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Repression of PRMT activities sensitize human homologous recombination-proficient ovarian and breast cancer cells to PARP inhibitor treatment.

Youyou Zhang | Mu Xu | Jiao Yuan | Zhongyi Hu | Junjie Jiang | Yanrong Sun | Jie Huang | Yuxin Wang | Bingwei Wang | Jianfeng Shen | Meixiao Long | Yi Fan | Kathleen T Montone | Janos Tanyi | Sarah H Kim | Omid Tavana | Robert H Vonderheide | Ho Man Chan | Susan Domchek | Lin Zhang | Xiaowen Hu
eLife | 2026

Therapeutic epigenetic modulation is currently being evaluated in the clinic to sensitize homologous recombination (HR)-proficient tumors to PARP inhibitors. To broaden its clinical applicability and identify more effective combination strategies, we conducted a drug screen combining PARP inhibitors with 74 well-characterized epigenetic modulators targeting five major classes of epigenetic enzymes. Notably, both type I PRMT inhibitors and PRMT5 inhibitors scored highly in combination efficacy and clinical prioritization. PRMT inhibition significantly enhanced PARP inhibitor-induced DNA damage in human HR-proficient ovarian and breast cancer cells. Mechanistically, PRMT suppression downregulates DNA damage repair genes and BRCAness-associated pathways, while also modulating intrinsic innate immune responses within cancer cells. Integrative analysis of large-scale genomic and functional datasets from TCGA and DepMap further supports PRMT1, PRMT4, and PRMT5 as promising therapeutic targets in oncology. Importantly, dual inhibition of PRMT1 and PRMT5 synergistically sensitizes tumors to PARP inhibitors. Collectively, our findings provide strong rationale for the clinical development of PRMT and PARP inhibitor combinations in HR-proficient ovarian and breast cancers.

Pubmed ID: 41632514

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  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA262070
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    Id: R01 CA285598
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    Id: R01CA262070
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