Harnessing androgen receptor pathway activation for targeted alpha particle radioimmunotherapy of breast cancer

Daniel L.J. Thorek, Anson T. Ku, Nicholas Mitsiades, Darren Veach, Philip A. Watson, Dipti Metha, Sven Erik Strand, Sai Kiran Sharma, Jason S. Lewis, Diane S. Abou, Hans G. Lilja, Steven M. Larson, Michael R. McDevitt, David Ulmert

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Abstract

Purpose: The impact of androgen receptor (AR) activity Results: D-Norgestrel and DHT activated the AR pathway, in breast cancer biology is unclear. We characterized and while 17b-Estradiol did not. Competitive binding for AR tested a novel therapy to an AR-governed target in breast protein showed similar affinity between DHT and D-Norges-cancer. trel, indicating direct AR–ligand interaction. In vivo production Experimental Design: We evaluated the expression of of hK2 was sufficient to achieve site-specific delivery of ther-prototypical AR gene products human kallikrein 2 (hK2) apeutic radionuclide to tumor tissue at >20-fold over back- and PSA in breast cancer models. We screened 13 well-ground muscle uptake; effecting long-term local tumor characterized breast cancer cell lines for hK2 and PSA control. production upon in vitro hormone stimulation by testoster-Conclusions: [ 225 Ac]hu11B6 targeted radiotherapy one [dihydrotestosterone (DHT)]. AR-positive lines were was potentiated by DHT and by D-Norgestrel in murine further evaluated by exposure to estrogen (17b-Estradiol) xenograft models of breast cancer. AR activity in and the synthetic progestin D-Norgestrel. We then evaluated breast cancer correlates with kallikrein-related peptidase-2 an anti-hK2–targeted radiotherapy platform (hu11B6), and can be activated by D-Norgestrel, a common con-labeled with alpha (a)-particle emitting Actinium-225, to traceptive, and AR induction can be harnessed for hK2-specifically treat AR-expressing breast cancer xenografts targeted breast cancer a-emitter radiotherapy. under hormone stimulation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)881-891
Number of pages11
JournalClinical Cancer Research
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 15 2019

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