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Mol Cancer Ther. 2004;3:551-566
© 2004 American Association for Cancer Research

Simultaneous inhibition of hsp 90 and the proteasome promotes protein ubiquitination, causes endoplasmic reticulum-derived cytosolic vacuolization, and enhances antitumor activity

Edward G. Mimnaugh1, Wanping Xu1, Michele Vos2, Xitong Yuan1, Jennifer S. Isaacs1, Kheem S. Bisht3, David Gius3 and Len Neckers1

1 Urologic Oncology Branch, 2 Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, and 3 Radiation Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, Maryland

Requests for Reprints: Edward G. Mimnaugh, Urologic Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 9610 Medical Center Drive, Suite 300, Rockville, MD 20850. Phone: (301) 496-5231; Fax: (301) 402-4422. E-mail: edmim{at}mail.nih.gov

The ansamycin antibiotic, geldanamycin, targets the hsp 90 protein chaperone and promotes ubiquitin-dependent proteasomal degradation of its numerous client proteins. Bortezomib is a specific and potent proteasome inhibitor. Both bortezomib and the geldanamycin analogue, 17-N-allylamino-17-demethoxy geldanamycin, are in separate clinical trials as new anticancer drugs. We hypothesized that destabilization of hsp 90 client proteins with geldanamycin, while blocking their degradation with bortezomib, would promote the accumulation of aggregated, ubiquitinated, and potentially cytotoxic proteins. Indeed, geldanamycin plus bortezomib inhibited MCF-7 tumor cell proliferation significantly more than either drug alone. Importantly, while control cells were unaffected, human papillomavirus E6 and E7 transformed fibroblasts were selectively sensitive to geldanamycin plus bortezomib. Geldanamycin alone slightly increased protein ubiquitination, but when geldanamycin was combined with bortezomib, protein ubiquitination was massively increased, beyond the amount stabilized by bortezomib alone. In geldanamycin plus bortezomib-treated cells, ubiquitinated proteins were mostly detergent insoluble, indicating that they were aggregated. Individually, both geldanamycin and bortezomib induced hsp 90, hsp 70, and GRP78 stress proteins, but the drug combination superinduced these chaperones and caused them to become detergent insoluble. Geldanamycin plus bortezomib also induced the formation of abundant, perinuclear vacuoles, which were neither lysosomes nor autophagosomes and did not contain engulfed cytosolic ubiquitin or hsp 70. Fluorescence marker experiments indicated that these vacuoles were endoplasmic reticulum derived and that their formation was prevented by cycloheximide, suggesting a role for protein synthesis in their genesis. These observations support a mechanism whereby the geldanamycin plus bortezomib combination simultaneously disrupts hsp 90 and proteasome function, promotes the accumulation of aggregated, ubiquitinated proteins, and results in enhanced antitumor activity.


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Received 12/ 2/03; revised 3/ 1/04; accepted 3/ 9/04.




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