作者: Dan Grandér , Sakari Kauppinen , Katja Pokrovskaja Tamm , Per Johnsson , Rainer Tuominen
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-021-89389-9
关键词: EZH2 、 Transcription (biology) 、 Antisense RNA 、 Melanoma 、 Mutation 、 Cancer research 、 Stage III melanoma 、 PTEN 、 Drug resistance 、 Medicine
摘要: BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) selectively target oncogenic BRAFV600E/K and are effective in 80% of advanced cutaneous malignant melanoma cases carrying the V600 mutation. However, development drug resistance limits their clinical efficacy. Better characterization underlying molecular processes is needed to further improve treatments. We previously demonstrated that transcription PTEN negatively regulated by pseudogene antisense RNA, PTENP1-AS, here we investigated impact this transcript on outcome BRAFi melanoma. observed increased expression levels PTENP1-AS resistant cells associated with enrichment EZH2 H3K27me3 at promoter, consequently reducing PTEN. Further, showed targeting sensitized treatment high stage III correlated poor survival. Collectively, data presented show a promising for re-sensitizing also possible prognostic marker