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Shao X, Ding Z, Zhou W, Li Y, Li Z, Cui H, Lin X, Cao G, Cheng B, Sun H, Li M, Liu K, Lu D, Geng S, Shi W, Zhang G, Song Q, Chen L, Wang G, Su W, Cai L, Fang L, Leong DT, Li Y, Yu XF, Li H. Intrinsic bioactivity of black phosphorus nanomaterials on mitotic centrosome destabilization through suppression of PLK1 kinase. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2021; 16:1150-1160. [PMID: 34354264 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-021-00952-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Although nanomaterials have shown promising biomedical application potential, incomplete understanding of their molecular interactions with biological systems prevents their inclusion into mainstream clinical applications. Here we show that black phosphorus (BP) nanomaterials directly affect the cell cycle's centrosome machinery. BP destabilizes mitotic centrosomes by attenuating the cohesion of pericentriolar material and consequently leads to centrosome fragmentation within mitosis. As a result, BP-treated cells exhibit multipolar spindles and mitotic delay, and ultimately undergo apoptosis. Mechanistically, BP compromises centrosome integrity by deactivating the centrosome kinase polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1). BP directly binds to PLK1, inducing its aggregation, decreasing its cytosolic mobility and eventually restricting its recruitment to centrosomes for activation. With this mechanism, BP nanomaterials show great anticancer potential in tumour xenografted mice. Together, our study reveals a molecular mechanism for the tumoricidal properties of BP and proposes a direction for biomedical application of nanomaterials by exploring their intrinsic bioactivities.
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- Ximing Shao
- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nanomedicine, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nanomedicine, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nanomedicine, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nanomedicine, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nanomedicine, Shenzhen, China.
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Neural Development, Shenzhen, China.
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Lee HN, Choi YS, Kim SH, Zhong X, Kim W, Park JS, Saeidi S, Han BW, Kim N, Lee HS, Choi YJ, Baek JH, Na HK, Surh YJ. Resolvin D1 suppresses inflammation-associated tumorigenesis in the colon by inhibiting IL-6-induced mitotic spindle abnormality. FASEB J 2021; 35:e21432. [PMID: 33794029 DOI: 10.1096/fj.202002392r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Revised: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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While failure in resolution of inflammation is considered to increase the risk of tumorigenesis, there is paucity of experimental as well as clinical evidence supporting this association. Resolvin D1 (RvD1) is a representative pro-resolving lipid mediator that is endogenously generated from docosahexaenoic acid for the resolution of inflammation. Here, we report a decreased level of RvD1 in the blood from colorectal cancer patients and mice having inflammation-induced colon cancer, suggesting plasma RvD1 as a potential biomarker for monitoring colorectal cancer. Administration of RvD1 attenuated dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis and azoxymethane (AOM) plus DSS-induced colorectal carcinogenesis by suppressing the production of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and IL-6-mediated chromosomal instability. The protective effect of RvD1 against chromosomal instability is associated with downregulation of IL-6-induced Cyclin D1 expression, which appears to be mediated by blocking the Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)-signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) axis. RvD1 inhibited the STAT3 signaling pathway by interfering with the binding of IL-6 to its receptor (IL-6R), suggesting the novel function of RvD1 as a putative IL-6R antagonist. Together, our findings suggest that RvD1-mediated blockade of IL-6 signal transmission may contribute to inhibition of chromosomal instability and tumorigenesis.
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- Ha-Na Lee
- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea
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- Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Gil Medical Center, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea
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- Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Human Ecology, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Tumor Microenvironment Global Core Research Center, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.,Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Coticchio G, Barrie A, Lagalla C, Borini A, Fishel S, Griffin D, Campbell A. Plasticity of the human preimplantation embryo: developmental dogmas, variations on themes and self-correction. Hum Reprod Update 2021; 27:848-865. [PMID: 34131722 DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmab016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND IVF for the treatment of infertility offers unique opportunities to observe human preimplantation development. Progress in time-lapse technology (TLT) and preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) has greatly expanded our knowledge of developmental patterns leading to a healthy pregnancy or developmental failure. These technologies have also revealed unsuspected plastic properties of the preimplantation embryo, at macromolecular, cellular and multicellular levels. OBJECTIVE AND RATIONALE This review focuses on the emerging concept of plasticity of the human embryo as revealed by recent evidence derived from TLT and PGT, calling for an updated and more precise redefinition of the boundaries between normal and abnormal development. SEARCH METHODS PubMed was used to search the MEDLINE database for peer-reviewed English-language original articles and reviews concerning human preimplantation development. Cross-searches were performed by adopting 'fertilisation', 'pronucleus', 'cleavage', 'multinucleation', 'compaction', 'embryo', 'preimplantation genetic testing', 'aneuploidy', mosaicism', 'micromanipulation', 'time-lapse microscopy' and 'IVF/assisted reproduction' as main terms. The most relevant publications, i.e. those concerning major phenomena occurring during normal and abnormal development-with a focus on the human species-were assessed and discussed critically. OUTCOMES Advances in TLT and PGT have revealed an astonishing plasticity and self-correction ability of the human preimplantation embryo in vitro. At fertilisation, an abnormal number of pronuclei do not always result in the formation of an aneuploid blastocyst. Animal studies and preliminary human observations indicate that combining of parental genomes may occur at the early cleavage stage, if not at fertilisation. Multinucleation occurs with much higher prevalence than previously thought and may be corrected at later cleavage stages. Irregular cleavage (multichotomous, direct, rapid and reverse cleavages) can generate chromosome segregation abnormalities that often lead to developmental arrest, but that sporadically may be confined to cells excluded from the blastocyst, and may sometimes result in viable pregnancy. Mitotic errors can generate mosaic blastocysts, but alternatively normal embryos may form from selective death or clonal depletion of aneuploid cells. WIDER IMPLICATIONS Deviations from developmental dogmas and the increasing evidence of plasticity of the human embryo challenge current embryological notions and suggest the need to write new rules governing cell cycle, cell determination and chromosome segregation during preimplantation development.
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- CARE Fertility Group, Northampton, UK.,School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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Ghaleb A, Padellan M, Marchenko N. Mutant p53 drives the loss of heterozygosity by the upregulation of Nek2 in breast cancer cells. Breast Cancer Res 2020; 22:133. [PMID: 33267874 PMCID: PMC7709447 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-020-01370-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mutations in one allele of the TP53 gene in early stages are frequently followed by the loss of the remaining wild-type p53 (wtp53) allele (p53LOH) during tumor progression. Despite the strong notion of p53LOH as a critical step in tumor progression, its oncogenic outcomes that facilitate the selective pressure for p53LOH occurrence were not elucidated. METHODS Using MMTV;ErbB2 mouse model of breast cancer carrying heterozygous R172H p53 mutation, we identified a novel gain-of-function (GOF) activity of mutant p53 (mutp53): the exacerbated loss of wtp53 allele in response to γ-irradiation. RESULTS As consequences of p53LOH in mutp53 heterozygous cells, we observed profound stabilization of mutp53 protein, the loss of p21 expression, the abrogation of G2/M checkpoint, chromosomal instability, centrosome amplification, and transcriptional upregulation of mitotic kinase Nek2 (a member of Never in Mitosis (NIMA) Kinases family) involved in the regulation of centrosome function. To avoid the mitotic catastrophe in the absence of G2/M checkpoint, cells with centrosome amplification adapt Nek2-mediated centrosomes clustering as pro-survival mutp53 GOF mechanism enabling unrestricted proliferation and clonal expansion of cells with p53LOH. Thus, the clonal dominance of mutp53 cells with p53LOH may represent the mechanism of irradiation-induced p53LOH. We show that pharmacological and genetic ablation of Nek2 decreases centrosome clustering and viability of specifically mutp53 cells with p53LOH. CONCLUSION In a heterogeneous tumor population, Nek2 inhibition may alter the selective pressure for p53LOH by contraction of the mutp53 population with p53LOH, thus, preventing the outgrowth of genetically unstable, more aggressive cells.
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- Amr Ghaleb
- Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8691, USA.
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- Biologics Process Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, 07033, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8691, USA
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Discovery of Novel Agents on Spindle Assembly Checkpoint to Sensitize Vinorelbine-Induced Mitotic Cell Death Against Human Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21165608. [PMID: 32764382 PMCID: PMC7460560 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21165608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts about 80% of all lung cancers. More than two-thirds of NSCLC patients have inoperable, locally advanced or metastatic tumors. Non-toxic agents that synergistically potentiate cancer-killing activities of chemotherapeutic drugs are in high demand. YL-9 was a novel and non-cytotoxic compound with the structure related to sildenafil but showing much less activity against phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5). NCI-H460, an NSCLC cell line with low PDE5 expression, was used as the cell model. YL-9 synergistically potentiated vinorelbine-induced anti-proliferative and apoptotic effects in NCI-H460 cells. Vinorelbine induced tubulin acetylation and Bub1-related kinase (BUBR1) phosphorylation, a necessary component in spindle assembly checkpoint. These effects, as well as BUBR1 cleavage, were substantially enhanced in co-treatment with YL-9. Several mitotic arrest signals were enhanced under combinatory treatment of vinorelbine and YL-9, including an increase of mitotic spindle abnormalities, increased cyclin B1 expression, B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) phosphorylation and increased phosphoproteins. Moreover, YL-9 also displayed synergistic activity in combining with vinorelbine to induce apoptosis in A549 cells which express PDE5. In conclusion. the data suggest that YL-9 is a novel agent that synergistically amplifies vinorelbine-induced NSCLC apoptosis through activation of spindle assembly checkpoint and increased mitotic arrest of the cell cycle. YL-9 shows the potential for further development in combinatory treatment against NSCLC.
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Bilinski M, Lanari C, Fabris VT. Centrosome Abnormalities and Polyploidy in Murine Mammary Carcinomas with Different Degrees of Hormone Responsiveness. Cancer Invest 2020; 38:300-309. [PMID: 32378982 DOI: 10.1080/07357907.2020.1766482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Centrosome amplification leads to aberrant mitosis, giving rise to aneuploidy and it has been associated with poor prognosis in human cancers. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between polyploidy, centrosome abnormalities, and response to endocrine treatment in progestin-induced mouse mammary carcinomas. We found cells with three or more centrosomes in the polyploid tumors. The endocrine unresponsive tumors showed a higher average number of centrosomes per cell than the responsive tumors. The results suggest an association between polyploidy and centrosome amplification with the resistance to endocrine therapy in this luminal breast cancer model.
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- Melina Bilinski
- Laboratory of Hormonal Carcinogenesis, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Hormonal Carcinogenesis, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Hormonal Carcinogenesis, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Cytokinesis in Eukaryotic Cells: The Furrow Complexity at a Glance. Cells 2020; 9:cells9020271. [PMID: 31979090 PMCID: PMC7072619 DOI: 10.3390/cells9020271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The duplication cycle is the fascinating process that, starting from a cell, results in the formation of two daughter cells and it is essential for life. Cytokinesis is the final step of the cell cycle, it is a very complex phase, and is a concert of forces, remodeling, trafficking, and cell signaling. All of the steps of cell division must be properly coordinated with each other to faithfully segregate the genetic material and this task is fundamental for generating viable cells. Given the importance of this process, molecular pathways and proteins that are involved in cytokinesis are conserved from yeast to humans. In this review, we describe symmetric and asymmetric cell division in animal cell and in a model organism, budding yeast. In addition, we illustrate the surveillance mechanisms that ensure a proper cell division and discuss the connections with normal cell proliferation and organs development and with the occurrence of human diseases.
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Velásquez ZD, Conejeros I, Larrazabal C, Kerner K, Hermosilla C, Taubert A. Toxoplasma gondii-induced host cellular cell cycle dysregulation is linked to chromosome missegregation and cytokinesis failure in primary endothelial host cells. Sci Rep 2019; 9:12496. [PMID: 31467333 PMCID: PMC6715697 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48961-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic and intracellular parasite with fast proliferating properties leading to rapid host cell lysis. T. gondii modulates its host cell on numerous functional levels. T. gondii was previously reported to influence host cellular cell cycle and to dampen host cell division. By using primary endothelial host cells, we show for the first time that T. gondii tachyzoite infections led to increased host cell proliferation and to an enhanced number of multi-nucleated host cells. As detected on DNA content level, parasite infections induced a G2/M cell cycle arrest without affecting expression of G2-specific cyclin B1. In line, parasite-driven impairment mainly concerned mitotic phase of host cells by propagating several functional alterations, such as chromosome segregation errors, mitotic spindle alteration and blockage of cytokinesis progression, with the latter most likely being mediated by the downregulation of the Aurora B kinase expression.
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- Zahady D Velásquez
- Institute of Parasitology, Biomedical Research Center Seltersberg, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biomedical Research Center Seltersberg, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biomedical Research Center Seltersberg, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute for Hygiene and Infectious Diseases of Animals, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biomedical Research Center Seltersberg, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biomedical Research Center Seltersberg, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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McCollin A, Swann RL, Summers MC, Handyside AH, Ottolini CS. Abnormal cleavage and developmental arrest of human preimplantation embryos in vitro. Eur J Med Genet 2019; 63:103651. [PMID: 30995534 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Despite improvements in culture conditions and laboratory techniques still only about 50% of human embryos reach the blastocyst stage of development in vitro. While many factors influence embryo development, aberrant cleavage divisions have only recently been shown to directly affect the genome in individual cells of human embryos resulting in chromosome loss, mosaicism and cell arrest. In this article we review the current literature in the area of aberrant cleavage in human embryos and its effect on blastocyst development. Further to this, we propose a series of common abnormal cleavage events, with particular attention to timing and frequency, and illustrate how these might influence a number of different embryo fates.
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- Abeo McCollin
- London Women's Clinic, One St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY, UK
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- London Women's Clinic, One St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY, UK; School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NJ, UK
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- London Women's Clinic, One St Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY, UK; School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NJ, UK
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- The Evewell, 61 Harley Street, London, W1G 8QU, UK; School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NJ, UK.
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Hsu WH, Wang WJ, Lin WY, Huang YM, Lai CC, Liao JC, Chen HC. Adducin-1 is essential for spindle pole integrity through its interaction with TPX2. EMBO Rep 2018; 19:embr.201745607. [PMID: 29925526 PMCID: PMC6073210 DOI: 10.15252/embr.201745607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2017] [Revised: 05/21/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Bipolar spindle assembly is necessary to ensure the proper progression of cell division. Loss of spindle pole integrity leads to multipolar spindles and aberrant chromosomal segregation. However, the mechanism underlying the maintenance of spindle pole integrity remains unclear. In this study, we show that the actin‐binding protein adducin‐1 (ADD1) is phosphorylated at S726 during mitosis. S726‐phosphorylated ADD1 localizes to centrosomes, wherein it organizes into a rosette‐like structure at the pericentriolar material. ADD1 depletion causes centriole splitting and therefore results in multipolar spindles during mitosis, which can be restored by re‐expression of ADD1 and the phosphomimetic S726D mutant but not by the S726A mutant. Moreover, the phosphorylation of ADD1 at S726 is crucial for its interaction with TPX2, which is essential for spindle pole integrity. Together, our findings unveil a novel function of ADD1 in maintaining spindle pole integrity through its interaction with TPX2.
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- Wen-Hsin Hsu
- Ph.D. Program in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Ph.D. Program in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan .,Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.,Cancer Progression Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Yoon S, Kawasaki I, Shim YH. The B-type cyclin CYB-1 maintains the proper position and number of centrosomes during spermatogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Cell Sci 2017; 130:2722-2735. [PMID: 28705837 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.204578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Accepted: 07/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Depletion of cyb-1, a major B-type cyclin expressed during Caenorhabditis elegans spermatogenesis, causes a meiotic division arrest in diakinesis-stage spermatocytes with multiple and mispositioned centrosomes. Association of the two nuclear membrane proteins SUN-1 and ZYG-12 is essential for centrosome-nuclear envelope attachment. We found that depletion of sun-1 causes centrosome defects similar to those caused by cyb-1 depletion in diakinesis-stage spermatocytes. In addition, Ser8 and Ser43 residues in SUN-1 are dephosphorylated in cyb-1-depleted diakinesis-stage spermatocytes. Nevertheless, dephosphorylation of these residues was not sufficient to reproduce the cyb-1-related centrosome defects. We then found that the ZYG-12::GFP signal in the nuclear envelope was significantly reduced in the cyb-1-depleted diakinesis-stage spermatocytes. However, only mispositioned but not multiplied centrosomes were observed in zyg-12 mutant diakinesis-stage spermatocytes, suggesting that zyg-12 is not involved in the centrosome duplication at this stage. Our results suggest that CYB-1 functions to maintain proper positioning of centrosomes during spermatogenesis by regulating phosphorylation of SUN-1, which is possibly crucial for the association between SUN-1 and ZYG-12. This phosphorylation of SUN-1 may also regulate centrosome duplication independently of ZYG-12.
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- Sunghee Yoon
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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Castellano L, Dabrowska A, Pellegrino L, Ottaviani S, Cathcart P, Frampton AE, Krell J, Stebbing J. Sustained expression of miR-26a promotes chromosomal instability and tumorigenesis through regulation of CHFR. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:4401-4412. [PMID: 28126920 PMCID: PMC5416844 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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MicroRNA 26a (miR-26a) reduces cell viability in several cancers, indicating that miR-26a could be used as a therapeutic option in patients. We demonstrate that miR-26a not only inhibits G1-S cell cycle transition and promotes apoptosis, as previously described, but also regulates multiple cell cycle checkpoints. We show that sustained miR-26a over-expression in both breast cancer (BC) cell lines and mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) induces oversized cells containing either a single-large nucleus or two nuclei, indicating defects in mitosis and cytokinesis. Additionally, we demonstrate that miR-26a induces aneuploidy and centrosome defects and enhances tumorigenesis. Mechanistically, it acts by targeting G1-S transition genes as well as genes involved in mitosis and cytokinesis such as CHFR, LARP1 and YWHAE. Importantly, we show that only the re-expression of CHFR in miR-26a over-expressing cells partially rescues normal mitosis and impairs the tumorigenesis exerted by miR-26a, indicating that CHFR represents an important miR-26a target in the regulation of such phenotypes. We propose that miR-26a delivery might not be a viable therapeutic strategy due to the potential deleterious oncogenic activity of this miRNA.
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- Leandro Castellano
- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM), Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM), Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Division of Cancer Therapeutic, The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), Sutton, London SM2 5NG, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM), Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM), Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM), Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM), Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM), Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
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Errichiello E, Venesio T. Mitochondrial DNA variants in colorectal carcinogenesis: Drivers or passengers? J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2017; 143:1905-1914. [PMID: 28393270 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-017-2418-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Mitochondrial DNA alterations have widely been reported in many age-related degenerative diseases and tumors, including colorectal cancer. In the past few years, the discovery of inter-genomic crosstalk between nucleus and mitochondria has reinforced the role of mitochondrial DNA variants in perturbing this essential signaling pathway and thus indirectly targeting nuclear genes involved in tumorigenic and invasive phenotype. FINDINGS Mitochondrial dysfunction is currently considered a crucial hallmark of carcinogenesis as well as a promising target for anticancer therapy. Mitochondrial DNA alterations include point mutations, deletions, inversions, and copy number variations, but numerous studies investigating their pathogenic role in cancer have provided inconsistent evidence. Furthermore, the biological impact of mitochondrial DNA variants may vary tremendously, depending on the proportion of mutant DNA molecules carried by the neoplastic cells (heteroplasmy). CONCLUSIONS In this review, we discuss the role of different type of mitochondrial DNA alterations in colorectal carcinogenesis and, in particular, we revisit the issue of whether they may be considered as causative driver or simply genuine passenger events. The advent of high-throughput techniques as well as the development of genetic and pharmaceutical interventions for the treatment of mitochondrial dysfunction in colorectal cancer are also explored.
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- Edoardo Errichiello
- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Via Forlanini 14, 27100, Pavia, Italy.
- Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Unit of Pathology, Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, Starda Provinciale 142, Candiolo, 10060, Turin, Italy.
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- Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Unit of Pathology, Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS, Starda Provinciale 142, Candiolo, 10060, Turin, Italy
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Ma H, Wang L, Zhang T, Shen H, Du J. Loss of β-arrestin1 expression predicts unfavorable prognosis for non-small cell lung cancer patients. Tumour Biol 2015; 37:1341-7. [DOI: 10.1007/s13277-015-3886-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2015] [Accepted: 08/03/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Kalatova B, Jesenska R, Hlinka D, Dudas M. Tripolar mitosis in human cells and embryos: occurrence, pathophysiology and medical implications. Acta Histochem 2015; 117:111-25. [PMID: 25554607 DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2014.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2014] [Revised: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 11/27/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Tripolar mitosis is a specific case of cell division driven by typical molecular mechanisms of mitosis, but resulting in three daughter cells instead of the usual count of two. Other variants of multipolar mitosis show even more mitotic poles and are relatively rare. In nature, this phenomenon was frequently observed or suspected in multiple common cancers, infected cells, the placenta, and in early human embryos with impaired pregnancy-yielding potential. Artificial causes include radiation and various toxins. Here we combine several pieces of the most recent evidence for the existence of different types of multipolar mitosis in preimplantation embryos together with a detailed review of the literature. The related molecular and cellular mechanisms are discussed, including the regulation of centriole duplication, mitotic spindle biology, centromere functions, cell cycle checkpoints, mitotic autocorrection mechanisms, and the related complicating factors in healthy and affected cells, including post-mitotic cell-cell fusion often associated with multipolar cell division. Clinical relevance for oncology and embryo selection in assisted reproduction is also briefly discussed in this context.
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Nath S, Ghatak D, Das P, Roychoudhury S. Transcriptional control of mitosis: deregulation and cancer. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2015; 6:60. [PMID: 25999914 PMCID: PMC4419714 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2015.00060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 04/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Research over the past few decades has well established the molecular functioning of mitosis. Deregulation of these functions has also been attributed to the generation of aneuploidy in different tumor types. Numerous studies have given insight into the regulation of mitosis by cell cycle specific proteins. Optimum abundance of these proteins is pivotal to timely execution of mitosis. Aberrant expressions of these mitotic proteins have been reported in different cancer types. Several post-transcriptional mechanisms and their interplay have subsequently been identified that control the level of mitotic proteins. However, to date, infrequent incidences of cancer-associated mutations have been reported for the genes expressing these proteins. Therefore, altered expression of these mitotic regulators in tumor samples can largely be attributed to transcriptional deregulation. This review discusses the biology of transcriptional control for mitosis and evaluates its role in the generation of aneuploidy and tumorigenesis.
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- Somsubhra Nath
- Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
- Present address: Somsubhra Nath, Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy Division, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
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- Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
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- Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India
- *Correspondence: Susanta Roychoudhury, Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700 032, India, ;
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Donthamsetty S, Brahmbhatt M, Pannu V, Rida PCG, Ramarathinam S, Ogden A, Cheng A, Singh KK, Aneja R. Mitochondrial genome regulates mitotic fidelity by maintaining centrosomal homeostasis. Cell Cycle 2014; 13:2056-63. [PMID: 24799670 DOI: 10.4161/cc.29061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Centrosomes direct spindle morphogenesis to assemble a bipolar mitotic apparatus to enable error-free chromosome segregation and preclude chromosomal instability (CIN). Amplified centrosomes, a hallmark of cancer cells, set the stage for CIN, which underlies malignant transformation and evolution of aggressive phenotypes. Several studies report CIN and a tumorigenic and/or aggressive transformation in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-depleted cells. Although several nuclear-encoded proteins are implicated in centrosome duplication and spindle organization, the involvement of mtDNA encoded proteins in centrosome amplification (CA) remains elusive. Here we show that disruption of mitochondrial function by depletion of mtDNA induces robust CA and mitotic aberrations in osteosarcoma cells. We found that overexpression of Aurora A, Polo-like kinase 4 (PLK4), and Cyclin E was associated with emergence of amplified centrosomes. Supernumerary centrosomes in rho0 (mtDNA-depleted) cells resulted in multipolar mitoses bearing "real" centrosomes with paired centrioles at the multiple poles. This abnormal phenotype was recapitulated by inhibition of respiratory complex I in parental cells, suggesting a role for electron transport chain (ETC) in maintaining numeral centrosomal homeostasis. Furthermore, rho0 cells displayed a decreased proliferative capacity owing to a G 2/M arrest. Downregulation of nuclear-encoded p53 in rho0 cells underscores the importance of mitochondrial and nuclear genome crosstalk and may perhaps underlie the observed mitotic aberrations. By contrast, repletion of wild-type mtDNA in rho0 cells (cybrid) demonstrated a much lesser extent of CA and spindle multipolarity, suggesting partial restoration of centrosomal homeostasis. Our study provides compelling evidence to implicate the role of mitochondria in regulation of centrosome duplication, spindle architecture, and spindle pole integrity.
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- Department of Biology; Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA USA
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- Department of Biology; Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA USA
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- Department of Biology; Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA USA
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- Department of Biology; Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA USA
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- Departments of Genetics, Pathology, and Environmental Health and Center for Free Radical Biology, Center for Aging, and UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL USA and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Birmingham, AL USA
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- Department of Biology; Georgia State University; Atlanta, GA USA
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Chopra A, Anderson A, Giardina C. Novel piperazine-based compounds inhibit microtubule dynamics and sensitize colon cancer cells to tumor necrosis factor-induced apoptosis. J Biol Chem 2013; 289:2978-91. [PMID: 24338023 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.499319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We recently identified a series of mitotically acting piperazine-based compounds that potently increase the sensitivity of colon cancer cells to apoptotic ligands. Here we describe a structure-activity relationship study on this compound class and identify a highly active derivative ((4-(3-chlorophenyl)piperazin-1-yl)(2-ethoxyphenyl)methanone), referred to as AK301, the activity of which is governed by the positioning of functional groups on the phenyl and benzoyl rings. AK301 induced mitotic arrest in HT29 human colon cancer cells with an ED50 of ≈115 nm. Although AK301 inhibited growth of normal lung fibroblast cells, mitotic arrest was more pronounced in the colon cancer cells (50% versus 10%). Cells arrested by AK301 showed the formation of multiple microtubule organizing centers with Aurora kinase A and γ-tubulin. Employing in vitro and in vivo assays, tubulin polymerization was found to be slowed (but not abolished) by AK301. In silico molecular docking suggests that AK301 binds to the colchicine-binding domain on β-tubulin, but in a novel orientation. Cells arrested by AK301 expressed elevated levels of TNFR1 on their surface and more readily activated caspases-8, -9, and -3 in the presence of TNF. Relative to other microtubule destabilizers, AK301 was the most active TNF-sensitizing agent and also stimulated Fas- and TRAIL-induced apoptosis. In summary, we report a new class of mitosis-targeting agents that effectively sensitizes cancer cells to apoptotic ligands. These compounds should help illuminate the role of microtubules in regulating apoptotic ligand sensitivity and may ultimately be useful for developing agents that augment the anti-cancer activities of the immune response.
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Singh A, Zapata MC, Choi YS, Yoon SO. GSI promotes vincristine-induced apoptosis by enhancing multi-polar spindle formation. Cell Cycle 2013; 13:157-66. [PMID: 24200971 DOI: 10.4161/cc.26951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Gamma secretase inhibitors (GSI), cell-permeable small-molecule inhibitors of gamma secretase activity, had been originally developed for the treatment of Alzheimer disease. In recent years, it has been exploited in cancer research to inhibit Notch signaling that is aberrantly activated in various cancers. We previously found that GSI could synergize with anti-microtubule agent, vincristine (VCR) in a Notch-independent manner. Here, we delineate the underlying cell cycle-related mechanism using HeLa cells, which have strong mitotic checkpoints. GSI enhanced VCR-induced cell death, although GSI alone did not affect cell viability at all. GSI augmented VCR-induced mitotic arrest in a dose-dependent manner, which was preceded by apoptotic cell death, as shown by an increase in Annexin V-positive and caspase-positive cell population. Furthermore, GSI amplified multi-polar spindle formation triggered by VCR. Altogether, we show the evidence that GSI enhances VCR-induced apoptosis in HeLa cells via multi-polar mitotic spindle formation, independent of Notch signaling. These data suggest that one or more GS substrates, yet to be identified, in a post-GS processed form, may play a role in maintaining functional centrosomes/mitotic spindles. More significantly, the synergistic effect of GSI in combination with VCR could be exploited in clinical setting to improve the efficacy of VCR.
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- Akannsha Singh
- Laboratory of Cellular Immunology; Ochsner Clinic Foundation; New Orleans, LA USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular Immunology; Ochsner Clinic Foundation; New Orleans, LA USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular Immunology; Ochsner Clinic Foundation; New Orleans, LA USA
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- Laboratory of Cellular Immunology; Ochsner Clinic Foundation; New Orleans, LA USA
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Sun X, Liu M, Hao J, Li D, Luo Y, Wang X, Yang Y, Li F, Shui W, Chen Q, Zhou J. Parkin deficiency contributes to pancreatic tumorigenesis by inducing spindle multipolarity and misorientation. Cell Cycle 2013; 12:1133-41. [PMID: 23470638 DOI: 10.4161/cc.24215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Parkin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase well known for its role in the pathogenesis of juvenile Parkinson disease, has been considered as a candidate tumor suppressor in certain types of cancer. It remains unknown whether parkin is involved in the development of pancreatic cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Herein, we demonstrate the downregulation and copy number loss of the parkin gene in human pancreatic cancer specimens. The expression of parkin negatively correlates with clinicopathological parameters indicating the malignancy of pancreatic cancer. In addition, knockdown of parkin expression promotes the proliferation and tumorigenic properties of pancreatic cancer cells both in vitro and in mice. We further find that parkin deficiency increases the proportion of cells with spindle multipolarity and multinucleation. Parkin-depleted cells also show a significant increase in spindle misorientation. These findings indicate crucial involvement of parkin deficiency in the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer.
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- Xiaodong Sun
- Key Laboratory of Protein Science and Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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Brownlee CW, Rogers GC. Show me your license, please: deregulation of centriole duplication mechanisms that promote amplification. Cell Mol Life Sci 2013; 70:1021-34. [PMID: 22892665 PMCID: PMC11113234 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1102-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2012] [Revised: 07/13/2012] [Accepted: 07/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Centrosomes are organelles involved in generating and organizing the interphase microtubule cytoskeleton, mitotic spindles and cilia. At the centrosome core are a pair of centrioles, structures that act as the duplicating elements of this organelle. Centrioles function to recruit and organize pericentriolar material which nucleates microtubules. While centrioles are relatively simple in construction, the mechanics of centriole biogenesis remain an important yet poorly understood process. More mysterious still are the regulatory mechanisms that oversee centriole assembly. The fidelity of centriole duplication is critical as defects in either the assembly or number of centrioles promote aneuploidy, primary microcephaly, birth defects, ciliopathies and tumorigenesis. In addition, some pathogens employ mechanisms to promote centriole overduplication to the detriment of the host cell. This review summarizes our current understanding of this important topic, highlighting the need for further study if new therapeutics are to be developed to treat diseases arising from defects of centrosome duplication.
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- Christopher W. Brownlee
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724 USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724 USA
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Rübben A, Nordhoff O. A systems approach defining constraints of the genome architecture on lineage selection and evolvability during somatic cancer evolution. Biol Open 2012; 2:49-62. [PMID: 23336076 PMCID: PMC3545268 DOI: 10.1242/bio.20122543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2012] [Accepted: 10/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Most clinically distinguishable malignant tumors are characterized by specific mutations, specific patterns of chromosomal rearrangements and a predominant mechanism of genetic instability but it remains unsolved whether modifications of cancer genomes can be explained solely by mutations and selection through the cancer microenvironment. It has been suggested that internal dynamics of genomic modifications as opposed to the external evolutionary forces have a significant and complex impact on Darwinian species evolution. A similar situation can be expected for somatic cancer evolution as molecular key mechanisms encountered in species evolution also constitute prevalent mutation mechanisms in human cancers. This assumption is developed into a systems approach of carcinogenesis which focuses on possible inner constraints of the genome architecture on lineage selection during somatic cancer evolution. The proposed systems approach can be considered an analogy to the concept of evolvability in species evolution. The principal hypothesis is that permissive or restrictive effects of the genome architecture on lineage selection during somatic cancer evolution exist and have a measurable impact. The systems approach postulates three classes of lineage selection effects of the genome architecture on somatic cancer evolution: i) effects mediated by changes of fitness of cells of cancer lineage, ii) effects mediated by changes of mutation probabilities and iii) effects mediated by changes of gene designation and physical and functional genome redundancy. Physical genome redundancy is the copy number of identical genetic sequences. Functional genome redundancy of a gene or a regulatory element is defined as the number of different genetic elements, regardless of copy number, coding for the same specific biological function within a cancer cell. Complex interactions of the genome architecture on lineage selection may be expected when modifications of the genome architecture have multiple and possibly opposed effects which manifest themselves at disparate times and progression stages. Dissection of putative mechanisms mediating constraints exerted by the genome architecture on somatic cancer evolution may provide an algorithm for understanding and predicting as well as modifying somatic cancer evolution in individual patients.
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- Albert Rübben
- Independent Institute of Systems Sciences Aachen , 52064 Aachen , Germany ; Department of Dermatology, RWTH Aachen University , 52074 Aachen , Germany
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Shiheido H, Terada F, Tabata N, Hayakawa I, Matsumura N, Takashima H, Ogawa Y, Du W, Yamada T, Shoji M, Sugai T, Doi N, Iijima S, Hattori Y, Yanagawa H. A phthalimide derivative that inhibits centrosomal clustering is effective on multiple myeloma. PLoS One 2012; 7:e38878. [PMID: 22761710 PMCID: PMC3382596 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2011] [Accepted: 05/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Despite the introduction of newly developed drugs such as lenalidomide and bortezomib, patients with multiple myeloma are still difficult to treat and have a poor prognosis. In order to find novel drugs that are effective for multiple myeloma, we tested the antitumor activity of 29 phthalimide derivatives against several multiple myeloma cell lines. Among these derivatives, 2-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-5-amino-1H-isoindole-1,3- dione (TC11) was found to be a potent inhibitor of tumor cell proliferation and an inducer of apoptosis via activation of caspase-3, 8 and 9. This compound also showed in vivo activity against multiple myeloma cell line KMS34 tumor xenografts in ICR/SCID mice. By means of mRNA display selection on a microfluidic chip, the target protein of TC11 was identified as nucleophosmin 1 (NPM). Binding of TC11 and NPM monomer was confirmed by surface plasmon resonance. Immunofluorescence and NPM knockdown studies in HeLa cells suggested that TC11 inhibits centrosomal clustering by inhibiting the centrosomal-regulatory function of NPM, thereby inducing multipolar mitotic cells, which undergo apoptosis. NPM may become a novel target for development of antitumor drugs active against multiple myeloma.
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- Hirokazu Shiheido
- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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- Clinical Physiology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Organic and Biocatalytic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Organic and Biocatalytic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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- Clinical Physiology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Clinical Physiology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
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Ogden A, Rida PCG, Aneja R. Let's huddle to prevent a muddle: centrosome declustering as an attractive anticancer strategy. Cell Death Differ 2012; 19:1255-67. [PMID: 22653338 DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2012.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Nearly a century ago, cell biologists postulated that the chromosomal aberrations blighting cancer cells might be caused by a mysterious organelle-the centrosome-that had only just been discovered. For years, however, this enigmatic structure was neglected in oncologic investigations and has only recently reemerged as a key suspect in tumorigenesis. A majority of cancer cells, unlike healthy cells, possess an amplified centrosome complement, which they manage to coalesce neatly at two spindle poles during mitosis. This clustering mechanism permits the cell to form a pseudo-bipolar mitotic spindle for segregation of sister chromatids. On rare occasions this mechanism fails, resulting in declustered centrosomes and the assembly of a multipolar spindle. Spindle multipolarity consigns the cell to an almost certain fate of mitotic arrest or death. The catastrophic nature of multipolarity has attracted efforts to develop drugs that can induce declustering in cancer cells. Such chemotherapeutics would theoretically spare healthy cells, whose normal centrosome complement should preclude multipolar spindle formation. In search of the 'Holy Grail' of nontoxic, cancer cell-selective, and superiorly efficacious chemotherapy, research is underway to elucidate the underpinnings of centrosome clustering mechanisms. Here, we detail the progress made towards that end, highlighting seminal work and suggesting directions for future research, aimed at demystifying this riddling cellular tactic and exploiting it for chemotherapeutic purposes. We also propose a model to highlight the integral role of microtubule dynamicity and the delicate balance of forces on which cancer cells rely for effective centrosome clustering. Finally, we provide insights regarding how perturbation of this balance may pave an inroad for inducing lethal centrosome dispersal and death selectively in cancer cells.
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- A Ogden
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 30303, USA
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Knowlton AE, Brown HM, Richards TS, Andreolas LA, Patel RK, Grieshaber SS. Chlamydia trachomatis infection causes mitotic spindle pole defects independently from its effects on centrosome amplification. Traffic 2011; 12:854-66. [PMID: 21477082 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2011.01204.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Chlamydiae are Gram negative, obligate intracellular bacteria, and Chlamydia trachomatis is the etiologic agent of the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in the United States. Chlamydiae undergo a biphasic life cycle that takes place inside a parasitophorous vacuole termed an inclusion. Chlamydial infections have been epidemiologically linked to cervical cancer in patients previously infected by human papillomavirus (HPV). The inclusion associates very closely with host cell centrosomes, and this association is dependent upon the host motor protein dynein. We have previously reported that this interaction induces supernumerary centrosomes in infected cells, leading to multipolar mitotic spindles and inhibiting accurate chromosome segregation. Our findings demonstrate that chlamydial infection causes mitotic spindle defects independently of its effects on centrosome amplification. We show that chlamydial infection increases centrosome spread and inhibits the spindle assembly checkpoint delay to disrupt centrosome clustering. These data suggest that chlamydial infection exacerbates the consequences of centrosome amplification by inhibiting the cells' ability to suppress the effects of these defects on mitotic spindle organization. We hypothesize that these combined effects on mitotic spindle architecture identifies a possible mechanism for Chlamydia as a cofactor in cervical cancer formation.
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- Andrea E Knowlton
- Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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Differential expression of arrestins is a predictor of breast cancer progression and survival. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011; 130:791-807. [PMID: 21318602 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1374-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2010] [Accepted: 01/23/2011] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Emerging evidence has implicated G protein-coupled receptors, such as CXCR4 and PAR2, in breast cancer progression and the development of metastatic breast cancer. However, the role of proteins that regulate the function of these receptors, such as arrestins, in breast cancer has yet to be determined. Examination of the expression of the two nonvisual arrestins, arrestin2 and 3, in various breast cancer cell lines revealed comparable expression of arrestin3 in basal and luminal lines while arrestin2 expression was much higher in the luminal lines compared to the more aggressive basal lines. Analysis of normal human breast tissue revealed that arrestin2 and 3 were expressed in both luminal and myoepithelial cells of mammary epithelia with arrestin2 highest in myoepithelial cells and arrestin3 comparable in both cell types. Quantitative immunofluorescence-based examination of primary breast tumors revealed that arrestin2 expression significantly decreased with cancer progression from ductal carcinoma in situ to invasive carcinoma and further to lymph node metastasis (P < 0.001). Moreover, decreased arrestin2 expression was associated with decreased survival (P = 0.0007) as well as positive lymph node status and increased tumor size and nuclear grade. In contrast, arrestin3 expression significantly increased during breast cancer progression (P < 0.001) and increased expression was associated with decreased survival (P = 0.014). Arrestin3 was also an independent prognostic marker of breast cancer with a hazard ratio of 1.65. Overall, these studies demonstrate that arrestin2 levels decrease while arrestin3 levels increase during breast cancer progression and these changes correlate with a poor clinical outcome.
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Synthetic conjugates of genistein affecting proliferation and mitosis of cancer cells. Bioorg Med Chem 2011; 19:295-305. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2010.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2010] [Revised: 11/04/2010] [Accepted: 11/08/2010] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Greenland KB, Ding H, Costanzo M, Boone C, Davis TN. Identification of Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle pole body remodeling factors. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15426. [PMID: 21103054 PMCID: PMC2980476 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2010] [Accepted: 09/20/2010] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae centrosome or spindle pole body (SPB) is a dynamic structure that is remodeled in a cell cycle dependent manner. The SPB increases in size late in the cell cycle and during most cell cycle arrests and exchanges components during G1/S. We identified proteins involved in the remodeling process using a strain in which SPB remodeling is conditionally induced. This strain was engineered to express a modified SPB component, Spc110, which can be cleaved upon the induction of a protease. Using a synthetic genetic array analysis, we screened for genes required only when Spc110 cleavage is induced. Candidate SPB remodeling factors fell into several functional categories: mitotic regulators, microtubule motors, protein modification enzymes, and nuclear pore proteins. The involvement of candidate genes in SPB assembly was assessed in three ways: by identifying the presence of a synthetic growth defect when combined with an Spc110 assembly defective mutant, quantifying growth of SPBs during metaphase arrest, and comparing distribution of SPB size during asynchronous growth. These secondary screens identified four genes required for SPB remodeling: NUP60, POM152, and NCS2 are required for SPB growth during a mitotic cell cycle arrest, and UBC4 is required to maintain SPB size during the cell cycle. These findings implicate the nuclear pore, urmylation, and ubiquitination in SPB remodeling and represent novel functions for these genes.
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- Kristen B. Greenland
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Romé P, Prigent C, Giet R. [Centrosomes, mitotic spindle and cancer: find the odd one out!]. Med Sci (Paris) 2010; 26:377-83. [PMID: 20412742 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2010264377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Centrosomes are essential protagonists during cell division through microtubule nucleation and spindle formation which are key to the harmonious distribution of sister chromatids in the two daughter cells. However, during the past decade, a wealth of new observations has extended their role beyond mitosis, particularly in the asymmetrical partition of cell fate determinants. Remarkably, asymmetric centrosome inheritance per se, through the segregation of differently aged mother -centrioles, seems to regulate the differential behaviour of daughter cells, in part through asynchronous expression of primary cilia, governing the response to environmental signals. It is thus understandable why any quantitative or qualitative dysfunction of centrioles contributes to genomic -instability and thus -tumorigenesis.
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- Pierre Romé
- Institut de génétique et développement de Rennes, UMR 6061, Faculté de médecine, professeur Léon Bernard, CS 34317, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France.
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Ingemarsdotter C, Keller D, Beard P. The DNA damage response to non-replicating adeno-associated virus: Centriole overduplication and mitotic catastrophe independent of the spindle checkpoint. Virology 2010; 400:271-86. [PMID: 20199789 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2010.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2009] [Revised: 01/25/2010] [Accepted: 02/03/2010] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Adeno-associated virus (AAV) type 2 or UV-inactivated AAV (UV-AAV2) infection provokes a DNA damage response that leads to cell cycle arrest at the G2/M border. p53-deficient cells cannot sustain the G2 arrest, enter prolonged impaired mitosis, and die. Here, we studied how non-replicating AAV2 kills p53-deficient osteosarcoma cells. We found that the virus uncouples centriole duplication from the cell cycle, inducing centrosome overamplification that is dependent on Chk1, ATR and CDK kinases, and on G2 arrest. Interference with spindle checkpoint components Mad2 and BubR1 revealed unexpectedly that mitotic catastrophe occurs independently of spindle checkpoint function. We conclude that, in the p53-deficient cells, UV-AAV2 triggers mitotic catastrophe associated with a dramatic Chk1-dependent overduplication of centrioles and the consequent formation of multiple spindle poles in mitosis. As AAV2 acts through cellular damage response pathways, the results provide information on the role of Chk1 in mitotic catastrophe after DNA damage signaling in general.
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- Carin Ingemarsdotter
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Yasunaga J, Jeang KT. Viral transformation and aneuploidy. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2009; 50:733-740. [PMID: 19326462 PMCID: PMC2760603 DOI: 10.1002/em.20480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Human tumor viruses are associated with a variety of human malignancies, and it is estimated that 15% of all human cancers have a viral etiology. An abnormality in chromosomal ploidy or aneuploidy is a hallmark of cancers. In normal cells, euploidy is governed by several factors including an intact spindle assembly checkpoint, accurate centrosome duplication, and proper cytokinesis. Viral oncoproteins are suggested to perturb the cellular machineries for chromosomal segregation creating aneuploidy which can lead to the malignant transformation of infected cells. Here, we review in brief some of the mechanisms used by viruses that can cause cellular aneuploidy.
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- Junichiro Yasunaga
- Molecular Virology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Yu M, Ward Y, Poirier MC, Olivero OA. Centrosome amplification induced by the antiretroviral nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors lamivudine, stavudine, and didanosine. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2009; 50:718-724. [PMID: 19562754 PMCID: PMC2760687 DOI: 10.1002/em.20509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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In cultured cells, exposure to the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) zidovudine (AZT) induces genomic instability, cell cycle arrest, micronuclei, sister chromatid exchanges, and shortened telomeres. In previous studies, we demonstrated AZT-induced centrosome amplification (>2 centrosomes/cell). Here, we investigate centrosome amplification in cells exposed to other commonly used NRTIs. Experiments were performed using Chinese Hamster ovary (CHO) cells, and two normal human mammary epithelial cell (NHMEC) strains: M99005 and M98040, which are high and low incorporators of AZT into DNA, respectively. Cells were exposed for 24 hr to lamivudine (3TC), stavudine (d4T), didanosine (ddI), and thymidine, and stained with anti-pericentrin antibody. Dose response curves were performed to determine cytotoxicity and a lower concentration at near plasma levels and a 10 fold higher concentration were chosen for the experiments. In CHO cells, there was a concentration-dependent, significant (P < 0.05) increase in centrosome amplification for each of the NRTIs. In NHMEC strain M99005, an NRTI-induced increase (P < 0.05) in centrosome amplification was observed for the high concentrations of each NRTI and the low doses of 3TC and ddI. In NHMEC strain M98040, the high doses of ddI and d4T showed significant increases in centrosome amplification. Functional viability of amplified centrosomes was assessed by arresting microtubule nucleation with nocodazole. In cells with more than two centrosomes, the ability to recover microtubule nucleation was similar to that of unexposed cells. We conclude that centrosome amplification is a consequence of exposure to NRTIs and that cells with centrosome amplification are able to accomplish cell division.
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- Mia Yu
- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, CCR National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
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- Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, CCR National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, CCR National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, CCR National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
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Depletion of tubulin polymerization promoting protein family member 3 suppresses HeLa cell proliferation. Mol Cell Biochem 2009; 333:91-8. [PMID: 19633818 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-009-0208-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2009] [Accepted: 07/06/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Microtubules (MTs) play an important role in cell division, and their functions are regulated by a set of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). Tubulin polymerization promoting protein family member 3 (TPPP3), also known as p20, is a new member of the tubulin polymerization promoting protein (TPPP) family. Previous studies have demonstrated that TPPP3 specifically binds to MTs and positively regulates MTs assembly, which leads to significant ultrastructural alterations of the MTs network. However, the physiological function of TPPP3 is still largely unknown. In the present study, we showed that knockdown of endogenous TPPP3 by RNA interference (RNAi) suppressed cell proliferation and induced cell cycle arrest in HeLa cells. Furthermore, we showed that the depletion of TPPP3 caused mitotic abnormalities, such as the formation of multipolar spindles and chromosome segregation errors, which lead to apoptosis in HeLa cells. Our study suggested that TPPP3 played a crucial role in cell mitosis by regulating centrosomes amplification and/or spindles translocation processes.
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Localization of TEIF in the centrosome and its functional association with centrosome amplification in DNA damage, telomere dysfunction and human cancers. Oncogene 2009; 28:1549-60. [PMID: 19198626 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2008.503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Centrosome amplification and telomere shortening, which are commonly detected in human cancers, have been implicated in the induction of chromosome instability in tumorigenesis. The functions of these two structures are closely related to DNA damage repair machinery, and some factors that operate in the maintenance of telomeres also take part in the regulation of centrosome status, suggesting they are functionally linked. We report that TEIF (telomerase transcriptional elements-interacting factor), a transactivator of the hTERT (human telomerase reverse transcriptase subunit) gene, is distributed in the centrosome throughout the cell cycle, but its transport into the centrosome is increased under some conditions, and its distribution is dependent on its C-terminal domain. Experimental modulation of TEIF expression through overexpression, polypeptide expression or depletion affected centrosome status and increased abnormalities of cell mitosis. Localization of TEIF to the centrosome was also stimulated by treatment with genotoxic agents and experimental telomere dysfunction, accompanying centrosome amplification. Moreover, we demonstrated that the expression level of TEIF is not only closely correlated with centrosome amplification in soft tissue sarcomas but it is also significantly related to tumor histologic grade. Our data confirmed TEIF functions as a centrosome regulator. Its participation in DNA damage response, including telomere dysfunction and tumorigenesis, indicates TEIF is likely to be a factor involved in linking centrosome amplification and telomere dysfunction in cancer development.
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Barbagallo F, Paronetto MP, Franco R, Chieffi P, Dolci S, Fry AM, Geremia R, Sette C. Increased expression and nuclear localization of the centrosomal kinase Nek2 in human testicular seminomas. J Pathol 2009; 217:431-41. [DOI: 10.1002/path.2471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Nguyen CL, McLaughlin-Drubin ME, Münger K. Delocalization of the microtubule motor Dynein from mitotic spindles by the human papillomavirus E7 oncoprotein is not sufficient for induction of multipolar mitoses. Cancer Res 2008; 68:8715-22. [PMID: 18974113 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-1303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Dynein is a minus end-directed microtubule motor that transports numerous cargoes throughout the cell. During mitosis, dynein motor activity is necessary for the positioning of spindle microtubules and has also been implicated in inactivating the spindle assembly checkpoint. Mutations in dynein motor and/or accessory proteins are associated with human disease, including cancer, and the delocalization of dynein from mitotic spindles has been correlated with an increased incidence of multipolar spindle formation in some cancer cells that contain supernumerary centrosomes. The high-risk human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) E7 oncoprotein induces centrosome overduplication and has been shown to cause multipolar mitotic spindle formation, a diagnostic hallmark of HPV-associated neoplasias. Here, we show that HPV16 E7 expression leads to an increased population of mitotic cells with dynein delocalized from the mitotic spindle. This function maps to sequences of HPV16 E7 that are distinct from the region necessary for centrosome overduplication. However, contrary to previous reports, we provide evidence that dynein delocalization by HPV16 E7 is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause the formation of multipolar mitoses.
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- Christine L Nguyen
- Infectious Diseases Division, Channing Laboratories, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Committee on Virology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Distinct patterns of structural and numerical chromosomal instability characterize sporadic ovarian cancer. Neoplasia 2008; 10:1057-65. [PMID: 18813350 DOI: 10.1593/neo.08584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2008] [Revised: 07/02/2008] [Accepted: 07/04/2008] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Sporadic ovarian cancer is a particularly aggressive tumor characterized by highly abnormal karyotypes exhibiting many features of genomic instability. More complex genomic changes in tumors arise as a consequence of chromosomal instability (CIN), which can generate both numerical [(N)-CIN] and structural chromosomal instability [(S)-CIN]. In this study, molecular cytogenetic analysis was used to evaluate the relative levels of both (N)-CIN and (S)-CIN. Six tumors had a near-diploid chromosome number, two were near-tetraploid, and two were near-triploid. (N)-CIN levels increased as a function of overall tumor genomic content, with near-diploid tumors exhibiting numerical instability indices ranging from 7.0 to 21.0 and near-tetraploid and triploid tumors exhibiting instability indices ranging from 24.9 to 54.9. In contrast, the extent of (S)-CIN was generally more evident in the diploid tumors compared with the near-tetraploid tumors. To determine whether the associated chromosomal constitution and/or ploidy changes were influenced by mitotic segregation errors, centrosome analyses were performed on all 10 tumors. The near-diploid tumors, with the lowest numerical change, were observed to possess fewer cells with centrosome abnormalities (5.5% to 14.0%), whereas the near-tetraploid tumors possessed much higher levels of (N)-CIN and were characterized by a trend of elevating percentages of cells with abnormal centrosomes (16.0% to 20.5%). These observations suggest that two distinct processes governing genome stability may be disrupted in ovarian cancer: those that impact on numerical segregation and ploidy of chromosomes and those that affect the fidelity of DNA repair and lead to structural aberrations.
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Gergely F, Basto R. Multiple centrosomes: together they stand, divided they fall. Genes Dev 2008; 22:2291-6. [PMID: 18765784 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1715208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cells with extra centrosomes rely entirely on centrosome clustering mechanisms to assemble a bipolar spindle and to divide in a bipolar fashion. To identify the pathways involved in suppression of multipolarity, Kwon, Godinho, and colleagues (pp. 2189-2203) have set up a genome-wide screen in Drosophila S2 cells. Surprisingly, they found that efficient clustering requires a large number of proteins associated with a variety of cellular functions.
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- Fanni Gergely
- Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, United Kingdom.
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Matijasevic Z, Krzywicka-Racka A, Sluder G, Jones SN. MdmX regulates transformation and chromosomal stability in p53-deficient cells. Cell Cycle 2008; 7:2967-73. [PMID: 18818521 DOI: 10.4161/cc.7.19.6797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The cellular homologues Mdm2 and MdmX play critical roles in regulating the activity of the p53 tumor suppressor in damaged and non-damaged cells and during development in mice. Recently, we have utilized genetically defined primary cells and mice to reveal that endogenous levels of MdmX can also suppress multipolar mitosis and transformation in hyperploid p53-deficient cells and tumorigenesis in p53-deficient mice. These MdmX functions are not shared by Mdm2, and are distinct from the well-established ability of MdmX to complex with and inhibit p53 activity. Here we discuss some of the ramifications of MdmX loss in p53-deficient cells and mice, and we explore further the fate of MdmX/p53-double null embryonic fibroblasts undergoing multi-polar cell division using time-lapse video microscopy. We also discuss the relationship between chromosomal loss, cell proliferation, and the tumorigenic potential of p53-deficient cells lacking MdmX.
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- Zdenka Matijasevic
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
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Mohan R, Panda D. Kinetic Stabilization of Microtubule Dynamics by Estramustine Is Associated with Tubulin Acetylation, Spindle Abnormalities, and Mitotic Arrest. Cancer Res 2008; 68:6181-9. [DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-08-0584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Basto R, Brunk K, Vinadogrova T, Peel N, Franz A, Khodjakov A, Raff JW. Centrosome amplification can initiate tumorigenesis in flies. Cell 2008; 133:1032-42. [PMID: 18555779 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.05.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 413] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2008] [Revised: 04/17/2008] [Accepted: 05/28/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Centrosome amplification is a common feature of many cancer cells, and it has been previously proposed that centrosome amplification can drive genetic instability and so tumorigenesis. To test this hypothesis, we generated Drosophila lines that have extra centrosomes in approximately 60% of their somatic cells. Many cells with extra centrosomes initially form multipolar spindles, but these spindles ultimately become bipolar. This requires a delay in mitosis that is mediated by the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC). As a result of this delay, there is no dramatic increase in genetic instability in flies with extra centrosomes, and these flies maintain a stable diploid genome over many generations. The asymmetric division of the larval neural stem cells, however, is compromised in the presence of extra centrosomes, and larval brain cells with extra centrosomes can generate metastatic tumors when transplanted into the abdomens of wild-type hosts. Thus, centrosome amplification can initiate tumorigenesis in flies.
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- Renata Basto
- The Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.
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Classification of chromosome segregation errors in cancer. Chromosoma 2008; 117:511-9. [PMID: 18528701 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-008-0169-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2008] [Revised: 05/11/2008] [Accepted: 05/13/2008] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Abnormal chromosome segregation at mitosis is one way by which neoplastic cells accumulate the many genetic abnormalities required for tumour development. In this paper, a straightforward morphology-based classification of chromosome segregation errors in cancer is suggested. This classification distinguishes between abnormalities in spindle symmetry (spindle multipolarity, size-asymmetry of ana-telophase poles) and abnormalities in sister chromatid segregation (chromosome bridges, chromatid bridges, chromosome lagging, acentric fragment lagging). Often, these categories of errors must be combined to accurately describe the events in a single abnormal mitotic cell. The suggested categories can to some extent be distinguished by standard chromatin staining. However, labelling of abnormal mitotic figures by fluorescence in situ hybridization and immunofluorescence enhances the accuracy of classification and also allows visualisation of the segregation of individual chromosomes, making it possible to detect non-disjunction also in the absence of gross alterations in mitotic morphology. Further characterisation of the molecular alterations leading to abnormal chromosome segregation together with the current developments in nano-level and real-time imaging will undoubtedly lead to an improved understanding of chromosome dynamics in cancer cells. Any morphology-based classification of chromosome segregation errors in cancer must therefore be taken as provisional, anticipating a satisfactory integration of morphology and molecular biology.
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Wu J, Cho HP, Rhee DB, Johnson DK, Dunlap J, Liu Y, Wang Y. Cdc14B depletion leads to centriole amplification, and its overexpression prevents unscheduled centriole duplication. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 181:475-83. [PMID: 18458157 PMCID: PMC2364701 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200710127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Centrosome duplication is tightly controlled in coordination with DNA replication. The molecular mechanism of centrosome duplication remains unclear. Previous studies found that a fraction of human proline-directed phosphatase Cdc14B associates with centrosomes. However, Cdc14B's involvement in centrosome cycle control has never been explored. Here, we show that depletion of Cdc14B by RNA interference leads to centriole amplification in both HeLa and normal human fibroblast BJ and MRC-5 cells. Induction of Cdc14B expression through a regulatable promoter significantly attenuates centriole amplification in prolonged S phase–arrested cells and proteasome inhibitor Z-L3VS–treated cells. This inhibitory function requires centriole-associated Cdc14B catalytic activity. Together, these results suggest a potential function for Cdc14B phosphatase in maintaining the fidelity of centrosome duplication cycle.
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- Jun Wu
- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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During anaphase, the spindle pulls the sister kinetochores apart until the sister chromatids are fully separated from each other. Subsequently, cytokinesis cleaves between the two separated chromosome masses to form two nucleated cells. Results from Schizosaccharomyces pombe suggested that cytokinesis and chromosome segregation are not co-ordinated with each other. However, recent studies indicate that, at least in budding yeast, a checkpoint called NoCut prevents abscission when spindle elongation is impaired, and might delay cytokinesis until all chromosomes are pulled out of the cleavage plane. Here, we discuss this possibility and summarize evidence suggesting that such a checkpoint is likely to be conserved in higher eukaryotes.
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Yang Z, Loncarek J, Khodjakov A, Rieder CL. Extra centrosomes and/or chromosomes prolong mitosis in human cells. Nat Cell Biol 2008; 10:748-51. [PMID: 18469805 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2008] [Accepted: 03/28/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Using laser microsurgery and cell fusion we have explored how additional centrosomes and/or chromosomes influence the duration of mitosis in human cells. We found that doubling the chromosome number added approximately 10 min to a 20 min division, whereas doubling the number of centrosomes added approximately 30 min more. Extra centrosomes and/or chromosomes prolong mitosis by delaying satisfaction of the spindle assembly checkpoint. Thus mitosis can be prolonged by non-genetic means and extra chromosomes and centrosomes probably contribute to the elevated mitotic index seen in many tumours.
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- Zhenye Yang
- Division of Molecular Medicine, Wadsworth Center, N.Y.S. Department of Health, Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12201-0509, USA
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Gisselsson D, Håkanson U, Stoller P, Marti D, Jin Y, Rosengren AH, Stewénius Y, Kahl F, Panagopoulos I. When the genome plays dice: circumvention of the spindle assembly checkpoint and near-random chromosome segregation in multipolar cancer cell mitoses. PLoS One 2008; 3:e1871. [PMID: 18392149 PMCID: PMC2289843 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2007] [Accepted: 02/22/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background Normal cell division is coordinated by a bipolar mitotic spindle, ensuring symmetrical segregation of chromosomes. Cancer cells, however, occasionally divide into three or more directions. Such multipolar mitoses have been proposed to generate genetic diversity and thereby contribute to clonal evolution. However, this notion has been little validated experimentally. Principal Findings Chromosome segregation and DNA content in daughter cells from multipolar mitoses were assessed by multiphoton cross sectioning and fluorescence in situ hybridization in cancer cells and non-neoplastic transformed cells. The DNA distribution resulting from multipolar cell division was found to be highly variable, with frequent nullisomies in the daughter cells. Time-lapse imaging of H2B/GFP-labelled multipolar mitoses revealed that the time from the initiation of metaphase to the beginning of anaphase was prolonged and that the metaphase plates often switched polarity several times before metaphase-anaphase transition. The multipolar metaphase-anaphase transition was accompanied by a normal reduction of cellular cyclin B levels, but typically occurred before completion of the normal separase activity cycle. Centromeric AURKB and MAD2 foci were observed frequently to remain on the centromeres of multipolar ana-telophase chromosomes, indicating that multipolar mitoses were able to circumvent the spindle assembly checkpoint with some sister chromatids remaining unseparated after anaphase. Accordingly, scoring the distribution of individual chromosomes in multipolar daughter nuclei revealed a high frequency of nondisjunction events, resulting in a near-binomial allotment of sister chromatids to the daughter cells. Conclusion The capability of multipolar mitoses to circumvent the spindle assembly checkpoint system typically results in a near-random distribution of chromosomes to daughter cells. Spindle multipolarity could thus be a highly efficient generator of genetically diverse minority clones in transformed cell populations.
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- David Gisselsson
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
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Decordier I, Cundari E, Kirsch-Volders M. Mitotic checkpoints and the maintenance of the chromosome karyotype. MUTATION RESEARCH-GENETIC TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS 2008; 651:3-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2007.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2007] [Accepted: 10/28/2007] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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MdmX promotes bipolar mitosis to suppress transformation and tumorigenesis in p53-deficient cells and mice. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 28:1265-73. [PMID: 18039860 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01108-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Mdm2 and MdmX are structurally related p53-binding proteins that function as critical negative regulators of p53 activity in embryonic and adult tissue. The overexpression of Mdm2 or MdmX inhibits p53 tumor suppressor functions in vitro, and the amplification of Mdm2 or MdmX is observed in human cancers retaining wild-type p53. We now demonstrate a surprising role for MdmX in suppressing tumorigenesis that is distinct from its oncogenic ability to inhibit p53. The deletion of MdmX induces multipolar mitotic spindle formation and the loss of chromosomes from hyperploid p53-null cells. This reduction in chromosome number, not observed in p53-null cells with Mdm2 deleted, correlates with increased cell proliferation and the spontaneous transformation of MdmX/p53-null mouse embryonic fibroblasts in vitro and with an increased rate of spontaneous tumorigenesis in MdmX/p53-null mice in vivo. These results indicate that MdmX has a p53-independent role in suppressing oncogenic cell transformation, proliferation, and tumorigenesis by promoting centrosome clustering and bipolar mitosis.
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Stewénius Y, Jin Y, Øra I, de Kraker J, Bras J, Frigyesi A, Alumets J, Sandstedt B, Meeker AK, Gisselsson D. Defective Chromosome Segregation and Telomere Dysfunction in Aggressive Wilms' Tumors. Clin Cancer Res 2007; 13:6593-602. [DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-1081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Lentini L, Amato A, Schillaci T, Di Leonardo A. Simultaneous Aurora-A/STK15 overexpression and centrosome amplification induce chromosomal instability in tumour cells with a MIN phenotype. BMC Cancer 2007; 7:212. [PMID: 17999753 PMCID: PMC2206046 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-7-212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2007] [Accepted: 11/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Genetic instability is a hallmark of tumours and preneoplastic lesions. The predominant form of genome instability in human cancer is chromosome instability (CIN). CIN is characterized by chromosomal aberrations, gains or losses of whole chromosomes (aneuploidy), and it is often associated with centrosome amplification. Centrosomes control cell division by forming a bipolar mitotic spindle and play an essential role in the maintenance of chromosomal stability. However, whether centrosome amplification could directly cause aneuploidy is not fully established. Also, alterations in genes required for mitotic progression could be involved in CIN. A major candidate is represented by Aurora-A/STK15 that associates with centrosomes and is overexpressed in several types of human tumour. Methods Centrosome amplification were induced by hydroxyurea treatment and visualized by immunofluorescence microscopy. Aurora-A/STK15 ectopic expression was achieved by retroviral infection and puromycin selection in HCT116 tumour cells. Effects of Aurora-A/STK15 depletion on centrosome status and ploidy were determined by Aurora-A/STK15 transcriptional silencing by RNA interference. Changes in the expression levels of some mitotic genes were determined by Real time RT-PCR. Results We investigated whether amplification of centrosomes and overexpression of Aurora-A/STK15 induce CIN using as a model system a colon carcinoma cell line (HCT116). We found that in HCT116 cells, chromosomally stable and near diploid cells harbouring a MIN phenotype, centrosome amplification induced by hydroxyurea treatment is neither maintained nor induces aneuploidy. On the contrary, ectopic overexpression of Aurora-A/STK15 induced supernumerary centrosomes and aneuploidy. Aurora-A/STK15 transcriptional silencing by RNA interference in cells ectopically overexpressing this kinase promptly decreased cell numbers with supernumerary centrosomes and aneuploidy. Conclusion Our results show that centrosome amplification alone is not sufficient to induce chromosomal instability in colon cancer cells with a MIN phenotype. Alternatively, centrosome amplification has to be associated with alterations in genes regulating mitosis progression such as Aurora-A/STK15 to trigger CIN.
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- Laura Lentini
- Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology A, Monroy, University of Palermo, viale delle Scienze, Palermo, Italy.
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