Inhibition of transcription by dactinomycin reveals a new characteristic of immunogenic cell stress

Abstract: Chemotherapy still constitutes the standard of care for the treatment of most neoplastic diseases. Certain chemotherapeutics from the oncological armamentarium are able to trigger pre‐mortem stress signals that lead to immunogenic cell death (ICD), thus inducing an antitumor immune response and mediating long‐term tumor growth reduction. Here, we used an established model, built on artificial intelligence to identify, among a library of 50,000 compounds, anticancer agents that, based on their molecular descriptors, were predicted to induce ICD. This algorithm led us to the identification of dactinomycin (DACT, best known as actinomycin D), a highly potent cytotoxicant and ICD inducer that mediates immune‐dependent anticancer effects in vivo. Since DACT is commonly used as an inhibitor of DNA to RNA transcription, we investigated whether other experimentally established or algorithm‐selected, clinically employed ICD inducers would share this characteristic. As a common leitmotif, a panel of pharmacological ICD stimulators inhibited transcription and secondarily translation. These results establish the inhibition of RNA synthesis as an initial event for ICD induction.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Inhibition of transcription by dactinomycin reveals a new characteristic of immunogenic cell stress ; volume:12 ; number:5 ; year:2020 ; extent:22
EMBO molecular medicine / European Molecular Biology Organization ; 12, Heft 5 (2020) (gesamt 22)

Urheber
Humeau, Juliette
Sauvat, Allan
Cerrato, Giulia
Xie, Wei
Loos, Friedemann
Iannantuoni, Francesca
Bezu, Lucillia
Lévesque, Sarah
Paillet, Juliette
Pol, Jonathan
Leduc, Marion
Zitvogel, Laurence
de Thé, Hugues
Kepp, Oliver
Kroemer, Guido

DOI
10.15252/emmm.201911622
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022062410411257344931
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Beteiligte

  • Humeau, Juliette
  • Sauvat, Allan
  • Cerrato, Giulia
  • Xie, Wei
  • Loos, Friedemann
  • Iannantuoni, Francesca
  • Bezu, Lucillia
  • Lévesque, Sarah
  • Paillet, Juliette
  • Pol, Jonathan
  • Leduc, Marion
  • Zitvogel, Laurence
  • de Thé, Hugues
  • Kepp, Oliver
  • Kroemer, Guido

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