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BRCA1, R-loops and Recombination defects in Ewing''s sarcoma (RNA-seq)

Organism Icon Homo sapiens
Sample Icon 27 Downloadable Samples
Technology Badge IconIllumina HiSeq 2000

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Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT) is an aggressive pediatric bone and soft tissue cancer. It is the prototypical example of mesenchymal tumors driven by a fusion oncogene involving the ewing sarcoma break point region 1 (EWSR1) gene, most frequently– EWS-FLI1. We have discovered that loss of EWSR1 leads to accumulation of R-loops, replication stress and impaired homologous recombination, recapitulating breast cancer 1, early onset (BRCA1) deficiency. EWS-FLI1 acts dominant negatively in ESFT to impart the same phenotypes. Further we demonstrate that in ESFT, BRCA1 predominantly associates with the elongating transcription machinery and is unavailable for DNA strand break repair. Gene expression profiling identified upregulated compensatory mechanisms in ESFT cells to process increased R-loops (RNASEH2 and FEN1) and replication stress (Fanconi Anemia). Taken together, our data identifies BRCA1 sequestration due to transcription stress as the mechanistic basis for ESFT chemosensitivity and suggests potential targets for the much lacking second-line therapy. Overall design: Examination of gene expression of four ESFT cell lines and two control cell lines. Cells were treated to LD65 dose of etoposideand samples collected at 6 hour intervals over 24 hours
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