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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 80, Issue 3, Pages 406-417Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-2446
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFC1302100]
- CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences [2016-I2M-1-001, 2019-I2M-1-003]
- National Science Foundation of China [81972570]
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Switch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (SWI/SNF) chromatinre-modeling complexes have a mutation rate of approximately 20% in human cancer, and ARID1A is the most frequently mutated component. However, some components of SWI/SNF complexes, including ARID1A, exhibit a very low mutation rate in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and their role in SCC remains unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the low expression of ARID1A in SCC is the result of promoter hypermethylation. Low levels of ARID1A were associated with a poor prognosis. ARID1A maintained transcriptional homeostasis through both direct and indirect chromatin-remodeling mechanisms. Depletion of ARID1A activated an oncogenic transcriptome that drove SCC progression. The antiinflammatory natural product parthenolide was synthetically lethal to ARID1A-depleted SCC cells due to its inhibition of both HDAC1 and oncogenic signaling. These findings support the clinical application of parthenolide to treat patients with SCC with low ARID1A expression. Significance: This study reveals novel inactivation mechanisms and tumor-suppressive roles of ARID1A in SCC and proposes parthenolide as an effective treatment for patients with SCC with low ARID1A expression.
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