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BI3352: Cancer - Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms and Therapies > Angiogenesis 1 > Flashcards

Angiogenesis 1 Flashcards

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What specific molecule does Idelalisib target?

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PI3Kδ

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Why is idelalib suitable for patient with follicular lymphoma?

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  • p110 delta isoform particularly expressed in lymphocytes and in the cancer has frequent mutations so want to target this isoform.
  • Delta used for specialised signalling in specialised cells
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Would NVP-BKM120 theoretically work on this patient?

(from Q2)

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Yes – a pan class 1a pi3k inhibitor and hits all the isoforms alpha, beta and delta. So it would theoretically

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Why not give the patient (Q3) NVP-BKM120?

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Too broad at targeting and would have too many off-target effects. Specifically affects glucose metabolism as impact AKT signalling

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Outline the different structures in the basic histology of a blood vessel.

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  • Endothelial cell:
    • Basic bv cell (forms endothelium)
  • Basement membrane:
    • surrounds endothelium
  • Pericytes:
    • Perivascular cells i.e. related to vascular smooth muscle
    • Share basement membrane with endothelium
    • Abundant and tightly attached
    • Structural support
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What is necrosis?

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Cell death by accident or trauma. Beyond ~100-200um of a blood vessel cells hypoxic and die of necrosis

Red Image: around capillaries oxygenated area and bright read areas are hypoxic

Blue image: granular staining indicates cells dying of necrosis

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What causes necrosis?

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Hypoxia

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What is angiogenesis?

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Formation of new blood vessels by ‘sprouting’ from new ones

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Give some charactersitics of tumour blood vessels.

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  • Irregularly shapes
  • Pericytes loosely attached
  • Fail to stabilise properly
  • Dilated
  • Lack organisation and leaky
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What happens in the avascular phase of a tumour?

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Dormant lesion and no angiogenesis

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What happens in the vascular phase of a tumour?

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Activation of angiogenesis, allowing for tumour growth and spread

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Give a basic overview of the processes involved in angiogenesis.

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  • Response to angiogenic stimulus, pericytes come off blood vessel destablizing it
  • BV dilates new vessels sprout and grow towards angiogenic stimulus
  • Mature will recruit pericytes back - not enough so not v tightly attatched
  • Vasculature v dynamic & instable
  • Process continues as areas become hypoxic
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List a few examples of activators and inhibitors of angiogenesis.

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  • ACTIVATORS:
    • Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) - breakdown ECM so cells can pass basement membrane surrounding endothelium and have to sprout and grow
    • Nitric oxide - involved in vasodilation
    • VEGF - antiVEGF therapy with a humanized monoclonal antibody is an approved method to treat colon cancer and some types of nonsmall-cell lung cancers and metastatic breast cancer. best in combination with traditional chemotherapy or radiotherapy. ( Pelengaris et al 2013)
  • INHIBITORS:
    • Angiostatin
    • Endostatin
    • Thrombospondin 1 &2
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What is HIF?

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  • Hypoxia-inducible factor
  • Made of one HIF-1a and one HIF-1b subunit
  • Both^^ mRNA constittutively expressed
  • Regulated at HIF-1alpha protein level
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What does HIF do?

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  • Drives transctiption of pro-oncogene genes target is VEGF as increases distribution of oxygen
  • HIF1alpha levels regulated by oxygen levles - normoxic = 20% O2 so HIF1a levels down and by VHL tumour suppresor protein
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What happens in a normoxic environment?

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  • O2 levels activate prolyl 4 hydorxylase this modiefies specific prolines on HIF1 alpha
  • VHL protein binds to hydroxylated proline promoting ubiquitynylation and degradation of HIF1a protein
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What happens to HIF1alpha in a hypoxic environment?

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  • Prolyl hydroxylase is not activated and HIF1alpha is present to form complete transcription factor
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What does VHL do to HIF1 alpha in a normoxic environment?

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  • VHL recruits range of proteins to site so alpha subunit is polyubiquitinated and then targeted for degradation by proteosomal pathway
  • No alpha subunit present no degradation
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What is a therapeutic way to target HID1alpha?
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Enhance HIF1alpha protein degradation and so prevent HIF binding to gene promoter and inhibiting HIF1alpha production

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How does the expression of the HIF-1a isoforms change over time?
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  • 3 isforms - HIF - 1,2,3alpha
  • HIF1a involved in acute response to hypoxia and increases and falls after 12 hrs
  • Hypoxia sustained get expression of 2 and 3 - switch between isoforms regulated by microRNAs
  • need to target all 3
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Repeat 3x the next slide on oncogenes and their mechanism of pro-angiogenic activity

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Bcl-2

VEGF upregulation

Fos

VEGF upregulation

Jun

VEGF upregulation, thrombospondin downregulation

Wnt

Increased VEGF

p53

VEGF upregulation, thrombospondin downregulation

VHL

Increased VEGF

Rb

Decreased thrombospondin

Ras

VEGF upregulation, thrombospondin downregulation

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What is VEGF and what does it do?
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  • Ligand essential for tumour development
  • Produced throughout tumour life cycle
  • Isoform A can generate abnormal blood vessels
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What does the VEGF family bind to respectively and what do they regulate?
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  • VEGF A can bind to receptor VEGFR1 and VEGFR2
  • VEGF C & D can bind to recptors VEGFR2 & VEGFR3
  • Family regulates lymph angiogenesis as tissue sprouts and grows in the same way
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Which is the most important VEGF isoform for tumourogenesis and angiogenesis?

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In what forms does the VEGF A isoform exist? 3 marks
* Different spliced variants that can bind to VEGFR1/2 and be cleaved by plasmid * Differ in C-terminal where they bind heparin in ECM * Heparin binding site **determines if bind to ECM** and how strong
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Which variant of VEGF A do tumours produce the most and why? 3 marks
* VEGF variant 165: * Can be free **and** bound to ECM * Provide **short and long range guidance for new molecules** - can compensate for other two variants
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What are the other 2 variants of VEGF A and why aren't they produced as much as VEGF165? 6 marks
* VEGF121: * **Doesn't bind heparin sulfate** and **freely diffusible** * Provide _long range guidance_ for developing blood vessels * VEGF189: * **Strongly bind heparan** sulphate and ECM * Provide _short range guidance_ for developing blood vessels VEGF165 - good mix of the two
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How does a distinct release of bound VEGF to ECM occur in a tumour to start angiogenesis? 4 marks
* Pre-malignant cells **don't see increase in VEGF or VEGFR** * **(7-12wk model)** - cells switch on angiogenesis are malignant and growing * Islet cells w/ excess proliferation send signal to bone marrow, which sends signal to macrophages then to islets * Immunce cells **release MMPs** to **cleave ECM bound VEGF** and fragment will go to bind to VEGFR - isn't increased in islets and trigger angiogenesis
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What is the placental growth factor? 3 marks
* Normally confined to placenta but can be *overexpressed in tumours* * _Binds to VEGFR-1_ * Can **potentiate VEGF-A activity** (by binding to VEGFR-1), s_timulates detachment of pericytes and activate pro-angiogenic genes_
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What are VEGFRs? 1 mark
* Receptor tyrosine kinases that possess **split kinase** in intracellular domain
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What is a split kinase? 1 mark
Additional kinase baove main kinase that doesn't make them operate in any different way
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What is VEGFR-1? 2 marks
* TRK weakly activated by VEGF-A but binds to it with strong affinity * Postulated to be a **decoy receptor** as receptor 1 binds to VEGF
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What is VEGFR-2? 2 marks
TRK strongly activated by VEGF-A weakly binds ligands Overexpressed in tumour cells
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Does PLGF bind to VEGFR-1 or VEGFR-2? 2 marks
* VEGFR-1 * If lots in tumour will bind to it leaving less receptor available to bind to VEGF-A
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What are neuropilins? 2 marks
* Apart of VEGF R family * Very short cytoplasmic tails and act as co-receptors for VEGF so VEGF a will bind neuropilin and will present ligand in way to VEGFR2
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How is tumourigenic angiogenesis promoted by VEGF-A through VEGFR-2? 6 marks
* Signalling via VEGFA through VEGFR2 (165 variant) * VEGFA dimeric ligand - get transphoshporylation of tyrosines on receptors * Signalling promotes production of nitric oxide for dilation of BV * RAS/MAP/Kinase promote endothelial cell proliferation * For migration signal pormotes migration (from CDC42) * Signalling via AKT will enhance cell survival by inhibiting apoptosis

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