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The drug that blocks glutamine slows down the tumor

By hitting glutamine, the team was able to slow down the tumor and alter the metabolism of the tumor microenvironment, "awakening" the immune system.

November 9, 2019
Gianluca RiccioGianluca Riccio
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Jonathan Powell and Barbara Slusher of Johns Hopkins Medicine with a sample of the compound

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A research team from the Johns Hopkins Cancer Center has developed a critically important compound. It blocks the metabolism of glutamine, an amino acid involved in digestive processes, slows tumor growth, and alters the tumor microenvironment. Not only that: it promotes the production of resistant and highly active anticancer T cells.

"In theory, this tumor-slowing compound can be used in various types of neoplasia," says Jonathan Powell, at the head of the study published online on 7 November on Science.

By targeting glutamine metabolism, we were not only able to inhibit tumor growth and change the tumor microenvironment, but also to alter T cells in a way that greatly improved cancer immunotherapy.

Jonathan Powell, associate director of Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

Although glutamine metabolism is a component of all cells in the body, the DON drug selectively targets cancer cells because they are the "hungriest" of glutamine, Powell said. 

"What is emerging in metabolic therapy (this is why it is so important) is that a treatment like ours becomes selective because it preferably affects the cells that have the greatest demand."

Powell and colleagues tested the drug, nicknamed DON JHU083, in laboratory sessions on mice with colon cancer, lymphoma and melanoma.

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"At the beginning our thought was that if we had addressed the metabolism of the tumor we would have achieved two goals: slowing the growth of the tumor and altering the tumor microenvironment", he claims Powell. 

The tumor microenvironment (i.e. the cells, blood vessels and nutrients found in tissues adjacent to tumors) is very hostile to the immune response. It is usually acidic, hypoxic, and nutrient-depleted. Basically it's an "immune system" that defends the cancer ... from the cure.

In mice, treatment with JHU083 led to a significant reduction in tumor growth and improved survival in many types of cancer. The metabolism of cancer cells is literally derailed. Its effects on the tumor microenvironment are devastating. In some mice, treatment with JHU083 alone led to lasting cures. 

Easier to heal, more difficult to get sick again

These cures were facilitated because metabolic therapy triggered the natural antitumor immune response. When the researchers replenished these cancer-free mice with new tumors, they found that nearly all of them rejected the new tumor. This suggests that the JHU083 treatment had produced a powerful immune memory to recognize and attack the new tumor.

The group also showed that treating the tumors with JHU083 improved the efficacy of adoptive cell therapy. It is a type of immunotherapy in which immune T cells are collected and grown in large numbers in the laboratory before being administered to patients to increase the immune response against cancer. 

Potentially, tumors that develop metabolic pathways to avoid the impacts of JHU083 could be in a "dead end," Powell said. "By adding an additional metabolic antagonist, you could potentially eliminate resistant tumors as well."

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