HER3, PI3K, and JAK2 pathway activation on reverse phase protein microarray (RPMA) in HER2-amplified residual disease (RD) refractory to preoperative chemotherapy plus trastuzumab (H), lapatinib (L), or both (HL).

Authors

Frankie Holmes

Frankie Ann Holmes

Texas Oncology, US Oncology, Houston, TX

Frankie Ann Holmes , Corinne Ramos , Nicholas N Hoke , Maren K. Levin , Virginia A. Espina , Lance A. Liotta , Kai Wang , Norma Alonzo Palma , Joyce O'Shaughnessy

Organizations

Texas Oncology, US Oncology, Houston, TX, Theranostics Health, Inc., Rockville, MD, Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, Dallas, TX, George Mason Univ, Rockville, MD, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, Baylor Sammons Cancer Ctr US Onc, Dallas, TX

Research Funding

No funding sources reported

Background: Pretreatment (preRx) biopsies of HER2-amplified breast cancers (BCs) that did not achieve pCR with preop chemotherapy plus H vs L vs HL had PI3K pathway activation with high p-FOXO levels on RPMA (Holmes BMC Res Notes 2013). The RD obtained at surgery in these pts was enriched for co-mutations in PIK3CA and TP53 (Holmes ASCO 2014, 625). Here we describe activated phosphoproteins in the HER1/2/3 pathway in the RD from these pts who did not achieve pCR with preop H vs L vs HL and in RD with PIK3CA/TP53 co-mutations. Methods: 15 pts’ FFPE RD BCs were acceptable for RPMA at a CLIA-certified laboratory (Theranostics Health). Immunostaining with 14 antibodies was directed against HER1/2/3 pathway proteins. Spearman correlation (ρ, p value) and Mann-Whitney U tests (p value) were performed. Results: 7 of 15 RD BCs had PIK3CA/TP53 co-mutations. In the RD with co-mutant PIK3CA/TP53, the strongest Pearson correlations (r) were between HER3 and p-HER1 and each with p-mTOR, p-S6K, p-JAK2 and p-STAT3 (all r > 0.9) In preop L pts (n = 8), the strongest correlations in the RD were p-HER2 and HER3, p-HER2 and p-mTOR, p-HER1 and p-STAT3 , p-HER3 and p-STAT3 (all r > 0.8), and p-4EBP1 and p-JAK2 (r = 0.97). In preop H and HL pts (n = 7), the RD showed strong interactions between HER3 and p-HER1, p-HER2 and p-HER3, HER3 and p-S6K, p-HER1 and p-S6K and p-HER3 and p-JAK2 (all r > 0.9). Comparing L- vs H/HL-treated RD, L-treated RD had higher levels of p-Akt (p = 0.08), p-S6 (p = 0.08) and p-MEK1/2 (p = 0.02). PreRx biopsies from pts who had RD all expressed high PI3K or low PTEN ser380 levels and showed strong interactions between p-HER1 and p-IGF1R, p-HER1, PI3K, and MAPK activation, LCB3 (autophagy) and PI3K, and Musashi (stem cell regulator) and β-catenin (all ρ > 0.8) (all p < 0.00006). Conclusions: PreRx biopsies from HER2+ pts who had RD following preop chemotherapy + H, L or HL showed activation of HER1, PI3K and MAPK pathways. Pts’ refractory RD demonstrated HER3, PI3K and JAK2 pathway activation under the selective pressure of preop H, L or HL. PIK3CA/TP53 co-mutated RD demonstrated signaling via p-HER1/HER3 to p-mTOR/p-S6K and p-JAK2/p-STAT3.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Breast Cancer—HER2/ER

Track

Breast Cancer

Sub Track

HER2+

Citation

J Clin Oncol 33, 2015 (suppl; abstr 621)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2015.33.15_suppl.621

Abstract #

621

Poster Bd #

111

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