6-thioguanine selectively kills BRCA2-defective tumors and overcomes PARP inhibitor resistance.
6-thioguanine selectively kills BRCA2-defective tumors and overcomes PARP inhibitor resistance.
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DOI:
10.1158/0008-5472.can-09-3416
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发表时间:
2010-08-01
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影响因子:
11.2
通讯作者:
Helleday T
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作者:
Issaeva N;Thomas HD;Djureinovic T;Jaspers JE;Stoimenov I;Kyle S;Pedley N;Gottipati P;Zur R;Sleeth K;Chatzakos V;Mulligan EA;Lundin C;Gubanova E;Kersbergen A;Harris AL;Sharma RA;Rottenberg S;Curtin NJ;Helleday T
Familial breast and ovarian cancers are often defective in homologous recombination (HR) due to mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes. Cisplatin chemotherapy or poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors are tested for these tumours in clinical trials. In a screen for novel drugs that selectively kill BRCA2-defective cells, we identified 6-thioguanine (6TG), which induces DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) that we show are repaired by HR. Furthermore, we show that 6TG is as efficient as a PARP inhibitor in selectively killing BRCA2-defective tumours in a xenograft model. Spontaneous BRCA1 defective mammary tumours gain resistance to PARP inhibitors through increased p-glycoprotein expression. Here, we show that 6TG efficiently kills such BRCA1 defective PARP inhibitor resistant (PIR) tumours. We also show that 6TG can kill cells and tumours that have gained resistance to PARP inhibitors or cisplatin through genetic reversion of the BRCA2 gene. Although HR is reactivated in PIR BRCA2-defective cells, it is not fully restored for the repair of 6TG-induced lesions. This is likely to be due to several recombinogenic lesions being formed after 6TG. We show that BRCA2 is required for survival also to mismatch repair-independent lesions formed by 6TG, which do not include DSBs. This suggests that HR is involved in repair of 6TG-induced DSBs as well as mismatch repair-independent 6TG-induced DNA lesion. Altogether, our data show that 6TG efficiently kills BRCA2-defective tumours and suggest that 6TG may be effective in the treatment of advanced tumours that have developed resistance to PARP inhibitors or platinum-based chemotherapy.