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Series GSE120792 Query DataSets for GSE120792
Status Public on Jun 16, 2021
Title PARP Inhibition Exacerbates Tumor-autonomous Immunogenicity Driven by BRCA1 Deficiency through DNA Sensing and Interferon Response in Ovarian Cancer
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary BRCA1 is an essential gene of the homologous recombination repair (HR) pathway. Ovarian cancers with BRCA1 mutations represent about 20% of HGSOC and are characterized by loss-of-function TP53 mutations, copy number alterations, chromosomal instability, high neoantigen loads and increased infiltration of intraepithelial CD8 tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). We propose that DNA damage induced by BRCA1 loss could be a tumor-autonomous inflammatory mechanism. Our hypothesis was corroborated by studies in human and mouse isogenic ovarian cancer cell lines which revealed that BRCA1 deficiency leads to increased cytoplasmic gamma H2AX+ double stranded (ds) DNA species, overexpression of proteins of the nucleic acid sensor pathway (IFI16, STING, MX1),  phosphorylation of TBK1, IRF3 and STAT1 and secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IFN-b, IFN-a) and T cell recruiting chemokines (CCL5, CXCL9, CXCL10). PARP inhibition exacerbated type I IFN responses in BRCA1 deficient ovarian cancer cell lines and simultaneously increased surface expression of PDL1. Increased DNA damage, as measured by γH2AX tumor staining, was also detected in situ in human ovarian cancers with BRCA1 mutations.  Importantly, we detected tumor expression of pSTAT1 confirming a type I IFN activation in tumors with DNA damage. Both DNA damage and pSTAT1 activation correlated with higher TIL infiltration and better overall survival.   Our results translated in mouse models of ovarian cancer where Trp53-/-Brca1-/- but not Trp53-/-Brca1WT tumors presented with biomarkers of DNA damage, type I IFN pathway activation and responded to a therapeutic combination of PARP inhibitor Olaparib with dual checkpoint blockade antibodies. Our results provide a mechanistic link between loss of BRCA1 and induction of tumor-driven inflammatory and immunogenic responses in ovarian cancer that was mediated by tumor-cell autonomous type I IFN signaling. which translated to increased immune surveillance by CD8 T cells.
 
Overall design The human cell line UWB1.289 which harbors a deleterious mutation in BRCA1 was profiled in triplicates for transcriptomics as well as its isogenic counterpart line with forced expression of wild-type BRCA1 in triplicate.
 
Contributor(s) Dangaj D, Coukos G
Citation(s) 34289354
Submission date Oct 03, 2018
Last update date Aug 24, 2021
Contact name David Barras
E-mail(s) david.barras@chuv.ch
Organization name Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois
Department Oncology
Street address AGORA, Bugnon 25A
City Lausanne
State/province Vaud
ZIP/Postal code 1005
Country Switzerland
 
Platforms (1)
GPL16791 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Homo sapiens)
Samples (6)
GSM3415636 BRCA1_WT1
GSM3415637 BRCA1_WT2
GSM3415638 BRCA1_WT3
Relations
BioProject PRJNA494555
SRA SRP163250

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GSE120792_BRCA1_all.txt.gz 887.4 Kb (ftp)(http) TXT
GSE120792_RAW.tar 1.2 Mb (http)(custom) TAR (of TXT)
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