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ArticleThe Journal of experimental medicine2021

SPRED1 deletion confers resistance to MAPK inhibition in melanoma.

Julien Ablain, Sixue Liu, Gatien Moriceau, Roger S Lo, Leonard I Zon

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Article in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. The role of SPRED1 mutation in melanoma.European journal of medical research · 2025
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  15. RAS pathway regulation in melanoma.Disease models & mechanisms · 2022
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  20. SOCS, SPRED, and NR4a: Negative regulators of cytokine signaling and transcription in immune tolerance.Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Julien AblainStem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
Sixue LiuDivision of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Gatien MoriceauDivision of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Roger S LoDivision of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
Leonard I ZonStem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.
University of California, Los Angeles · USBoston Children's Hospital · US

Funding

Women's CancersP30CA016042 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Samuel Wheeler French · 1985 to 2026
$134.5M
Transcriptional mechanisms and melanomaP01CA163222 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DAVID E FISHER · 2013 to 2026
$25.3M
Project 3: Modeling and overcoming resistance to melanoma immunotherapyP01CA244118 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI RIBAS, ANTONI · 2020 to 2024
$12.8M
Cancer Biology in the ZebrafishR01CA103846 · NCI · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI ZON, LEONARD IRA · 2003 to 2022
$7.5M
Preventing MAPK inhibitor resistance in melanoma by targeting genomic instability and immune resistanceR01CA176111 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ROGER S LO · 2013 to 2026
$5.4M
Exploiting Drug Addiction to Improve the Efficacy of MAPK Pathway Targeted Therapy in BRAF and NRAS Mutant MelanomaR21CA215910 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LO, ROGER S · 2018 to 2019
$367k
Defining driver tumor-suppressors for melanoma using the zebrafishK99CA201465 · NCI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI ABLAIN, JULIEN · 2016 to 2017
$344k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS K99 CA201465NCI NIH HHS P01 CA163222NCI NIH HHS P01 CA244118NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016042NCI NIH HHS R01 CA103846NCI NIH HHS R01 CA176111NCI NIH HHS R21 CA215910
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional evaluation of genetic lesions can discover a role in cancer initiation and progression and help develop novel therapeutic strategies. We previously identified the negative MAPK regulator SPRED1 as a novel tumor suppressor in KIT-driven melanoma. Here, we show that SPRED1 is also frequently deleted in human melanoma driven by mutant BRAF. We found that SPRED1 inactivation in human melanoma cell lines and primary zebrafish melanoma conferred resistance to BRAFV600E inhibition in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, SPRED1 loss promoted melanoma cell proliferation under mutant BRAF inhibition by reactivating MAPK activity. Consistently, biallelic deletion of SPRED1 was observed in a patient whose melanoma acquired resistance to MAPK-targeted therapy. These studies combining work in human cells and in vivo modeling in zebrafish demonstrate a new mechanism of resistance to BRAFV600E inhibition in melanoma.

Indexed as

Gene DeletionMAP Kinase Signaling SystemAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDown-RegulationDrug Resistance, NeoplasmHumansMelanomaProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins B-rafSkin NeoplasmsTumor Suppressor Protein p53ZebrafishAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingProtein Kinase InhibitorsProto-Oncogene Proteins B-rafSPRED1 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53

Identifiers

PMID33306107
PMCPMC7927430
OpenAlexW3112425888

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