A Case Report of Poor Response to Selpercatinib in the Presence of a 632_633 RET Deletion
- 1 January 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc in Thyroid®
- Vol. 33 (1), 119-125
- https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2021.0680
Abstract
Background: Genomic deletions in medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) are rare. Selpercatinib is a highly selective RET inhibitor for treatment of metastatic RET-altered MTC. We report a case of a 35 year old male with an aggressive metastatic MTC harboring p.632_633del RET poorly responsive to RET kinase inhibitor selpercatinib. Objective Understand the clinical phenotype of p.632_633del RET in MTC in context of novel RET kinase inhibitor treatment. Methods: Wild-type and p.632_633del RET sequences were modeled using a lighter version of the AlphaFold2 (AF2) software. Functional studies were performed on transfected HEK 293 cells (pCMV6-Entry, pCMV6-RET or pCMV6-RET(p.632_633del) treated with inhibitors for 24 hours and analysed on luciferase assays. Results: Structural modeling revealed the paucity of disulfide bridge between Cys630-Cys634 in p.632_633del RET sequences, apparent in wild-type, while forming an intermolecular disulfide bridge between two Cys656. Proximity of juxtamembrane segments of each dimer may impede Tyr687 phosphorylation and stable conformation of intracellular RET that hosts selpercatinib. In vitro experiments confirmed a reduction in efficacy of selpercatinib upon p.632_633del RET compared with wild-type RET control. Conclusion: Clinical presentation together with structural modeling and functional studies suggest p.632_633del RET results inpoor response to selpercatinib.Keywords
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