Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Soluble guanylate cyclase signalling mediates etoposide resistance in progressing small cell lung cancer

  • Maximilian W. Schenk,
  • Sam Humphrey,
  • A. S. Md Mukarram Hossain,
  • Mitchell Revill,
  • Sarah Pearsall,
  • Alice Lallo,
  • Stewart Brown,
  • Samuel Bratt,
  • Melanie Galvin,
  • Tine Descamps,
  • Cong Zhou,
  • Simon P. Pearce,
  • Lynsey Priest,
  • Michelle Greenhalgh,
  • Anshuman Chaturvedi,
  • Alastair Kerr,
  • Fiona Blackhall,
  • Caroline Dive,
  • Kristopher K. Frese

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26823-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The emergence of acquired resistance to standard platinum-etoposide chemotherapy in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a common event. Here, the authors using paired pre-treatment and post-chemotherapy circulating tumour cell patient-derived explant (CDX) models reveal a mechanism of drug resistance in SCLC mediated by Notch and nitric oxide activation of soluble guanylate cyclase signalling.