1. Entinostat as a combinatorial therapeutic for rhabdomyosarcoma
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Shefali Chauhan, Emily Lian, Iman Habib, Qianqian Liu, Nicole M. Anders, Megan M. Bugg, Noah C. Federman, Joel M. Reid, Clinton F. Stewart, Tristan Cates, Joel E. Michalek, and Charles Keller
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Entinostat ,Mocetinostat ,Rhabdomyosarcoma ,Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma ,Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma ,HDAC inhibitor ,Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common childhood soft tissue sarcoma. For the alveolar subtype (ARMS), the presence of the PAX3::FOXO1 fusion gene and/or metastases are strong predictors of poor outcome. Metastatic PAX3::FOXO1 + ARMS often responds to chemotherapies initially, only to subsequently relapse and become resistant with most patients failing to survive beyond 8 years post-diagnosis. No curative intent phase II or phase III clinical trial has been available for patients in the past 10 years (ARST0921). Thus, metastatic ARMS represents a significantly unmet clinical need. Chemotherapy resistance in ARMS has previously been attributed to PAX3::FOXO1-mediated cell cycle checkpoint adaptation, which is mediated by an HDAC3-SMARCA4-miR-27a-PAX3::FOXO1 circuit that can be disrupted by HDAC3 inhibition. In this study, we investigated the therapeutic efficacy of combining the epigenetic regulator entinostat, a Class I Histone Deacetylase (HDAC1-3) inhibitor, with RMS-specific chemotherapies in patient derived xenograft (PDX) models of RMS. We identified single agent, additive or synergistic relationships between relapse-specific chemotherapies and clinically relevant drug exposures of entinostat in three PAX3::FOXO1 + ARMS mouse models. This preclinical data provides further rationale for clinical investigation of entinostat, already known to be well tolerated in a pediatric phase I clinical trial (ADVL1513).
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- 2024
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