@article {Niewerth12, author = {Denise Niewerth and Gerrit Jansen and Lesley F. V. Riethoff and Johan van Meerloo and Andrew J. Kale and Bradley S. Moore and Yehuda G. Assaraf and Janet L. Anderl and Sonja Zweegman and Gertjan J. L. Kaspers and Jacqueline Cloos}, title = {Antileukemic Activity and Mechanism of Drug Resistance to the Marine Salinispora tropica Proteasome Inhibitor Salinosporamide A (Marizomib)}, volume = {86}, number = {1}, pages = {12--19}, year = {2014}, doi = {10.1124/mol.114.092114}, publisher = {American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics}, abstract = {Salinosporamide A (NPI-0052, marizomib) is a naturally occurring proteasome inhibitor derived from the marine actinobacterium Salinispora tropica, and represents a promising clinical agent in the treatment of hematologic malignancies. Recently, these actinobacteria were shown to harbor self-resistance properties to salinosporamide A by expressing redundant catalytically active mutants of the 20S proteasome β-subunit, reminiscent of PSMB5 mutations identified in cancer cells with acquired resistance to the founding proteasome inhibitor bortezomib (BTZ). Here, we assessed the growth inhibitory potential of salinosporamide A in human acute lymphocytic leukemia CCRF-CEM cells, and its 10-fold (CEM/BTZ7) and 123-fold (CEM/BTZ200) bortezomib-resistant sublines harboring PSMB5 mutations. Parental cells displayed sensitivity to salinosporamide A (IC50 = 5.1 nM), whereas their bortezomib-resistant sublines were 9- and 17-fold cross-resistant to salinosporamide A, respectively. Notably, combination experiments of salinosporamide A and bortezomib showed synergistic activity in CEM/BTZ200 cells. CEM cells gradually exposed to 20 nM salinosporamide A (CEM/S20) displayed stable 5-fold acquired resistance to salinosporamide A and were 3-fold cross-resistant to bortezomib. Consistent with the acquisition of a PSMB5 point mutation (M45V) in CEM/S20 cells, salinosporamide A displayed a markedly impaired capacity to inhibit β5-associated catalytic activity. Last, compared with parental CEM cells, CEM/S20 cells exhibited up to 2.5-fold upregulation of constitutive proteasome subunits, while retaining unaltered immunoproteasome subunit expression. In conclusion, salinosporamide A displayed potent antileukemic activity against bortezomib-resistant leukemia cells. β-Subunit point mutations as a common feature of acquired resistance to salinosporamide A and bortezomib in hematologic cells and S. tropica suggest an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of resistance to proteasome inhibitors.}, issn = {0026-895X}, URL = {https://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/86/1/12}, eprint = {https://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/86/1/12.full.pdf}, journal = {Molecular Pharmacology} }