7130, which harbors unique tumor microenvironment ameliorating effects. Here we proved that E7130 impedes the TGF-β-induced myofibroblast transdifferentiation process without killing the fibroblast by disrupting microtubule network formation, which is important for focal adhesion assembly and thereby the downstream activation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway.
over 4 years ago
CD31 (Platelet and endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1)