Genomic signature of Fanconi anaemia DNA repair pathway deficiency in cancer

Andrew L.H. Webster, Mathijs A. Sanders, Krupa Patel, Ralf Dietrich, Raymond J. Noonan, Francis P. Lach, Ryan R. White, Audrey Goldfarb, Kevin Hadi, Matthew M. Edwards, Frank X. Donovan, Remco M. Hoogenboezem, Moonjung Jung, Sunandini Sridhar, Tom F. Wiley, Olivier Fedrigo, Huasong Tian, Joel Rosiene, Thomas Heineman, Jennifer A. KennedyLorenzo Bean, Rasim O. Rosti, Rebecca Tryon, Ashlyn Maree Gonzalez, Allana Rosenberg, Ji Dung Luo, Thomas S. Carroll, Sanjana Shroff, Michael Beaumont, Eunike Velleuer, Jeff C. Rastatter, Susanne I. Wells, Jordi Surrallés, Grover Bagby, Margaret L. MacMillan, John E. Wagner, Maria Cancio, Farid Boulad, Theresa Scognamiglio, Roger Vaughan, Kristin G. Beaumont, Amnon Koren, Marcin Imielinski, Settara C. Chandrasekharappa, Arleen D. Auerbach, Bhuvanesh Singh, David I. Kutler, Peter J. Campbell, Agata Smogorzewska*

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Fanconi anaemia (FA), a model syndrome of genome instability, is caused by a deficiency in DNA interstrand crosslink repair resulting in chromosome breakage1–3. The FA repair pathway protects against endogenous and exogenous carcinogenic aldehydes4–7. Individuals with FA are hundreds to thousands fold more likely to develop head and neck (HNSCC), oesophageal and anogenital squamous cell carcinomas8 (SCCs). Molecular studies of SCCs from individuals with FA (FA SCCs) are limited, and it is unclear how FA SCCs relate to sporadic HNSCCs primarily driven by tobacco and alcohol exposure or infection with human papillomavirus9 (HPV). Here, by sequencing genomes and exomes of FA SCCs, we demonstrate that the primary genomic signature of FA repair deficiency is the presence of high numbers of structural variants. Structural variants are enriched for small deletions, unbalanced translocations and fold-back inversions, and are often connected, thereby forming complex rearrangements. They arise in the context of TP53 loss, but not in the context of HPV infection, and lead to somatic copy-number alterations of HNSCC driver genes. We further show that FA pathway deficiency may lead to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and enhanced keratinocyte-intrinsic inflammatory signalling, which would contribute to the aggressive nature of FA SCCs. We propose that the genomic instability in sporadic HPV-negative HNSCC may arise as a result of the FA repair pathway being overwhelmed by DNA interstrand crosslink damage caused by alcohol and tobacco-derived aldehydes, making FA SCC a powerful model to study tumorigenesis resulting from DNA-crosslinking damage.

Idioma originalAnglès
Pàgines (de-a)495-502
Nombre de pàgines8
RevistaNature
Volum612
Número7940
DOIs
Estat de la publicacióPublicada - 15 de des. 2022

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