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CELL REPORTS
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 773-783Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.09.085
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- Dutch Cancer Society (KWF)
- Center for Cancer Genomics (CGC)
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Senescence is a proliferation arrest that can result from a variety of stresses. Cancer cells can also undergo senescence, but the stresses that provoke cancer cells to undergo senescence are unclear. Here, we use both functional genetic and compound screens in cancer cells harboring a reporter that is activated during senescence to find targets that induce senescence. We show that suppression of the SWI/SNF component SMARCB1 induces senescence in melanoma through strong activation of the MAP kinase pathway. From the compound screen, we identified multiple aurora kinase inhibitors as potent inducers of senescence in RAS mutant lung cancer. Senescent melanoma and lung cancer cells acquire sensitivity to the BCL2 family inhibitor ABT263. We propose a one-two punch approach for the treatment of cancer in which a drug is first used to induce senescence in cancer cells and a second drug is then used to kill senescent cancer cells.
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