Ling Xiao1, Joe-Elie Salem2,3,4, Sebastian Clauss1,5,6, Alan Hanley1, Aneesh Bapat1, Maarten Hulsmans7, Yoshiko Iwamoto7, Gregory Wojtkiewicz7, Murat Cetinbas8,9, Maximilian J Schloss7, Justin Tedeschi1, Bénédicte Lebrun-Vignes2,10,11, Alicia Lundby12, Ruslan I Sadreyev13, Javid Moslehi4, Matthias Nahrendorf1,7, Patrick T Ellinor1,14, David J Milan1,15. 1. Cardiovascular Research Center (L.X., S.C., A.H., A.B., J.T., M.N., P.T.E., D.J.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 2. Clinical Pharmacology, Sorbonne University, INSERM, APHP, UNICO-GRECO Cardio-oncology Program (J-E.S., B.L-V.), Sorbonne University, ISERM, APHP, UNICO-GRECO Cardio-oncology Program, Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. 3. Clinical Investigation Center, Paris, France (J-E.S.). 4. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Cardio-Oncology Program, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nashville, TN (J-E.S., J.M.). 5. Department of Medicine I, Klinikum Grosshadern, University of Munich, Germany (S.C.). 6. DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich, Munich Heart Alliance, Germany (S.C.). 7. Center for Systems Biology, Department of Radiology (M.H., Y.I., G.W., M.J.S., M.N.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 8. Department of Molecular Biology(M.C.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 9. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.C.). 10. Clinical Pharmacology and Regional Pharmacovigilance Center (B.L-V.), Sorbonne University, ISERM, APHP, UNICO-GRECO Cardio-oncology Program, Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. 11. Université Paris Est (UPEC), IRMB- EA 7379 EpiDermE (Epidemiology in Dermatology and Evaluation of Therapeutics), F-94010, Créteil, France (B.L-V.). 12. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and NNF Center for Protein Research, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark (A.L.). 13. Department of Pathology (R.I.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 14. Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA (P.T.E.). 15. Leducq Foundation, Boston, MA (D.J.M.).
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Ibrutinib is a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor with remarkable efficacy against B-cell cancers. Ibrutinib also increases the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), which remains poorly understood. METHODS: We performed electrophysiology studies on mice treated with ibrutinib to assess inducibility of AF. Chemoproteomic analysis of cardiac lysates identified candidate ibrutinib targets, which were further evaluated in genetic mouse models and additional pharmacological experiments. The pharmacovigilance database, VigiBase, was queried to determine whether drug inhibition of an identified candidate kinase was associated with increased reporting of AF. RESULTS: We demonstrate that treatment of mice with ibrutinib for 4 weeks results in inducible AF, left atrial enlargement, myocardial fibrosis, and inflammation. This effect was reproduced in mice lacking Bruton tyrosine kinase, but not in mice treated with 4 weeks of acalabrutinib, a more specific Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, demonstrating that AF is an off-target side effect. Chemoproteomic profiling identified a short list of candidate kinases that was narrowed by additional experimentation leaving CSK (C-terminal Src kinase) as the strongest candidate for ibrutinib-induced AF. Cardiac-specific Csk knockout in mice led to increased AF, left atrial enlargement, fibrosis, and inflammation, phenocopying ibrutinib treatment. Disproportionality analyses in VigiBase confirmed increased reporting of AF associated with kinase inhibitors blocking Csk versus non-Csk inhibitors, with a reporting odds ratio of 8.0 (95% CI, 7.3-8.7; P<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: These data identify Csk inhibition as the mechanism through which ibrutinib leads to AF. Registration: URL: https://ww.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT03530215.
BACKGROUND: Ibrutinib is a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor with remarkable efficacy against B-cell cancers. Ibrutinib also increases the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), which remains poorly understood. METHODS: We performed electrophysiology studies on mice treated with ibrutinib to assess inducibility of AF. Chemoproteomic analysis of cardiac lysates identified candidate ibrutinib targets, which were further evaluated in genetic mouse models and additional pharmacological experiments. The pharmacovigilance database, VigiBase, was queried to determine whether drug inhibition of an identified candidate kinase was associated with increased reporting of AF. RESULTS: We demonstrate that treatment of mice with ibrutinib for 4 weeks results in inducible AF, left atrial enlargement, myocardial fibrosis, and inflammation. This effect was reproduced in mice lacking Bruton tyrosine kinase, but not in mice treated with 4 weeks of acalabrutinib, a more specific Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, demonstrating that AF is an off-target side effect. Chemoproteomic profiling identified a short list of candidate kinases that was narrowed by additional experimentation leaving CSK (C-terminal Src kinase) as the strongest candidate for ibrutinib-induced AF. Cardiac-specific Csk knockout in mice led to increased AF, left atrial enlargement, fibrosis, and inflammation, phenocopying ibrutinib treatment. Disproportionality analyses in VigiBase confirmed increased reporting of AF associated with kinase inhibitors blocking Csk versus non-Csk inhibitors, with a reporting odds ratio of 8.0 (95% CI, 7.3-8.7; P<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: These data identify Csk inhibition as the mechanism through which ibrutinib leads to AF. Registration: URL: https://ww.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT03530215.
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