ZFIN ID: ZDB-LAB-101004-2
Hurlstone Lab
PI/Director: Hurlstone, Adam
Contact Person: Hurlstone, Adam
Email: adam.hurlstone@manchester.ac.uk
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Adam.Hurlstone/
Address: Faculty of Life Sciences Molecular Cancer Studies group University of Manchester Michael Smith Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PT UK
Country: United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)161 275-1574
Fax: +44 (0)161 275-5082
Line Designation: umc


GENOMIC FEATURES ORIGINATING FROM THIS LAB
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STATEMENT OF RESEARCH INTERESTS
The main focus of my group is tumour biology. In particular, we focus on chemotherapy resistance in cancer and factors underlying malignant conversion. Our chosen model is the zebrafish and we manipulate this organism using mutagenesis, transgenesis, antisense oligonucleotides, and small molecule inhibitors. Using these methods, we have developed several tumour models including melanoma and intestinal tumours, and are now validating the role of certain protein targets (implicated through transcription profiling and data mining) in therapeutic resistance and/or disease progression.

To illustrate our strategy, we have recently targeted expression of human oncogenic RAS to zebrafish melanocytes. This has given rise to a model of melanoma, both sporadic and familial. At the same time through expressing oncogenic BRAF, we have generated a model of benign melanocyte neoplasia. Moreover, through simultaneously expressing RAS and an inhibitor of the PI3K signalling pathway (a truncated form of the PI3K regulatory protein p85), we have demonstrated the importance of PI3K signalling in the progression of melanocyte neoplasia to malignancy. Comparing the transcriptomes of melanocytes with these different genotypes is revealing interesting patterns of diffferential gene expression that correlate with disease state. Analysis of these altered states of gene expression is implicating deregulated developmental signalling and inflammation in melanoma disease progression.

The above gene expression analysis is also supplying us with candidates to pursue to target melanoma. We have demonstrated that melanoma initiates in RAS-expressing animals soon after fertilisation. At this time-point animals are very amenable to targeted knockdown of gene products using both antisense oligonucleotides as well as small molecule inhibitors. We have developed a simple, sensitive and robust spectrophotometric assay for quantifying the extent of neoplasia in transgenic larval zebrafish, and have demonstrated that targeted knockdown of MAPK, PI3K and TOR signalling components antagonizes melanoma development. Reversing the logic of this approach implies that this in vivo assay could be used to discover novel antineoplastic compounds, something we would like to demonstrate in the near future.


LAB MEMBERS


ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS OF LAB MEMBERS
Wilcock, D.J., Badrock, A.P., Wong, C.W., Owen, R., Guerin, M., Southam, A.D., Johnston, H., Telfer, B.A., Fullwood, P., Watson, J., Ferguson, H., Ferguson, J., Lloyd, G.R., Jankevics, A., Dunn, W.B., Wellbrock, C., Lorigan, P., Ceol, C., Francavilla, C., Smith, M.P., Hurlstone, A.F.L. (2022) Oxidative stress from DGAT1 oncoprotein inhibition in melanoma suppresses tumor growth when ROS defenses are also breached. Cell Reports. 39:110995
Evans, B.L., Hurlstone, A.F.L., Clayton, P.E., Stevens, A., Shiels, H.A. (2022) Glucose uptake as an alternative to oxygen uptake for assessing metabolic rate in Danio rerio larvae. Current research in physiology. 5:216-223
Letrado, P., Mole, H., Montoya, M., Palacios, I., Barriuso, J., Hurlstone, A., Díez-Martínez, R., Oyarzabal, J. (2021) Systematic Roadmap for Cancer Drug Screening Using Zebrafish Embryo Xenograft Cancer Models: Melanoma Cell Line as a Case Study. Cancers. 13(15):
Badrock, A.P., Hurlstone, A. (2021) Dissecting Oncogenic RAS Signaling in Melanoma Development in Genetically Engineered Zebrafish Models. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2262:411-422
Bottiglione, F., Dee, C.T., Lea, R., Zeef, L.A.H., Badrock, A.P., Wane, M., Bugeon, L., Dallman, M.J., Allen, J.E., Hurlstone, A.F.L. (2020) Zebrafish IL-4-like Cytokines and IL-10 Suppress Inflammation but Only IL-10 Is Essential for Gill Homeostasis. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 205(4):994-1008
Carter, R.J., Milani, M., Butterworth, M., Alotibi, A., Harper, N., Yedida, G., Greaves, G., Al-Zebeeby, A., Jorgensen, A.L., Schache, A.G., Risk, J.M., Shaw, R.J., Jones, T.M., Sacco, J.J., Hurlstone, A., Cohen, G.M., Varadarajan, S. (2019) Exploring the potential of BH3 mimetic therapy in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Cell Death & Disease. 10:912
Henderson, F., Johnston, H.R., Badrock, A.P., Jones, E.A., Forster, D., Nagaraju, R.T., Evangelou, C., Kamarashev, J., Green, M., Fairclough, M., Barinaga-Rementeria Ramirez, I., He, S., Snaar-Jagalska, B.E., Hollywood, K., Dunn, W.B., Spaink, H.P., Smith, M.P., Lorigan, P., Claude, E., Williams, K.J., McMahon, A.W., Hurlstone, A. (2019) Enhanced fatty acid scavenging and glycerophospholipid metabolism accompanies melanocyte neoplasia progression in zebrafish. Cancer research. 79(9):2136-2151
Crilly, S., Njegic, A., Laurie, S.E., Fotiou, E., Hudson, G., Barrington, J., Webb, K., Young, H.L., Badrock, A.P., Hurlstone, A., Rivers-Auty, J., Parry-Jones, A.R., Allan, S.M., Kasher, P.R. (2018) Using zebrafish larval models to study brain injury, locomotor and neuroinflammatory outcomes following intracerebral haemorrhage. F1000Research. 7:1617
Casar, B., Badrock, A.P., Jiménez, I., Arozarena, I., Colón-Bolea, P., Lorenzo-Martín, L.F., Barinaga-Rementería, I., Barriuso, J., Cappitelli, V., Donoghue, D.J., Bustelo, X.R., Hurlstone, A., Crespo, P. (2018) RAS at the Golgi antagonizes malignant transformation through PTPRκ-mediated inhibition of ERK activation. Nature communications. 9:3595
Diamantopoulou, Z., White, G., Fadlullah, M.Z.H., Dreger, M., Pickering, K., Maltas, J., Ashton, G., MacLeod, R., Baillie, G.S., Kouskoff, V., Lacaud, G., Murray, G.I., Sansom, O.J., Hurlstone, A.F.L., Malliri, A. (2017) TIAM1 Antagonizes TAZ/YAP Both in the Destruction Complex in the Cytoplasm and in the Nucleus to Inhibit Invasion of Intestinal Epithelial Cells. Cancer Cell. 31:621-634.e6
Dee, C.T., Nagaraju, R.T., Athanasiadis, E.I., Gray, C., Fernandez Del Ama, L., Johnston, S.A., Secombes, C.J., Cvejic, A., Hurlstone, A.F. (2016) CD4-Transgenic Zebrafish Reveal Tissue-Resident Th2- and Regulatory T Cell-like Populations and Diverse Mononuclear Phagocytes. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 197(9):3520-3530
Fernandez Del Ama, L., Jones, M., Walker, P., Chapman, A., Braun, J.A., Mohr, J., Hurlstone, A.F. (2016) Reprofiling using a zebrafish melanoma model reveals drugs cooperating with targeted therapeutics. Oncotarget. 7(26):40348-40361
Mouti, M.A., Dee, C., Coupland, S.E., Hurlstone, A.F. (2016) Minimal contribution of ERK1/2-MAPK signalling towards the maintenance of oncogenic GNAQQ209P-driven uveal melanomas in zebrafish. Oncotarget. 7(26):39654-39670
Feng, Y., Santoriello, C., Mione, M., Hurlstone, A., Martin, P. (2016) Correction: Live Imaging of Innate Immune Cell Sensing of Transformed Cells in Zebrafish Larvae: Parallels between Tumor Initiation and Wound Inflammation. PLoS Biology. 14:e1002377
Paul, N.R., Allen, J.L., Chapman, A., Morlan-Mairal, M., Zindy, E., Jacquemet, G., Fernandez del Ama, L., Ferizovic, N., Green, D.M., Howe, J.D., Ehler, E., Hurlstone, A., Caswell, P.T. (2015) α5β1 integrin recycling promotes Arp2/3-independent cancer cell invasion via the formin FHOD3. The Journal of cell biology. 210:1013-31
Herrero, A., Pinto, A., Colón-Bolea, P., Casar, B., Jones, M., Agudo-Ibáñez, L., Vidal, R., Tenbaum, S.P., Nuciforo, P., Valdizán, E.M., Horvath, Z., Orfi, L., Pineda-Lucena, A., Bony, E., Keri, G., Rivas, G., Pazos, A., Gozalbes, R., Palmer, H.G., Hurlstone, A., Crespo, P. (2015) Small Molecule Inhibition of ERK Dimerization Prevents Tumorigenesis by RAS-ERK Pathway Oncogenes. Cancer Cell. 28:170-82
Barriuso, J., Nagaraju, R., Hurlstone, A. (2015) Zebrafish in oncology. Aging. 7(5):286-7
Barriuso, J., Nagaraju, R., Hurlstone, A. (2015) Zebrafish: A New Companion for Translational Research in Oncology. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 21(5):969-975
Chapman, A., Fernandez Del Ama, L., Ferguson, J., Kamarashev, J., Wellbrock, C., Hurlstone, A. (2014) Heterogeneous Tumor Subpopulations Cooperate to Drive Invasion. Cell Reports. 8(3):688-695
Burgon, J., Robertson, A.L., Sadiku, P., Wang, X., Hooper-Greenhill, E., Prince, L.R., Walker, P., Hoggett, E.E., Ward, J.R., Farrow, S.N., Zuercher, W.J., Jeffrey, P., Savage, C.O., Ingham, P.W., Hurlstone, A.F., Whyte, M.K., and Renshaw, S.A. (2014) Serum and Glucocorticoid-Regulated Kinase 1 Regulates Neutrophil Clearance during Inflammation Resolution. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 192(4):1796-1805
Dalton, L.E., Kamarashev, J., Ramirez, I.R., White, G., Malliri, A., and Hurlstone, A. (2013) Constitutive Rac Activation is not Sufficient to Initiate Melanocyte Neoplasia but Accelerates Malignant Progression. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 133(6):1572-81
Smith, M.P., Ferguson, J., Arozarena, I., Hayward, R., Marais, R., Chapman, A., Hurlstone, A., and Wellbrock, C. (2013) Effect of SMURF2 Targeting on Susceptibility to MEK Inhibitors in Melanoma. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 105(1):33-46
Ramirez, I.B., Pietka, G., Jones, D.R., Divecha, N., Aliam, A., Baraban, S.C., Hurlstone, A.F., and Lowe, M. (2012) Impaired Neural Development in a Zebrafish Model for Lowe Syndrome. Human molecular genetics. 21(8):1744-1759
Goonesinghe, A., Luan, X.M., Hurlstone, A., and Garrod, D. (2012) Desmosomal cadherins in zebrafish epiboly and gastrulation. BMC Developmental Biology. 12(1):1
Kelly, A., and Hurlstone, A.F. (2011) The use of RNAi technologies for gene knockdown in zebrafish. Briefings in functional genomics & proteomics. 10(4):189-96
Haud, N., Kara, F., Diekmann, S., Henneke, M., Willer, J.R., Hillwig, M.S., Gregg, R.G., Macintosh, G.C., Gärtner, J., Alia, A., and Hurlstone, A.F. (2011) rnaset2 mutant zebrafish model familial cystic leukoencephalopathy and reveal a role for RNase T2 in degrading ribosomal RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108(3):1099-1103
Feng, Y., Santoriello, C., Mione, M., Hurlstone, A., and Martin, P. (2010) Live Imaging of Innate Immune Cell Sensing of Transformed Cells in Zebrafish Larvae: Parallels between Tumor Initiation and Wound Inflammation. PLoS Biology. 8(12):e1000562
Santoriello, C., Gennaro, E., Anelli, V., Distel, M., Kelly, A., Köster, R.W., Hurlstone, A., and Mione, M. (2010) Kita Driven Expression of Oncogenic HRAS Leads to Early Onset and Highly Penetrant Melanoma in Zebrafish. PLoS One. 5(12):e15170
Michailidou, C., Jones, M., Walker, P., Kamarashev, J., Kelly, A., and Hurlstone, A.F. (2009) Dissecting the roles of Raf- and PI3K-signalling pathways in melanoma formation and progression in a zebrafish model. Disease models & mechanisms. 2(7-8):399-411