Aberrant Regulation of RAD51 Promotes Resistance of Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy in ER-positive Breast Cancer.

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Although current therapies offer favorable prospects for improving survival, the development of resistance remains a severe problem. In this study, we explored the resistance mechanisms of ER-positive breast cancer to neoadjuvant endocrine therapy. Microarray data of GSE87411 contained 109 pairs of samples from Z1031 trial, including untreated samples and post-treated samples with neoadjuvant aromatase inhibitor (AI) therapy. The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained from two different comparisons: untreated samples versus post-treated samples with AIs, and post-treated samples sensitive versus resistant to AIs. Multiple bioinformatic methods were applied to evaluate biological function, protein-protein network and potential binding between target protein and aromatase inhibitor. Then, regulation of gene expression, DNA methylation and clinicopathological factors of breast cancer were further analyzed with TCGA data. From GSE87411 dataset, 30 overlapped DEGs were identified. Cell division was found to be the main function of overlapped DEGs by functional enrichment and gene ontology (GO) analysis. RAD51 recombinase (RAD51), a key protein of homologous recombination, was detected to interact with BReast CAncer genes 2 (BRCA2). Moreover, according to the docking simulation, RAD51 might potentially bind to AIs. Overexpressed RAD51 was associated with hypermethylation of BRCA2, resistance to AIs and poor overall survival of patients with ER-positive breast cancer. Furthermore, RAD51 was found to be a better indicator than MKI67 for predicting resistance in neoadjuvant setting. The results indicated that methylation of BRCA2 led to incomplete suppression on RAD51, which caused an increased expression of RAD51, subsequently AI-resistance and poor prognosis in ER-positive breast cancer. 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