2025年 新着論文 40 リエゾンオフィスから論文が発表されました

HER2 Interactome Profiling Reveals MARCKS as a Candidate Marker Associated with Aggressive Breast Cancer

Cancers (Basel). 2025 Sep 2;17(17):2882. doi: 10.3390/cancers17172882.

Authors

Atsushi Yokoyama  1 Shun Sawatsubashi  2 Akiko Ebata  3 Yasuhiro Miki  4 Yuri Otsubo  1 Takashi Suzuki  4

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.
  • 2 Research and Innovation Liaison Office, Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
  • 3 Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgical Oncology Graduate School of Medicine Tohoku University, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan.
  • 4 Department of Anatomic Pathology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.

Abstract

Background/Objectives: HER2, a critical diagnostic marker and therapeutic target in breast cancer, is a membrane receptor that forms diverse signaling complexes, the constituents of which have not been fully characterized in actual breast cancer tissues. Methods: In this study, we applied the Rapid Immunoprecipitation Mass Spectrometry of Endogenous Proteins (RIME) method, originally developed to explore transcription factor complexes, to identify the complexes formed by HER2 in HER2-positive breast cancer specimens. Results: Through our approach, we successfully identified multiple complex components, including MARCKS, a novel HER2-interacting partner, which we verified using both proximal ligation assay in cultured cells and immunohistochemistry in tissue sections. TCGA analysis further revealed that high MARCKS expression significantly correlates with ER negativity, as confirmed by multivariate analysis, suggesting its potential role as a prognostic indicator in aggressive breast cancer subtypes. Conclusions: These results demonstrate the capability of RIME to elucidate interactomes of membrane proteins such as HER2 in clinical tissue specimens. Furthermore, this study highlights its broader applicability beyond nuclear proteins, underscoring its potential for discovering novel prognostic and diagnostic clinical markers in diverse cancer types.

Keywords: HER2; MARCKS; Mass Spectrometry; RIME; TCGA; biomarker; breast cancer; interactome; proteomics.