Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

MGMT genomic rearrangements contribute to chemotherapy resistance in gliomas

  • Barbara Oldrini,
  • Nuria Vaquero-Siguero,
  • Quanhua Mu,
  • Paula Kroon,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Marcos Galán-Ganga,
  • Zhaoshi Bao,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Hanjie Liu,
  • Jason K. Sa,
  • Junfei Zhao,
  • Hoon Kim,
  • Sandra Rodriguez-Perales,
  • Do-Hyun Nam,
  • Roel G. W. Verhaak,
  • Raul Rabadan,
  • Tao Jiang,
  • Jiguang Wang,
  • Massimo Squatrito

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17717-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chemotherapy resistance in recurrent gliomas is a large hurdle for successful therapy. Here, the authors show that some recurrent gliomas harbour O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) genomic rearrangements, and in vitro and in vivo these contribute to temozolomide resistance.