摘要Metastasis is the leading cause of human cancer deaths.Unfortunately,no approved drugs are available for anti metastatic treatment.In our study,high-throughput sequencing-based high-throughput screening (HTS2)and a breast cancer lung metastasis (BCLM)-associated gene signature were combined to discover anti-metastatic drugs.After screening of thousands of compounds,we identified Ponatinib as a BCLM inhibitor.Ponatinib significantly inhibited the migration and mammosphere formation of breast cancer cells in vitro and blocked BCLM in multiple mouse models.Mechanistically,Ponatinib represses the expression of BCLM-associated genes mainly through the ERK/c-Jun signaling pathway by inhibiting the transcription of JUN and accelerating the degradation of c-Jun protein.Notably,JUN expression levels were positively correlated with BCLM-associated gene expression and lung metastases in breast cancer patients.Collectively,we established a novel approach for the discovery of anti-metastatic drugs,identified Ponatinib as a new drug to inhibit BCLM and revealed c-Jun as a crucial factor and potential drug target for BCLM.Our study may facilitate the therapeutic treatment of BCLM as well as other metastases.