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PBAF loss leads to DNA damage-induced inflammatory signaling through defective G2/M checkpoint maintenance

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The PBRM1 subunit of the PBAF (SWI/SNF) chromatin remodeling complex is mutated in ~40% of clear cell renal cancers. PBRM1 loss has been implicated in responses to immunotherapy in renal cancer, but the mechanism is unclear. DNA damage-induced inflammatory signaling is an important factor determining immunotherapy response. This response is kept in check by the G2/M checkpoint, which prevents progression through mitosis with unrepaired damage. We found that in the absence of PBRM1, p53-dependent p21 up-regulation is delayed after DNA damage, leading to defective transcriptional repression by the DREAM complex and premature entry into mitosis. Consequently, DNA damage-induced inflammatory signaling pathways are activated by cytosolic DNA. Notably, p53 is infrequently mutated in renal cancer, so PBRM1 mutational status is critical to G2/M checkpoint maintenance. Moreover, we found that the ability of PBRM1 deficiency to predict response to immunotherapy correlates with expression of the cytosolic DNA-sensing pathway in clinical samples. These findings have implications for therapeutic responses in renal cancer.

SWI/SNFBAFPBRM1BAF180DREAM complexp21TP53G2/M checkpointimmunotherapycGASDNA damageinflammatory signaling

Hugang Feng、Karen A. Lane、Theodoros I. Roumeliotis、Penny A. Jeggo、Navita Somaiah、Jyoti S. Choudhary、Jessica A. Downs

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The Institute of Cancer Research, London SW3 6JB, United Kingdom

2022

Genes and Development

Genes and Development

ISSN:0890-9369
年,卷(期):2022.36(13/14)