Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Computational pharmacogenomic screen identifies drugs that potentiate the anti-breast cancer activity of statins

  • Jenna E. van Leeuwen,
  • Wail Ba-Alawi,
  • Emily Branchard,
  • Jennifer Cruickshank,
  • Wiebke Schormann,
  • Joseph Longo,
  • Jennifer Silvester,
  • Peter L. Gross,
  • David W. Andrews,
  • David W. Cescon,
  • Benjamin Haibe-Kains,
  • Linda Z. Penn,
  • Deena M. A. Gendoo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33144-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Statins are promising for breast cancer therapy; dipyridamole can potentiate their effects, but is contraindicated in some cases. Here, the authors develop a pharmacogenomics pipeline to predict other compounds that potentiate statins, and validate the top candidates in cell line screens and 3D cultures.