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Data from Chemotherapy-Induced Distal Enhancers Drive Transcriptional Programs to Maintain the Chemoresistant State in Ovarian Cancer

Posted on 2023-03-31 - 02:43
Abstract

Chemoresistance is driven by unique regulatory networks in the genome that are distinct from those necessary for cancer development. Here, we investigate the contribution of enhancer elements to cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancers. Epigenome profiling of multiple cellular models of chemoresistance identified unique sets of distal enhancers, super-enhancers (SE), and their gene targets that coordinate and maintain the transcriptional program of the platinum-resistant state in ovarian cancer. Pharmacologic inhibition of distal enhancers through small-molecule epigenetic inhibitors suppressed the expression of their target genes and restored cisplatin sensitivity in vitro and in vivo. In addition to known drivers of chemoresistance, our findings identified SOX9 as a critical SE-regulated transcription factor that plays a critical role in acquiring and maintaining the chemoresistant state in ovarian cancer. The approach and findings presented here suggest that integrative analysis of epigenome and transcriptional programs could identify targetable key drivers of chemoresistance in cancers.

Significance:

Integrative genome-wide epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses of platinum-sensitive and -resistant ovarian lines identify key distal regulatory regions and associated master regulator transcription factors that can be targeted by small-molecule epigenetic inhibitors.

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AUTHORS (16)

  • Stephen Shang
    Jiekun Yang
    Amir A. Jazaeri
    Alexander James Duval
    Turan Tufan
    Natasha Lopes Fischer
    Mouadh Benamar
    Fadila Guessous
    Inyoung Lee
    Robert M. Campbell
    Philip J. Ebert
    Tarek Abbas
    Charles N. Landen
    Analisa Difeo
    Peter C. Scacheri
    Mazhar Adli
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