{"doi":"10.1101/2023.01.17.524094","title":"MCB-613 exploits a collateral sensitivity in drug resistant <i>EGFR</i> -mutant non-small cell lung cancer through covalent inhibition of KEAP1","abstract":"ABSTRACT Targeted therapies have revolutionized cancer chemotherapy. Unfortunately, most patients develop multifocal resistance to these drugs within a matter of months. Here, we used a high-throughput phenotypic small molecule screen to identify MCB-613 as a compound that selectively targets EGFR -mutant, EGFR inhibitor-resistant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells harboring diverse resistance mechanisms. Subsequent proteomic and functional genomic screens involving MCB-613 identified its target in this context to be KEAP1, revealing that this gene is selectively essential in the setting of EGFR inhibitor resistance. In-depth molecular characterization demonstrated that (1) MCB-613 binds KEAP1 covalently; (2) a single molecule of MCB-613 is capable of bridging two KEAP1 monomers together; and, (3) this modification interferes with the degradation of canonical KEAP1 substrates such as NRF2. Surprisingly, NRF2 knockout sensitizes cells to MCB-613, suggesting that the drug functions through modulation of an alternative KEAP1 substrate. Together, these findings advance MCB-613 as a new tool for exploiting the selective essentiality of KEAP1 in drug-resistant, EGFR -mutant NSCLC cells.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2023,"id":402545,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.947,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":288303,"name":"Grace R. 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