Meiotic protein SYCP2 confers resistance to DNA-damaging agents through R-loop-mediated DNA repair

Yumin Wang,Boya Gao, Luyuan Zhang, Xudong Wang,Xiaolan Zhu,Haibo Yang, Fengqi Zhang,Xueping Zhu, Badi Zhou, Sean Yao,Aiko Nagayama,Sanghoon Lee,Jian Ouyang,Siang-Boon Koh,Eric L. Eisenhauer, Dominique Zarrella, Kate Lu,Bo R. Rueda,Lee Zou, Xiaofeng A. Su,Oladapo Yeku,Leif W. Ellisen,Xiao-Song Wang,Li Lan

Nature Communications(2024)

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Drugs targeting the DNA damage response (DDR) are widely used in cancer therapy, but resistance to these drugs remains a major clinical challenge. Here, we show that SYCP2, a meiotic protein in the synaptonemal complex, is aberrantly and commonly expressed in breast and ovarian cancers and associated with broad resistance to DDR drugs. Mechanistically, SYCP2 enhances the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) through transcription-coupled homologous recombination (TC-HR). SYCP2 promotes R-loop formation at DSBs and facilitates RAD51 recruitment independently of BRCA1. SYCP2 loss impairs RAD51 localization, reduces TC-HR, and renders tumors sensitive to PARP and topoisomerase I (TOP1) inhibitors. Furthermore, our studies of two clinical cohorts find that SYCP2 overexpression correlates with breast cancer resistance to antibody-conjugated TOP1 inhibitor and ovarian cancer resistance to platinum treatment. Collectively, our data suggest that SYCP2 confers cancer cell resistance to DNA-damaging agents by stimulating R-loop-mediated DSB repair, offering opportunities to improve DDR therapy.
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