Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

SMARCA4-inactivating mutations increase sensitivity to Aurora kinase A inhibitor VX-680 in non-small cell lung cancers

  • Vural Tagal,
  • Shuguang Wei,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Rolf A. Brekken,
  • Bruce A. Posner,
  • Michael Peyton,
  • Luc Girard,
  • TaeHyun Hwang,
  • David A. Wheeler,
  • John D. Minna,
  • Michael A. White,
  • Adi F. Gazdar,
  • Michael G. Roth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14098
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Lung cancers often harbour loss-of-function mutations inSMARCA4. Here, the authors demonstrate a vulnerability of SMARCA4-deficient lung cancers for Aurora kinase A inhibition associated with mitotic defects.