The therapeutic efficacy of the anticancer drug cisplatin is limited by acquired drug resistance. Cisplatin forms DNA crosslinks, that, if not removed, lead to replication stress. Due to this, the DNA damage response (DDR) gets activated regulating cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, cell death or survival. This makes DDR components promising targets for the development of new therapeutic approaches aiming to overcome acquired drug resistance. To this end, cisplatin-resistant bladder cancer cells were analyzed regarding their sensitivity to combination treatments with selected pharmacological DDR inhibitors. Synergistic cytolethal effects were achieved after combined treatment with low to moderate doses of the non-genotoxic RAD51-inhibitor (RAD51) B02 and CHK1-inhibitor (CHK1) PF477736. This effect was also found in cisplatin resistant tumor cells of other origin as well as with other RAD51 and CHK1. Combined treatments promoted decelerated replication, S-phase blockage, accumulation of DNA strand breaks, DDR activation and stimulation of apoptotic cell death as compared to mono-treatment, which is independent of the expression of RAD51, CHK1, and PrimPol. Based on these data, we suggest combined inhibition of RAD51 and CHK1 to overcome acquired cisplatin resistance of malignant cells. We propose that the molecular mechanism of this synergistic toxicity relies on a simultaneous inactivation of two key DNA damage tolerance pathways regulating replication fork restart, thereby circumventing the activation of alternative compensatory mechanisms and, in consequence, eventually effectively triggering apoptotic cell death by replication fork collapse.

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