Publication Date:
2015-01-30
Description:
Non-small-cell lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Chemotherapies such as the topoisomerase II (TopoII) inhibitor etoposide effectively reduce disease in a minority of patients with this cancer; therefore, alternative drug targets, including epigenetic enzymes, are under consideration for therapeutic intervention. A promising potential epigenetic target is the methyltransferase EZH2, which in the context of the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is well known to tri-methylate histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3K27me3) and elicit gene silencing. Here we demonstrate that EZH2 inhibition has differential effects on the TopoII inhibitor response of non-small-cell lung cancers in vitro and in vivo. EGFR and BRG1 mutations are genetic biomarkers that predict enhanced sensitivity to TopoII inhibitor in response to EZH2 inhibition. BRG1 loss-of-function mutant tumours respond to EZH2 inhibition with increased S phase, anaphase bridging, apoptosis and TopoII inhibitor sensitivity. Conversely, EGFR and BRG1 wild-type tumours upregulate BRG1 in response to EZH2 inhibition and ultimately become more resistant to TopoII inhibitor. EGFR gain-of-function mutant tumours are also sensitive to dual EZH2 inhibition and TopoII inhibitor, because of genetic antagonism between EGFR and BRG1. These findings suggest an opportunity for precision medicine in the genetically complex disease of non-small-cell lung cancer.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393352/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393352/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fillmore, Christine M -- Xu, Chunxiao -- Desai, Pooja T -- Berry, Joanne M -- Rowbotham, Samuel P -- Lin, Yi-Jang -- Zhang, Haikuo -- Marquez, Victor E -- Hammerman, Peter S -- Wong, Kwok-Kin -- Kim, Carla F -- CA120964/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA122794/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA140594/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA154303/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA163896/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA166480/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- K08 CA163677/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA140594/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA163896/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA166480/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL090136/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- U01 HL100402/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Apr 9;520(7546):239-42. doi: 10.1038/nature14122. Epub 2015 Jan 28.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Stem Cell Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ; 1] Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [2] Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Stem Cell Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA. ; Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25629630" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Anaphase/drug effects
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Animals
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Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic/pharmacology/therapeutic use
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Apoptosis/drug effects
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Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/drug therapy/enzymology/genetics/pathology
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Cell Cycle/drug effects
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Cell Line, Tumor
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DNA Helicases/*genetics
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Etoposide/pharmacology/therapeutic use
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Genes, erbB-1/*genetics
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Humans
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Lung Neoplasms/*drug therapy/enzymology/*genetics/pathology
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Mice
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Molecular Targeted Therapy
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Nuclear Proteins/*genetics
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Polycomb Repressive Complex 2/*antagonists & inhibitors
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Topoisomerase II Inhibitors/*pharmacology/*therapeutic use
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Transcription Factors/*genetics
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Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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