Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Combining PARP with ATR inhibition overcomes PARP inhibitor and platinum resistance in ovarian cancer models

  • Hyoung Kim,
  • Haineng Xu,
  • Erin George,
  • Dorothy Hallberg,
  • Sushil Kumar,
  • Veena Jagannathan,
  • Sergey Medvedev,
  • Yasuto Kinose,
  • Kyle Devins,
  • Priyanka Verma,
  • Kevin Ly,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Roger A. Greenberg,
  • Lauren Schwartz,
  • Neil Johnson,
  • Robert B. Scharpf,
  • Gordon B. Mills,
  • Rugang Zhang,
  • Victor E. Velculescu,
  • Eric J. Brown,
  • Fiona Simpkins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17127-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Patients with ovarium cancer frequently develop resistance to platinum chemotherapy and PARP inhibitors (PARPi). Here, the authors show that the combination of PARP and ATR inhibitors increases the therapeutic response in PARPi and platinum resistant ovarium cancer PDX models.