Hsp90 Inhibitor STA9090 induced VPS35 related extracellular vesicle release and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Transl Oncol

Department of Occupational Health and Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address:

Published: December 2022

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  • Hsp90 has been a key target in cancer therapy, but the N-terminal Hsp90 inhibitor STA9090 faced issues in clinical trials and was linked to increased metastasis in animal models.
  • VPS35, crucial for EV traffic in neurodegenerative diseases, may also play a role in tumor metastasis; this study explored its involvement with STA9090-induced EVs in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
  • The findings suggest that STA9090 elevates levels of Bclaf1 and VPS35, leading to increased EV secretion that promotes cell invasion, indicating that targeting the Bclaf1-VPS35-EVs pathway could provide new treatment strategies to combat metastasis in HCC.

Article Abstract

Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has been an important therapeutic target for cancer therapy for decades. Unexpectedly, the monotherapy of N-terminal Hsp90 inhibitor STA9090 related clinical trials halted in phase III, and metastases were reported in animal models with the treatment of N-terminal Hsp90 inhibitors. Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 35 (VPS35) plays a vital role in endosome-derived EV (extracellular vesicle) traffic in neurodegeneration diseases, but no vps35 related EV were reported in tumors till now. Since tumor derived EVs contributes to metastasis and VPS35 is recently found to be involved in the invasion and metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), whether N-terminal Hsp90 inhibitor STA9090 induced EVs generation and the role of VPS35 in it were explored in this study. We found that N-terminal Hsp90 inhibitor STA9090 upregulated Bclaf1 and VPS35 levels, increased the secretion of EVs, and STA9090-induced-EVs promoted the invasion of HepG2 cells. As the clinical data suggested that the increased Bclaf1 and VPS35 levels correlated with increased metastasis and poorer prognosis in HCC, we focused on the Bclaf1-VPS35-EVs axis to further explore the mechanism of VPS35-related metastasis. The results demonstrated that Bclaf1 facilitated the transcription of VPS35 via bZIP domain, and knockdown of Bclaf1 or VPS35 alleviated pro-metastatic capability of STA9090-induced-EVs. All the results revealed the role of Bclaf1-VPS35-EVs axis on metastasis of HCC, and VPS35 knockdown decreased Hsp90 Inhibitor STA9090 induced extracellular vesicle release and metastasis, which provided a new combination therapeutic strategy to inhibit the metastasis of HCC caused by N-terminal Hsp90 inhibitor induced extracellular vesicles.

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