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Zhang Y, Fong KW, Mao F, Wang R, Allison DB, Napier D, He D, Liu J, Zhang Y, Chen J, Kong Y, Li C, Li G, Liu J, Li Z, Zhu H, Wang C, Liu X. Elevating PLK1 overcomes BETi resistance in prostate cancer via triggering BRD4 phosphorylation-dependent degradation in mitosis. Cell Rep 2024; 43:114431. [PMID: 38968071 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 04/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/18/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024] Open
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Bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) has emerged as a promising therapeutic target in prostate cancer (PCa). Understanding the mechanisms of BRD4 stability could enhance the clinical response to BRD4-targeted therapy. In this study, we report that BRD4 protein levels are significantly decreased during mitosis in a PLK1-dependent manner. Mechanistically, we show that BRD4 is primarily phosphorylated at T1186 by the CDK1/cyclin B complex, recruiting PLK1 to phosphorylate BRD4 at S24/S1100, which are recognized by the APC/CCdh1 complex for proteasome pathway degradation. We find that PLK1 overexpression lowers SPOP mutation-stabilized BRD4, consequently rendering PCa cells re-sensitized to BRD4 inhibitors. Intriguingly, we report that sequential treatment of docetaxel and JQ1 resulted in significant inhibition of PCa. Collectively, the results support that PLK1-phosphorylated BRD4 triggers its degradation at M phase. Sequential treatment of docetaxel and JQ1 overcomes BRD4 accumulation-associated bromodomain and extra-terminal inhibitor (BETi) resistance, which may shed light on the development of strategies to treat PCa.
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- Yanquan Zhang
- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40508, USA
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- Biospecimen Procurement & Translational Pathology Shared Resource Facility, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
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Vassileva V, Georgieva M, Todorov D, Mishev K. Small Sized Yet Powerful: Nuclear Distribution C Proteins in Plants. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:119. [PMID: 38202427 PMCID: PMC10780334 DOI: 10.3390/plants13010119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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The family of Nuclear Distribution C (NudC) proteins plays a pivotal and evolutionarily conserved role in all eukaryotes. In animal systems, these proteins influence vital cellular processes like cell division, protein folding, nuclear migration and positioning, intracellular transport, and stress response. This review synthesizes past and current research on NudC family members, focusing on their growing importance in plants and intricate contributions to plant growth, development, and stress tolerance. Leveraging information from available genomic databases, we conducted a thorough characterization of NudC family members, utilizing phylogenetic analysis and assessing gene structure, motif organization, and conserved protein domains. Our spotlight on two Arabidopsis NudC genes, BOB1 and NMig1, underscores their indispensable roles in embryogenesis and postembryonic development, stress responses, and tolerance mechanisms. Emphasizing the chaperone activity of plant NudC family members, crucial for mitigating stress effects and enhancing plant resilience, we highlight their potential as valuable targets for enhancing crop performance. Moreover, the structural and functional conservation of NudC proteins across species suggests their potential applications in medical research, particularly in functions related to cell division, microtubule regulation, and associated pathways. Finally, we outline future research avenues centering on the exploration of under investigated functions of NudC proteins in plants.
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- Valya Vassileva
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria; (M.G.); (D.T.)
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Laboratory of Regulation of Gene Expression, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria; (M.G.); (D.T.)
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Guo C, Tang Y, Li Q, Yang Z, Guo Y, Chen C, Zhang Y. Deciphering the immune heterogeneity dominated by natural killer cells with prognostic and therapeutic implications in hepatocellular carcinoma. Comput Biol Med 2023; 158:106872. [PMID: 37030269 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Belonging to type 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILC1), natural killer (NK) cells play an important role not only in fighting microbial infections but also in anti-tumor response. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents an inflammation-related malignancy and NK cells are enriched in the liver, making them an essential component of the HCC immune microenvironment. In this study, we performed single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis to identify the NK cell marker genes (NKGs) and uncovered 80 prognosis-related ones by the TCGA-LIHC dataset. Based on prognostic NKGs, HCC patients were categorized into two subtypes with distinct clinical outcomes. Subsequently, we conducted LASSO-COX and stepwise regression analysis on prognostic NKGs to establish a five-gene (UBB, CIRBP, GZMH, NUDC, and NCL) prognostic signature-NKscore. Different mutation statuses of the two risk groups stratified by NKscore were comprehensively characterized. Besides, the established NKscore-integrated nomogram presented enhanced predictive performance. Single sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) analysis was used to uncover the landscape of the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) and the high-NKscore risk group was characterized with an immune-exhausted phenotype while the low-NKscore risk group held relatively strong anti-cancer immunity. T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire, tumor inflammation signature (TIS), and Immunophenoscore (IPS) analyses revealed differences in immunotherapy sensitivity between the two NKscore risk groups. Taken together, we developed a novel NK cell-related signature to predict the prognosis and immunotherapy efficacy for HCC patients.
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- Chengbin Guo
- Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Tapai, Macau, 999078, China
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- Clinical Bioinformatics Experimental Center, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou University, 450003, Zhengzhou, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- West China School of Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Clinical Bioinformatics Experimental Center, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou University, 450003, Zhengzhou, China.
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- Clinical Bioinformatics Experimental Center, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou University, 450003, Zhengzhou, China.
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- West China School of Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China; Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510623, China.
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Mechanistic insights into HuR inhibitor MS-444 arresting embryonic development revealed by low-input RNA-seq and STORM. Cell Biol Toxicol 2022; 38:1175-1197. [PMID: 36085230 DOI: 10.1007/s10565-022-09757-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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With improvements in the survival rate of patients with cancer, fertility maintenance has become a major concern in terms of cancer treatment for women of reproductive age. Thus, it is important to examine the impact on fertility of anticancer drugs that are used clinically or are undergoing trials. The HuR small-molecule inhibitor MS-444 has been used in many cancer treatment studies, but its reproductive toxicity in females is unknown. Here, we reported that MS-444 blocked the nucleocytoplasmic transport of Agbl2 mRNA by inhibiting HuR dimerization, resulting in the developmental arrest of 2-cell stage embryos in mouse. Combining analysis of low-input RNA-seq for MS-444-treated 2-cell embryos and mapping binding sites of RNA-binding protein, Agbl2 was predicted to be the target gene of MS-444. For further confirmation, RNAi experiment in wild-type zygotes showed that Agbl2 knockdown reduced the proportion of embryos successfully developed to the blastocyst stage: from 71% in controls to 23%. Furthermore, RNA-FISH and luciferase reporter analyses showed that MS-444 blocked the nucleocytoplasmic transport of Agbl2 mRNA and reduced its stability by inhibiting HuR dimerization. In addition, optimized stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) imaging showed that MS-444 significantly reduced the HuR dimerization, and HuR mainly existed in cluster form in 2-cell stage embryos. In conclusion, this study provides clinical guidance for maintaining fertility during the treatment of cancer with MS-444 in women of reproductive age. And also, our research provides guidance for the application of STORM in nanometer scale studies of embryonic cells. HuR inhibitor MS-444 arrested embryonic development at 2-cell stage. Low-input RNA-seq revealed that Agbl2 was the target gene of MS-444. MS-444 blocked the nucleocytoplasmic transport of Agbl2 mRNA by inhibiting HuR dimerization and reduced the stability of Agbl2 mRNA. STORM with our optimized protocol showed that HuR tended to form elliptical and dense clusters in 2-cell stage embryos.
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Kawano D, Pinter K, Chlebowski M, Petralia RS, Wang YX, Nechiporuk AV, Drerup CM. NudC regulated Lis1 stability is essential for the maintenance of dynamic microtubule ends in axon terminals. iScience 2022; 25:105072. [PMID: 36147950 PMCID: PMC9485903 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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In the axon terminal, microtubule stability is decreased relative to the axon shaft. The dynamic microtubule plus ends found in the axon terminal have many functions, including serving as a docking site for the Cytoplasmic dynein motor. Here, we report an unexplored function of dynein in microtubule regulation in axon terminals: regulation of microtubule stability. Using a forward genetic screen, we identified a mutant with an abnormal axon terminal structure owing to a loss of function mutation in NudC. We show that, in the axon terminal, NudC is a chaperone for the protein Lis1. Decreased Lis1 in nudc axon terminals causes dynein/dynactin accumulation and increased microtubule stability. Microtubule dynamics can be restored by pharmacologically inhibiting dynein, implicating excess dynein motor function in microtubule stabilization. Together, our data support a model in which local NudC-Lis1 modulation of the dynein motor is critical for the regulation of microtubule stability in the axon terminal. NudC, a dynein regulator, is crucial for axon terminal structure NudC mutation leads to a near complete loss of Lis1 protein in axon terminals Lis1 deficits cause accumulation of dynein and cargo in axon terminals Local elevation of dynein increases axon terminal microtubule stability
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- Dane Kawano
- Unit on Neuronal Cell Biology, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Unit on Neuronal Cell Biology, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Core, National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Advanced Imaging Core, National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Unit on Neuronal Cell Biology, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.,Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Kim T. Recent Progress on the Localization of PLK1 to the Kinetochore and Its Role in Mitosis. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23095252. [PMID: 35563642 PMCID: PMC9102930 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23095252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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The accurate distribution of the replicated genome during cell division is essential for cell survival and healthy organismal development. Errors in this process have catastrophic consequences, such as birth defects and aneuploidy, a hallmark of cancer cells. PLK1 is one of the master kinases in mitosis and has multiple functions, including mitotic entry, chromosome segregation, spindle assembly checkpoint, and cytokinesis. To dissect the role of PLK1 in mitosis, it is important to understand how PLK1 localizes in the specific region in cells. PLK1 localizes at the kinetochore and is essential in spindle assembly checkpoint and chromosome segregation. However, how PLK1 localizes at the kinetochore remains elusive. Here, we review the recent literature on the kinetochore recruitment mechanisms of PLK1 and its roles in spindle assembly checkpoint and attachment between kinetochores and spindle microtubules. Together, this review provides an overview of how the local distribution of PLK1 could regulate major pathways in mitosis.
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- Taekyung Kim
- Department of Biology Education, Pusan National University, 2, Busandaehak-ro 63beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan 46241, Korea
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Cell-cycle phospho-regulation of the kinetochore. Curr Genet 2021; 67:177-193. [PMID: 33221975 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-020-01127-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The kinetochore is a mega-dalton protein assembly that forms within centromeric regions of chromosomes and directs their segregation during cell division. Here we review cell cycle-mediated phosphorylation events at the kinetochore, with a focus on the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the insight gained from forced associations of kinases and phosphatases. The point centromeres found in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae are one of the simplest such structures found in eukaryotes. The S. cerevisiae kinetochore comprises a single nucleosome, containing a centromere-specific H3 variant Cse4CENP-A, bound to a set of kinetochore proteins that connect to a single microtubule. Despite the simplicity of the budding yeast kinetochore, the proteins are mostly homologous with their mammalian counterparts. In some cases, human proteins can complement their yeast orthologs. Like its mammalian equivalent, the regulation of the budding yeast kinetochore is complex: integrating signals from the cell cycle, checkpoints, error correction, and stress pathways. The regulatory signals from these diverse pathways are integrated at the kinetochore by post-translational modifications, notably phosphorylation and dephosphorylation, to control chromosome segregation. Here we highlight the complex interplay between the activity of the different cell-cycle kinases and phosphatases at the kinetochore, emphasizing how much more we have to understand this essential structure.
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Shakeel I, Basheer N, Hasan GM, Afzal M, Hassan MI. Polo-like Kinase 1 as an emerging drug target: structure, function and therapeutic implications. J Drug Target 2021; 29:168-184. [PMID: 32886539 DOI: 10.1080/1061186x.2020.1818760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) is a conserved mitotic serine-threonine protein kinase, functions as a regulatory protein, and is involved in the progression of the mitotic cycle. It plays important roles in the regulation of cell division, maintenance of genome stability, in spindle assembly, mitosis, and DNA-damage response. PLK1 is consist of a N-terminal serine-threonine kinase domain, and a C-terminal Polo-box domain (regulatory site). The expression of PLK1 is controlled by transcription repressor in the G1 stage and transcription activators in the G2 stage of the cell cycle. Overexpression of PLK1 results in undermining of checkpoints causes excessive cellular division resulting in abnormal cell growth, leading to the development of cancer. Blocking the expression of PLK1 by an antibody, RNA interference, or kinase inhibitors, causes a subsequent reduction in the proliferation of tumour cells and induction of apoptosis in tumour cells without affecting the healthy cells, suggesting an attractive target for drug development. In this review, we discuss detailed information on expression, gene and protein structures, role in different diseases, and progress in the design and development of PLK1 inhibitors. We have performed an in-depth analysis of the PLK1 inhibitors and their therapeutic implications with special focus to the cancer therapeutics.
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- Ilma Shakeel
- Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Institute of Neuroimmunology, Slovak Republic Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
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Jeong SH, Park M, Park SY, Park J, Kim TH, Lee YJ, Jung EJ, Ju YT, Jeong CY, Kim JY, Ko GH, Kim M, Nam KT, Goldenring JR. Transcriptome Analysis and the Prognostic Role of NUDC in Diffuse and Intestinal Gastric Cancer. Technol Cancer Res Treat 2021; 20:15330338211019501. [PMID: 34060350 PMCID: PMC8173992 DOI: 10.1177/15330338211019501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION There have been few studies about gene differences between patients with diffuse-type gastric cancer and those with intestinal-type gastric cancer. The aim of this study was to compare the transcriptomes of signet ring cell gastric cancer (worst prognosis in diffuse-type) and well-differentiated gastric cancer (best prognosis in intestinal-type); NUDC was identified, and its prognostic role was studied. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed next-generation sequencing with 5 well-differentiated gastric cancers and 3 of signet ring cell gastric cancer surgical samples. We performed gene enrichment and functional annotation analysis using the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery bioinformatics resources. Immunohistochemistry was used to validate NUDC expression. RESULTS Overall, 900 genes showed significantly higher expression, 644 genes showed lower expression in signet ring cell gastric cancer than in well-differentiated gastric cancers, and there was a large difference in adhesion, vascular development, and cell-to-cell junction components between the 2 subtypes. We performed variant analysis and found 52 variants and 30 cancer driver genes, including NUDC. We analyzed NUDC expression in gastric cancer tissue and its relationship with prognosis. Cox proportional hazard analysis identified T stage, N stage, and NUDC expression as independent risk factors for survival (P < 0.05). The overall survival of the NUDC-positive group was significantly higher (53.2 ± 0.92 months) than that of the NUDC-negative group (44.6 ± 3.7 months) (P = 0.001) in Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. CONCLUSION We found 30 cancer driver gene candidates and found that the NUDC-positive group showed significantly better survival than the NUDC-negative group via variant analysis.
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- Sang-Ho Jeong
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
- Department of Surgery, Gyeongsang National University, Changwon Hospital, Changwon, South Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Gyeongsang National University, Changwon Hospital, Changwon, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, Gyeongsang National University, Changwon Hospital, Changwon, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
- Department of Surgery, Gyeongsang National University, Changwon Hospital, Changwon, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
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- Severance Biomedical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seodaemun-gu, South Korea
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Islam MA, Choi HJ, Dash R, Sharif SR, Oktaviani DF, Seog DH, Moon IS. N-Acetyl- D-Glucosamine Kinase Interacts with NudC and Lis1 in Dynein Motor Complex and Promotes Cell Migration. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 22:ijms22010129. [PMID: 33374456 PMCID: PMC7795690 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22010129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Recently, we showed that N-acetylglucosamine kinase (NAGK), an enzyme of amino sugar metabolism, interacts with dynein light chain roadblock type 1 (DYNLRB1) and promotes the functions of dynein motor. Here, we report that NAGK interacts with nuclear distribution protein C (NudC) and lissencephaly 1 (Lis1) in the dynein complex. Yeast two-hybrid assays, pull-down assays, immunocytochemistry, and proximity ligation assays revealed NAGK-NudC-Lis1-dynein complexes around nuclei, at the leading poles of migrating HEK293T cells, and at the tips of migratory processes of cultured rat neuroblast cells. The exogenous expression of red fluorescent protein (RFP)-tagged NAGK accelerated HEK293T cell migration during in vitro wound-healing assays and of neurons during in vitro neurosphere migration and in utero electroporation assays, whereas NAGK knockdown by short hairpin RNA (shRNA) delayed migration. Finally, a small NAGK peptide derived from the NudC interacting domain in in silico molecular docking analysis retarded the migrations of HEK293T and SH-SY5Y cells. These data indicate a functional interaction between NAGK and dynein-NudC-Lis1 complex at the nuclear envelope is required for the regulation of cell migration.
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- Md. Ariful Islam
- Department of Anatomy, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju 38066, Korea; (M.A.I.); (H.J.C.); (R.D.); (S.R.S.); (D.F.O.)
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- Department of Anatomy, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju 38066, Korea; (M.A.I.); (H.J.C.); (R.D.); (S.R.S.); (D.F.O.)
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- Department of Anatomy, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju 38066, Korea; (M.A.I.); (H.J.C.); (R.D.); (S.R.S.); (D.F.O.)
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- Department of Anatomy, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju 38066, Korea; (M.A.I.); (H.J.C.); (R.D.); (S.R.S.); (D.F.O.)
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- Department of Anatomy, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju 38066, Korea; (M.A.I.); (H.J.C.); (R.D.); (S.R.S.); (D.F.O.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan 47392, Korea;
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- Department of Anatomy, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju 38066, Korea; (M.A.I.); (H.J.C.); (R.D.); (S.R.S.); (D.F.O.)
- Dongguk Medical Institute, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Gyeongju 38066, Korea
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +82-54-770-2414; Fax: +82-54-770-2447
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Cao S, Huang S, Guo Y, Zhou L, Lu Y, Lai S. Proteomic-based identification of oocyte maturation-related proteins in mouse germinal vesicle oocytes. Reprod Domest Anim 2020; 55:1607-1618. [PMID: 32920902 DOI: 10.1111/rda.13819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Oocyte proteins play an important role in oocyte maturation, fertilization and embryonic development. However, the protein composition of mouse germinal vesicle (GV) oocytes is still unclear. Using one-dimensional Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (1D SDS-PAGE) and Reverse-phase liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (RP-LC-MS/MS), we constructed a protein profile of mouse GV oocytes. First, our proteomics profile identified 1,405 different proteins from 11,000 mouse GV oocytes lacking zona pellucida. Second, with detailed bioinformatics analysis, a group of proteins that play an essential role in oocyte maturation was screened. In addition, the expression and localization of suppressor of G2 allele of skp1(SUGT1, also called SGT1), heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (Hnrpk), Seruin, Cullin1(Clu1) and nuclear distribution protein C (Nudc) in mouse ovaries and early embryos were also captured and investigated in this study. Moreover, the protein profile was submitted to the Proteomics Identifications Database (PRIDE) and is available via ProteomeXchange with the identifier PXD014314. Our research provides valuable resources for the study of oocyte proteins and oocyte maturation and helps to clarify the mechanisms of oocyte maturation.
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- Senyang Cao
- Center of Reproductive Medicine, Huai'an Maternity and Child Health Care Center, Huai'an, China.,State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.,Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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Cell migration plays pivotal roles in many biological processes; however, its underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we find that NudC-like protein 2 (NudCL2), a cochaperone of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90), modulates cell migration by stabilizing both myosin-9 and lissencephaly protein 1 (LIS1). Either knockdown or knockout of NudCL2 significantly increases single-cell migration, but has no significant effect on collective cell migration. Immunoprecipitation–mass spectrometry and western blotting analyses reveal that NudCL2 binds to myosin-9 in mammalian cells. Depletion of NudCL2 not only decreases myosin-9 protein levels, but also results in actin disorganization. Ectopic expression of myosin-9 efficiently reverses defects in actin disorganization and single-cell migration in cells depleted of NudCL2. Interestingly, knockdown of myosin-9 increases both single and collective cell migration. Depletion of LIS1, a NudCL2 client protein, suppresses both single and collective cell migration, which exhibits the opposite effect compared with myosin-9 depletion. Co-depletion of myosin-9 and LIS1 promotes single-cell migration, resembling the phenotype caused by NudCL2 depletion. Furthermore, inhibition of Hsp90 ATPase activity also reduces the Hsp90-interacting protein myosin-9 stability and increases single-cell migration. Forced expression of Hsp90 efficiently reverses myosin-9 protein instability and the defects induced by NudCL2 depletion, but not vice versa. Taken together, these data suggest that NudCL2 plays an important role in the precise regulation of cell migration by stabilizing both myosin-9 and LIS1 via Hsp90 pathway.
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He B, Xia S, Zhang Z. NudCD1 Promotes the Proliferation and Metastasis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells through the Activation of IGF1R-ERK1/2. Pathobiology 2020; 87:244-253. [PMID: 32634806 DOI: 10.1159/000505159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND NudC domain containing 1 (NudCD1) is an oncoprotein related to diverse cancers. This study aims to investigate the expression, role, and regulatory mechanism of NudCD1 in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS qRT-PCR, Western blot, and immunohistochemistry were performed to detect the expressions of NudCD1 in NSCLC tissues and cell lines. The correlation between NudCD1 expression and clinical features was determined by the χ2 test. Besides, shRNA was used to construct the NudCD1 low expression model of NCI-H1299 and NCI-H460 cells, and CCK-8 and transwell assay were conducted to monitor the changes of proliferation, migration, and invasion of cancer cells. The expression levels of epithelial-mesenchymal transition markers and IGF1R-ERK1/2 signaling pathway proteins were detected by Western blot. RESULTS The expression of NudCD1 in NSCLC was higher than that in normal tissues, and the increased expression of NudCD1 was significantly correlated with increased T stage and lymph node metastasis. Moreover, patients with high expression of NudCD1 had worse prognosis. NudCD1 knockdown was proven to impede the proliferation but facilitate the migration and invasion of cancer cells. Furthermore, knockdown of NudCD1 resulted in an increase in the expression of E-cadherin and a decrease in the expression of vimentin. We also observed that NudCD1 overexpression promoted the phosphorylation of IGF1R and ERK1/2 proteins. CONCLUSION NudCD1 promotes the proliferation and metastasis of NSCLC cells via activation of IGF1R-ERK1/2, which indicates that NudCD1 may be a potential therapy target of NSCLC.
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- Bin He
- Centre for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Hospital Affiliated to Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, China
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- Centre for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Hospital Affiliated to Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, China
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- Centre for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Hospital Affiliated to Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, China,
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Wang J, Kaplan N, Wang S, Yang W, Wang L, He C, Peng H. Autophagy plays a positive role in induction of epidermal proliferation. FASEB J 2020; 34:10657-10667. [PMID: 32598088 DOI: 10.1096/fj.202000770rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Autophagy is a multistage catabolic process that mediates stress responses. However, the role of autophagy in epidermal proliferation, particularly under conditions when the epidermis becomes "activated" (hyperproliferative), remains unclear. We have shown that inhibition of Beclin 1, a key activator in the initiation phase of autophagy, attenuates imiquimod (IMQ)-induced epidermal hyperplasia in adult mice as well as naturally occurring hyperproliferation in neonatal mouse epidermis. Inhibition of Beclin 1 did not change the levels of several key inflammatory molecules or the numbers of immune cells in lesional skins. This indicates that autophagy does not affect inflammatory regulators in IMQ-treated mouse skin. Bioinformatic analysis combined with gene expression quantitative assays, revealed that a deficiency in autophagy decreases the expression of PDZ Binding Kinase (PBK), a regulator of the cell cycle, in mouse epidermis and human epidermal keratinocytes (HEKs). Interestingly, the decrease in PBK results in inhibition of proliferation in HEKs and such reduced proliferation can be rescued by activation of p38, the downstream signaling of PBK. Collectively, autophagy plays a positive role in epidermal proliferation, which is in part via regulating PBK expression.
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- Junyi Wang
- Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States.,Department of Ophthalmology, The First Center of the PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Department of Dermatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Center of the PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Department of Dermatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Velinov V, Vaseva I, Zehirov G, Zhiponova M, Georgieva M, Vangheluwe N, Beeckman T, Vassileva V. Overexpression of the NMig1 Gene Encoding a NudC Domain Protein Enhances Root Growth and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:815. [PMID: 32595686 PMCID: PMC7301909 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The family of NudC proteins has representatives in all eukaryotes and plays essential evolutionarily conserved roles in many aspects of organismal development and stress response, including nuclear migration, cell division, folding and stabilization of other proteins. This study investigates an undescribed Arabidopsis homolog of the Aspergillus nidulans NudC gene, named NMig1 (for Nuclear Migration 1), which shares high sequence similarity to other plant and mammalian NudC-like genes. Expression of NMig1 was highly upregulated in response to several abiotic stress factors, such as heat shock, drought and high salinity. Constitutive overexpression of NMig1 led to enhanced root growth and lateral root development under optimal and stress conditions. Exposure to abiotic stress resulted in relatively weaker inhibition of root length and branching in NMig1-overexpressing plants, compared to the wild-type Col-0. The expression level of antioxidant enzyme-encoding genes and other stress-associated genes was considerably induced in the transgenic plants. The increased expression of the major antioxidant enzymes and greater antioxidant potential correlated well with the lower levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and lower lipid peroxidation. In addition, the overexpression of NMig1 was associated with strong upregulation of genes encoding heat shock proteins and abiotic stress-associated genes. Therefore, our data demonstrate that the NudC homolog NMig1 could be considered as a potentially important target gene for further use, including breeding more resilient crops with improved root architecture under abiotic stress.
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- Valentin Velinov
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Zhang J, Wang Y, Li J, Zhao W, Yang Z, Feng Y. α-Santalol functionalized chitosan nanoparticles as efficient inhibitors of polo-like kinase in triple negative breast cancer. RSC Adv 2020; 10:5487-5501. [PMID: 35498298 PMCID: PMC9049642 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra09084c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK-1) is a protein kinase that plays a significant role in the initiation, maintenance, and completion of mitotic processes in the cell cycle.
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- Jinku Zhang
- Department of Pathology
- Baoding First Central Hospital
- Baoding
- China
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- Department of Pathology
- Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University
- Baoding
- China
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- Department of Pathology
- Baoding First Central Hospital
- Baoding
- China
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- Department of Pathology
- Baoding First Central Hospital
- Baoding
- China
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- College of Life Science and Technology
- Beijing University of Chemical Technology
- Beijing
- China
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- Department of Cardiology
- Baoding Qingyuan District People's Hospital
- Baoding
- China
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NudC-like protein 2 restrains centriole amplification by stabilizing HERC2. Cell Death Dis 2019; 10:628. [PMID: 31427565 PMCID: PMC6700069 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-019-1843-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Centriole duplication is tightly controlled to occur once per cell cycle, and disruption of this synchrony causes centriole amplification, which is frequently observed in many cancers. Our previous work showed that nuclear distribution gene C (NudC)-like protein 2 (NudCL2) localizes to centrosomes; however, little is known about the role of NudCL2 in the regulation of centrosome function. Here, we find that NudCL2 is required for accurate centriole duplication by stabilizing the E3 ligase HECT domain and RCC1-like domain-containing protein 2 (HERC2). Knockout (KO) of NudCL2 using CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing or depletion of NudCL2 using small interfering RNA causes significant centriole amplification. Overexpression of NudCL2 significantly suppresses hydroxyurea-induced centriole overduplication. Quantitative proteomic analysis reveals that HERC2 is downregulated in NudCL2 KO cells. NudCL2 is shown to interact with and stabilize HERC2. Depletion of HERC2 leads to the similar defects to that in NudCL2-downregulated cells, and ectopic expression of HERC2 effectively rescues the centriole amplification caused by the loss of NudCL2, whereas the defects induced by HERC2 depletion cannot be reversed by exogenous expression of NudCL2. Either loss of NudCL2 or depletion of HERC2 leads to the accumulation of ubiquitin-specific peptidase 33 (USP33), a centrosomal protein that positively regulates centriole duplication. Moreover, knockdown of USP33 reverses centriole amplification in both NudCL2 KO and HERC2-depleted cells. Taken together, our data suggest that NudCL2 plays an important role in maintaining the fidelity of centriole duplication by stabilizing HERC2 to control USP33 protein levels, providing a previously undescribed mechanism restraining centriole amplification.
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Boitet ER, Reish NJ, Hubbard MG, Gross AK. NudC regulates photoreceptor disk morphogenesis and rhodopsin localization. FASEB J 2019; 33:8799-8808. [PMID: 31022349 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201801740rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The outer segment (OS) of rod photoreceptors consist of a highly modified primary cilium containing phototransduction machinery necessary for light detection. The delivery and organization of the phototransduction components within and along the cilium into the series of stacked, highly organized disks is critical for cell function and viability. How disks are formed within the cilium remains an area of active investigation. We have found nuclear distribution protein C (nudC), a key component of mitosis and cytokinesis during development, to be present in the inner segment region of these postmitotic cells in several species, including mouse, tree shrew, monkey, and frog. Further, we found nudC interacts with rhodopsin and the small GTPase rab11a. Here, we show through transgenic tadpole studies that nudC is integral to rod cell disk formation and photoreceptor protein localization. Finally, we demonstrate that short hairpin RNA knockdown of nudC in tadpole rod photoreceptors, which leads to the inability of rod cells to maintain their OS, is rescued through coexpression of murine nudC.-Boitet, E. R., Reish, N. J., Hubbard, M. G., Gross, A. K. NudC regulates photoreceptor disk morphogenesis and rhodopsin localization.
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- Evan R Boitet
- Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,Department of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Optometry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Optometry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,Department of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Optometry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Yang Y, Wang W, Li M, Gao Y, Zhang W, Huang Y, Zhuo W, Yan X, Liu W, Wang F, Chen D, Zhou T. NudCL2 is an Hsp90 cochaperone to regulate sister chromatid cohesion by stabilizing cohesin subunits. Cell Mol Life Sci 2019; 76:381-395. [PMID: 30368549 PMCID: PMC6339671 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-018-2957-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Sister chromatid cohesion plays a key role in ensuring precise chromosome segregation during mitosis, which is mediated by the multisubunit cohesin complex. However, the molecular regulation of cohesin subunits stability remains unclear. Here, we show that NudCL2 (NudC-like protein 2) is essential for the stability of cohesin subunits by regulating Hsp90 ATPase activity in mammalian cells. Depletion of NudCL2 induces mitotic defects and premature sister chromatid separation and destabilizes cohesin subunits that interact with NudCL2. Similar defects are also observed upon inhibition of Hsp90 ATPase activity. Interestingly, ectopic expression of Hsp90 efficiently rescues the protein instability and functional deficiency of cohesin induced by NudCL2 depletion, but not vice versa. Moreover, NudCL2 not only binds to Hsp90, but also significantly modulates Hsp90 ATPase activity and promotes the chaperone function of Hsp90. Taken together, these data suggest that NudCL2 is a previously undescribed Hsp90 cochaperone to modulate sister chromatid cohesion by stabilizing cohesin subunits, providing a hitherto unrecognized mechanism that is crucial for faithful chromosome segregation during mitosis.
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- Yuehong Yang
- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310020, Zhejiang, China.
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- Department of Cell Biology and the Cancer Institute of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.
- Joint Institute of Genetics and Genomic Medicine between Zhejiang University and University of Toronto, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, 310003, Zhejiang, China.
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Lu Y, Xie S, Zhang W, Zhang C, Gao C, Sun Q, Cai Y, Xu Z, Xiao M, Xu Y, Huang X, Wu X, Liu W, Wang F, Kang Y, Zhou T. Twa1/Gid8 is a β-catenin nuclear retention factor in Wnt signaling and colorectal tumorigenesis. Cell Res 2017; 27:1422-1440. [PMID: 28829046 PMCID: PMC5717399 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2017.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Revised: 12/25/2016] [Accepted: 07/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Hyperactivation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling is one of the major causes of human colorectal cancer (CRC). A hallmark of Wnt signaling is the nuclear accumulation of β-catenin. Although β-catenin nuclear import and export have been widely investigated, the underlying mechanism of β-catenin's nuclear retention remains largely unknown. Here, we report that Twa1/Gid8 is a key nuclear retention factor for β-catenin during Wnt signaling and colorectal carcinogenesis. In the absence of Wnt, Twa1 exists together with β-catenin in the Axin complex and undergoes ubiquitination and degradation. Upon Wnt signaling, Twa1 translocates into the nucleus, where it binds and retains β-catenin. Depletion of Twa1 attenuates Wnt-stimulated gene expression, dorsal development of zebrafish embryos and xenograft tumor growth of CRC cells. Moreover, nuclear Twa1 is significantly upregulated in human CRC tissues, correlating with the nuclear accumulation of β-catenin and poor prognosis. Thus, our results identify Twa1 as a previously undescribed regulator of the Wnt pathway for promoting colorectal tumorigenesis by facilitating β-catenin nuclear retention.
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- Yi Lu
- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Current address: Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310022, China
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- Institute of Cellular and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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Kumar S, Sharma G, Chakraborty C, Sharma AR, Kim J. Regulatory functional territory of PLK-1 and their substrates beyond mitosis. Oncotarget 2017; 8:37942-37962. [PMID: 28415805 PMCID: PMC5514964 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.16290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK-1) is a well-known (Ser/Thr) mitotic protein kinase and is considered as a proto-oncogene. As hyper-activation of PLK-1 is broadly associated with poor prognosis and cancer progression, it is one of the most extensively studied mitotic kinases. During mitosis, PLK-1 regulates various cell cycle events, such as spindle pole maturation, chromosome segregation and cytokinesis. However, studies have demonstrated that the role of PLK-1 is not only restricted to mitosis, but PLK-1 can also regulate other vital events beyond mitosis, including transcription, translation, ciliogenesis, checkpoint adaptation and recovery, apoptosis, chromosomes dynamics etc. Recent reviews have tried to define the regulatory role of PLK-1 during mitosis progression and tumorigenesis, but its' functional role beyond mitosis is still largely unexplored. PLK-1 can regulate the activity of many proteins that work outside of its conventional territory. The dysregulation of these proteins can cause diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, tumorigenesis etc. and may also lead to drug resistance. Thus, in this review, we discussed the versatile role of PLK-1 and tried to collect data to validate its' functional role in cell cycle regulation apart from mitosis.
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- Shiv Kumar
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Cell Differentiation and Aging, Hallym University, College of Medicine, Chucheonsi, Gangwondo, Republic of Korea
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- Institute For Skeletal Aging & Orthopedic Surgery, Hallym University, College of Medicine, Chucheonsi, Gangwondo, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bio-informatics, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Institute For Skeletal Aging & Orthopedic Surgery, Hallym University, College of Medicine, Chucheonsi, Gangwondo, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Cell Differentiation and Aging, Hallym University, College of Medicine, Chucheonsi, Gangwondo, Republic of Korea
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Kong Q, Chen XS, Tian T, Xia XY, Xu P. MicroRNA-194 suppresses prostate cancer migration and invasion by downregulating human nuclear distribution protein. Oncol Rep 2016; 37:803-812. [PMID: 27959429 DOI: 10.3892/or.2016.5305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Human NudC nuclear distribution protein (hNUDC) is differentially expressed between normal and cancer cells. Based on its marked altered expression and its roles in modulating cell division, cytokineses and migration, a detailed understanding of the mechanisms regulating hNUDC expression in cancer cells is critical. In this study, we identified miR-194 as a downstream target of hNUDC and linked its expression to reduced metastatic capacity and tumorigenicity of prostate cancer (PCa) cells. Using miRNA target prediction programs, hNUDC mRNA was found to contain a potential binding site for miR-194 within its 3'UTR. A Reporter assay confirmed that post-transcriptional regulation of hNUDC was dependent on the miR-194 binding site. Forced expression of miR-194 in PCa cell lines, PC-3 and DU-145, led to a decrease in the mRNA and protein levels of hNUDC. Overexpression of miR-194 in these cells inhibited cell migration and invasion, and induced multinucleated cells. Our data showed that hNUDC knockdown by siRNA significantly reduced the migration and invasion in the PC-3 and DU-145 cells, phenocopying the results of miR-194 overexpression. Furthermore, lentivirus-mediated stable expression of miR-194 in PCa cells reduced the ability of colony formation as detected by a soft agar assay and exhibited significantly less tumorigenic ability in vivo. Our results suggest a novel role for miR-194 in effectively controlling cell metastatic processes in PCa cells via the regulation of hNUDC expression.
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- Qi Kong
- The Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P.R. China
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- The Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P.R. China
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- The Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P.R. China
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- The Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P.R. China
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- The Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P.R. China
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Systematic functional analysis of kinases in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12766. [PMID: 27677328 PMCID: PMC5052723 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Cryptococcus neoformans is the leading cause of death by fungal meningoencephalitis; however, treatment options remain limited. Here we report the construction of 264 signature-tagged gene-deletion strains for 129 putative kinases, and examine their phenotypic traits under 30 distinct in vitro growth conditions and in two different hosts (insect larvae and mice). Clustering analysis of in vitro phenotypic traits indicates that several of these kinases have roles in known signalling pathways, and identifies hitherto uncharacterized signalling cascades. Virulence assays in the insect and mouse models provide evidence of pathogenicity-related roles for 63 kinases involved in the following biological categories: growth and cell cycle, nutrient metabolism, stress response and adaptation, cell signalling, cell polarity and morphology, vacuole trafficking, transfer RNA (tRNA) modification and other functions. Our study provides insights into the pathobiological signalling circuitry of C. neoformans and identifies potential anticryptococcal or antifungal drug targets. Cryptococcus neoformans is the leading cause of death by fungal meningoencephalitis. Here, the authors study the roles played by 129 putative kinases in the growth and virulence of C. neoformans, identifying potential targets for development of anticryptococcal drugs.
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Zhang Z, Hou SQ, He J, Gu T, Yin Y, Shen WH. PTEN regulates PLK1 and controls chromosomal stability during cell division. Cell Cycle 2016; 15:2476-85. [PMID: 27398835 PMCID: PMC5026806 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2016.1203493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2016] [Revised: 06/12/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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PTEN functions as a guardian of the genome through multiple mechanisms. We have previously established that PTEN maintains the structural integrity of chromosomes. In this report, we demonstrate a fundamental role of PTEN in controlling chromosome inheritance to prevent gross genomic alterations. Disruption of PTEN or depletion of PTEN protein phosphatase activity causes abnormal chromosome content, manifested by enlarged or polyploid nuclei. We further identify polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) as a substrate of PTEN phosphatase. PTEN can physically associate with PLK1 and reduce PLK1 phosphorylation in a phosphatase-dependent manner. We show that PTEN deficiency leads to PLK1 phosphorylation and that a phospho-mimicking PLK1 mutant causes polyploidy, imitating functional deficiency of PTEN phosphatase. Inhibition of PLK1 activity or overexpression of a non-phosphorylatable PLK1 mutant reduces the polyploid cell population. These data reveal a new mechanism by which PTEN controls genomic stability during cell division.
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- Zhong Zhang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Medical Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Medical Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Medical Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Medical Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Medical Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- Present address: Institute of Systems Biomedicine, Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Medical Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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Weiderhold KN, Fadri-Moskwik M, Pan J, Nishino M, Chuang C, Deeraksa A, Lin SH, Yu-Lee LY. Dynamic Phosphorylation of NudC by Aurora B in Cytokinesis. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0153455. [PMID: 27074040 PMCID: PMC4830538 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Accepted: 03/30/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Nuclear distribution protein C (NudC) is a mitotic regulator that plays a role in cytokinesis. However, how NudC is regulated during cytokinesis remains unclear. Here, we show that NudC is phosphorylated by Aurora B, a kinase critical for cell abscission. NudC is co-localized with Aurora B at the midbody and co-immunoprecipitated with Aurora B in mitosis. Inhibition of Aurora B by ZM447439 reduced NudC phosphorylation, suggesting that NudC is an Aurora B substrate in vivo. We identified T40 on NudC as an Aurora B phosphorylation site. NudC depletion resulted in cytokinesis failure with a dramatic elongation of the intercellular bridge between daughter cells, sustained Aurora B activity at the midbody, and reduced cell abscission. These cytokinetic defects can be rescued by the ectopic expression of wild-type NudC. Reconstitution with T40A phospho-defective NudC was found to rescue the cytokinesis defect. In contrast, reconstitution with the T40D phospho-mimetic NudC was inefficient in supporting the completion of cytokinesis. These results suggest that that dynamic phosphorylation of NudC by Aurora B regulates cytokinesis.
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- Kimberly N. Weiderhold
- Program in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Allergy Immunology and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Allergy Immunology and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Allergy Immunology and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Section of Allergy Immunology and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Fu Q, Wang W, Zhou T, Yang Y. Emerging roles of NudC family: from molecular regulation to clinical implications. SCIENCE CHINA-LIFE SCIENCES 2016; 59:455-62. [PMID: 26965524 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-016-5029-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Nuclear distribution gene C (NudC) was first found in Aspergillus nidulans as an upstream regulator of NudF, whose mammalian homolog is Lissencephaly 1 (Lis1). NudC is conserved from fungi to mammals. Vertebrate NudC has three homologs: NudC, NudC-like protein (NudCL), and NudC-like protein 2 (NudCL2). All members of the NudC family share a conserved p23 domain, which possesses chaperone activity both in conjunction with and independently of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90). Our group and the others found that NudC homologs were involved in cell cycle regulation by stabilizing the components of the LIS1/dynein complex. Additionally, NudC plays important roles in cell migration, ciliogenesis, thrombopoiesis, and the inflammatory response. It has been reported that NudCL is essential for the stability of the dynein intermediate chain and ciliogenesis via its interaction with the dynein 2 complex. Our data showed that NudCL2 regulates the LIS1/dynein pathway by stabilizing LIS1 with Hsp90 chaperone. The fourth distantly related member of the NudC family, CML66, a tumor-associated antigen in human leukemia, contains a p23 domain and appears to promote oncogenesis by regulating the IGF-1R-MAPK signaling pathway. In this review, we summarize our current knowledge of the NudC family and highlight its potential clinical relevance.
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- Qiqin Fu
- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. .,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, 310003, China.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. .,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, 310003, China.
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Chen D, Ito S, Yuan H, Hyodo T, Kadomatsu K, Hamaguchi M, Senga T. EML4 promotes the loading of NUDC to the spindle for mitotic progression. Cell Cycle 2016; 14:1529-39. [PMID: 25789526 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2015.1026514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Echinoderm microtubule-associated protein (EMAP)-like (EML) family proteins are microtubule-associated proteins that have a conserved hydrophobic EMAP-like protein (HELP) domain and multiple WD40 domains. In this study, we examined the role of EML4, which is a member of the EML family, in cell division. Time-lapse microscopy analysis demonstrated that EML4 depletion induced chromosome misalignment during metaphase and delayed anaphase initiation. Further analysis by immunofluorescence showed that EML4 was required for the organization of the mitotic spindle and for the proper attachment of kinetochores to microtubules. We searched for EML4-associating proteins by mass spectrometry analysis and found that the nuclear distribution gene C (NUDC) protein, which is a critical factor for the progression of mitosis, was associated with EML4. This interaction was mediated by the WD40 repeat of EML4 and by the C-terminus of NUDC. In the absence of EML4, NUDC was no longer able to localize to the mitotic spindle, whereas NUDC was dispensable for EML4 localization. Our results show that EML4 is critical for the loading of NUDC onto the mitotic spindle for mitotic progression.
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- Dan Chen
- a Division of Cancer Biology; Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine ; Nagoya , Japan
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Cruz OHDL, Marchat LA, Guillén N, Weber C, Rosas IL, Díaz-Chávez J, Herrera L, Rojo-Domínguez A, Orozco E, López-Camarillo C. Multinucleation and Polykaryon Formation is Promoted by the EhPC4 Transcription Factor in Entamoeba histolytica. Sci Rep 2016; 6:19611. [PMID: 26792358 PMCID: PMC4726151 DOI: 10.1038/srep19611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/14/2015] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Entamoeba histolytica is the intestinal parasite responsible for human amoebiasis that is a leading cause of death in developing countries. In this protozoan, heterogeneity in DNA content, polyploidy and genome plasticity have been associated to alterations in mechanisms controlling DNA replication and cell division. Studying the function of the transcription factor EhPC4, we unexpectedly found that it is functionally related to DNA replication, and multinucleation. Site-directed mutagenesis on the FRFPKG motif revealed that the K127 residue is required for efficient EhPC4 DNA-binding activity. Remarkably, overexpression of EhPC4 significantly increased cell proliferation, DNA replication and DNA content of trophozoites. A dramatically increase in cell size resulting in the formation of giant multinucleated trophozoites (polykaryon) was also found. Multinucleation event was associated to cytokinesis failure leading to abortion of ongoing cell division. Consistently, genome-wide profiling of EhPC4 overexpressing trophozoites revealed the up-regulation of genes involved in carbohydrates and nucleic acids metabolism, chromosome segregation and cytokinesis. Forced overexpression of one of these genes, EhNUDC (nuclear movement protein), led to alterations in cytokinesis and partially recapitulated the multinucleation phenotype. These data indicate for the first time that EhPC4 is associated with events related to polyploidy and genome stability in E. histolytica.
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- National Polytechnic Institute, National School of Medicine and Homeopathy, Institutional Program of Molecular Biomedicine, Biotechnology Program, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Institut Pasteur, Cellular Biology of Parasitism Unit, Paris, France
- INSERM U786, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Cellular Biology of Parasitism Unit, Paris, France
- INSERM U786, Paris, France
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- Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico, Genomics Sciences Program, Mexico City, Mexico
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- National Institute of Cancerology, Carcinogenesis Laboratory, Mexico City, Mexico
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- National Institute of Cancerology, Carcinogenesis Laboratory, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Metropolitan Autonomous University, Natural Sciences Department, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Department of Infectomics and Molecular Pathogenesis, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico, Genomics Sciences Program, Mexico City, Mexico
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Zhang C, Zhang W, Lu Y, Yan X, Yan X, Zhu X, Liu W, Yang Y, Zhou T. NudC regulates actin dynamics and ciliogenesis by stabilizing cofilin 1. Cell Res 2015; 26:239-53. [PMID: 26704451 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2015.152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2015] [Revised: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Emerging data indicate that actin dynamics is associated with ciliogenesis. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here we find that nuclear distribution gene C (NudC), an Hsp90 co-chaperone, is required for actin organization and dynamics. Depletion of NudC promotes cilia elongation and increases the percentage of ciliated cells. Further results show that NudC binds to and stabilizes cofilin 1, a key regulator of actin dynamics. Knockdown of cofilin 1 also facilitates ciliogenesis. Moreover, depletion of either NudC or cofilin 1 causes similar ciliary defects in zebrafish, including curved body, pericardial edema and defective left-right asymmetry. Ectopic expression of cofilin 1 significantly reverses the phenotypes induced by NudC depletion in both cultured cells and zebrafish. Thus, our data suggest that NudC regulates actin cytoskeleton and ciliogenesis by stabilizing cofilin 1.
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- Cheng Zhang
- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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Lee SY, Jang C, Lee KA. Polo-like kinases (plks), a key regulator of cell cycle and new potential target for cancer therapy. Dev Reprod 2015; 18:65-71. [PMID: 25949173 PMCID: PMC4282265 DOI: 10.12717/dr.2014.18.1.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2014] [Revised: 02/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cell cycle process is regulated by a number of protein kinases and among them, serine/threonine kinases carry phosphate group from ATP to substrates. The most important three kinase families are Cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk), Polo-like kinase (Plk), and Aurora kinase. Polo-like kinase family consists of 5 members (Plk1-Plk5) and they are involved in multiple functions in eukaryotic cell division. It regulates a variety of aspects such as, centrosome maturation, checkpoint recovery, spindle assembly, cytokinesis, apoptosis and many other features. Recently, it has been reported that Plks are related to tumor development and over-expressed in many kinds of tumor cells. When injected the anti-Plk antibody into human cells, the cells show aneuploidy, and if inhibit Plks, most of the mitotic cell division does not proceed properly. For that reasons, many inhibitors of Plk have been recently emerged as new target for remedy of the cancer therapeutic research. In this paper, we reviewed briefly the characteristics of Plk families and how Plks work in regulating cell cycles and cancer formation, and the possibilities of Plks as target for cancer therapy.
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- Su-Yeon Lee
- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Life Science, CHA University, Seoul 135-081, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Life Science, CHA University, Seoul 135-081, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Life Science, CHA University, Seoul 135-081, Republic of Korea
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Su Y, Pan S, Li Z, Li L, Wu X, Hao P, Sze SK, Yao SQ. Multiplex imaging and cellular target identification of kinase inhibitors via an affinity-based proteome profiling approach. Sci Rep 2015; 5:7724. [PMID: 25579846 PMCID: PMC4290084 DOI: 10.1038/srep07724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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MLN8237 is a highly potent and presumably selective inhibitor of Aurora kinase A (AKA) and has shown promising antitumor activities. Like other kinase inhibitors which target the ATP-binding site of kinases, MLN8237 might be expected to have potential cellular off-targets. Herein, we report the first photoaffinity-based, small molecule AKA probe capable of both live-cell imaging of AKA activities and in situ proteome profiling of potential off-targets of MLN8237 (including AKA-associating proteins). By using two mutually compatible, bioorthogonal reactions (copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition chemistry and TCO-tetrazine ligation), we demostrate small molecule-based multiplex bioimaging for simultaneous in situ monitoring of two important cell-cycle regulating kinases (AKA and CDK1). A broad range of proteins, as potential off-targets of MLN8237 and AKA's-interacting partners, is subsequently identified by affinity-based proteome profiling coupled with large-scale LC-MS/MS analysis. From these studies, we discover novel AKA interactions which were further validated by cell-based immunoprecipitation (IP) experiments.
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- Ying Su
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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Single-cell analyses of transcriptional heterogeneity during drug tolerance transition in cancer cells by RNA sequencing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:E4726-35. [PMID: 25339441 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404656111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The acute cellular response to stress generates a subpopulation of reversibly stress-tolerant cells under conditions that are lethal to the majority of the population. Stress tolerance is attributed to heterogeneity of gene expression within the population to ensure survival of a minority. We performed whole transcriptome sequencing analyses of metastatic human breast cancer cells subjected to the chemotherapeutic agent paclitaxel at the single-cell and population levels. Here we show that specific transcriptional programs are enacted within untreated, stressed, and drug-tolerant cell groups while generating high heterogeneity between single cells within and between groups. We further demonstrate that drug-tolerant cells contain specific RNA variants residing in genes involved in microtubule organization and stabilization, as well as cell adhesion and cell surface signaling. In addition, the gene expression profile of drug-tolerant cells is similar to that of untreated cells within a few doublings. Thus, single-cell analyses reveal the dynamics of the stress response in terms of cell-specific RNA variants driving heterogeneity, the survival of a minority population through generation of specific RNA variants, and the efficient reconversion of stress-tolerant cells back to normalcy.
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Rizvi SMD, Shakil S, Zeeshan M, Khan MS, Shaikh S, Biswas D, Ahmad A, Kamal MA. An enzoinformatics study targeting polo-like kinases-1 enzyme: Comparative assessment of anticancer potential of compounds isolated from leaves of Ageratum houstonianum. Pharmacogn Mag 2014; 10:S14-21. [PMID: 24914294 PMCID: PMC4047579 DOI: 10.4103/0973-1296.127333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2013] [Revised: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 02/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Natural products from plant sources, embracing inherently ample structural diversity than synthetic ones are the major sources of anticancer agents and will constantly play as protagonists for discovering new drugs. Polo-like kinases (PLKs) play a leading role in the ordered execution of mitotic events and 4 mammalian PLK family members have been identified. PLK1 is an attractive target for anticancer drugs in mammalian cells, among the four members of PLKs. The present study expresses the molecular interaction of compounds (1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid bis (2 ethylhexyl) ester, squalene, 3,5-bis (1,1-dimethylethyl) phenol, Pentamethyl tetrahydro-5H-chromene, (1,4-Cyclohexylphenyl) ethanone and 6-Vinyl-7-methoxy-2,2-dimethylchromene) isolated from methanolic extract of leaves of Ageratum houstonianum with PLK1 enzyme. Docking between PLK1 and each of these compounds (separately) was performed using “Auto dock 4.2.” (1,4-Cyclohexylphenyl) ethanone showed the maximum potential as a promising inhibitor of PLK1 enzyme with reference to ∆G (−6.84 kcal/mol) and Ki (9.77 μM) values. This was sequentially followed by Pentamethyl tetrahydro-5H-chromene (∆G = −6.60 kcal/mol; Ki = 14.58 μM), squalene (∆G = −6.17 kcal/mol; Ki = 30.12 μM), 6-Vinyl-7-methoxy-2,2-dimethylchromene (∆G = −5.91 kcal/mol; Ki = 46.68 μM), 3, 5-bis (1,1-dimethylethyl) phenol (∆G = −5.70 kcal/mol; Ki = 66.68 μM) and 1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid bis (2 ethylhexyl) ester (∆G = −5.58 kcal/mol; Ki = 80.80 μM). These results suggest that (1,4-Cyclohexylphenyl) ethanone might be a potent PLK1 inhibitor. Further, in vitro and in vivo rumination are warranted to validate the anticancer potential of (1,4-Cyclohexylphenyl) ethanone.
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- Department of Bioengineering, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Bioengineering, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Wu D, Asiedu M, Matsumura F, Wei Q. Phosphorylation of myosin II-interacting guanine nucleotide exchange factor (MyoGEF) at threonine 544 by aurora B kinase promotes the binding of polo-like kinase 1 to MyoGEF. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:7142-7150. [PMID: 24482237 PMCID: PMC3945374 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.510388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Revised: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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We previously reported that phosphorylation of myosin II-interacting guanine nucleotide exchange factor (MyoGEF) by polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) promotes the localization of MyoGEF to the central spindle and increases MyoGEF activity toward RhoA during mitosis. In this study we report that aurora B-mediated phosphorylation of MyoGEF at Thr-544 creates a docking site for Plk1, leading to the localization and activation of MyoGEF at the central spindle. In vitro kinase assays show that aurora B can phosphorylate MyoGEF. T544A mutation drastically decreases aurora B-mediated phosphorylation of MyoGEF in vitro and in transfected HeLa cells. Coimmunoprecipitation and in vitro pulldown assays reveal that phosphorylation of MyoGEF at Thr-544 enhances the binding of Plk1 to MyoGEF. Immunofluorescence analysis shows that aurora B colocalizes with MyoGEF at the central spindle and midbody during cytokinesis. Suppression of aurora B activity by an aurora B inhibitor disrupts the localization of MyoGEF to the central spindle. In addition, T544A mutation interferes with the localization of MyoGEF to the cleavage furrow and decreases MyoGEF activity toward RhoA during mitosis. Taken together, our results suggest that aurora B coordinates with Plk1 to regulate MyoGEF activation and localization, thus contributing to the regulation of cytokinesis.
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- Di Wu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, New York 10458
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota 55902, and
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Bronx, New York 10458.
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Beernink HTH, Nock S. Challenges facing the development and use of protein chips to analyze the phosphoproteome. Expert Rev Proteomics 2014; 2:487-97. [PMID: 16097883 DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2.4.487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent advances in analytical methods, particularly in the area of protein microarrays, have brought the field of proteomics to the forefront of biological science. Protein arrays have shown to be useful for the multiplexed analysis of several hundreds of proteins in parallel. While much of the effort has focused on developing methods to identify expressed proteins, the identification of post-translational modifications is equally important for comprehensive proteome characterization. Protein phosphorylation constitutes a major type of post-translational modification that mobilizes a high number of genes, is involved in many crucial cell functions and largely contributes to the complexity of the proteome. One of the major challenges to analyze phosphoproteins using arrays is the availability of specific antibodies. Thus far, this has hampered the development of highly complex phosphoprotein arrays. This review discusses some of the recent progress made in the development of techniques and reagents to quantitatively determine sites of protein phosphorylation.
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- Hans T H Beernink
- Immunology R&D, BioSource International, 542 Flynn Rd, Camarillo, CA 93012, USA.
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Ghenoiu C, Wheelock MS, Funabiki H. Autoinhibition and Polo-dependent multisite phosphorylation restrict activity of the histone H3 kinase Haspin to mitosis. Mol Cell 2013; 52:734-45. [PMID: 24184212 PMCID: PMC3865225 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2013] [Revised: 08/05/2013] [Accepted: 09/24/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The mitosis-specific phosphorylation of histone H3 at Thr3 (H3T3ph) plays an important role in chromosome segregation by recruiting Aurora B. H3T3 phosphorylation is catalyzed by Haspin, an atypical protein kinase whose kinase domain is intrinsically active without phosphorylation at the activation loop. Here, we report the molecular basis for Haspin inhibition during interphase and its reactivation in M phase. We identify a conserved basic segment that autoinhibits Haspin during interphase. This autoinhibition is neutralized when Cdk1 phosphorylates the N terminus of Haspin in order to recruit Polo-like kinase (Plk1/Plx1), which, in turn, further phosphorylates multiple sites at the Haspin N terminus. Although Plx1, and not Aurora B, is critical for H3T3 phosphorylation in Xenopus egg extracts, Plk1 and Aurora B both promote this modification in human cells. Thus, M phase-specific H3T3 phosphorylation is governed by the combinatorial action of mitotic kinases that neutralizes Haspin autoinhibition through a mechanism dependent on multisite phosphorylation.
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- Cristina Ghenoiu
- Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Shen M, Cai Y, Yang Y, Yan X, Liu X, Zhou T. Centrosomal protein FOR20 is essential for S-phase progression by recruiting Plk1 to centrosomes. Cell Res 2013; 23:1284-95. [PMID: 24018379 PMCID: PMC3817547 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2013.127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2013] [Revised: 07/13/2013] [Accepted: 07/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Centrosomes are required for efficient cell cycle progression mainly by orchestrating microtubule dynamics and facilitating G1/S and G2/M transitions. However, the role of centrosomes in S-phase progression is largely unknown. Here, we report that depletion of FOR20 (FOP-related protein of 20 kDa), a conserved centrosomal protein, inhibits S-phase progression and prevents targeting of Plk1 (polo-like kinase 1) to centrosomes, where FOR20 interacts with Plk1. Ablation of Plk1 also significantly induces S-phase defects, which are reversed by ectopic expression of Plk1, even a kinase-dead mutant, but not a mutant that fails to localize to centrosomes. Exogenous expression of centrosome-tethered Plk1, but not wild-type Plk1, overrides FOR20 depletion-induced S-phase defects independently of its kinase activity. Thus, these data indicate that recruitment of Plk1 to centrosomes by FOR20 may act as a signal to license efficient progression of S-phase. This represents a hitherto uncharacterized role of centrosomes in cell cycle regulation.
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- Minhong Shen
- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Program in Molecular Cell Biology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, China
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Mitosis is largely driven by posttranslational modifications of proteins. Recent studies suggest that protein acetylation is prevalent in mitosis, but how protein acetylation/deacetylation regulates mitotic progression remains unclear. Nuclear distribution protein C (NudC), a conserved protein that regulates cell division, was previously shown to be acetylated. We found that NudC acetylation was decreased during mitosis. Using mass spectrometry analysis, we identified K39 to be an acetylation site on NudC. Reconstitution of NudC-deficient cells with wild-type or K39R acetylation-defective NudC rescued mitotic phenotypes, including chromosome misalignment, chromosome missegregation, and reduced spindle width, observed after NudC protein knockdown. In contrast, the K39Q acetylation-mimetic NudC was unable to rescue these mitotic phenotypes, suggesting that NudC deacetylation is important for mitotic progression. To examine proteins that may play a role in NudC deacetylation during mitosis, we found that NudC co-localizes on the mitotic spindle with the histone deacetylase HDAC3, an HDAC shown to regulate mitotic spindle stability. Further, NudC co-immunoprecipitates with HDAC3 and loss of function of HDAC3 either by protein knockdown or inhibition with a small molecule inhibitor increased NudC acetylation. These observations suggest that HDAC3 may be involved in NudC deacetylation during mitosis. Cells with NudC or HDAC3 knockdown exhibited overlapping mitotic abnormalities, including chromosomes arranged in a “dome-like” configuration surrounding a collapsed mitotic spindle. Our studies suggest that NudC acetylation/deacetylation regulates mitotic progression and NudC deacetylation, likely through HDAC3, is critical for spindle function and chromosome congression.
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Bibi N, Parveen Z, Rashid S. Identification of potential Plk1 targets in a cell-cycle specific proteome through structural dynamics of kinase and Polo box-mediated interactions. PLoS One 2013; 8:e70843. [PMID: 23967120 PMCID: PMC3744538 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2013] [Accepted: 06/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Polo like kinase 1 (Plk1) is a key player in orchestrating the wide variety of cell-cycle events ranging from centrosome maturation, mitotic entry, checkpoint recovery, transcriptional control, spindle assembly, mitotic progression, cytokinesis and DNA damage checkpoints recovery. Due to its versatile nature, Plk1 is considered an imperative regulator to tightly control the diverse aspects of the cell cycle network. Interactions among Plk1 polo box domain (PBD) and its putative binding proteins are crucial for the activation of Plk1 kinase domain (KD). To date, only a few substrate candidates have been characterized through the inclusion of both polo box and kinase domain-mediated interactions. Thus it became compelling to explore precise and specific Plk1 substrates through reassessment and extension of the structure-function paradigm. To narrow this apparently wide gap in knowledge, here we employed a thorough sequence search of Plk1 phosphorylation signature containing proteins and explored their structure-based features like conceptual PBD-binding capabilities and subsequent recruitment of KD directed phosphorylation to dissect novel targets of Plk1. Collectively, we identified 4,521 phosphodependent proteins sharing similarity to the consensus phosphorylation and PBD recognition motifs. Subsequent application of filters including similarity index, Gene Ontology enrichment and protein localization resulted in stringent pre-filtering of irrelevant candidates and isolated unique targets with well-defined roles in cell-cycle machinery and carcinogenesis. These candidates were further refined structurally using molecular docking and dynamic simulation assays. Overall, our screening approach enables the identification of several undefined cell-cycle associated functions of Plk1 by uncovering novel phosphorylation targets.
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- Nousheen Bibi
- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Deeraksa A, Pan J, Sha Y, Liu XD, Eissa NT, Lin SH, Yu-Lee LY. Plk1 is upregulated in androgen-insensitive prostate cancer cells and its inhibition leads to necroptosis. Oncogene 2013; 32:2973-83. [PMID: 22890325 PMCID: PMC3499666 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2012.309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2012] [Revised: 05/29/2012] [Accepted: 06/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Castration-resistant prostate cancer (PCa) is refractory to hormone therapy and new strategies for treatment are urgently needed. We found that androgen-insensitive (AI) PCa cells, LNCaP-AI, are reprogrammed to upregulate the mitotic kinase Plk1 (Polo-like kinase 1) and other M-phase cell-cycle proteins, which may underlie AI PCa growth. In androgen-depleted media, LNCaP-AI cells showed exquisite sensitivity to growth inhibition by subnanomolar concentrations of a small molecule inhibitor of Plk1, BI2536, suggesting that these cells are dependent on Plk1 for growth. In contrast, the androgen-responsive parental LNCaP cells showed negligible responses to BI2536 treatment under the same condition. BI2536 treatment of LNCaP-AI cells resulted in an increase in cell death marker PARP-1 (polymerase-1) but did not activate caspase-3, an apoptosis marker, suggesting that the observed cell death was caspase-independent. BI2536-treated LNCaP-AI cells formed multinucleated giant cells that contain clusters of nuclear vesicles indicative of mitotic catastrophe. Live-cell time-lapse imaging revealed that BI2536-treated giant LNCaP-AI cells underwent necroptosis, as evidenced by 'explosive' cell death and partial reversal of cell death by a necroptosis inhibitor. Our studies suggest that LNCaP-AI cells underwent reprogramming in both their cell growth and cell death pathways, rendering them highly sensitive to Plk1 inhibition that induces necroptosis. Harnessing necroptosis through Plk1 inhibition may be explored for therapeutic intervention of castration-resistant PCa.
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- Arpaporn Deeraksa
- Department of Medicine, Section of Immunology Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Immunology Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pathology, UT Texas at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Immunology Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Shao CY, Zhu J, Xie YJ, Wang Z, Wang YN, Wang Y, Su LD, Zhou L, Zhou TH, Shen Y. Distinct functions of nuclear distribution proteins LIS1, Ndel1 and NudCL in regulating axonal mitochondrial transport. Traffic 2013; 14:785-97. [PMID: 23551859 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2012] [Revised: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 03/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Neurons critically depend on the long-distance transport of mitochondria. Motor proteins kinesin and dynein control anterograde and retrograde mitochondrial transport, respectively in axons. The regulatory molecules that link them to mitochondria need to be better characterized. Nuclear distribution (Nud) family proteins LIS1, Ndel1 and NudCL are critical components of cytoplasmic dynein complex. Roles of these Nud proteins in neuronal mitochondrial transport are unknown. Here we report distinct functions of LIS1, Ndel1 and NudCL on axonal mitochondrial transport in cultured hippocampal neurons. We found that LIS1 interacted with kinsein family protein KIF5b. Depletion of LIS1 enormously suppressed mitochondrial motility in both anterograde and retrograde directions. Inhibition of either Ndel1 or NudCL only partially reduced retrograde mitochondrial motility. However, knocking down both Ndel1 and NudCL almost blocked retrograde mitochondrial transport, suggesting these proteins may work together to regulate retrograde mitochondrial transport through linking dynein-LIS1 complex. Taken together, our results uncover novel roles of LIS1, Ndel1 and NudCL in the transport of mitochondria in axons.
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- Chong-Yu Shao
- Department of Neurobiology, Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of the Ministry of Health of China, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China
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Effective identification of Akt interacting proteins by two-step chemical crosslinking, co-immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry. PLoS One 2013; 8:e61430. [PMID: 23613850 PMCID: PMC3629208 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2013] [Accepted: 03/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Akt is a critical protein for cell survival and known to interact with various proteins. However, Akt binding partners that modulate or regulate Akt activation have not been fully elucidated. Identification of Akt-interacting proteins has been customarily achieved by co-immunoprecipitation combined with western blot and/or MS analysis. An intrinsic problem of the method is loss of interacting proteins during procedures to remove non-specific proteins. Moreover, antibody contamination often interferes with the detection of less abundant proteins. Here, we developed a novel two-step chemical crosslinking strategy to overcome these problems which resulted in a dramatic improvement in identifying Akt interacting partners. Akt antibody was first immobilized on protein A/G beads using disuccinimidyl suberate and allowed to bind to cellular Akt along with its interacting proteins. Subsequently, dithiobis[succinimidylpropionate], a cleavable crosslinker, was introduced to produce stable complexes between Akt and binding partners prior to the SDS-PAGE and nanoLC-MS/MS analysis. This approach enabled identification of ten Akt partners from cell lysates containing as low as 1.5 mg proteins, including two new potential Akt interacting partners. None of these but one protein was detectable without crosslinking procedures. The present method provides a sensitive and effective tool to probe Akt-interacting proteins. This strategy should also prove useful for other protein interactions, particularly those involving less abundant or weakly associating partners.
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Funabiki H, Wynne DJ. Making an effective switch at the kinetochore by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. Chromosoma 2013; 122:135-58. [PMID: 23512483 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-013-0401-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2012] [Revised: 02/20/2013] [Accepted: 02/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The kinetochore, the proteinaceous structure on the mitotic centromere, functions as a mechanical latch that hooks onto microtubules to support directional movement of chromosomes. The structure also brings in a number of signaling molecules, such as kinases and phosphatases, which regulate microtubule dynamics and cell cycle progression. Erroneous microtubule attachment is destabilized by Aurora B-mediated phosphorylation of multiple microtubule-binding protein complexes at the kinetochore, such as the KMN network proteins and the Ska/Dam1 complex, while Plk-dependent phosphorylation of BubR1 stabilizes kinetochore-microtubule attachment by recruiting PP2A-B56. Spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) signaling, which is activated by unattached kinetochores and inhibits the metaphase-to-anaphase transition, depends on kinetochore recruitment of the kinase Bub1 through Mps1-mediated phosphorylation of the kinetochore protein KNL1 (also known as Blinkin in mammals, Spc105 in budding yeast, and Spc7 in fission yeast). Recruitment of protein phosphatase 1 to KNL1 is necessary to silence the SAC upon bioriented microtubule attachment. One of the key unsolved questions in the mitosis field is how a mechanical change at the kinetochore upon microtubule attachment is converted to these and other chemical signals that control microtubule attachment and the SAC. Rapid progress in the field is revealing the existence of an intricate signaling network created right on the kinetochore. Here we review the current understanding of phosphorylation-mediated regulation of kinetochore functions and discuss how this signaling network generates an accurate switch that turns on and off the signaling output in response to kinetochore-microtubule attachment.
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- Hironori Funabiki
- Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
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Bruinsma W, Raaijmakers JA, Medema RH. Switching Polo-like kinase-1 on and off in time and space. Trends Biochem Sci 2012; 37:534-42. [PMID: 23141205 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2012.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2012] [Revised: 09/16/2012] [Accepted: 09/21/2012] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Polo-like kinase (Plk)1 executes several essential functions to promote cell division. These functions range from centrosome maturation in late G2 phase to the regulation of cytokinesis, which necessitates precise separation of Plk1-dependent substrate phosphorylation over time. Multiple levels of control are in place to ensure that Plk1-dependent phosphorylation of its various substrates is properly coordinated in time and space. Here, we review the current knowledge on the mechanisms that enforce the temporal and spatial control of Plk1 activity, and how this results in coordinated phosphorylation of its many different substrates. We also review a number of newly discovered functions of Plk1 that provide more insights into the spatiotemporal control of Plk1-dependent substrate phosphorylation.
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- Wytse Bruinsma
- Department of Cell Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Paschal CR, Maciejowski J, Jallepalli PV. A stringent requirement for Plk1 T210 phosphorylation during K-fiber assembly and chromosome congression. Chromosoma 2012; 121:565-72. [PMID: 22566210 PMCID: PMC3519967 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-012-0375-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2012] [Revised: 04/17/2012] [Accepted: 04/18/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is an essential mitotic regulator and undergoes periodic phosphorylation on threonine 210, a conserved residue in the kinase's activation loop. While phosphate-mimicking alterations of T210 stimulate Plk1's kinase activity in vitro, their effects on cell cycle regulation in vivo remain controversial. Using gene targeting, we replaced the native PLK1 locus in human cells with either PLK1 (T210A) or PLK1 (T210D) in both dominant and recessive settings. In contrast to previous reports, PLK1 (T210D) did not accelerate cells prematurely into mitosis, nor could it fulfill the kinase's essential role in chromosome congression. The latter was traced to an unexpected defect in Plk1-dependent phosphorylation of BubR1, a key mediator of stable kinetochore-microtubule attachment. Using chemical genetics to bypass this defect, we found that Plk1(T210D) is nonetheless able to induce equatorial RhoA zones and cleavage furrows during mitotic exit. Collectively, our data indicate that K-fibers are sensitive to even subtle perturbations in T210 phosphorylation and caution against relying on Plk1(T210D) as an in vivo surrogate for the natively activated kinase.
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- Catherine Randall Paschal
- Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, NY 10065 USA
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065 USA
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- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065 USA
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065 USA
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- Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, NY 10065 USA
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065 USA
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065 USA
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Zhu Y, Wang C, Lan J, Yu J, Jin C, Huang H. Phosphorylation of Tara by Plk1 is essential for faithful chromosome segregation in mitosis. Exp Cell Res 2012; 318:2344-52. [PMID: 22820163 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2012.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2011] [Revised: 06/27/2012] [Accepted: 07/04/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Trio-associated repeat on actin (Tara) is an F-actin binding protein and regulates actin cytoskeletal organization. In our previous study, we have found that Tara associates with telomeric repeat binding factor 1 (TRF1) and mediates the function of TRF1 in mitotic regulation. We also found that overexpression HECTD3, a member of HECT E3 ubiquitin ligases, enhances the ubiquitination of Tara in vivo and promotes the degradation of Tara, and such degradation of Tara facilitates cell cycle progression. However, less is known about the post-translational modification of Tara in mitosis. Here we show that Tara is a novel Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) target protein. Plk1 interacts with and phosphorylates Tara in vivo and in vitro. Actually, the Thr-457 in Tara was a bona fide in vivo phosphorylation site for Plk1. Interestingly, we found that the centrosomal localization of Tara depended on the Thr-457 phosphorylation and the kinase activity of Plk1. Furthermore, overexpression of non-phosphorylatable mutant of Tara caused aberrant mitosis delay in HeLa cells. Our study demonstrated that Plk1-mediated phospho-dependent centrosomal localization of Tara is important for faithful chromosome segregation, and provided novel insights into understanding on the role of Plk1 in cooperation with Tara in mitotic progression.
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- Yuanyuan Zhu
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University Medical School, Hangzhou 310003, China
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Zhang Z, Kwiatkowski N, Zeng H, Lim SM, Gray NS, Zhang W, Yang PL. Leveraging kinase inhibitors to develop small molecule tools for imaging kinases by fluorescence microscopy. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2012; 8:2523-6. [PMID: 22673640 PMCID: PMC3616611 DOI: 10.1039/c2mb25099c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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As the usage of fluorescence microscopy as a tool to study biological systems continues to grow, so does the need for additional tools that permit the selective detection of proteins of interest. Existing selective and well-characterized kinase inhibitors may be exploited to develop novel small molecule probes useful in imaging kinases by fluorescence microscopy.
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- Zijuan Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA.
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana -Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA.
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana -Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA.
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Dana -Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 250 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 USA. Fax: +1-617-432-5418; Tel: +1-617-432-5415;
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Lee C, Fotovati A, Triscott J, Chen J, Venugopal C, Singhal A, Dunham C, Kerr JM, Verreault M, Yip S, Wakimoto H, Jones C, Jayanthan A, Narendran A, Singh SK, Dunn SE. Polo-like kinase 1 inhibition kills glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor cells in part through loss of SOX2 and delays tumor progression in mice. Stem Cells 2012; 30:1064-75. [PMID: 22415968 DOI: 10.1002/stem.1081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) ranks among the deadliest types of cancer and given these new therapies are urgently needed. To identify molecular targets, we queried a microarray profiling 467 human GBMs and discovered that polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) was highly expressed in these tumors and that it clustered with the proliferative subtype. Patients with PLK1-high tumors were more likely to die from their disease suggesting that current therapies are inactive against such tumors. This prompted us to examine its expression in brain tumor initiating cells (BTICs) given their association with treatment failure. BTICs isolated from patients expressed 110-470 times more PLK1 than normal human astrocytes. Moreover, BTICs rely on PLK1 for survival because the PLK1 inhibitor BI2536 inhibited their growth in tumorsphere cultures. PLK1 inhibition suppressed growth, caused G(2) /M arrest, induced apoptosis, and reduced the expression of SOX2, a marker of neural stem cells, in SF188 cells. Consistent with SOX2 inhibition, the loss of PLK1 activity caused the cells to differentiate based on elevated levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein and changes in cellular morphology. We then knocked glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) down SOX2 with siRNA and showed that it too inhibited cell growth and induced cell death. Likewise, in U251 cells, PLK1 inhibition suppressed cell growth, downregulated SOX2, and induced cell death. Furthermore, BI2536 delayed tumor growth of U251 cells in an orthotopic brain tumor model, demonstrating that the drug is active against GBM. In conclusion, PLK1 level is elevated in GBM and its inhibition restricts the growth of brain cancer cells.
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- Cathy Lee
- Department of Pediatrics, Child and Family Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Komlodi-Pasztor E, Sackett DL, Fojo AT. Inhibitors targeting mitosis: tales of how great drugs against a promising target were brought down by a flawed rationale. Clin Cancer Res 2012; 18:51-63. [PMID: 22215906 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-11-0999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Although they have been advocated with an understandable enthusiasm, mitosis-specific agents such as inhibitors of mitotic kinases and kinesin spindle protein have not been successful clinically. These drugs were developed as agents that would build on the success of microtubule-targeting agents while avoiding the neurotoxicity that encumbers drugs such as taxanes and vinca alkaloids. The rationale for using mitosis-specific agents was based on the thesis that the clinical efficacy of microtubule-targeting agents could be ascribed to the induction of mitotic arrest. However, the latter concept, which has long been accepted as dogma, is likely important only in cell culture and rapidly growing preclinical models, and irrelevant in patient tumors, where interference with intracellular trafficking on microtubules is likely the principal mechanism of action. Here we review the preclinical and clinical data for a diverse group of inhibitors that target mitosis and identify the reasons why these highly specific, myelosuppressive compounds have failed to deliver on their promise.
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- Edina Komlodi-Pasztor
- Medical Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1906, USA
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Ma H, McLean JR, Chao LFI, Mana-Capelli S, Paramasivam M, Hagstrom KA, Gould KL, McCollum D. A highly efficient multifunctional tandem affinity purification approach applicable to diverse organisms. Mol Cell Proteomics 2012; 11:501-11. [PMID: 22474084 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.o111.016246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Determining the localization, binding partners, and secondary modifications of individual proteins is crucial for understanding protein function. Several tags have been constructed for protein localization or purification under either native or denaturing conditions, but few tags permit all three simultaneously. Here, we describe a multifunctional tandem affinity purification (MAP) method that is both highly efficient and enables protein visualization. The MAP tag utilizes affinity tags inserted into an exposed surface loop of mVenus offering two advantages: (1) mVenus fluorescence can be used for protein localization or FACS-based selection of cell lines; and (2) spatial separation of the affinity tags from the protein results in high recovery and reduced variability between proteins. MAP purification was highly efficient in multiple organisms for all proteins tested. As a test case, MAP combined with liquid chromatography-tandem MS identified known and new candidate binding partners and modifications of the kinase Plk1. Thus the MAP tag is a new powerful tool for determining protein modification, localization, and interactions.
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- Hanhui Ma
- Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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