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Ogden A, Rida PCG, Aneja R. Let's huddle to prevent a muddle: centrosome declustering as an attractive anticancer strategy. Cell Death Differ 2012; 19:1255-67. [PMID: 22653338 DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2012.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Nearly a century ago, cell biologists postulated that the chromosomal aberrations blighting cancer cells might be caused by a mysterious organelle-the centrosome-that had only just been discovered. For years, however, this enigmatic structure was neglected in oncologic investigations and has only recently reemerged as a key suspect in tumorigenesis. A majority of cancer cells, unlike healthy cells, possess an amplified centrosome complement, which they manage to coalesce neatly at two spindle poles during mitosis. This clustering mechanism permits the cell to form a pseudo-bipolar mitotic spindle for segregation of sister chromatids. On rare occasions this mechanism fails, resulting in declustered centrosomes and the assembly of a multipolar spindle. Spindle multipolarity consigns the cell to an almost certain fate of mitotic arrest or death. The catastrophic nature of multipolarity has attracted efforts to develop drugs that can induce declustering in cancer cells. Such chemotherapeutics would theoretically spare healthy cells, whose normal centrosome complement should preclude multipolar spindle formation. In search of the 'Holy Grail' of nontoxic, cancer cell-selective, and superiorly efficacious chemotherapy, research is underway to elucidate the underpinnings of centrosome clustering mechanisms. Here, we detail the progress made towards that end, highlighting seminal work and suggesting directions for future research, aimed at demystifying this riddling cellular tactic and exploiting it for chemotherapeutic purposes. We also propose a model to highlight the integral role of microtubule dynamicity and the delicate balance of forces on which cancer cells rely for effective centrosome clustering. Finally, we provide insights regarding how perturbation of this balance may pave an inroad for inducing lethal centrosome dispersal and death selectively in cancer cells.
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- A Ogden
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 30303, USA
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In preparation for mitosis, the centrosome doubles once and only once to provide the two poles of the mitotic spindle. The presence of more than two centrosomes increases the chances that mitosis will be multipolar, and chromosomes will be distributed unequally. Since the number of mother-daughter centriole pairs determines the number of centrosomes, it is important that only one daughter centriole is assembled at, but slightly separated from, the proximal end of each mother centriole. This numerical and spatial specificity has led to the belief that a 'template' on the mother centriole provides a unique site for procentriole assembly. We review observations that are leading to the demise of this intuitively attractive idea. In its place, we are left with the notion that pericentriolar material at the wall of the mother centriole provides a local environment that promotes the assembly of a macromolecular complex that seeds the daughter centriole. Even though the system normally behaves in a digital fashion to go from zero to just one daughter centriole per mother, this behaviour appears to be based in the precise analogue control of multiple proteins, their activities, and the structure provided by the mother centriole.
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Sargent LM, Reynolds SH, Castranova V. Potential pulmonary effects of engineered carbon nanotubes:in vitrogenotoxic effects. Nanotoxicology 2010; 4:396-408. [DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2010.500444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Radu L, Durussel I, Assairi L, Blouquit Y, Miron S, Cox JA, Craescu CT. Scherffelia dubia Centrin Exhibits a Specific Mechanism for Ca2+-Controlled Target Binding. Biochemistry 2010; 49:4383-94. [DOI: 10.1021/bi901764m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Laura Radu
- Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
- INSERM U759, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
- INSERM U759, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
- INSERM U759, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
- INSERM U759, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Institut Curie Centre de Recherche, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
- INSERM U759, Centre Universitaire Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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van Ree JH, Jeganathan KB, Malureanu L, van Deursen JM. Overexpression of the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UbcH10 causes chromosome missegregation and tumor formation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 188:83-100. [PMID: 20065091 PMCID: PMC2812857 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200906147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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An overabundance of UbcH10 disrupts mitotic checkpoint signaling as a result of a degradation of cyclin B, increasing spontaneous and carcinogen-induced tumor formation in transgenic mice. The anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) E3 ubiquitin ligase functions with the E2 ubiquitin–conjugating enzyme UbcH10 in the orderly progression through mitosis by marking key mitotic regulators for destruction by the 26-S proteasome. UbcH10 is overexpressed in many human cancer types and is associated with tumor progression. However, whether UbcH10 overexpression causes tumor formation is unknown. To address this central question and to define the molecular and cellular consequences of UbcH10 overexpression, we generated a series of transgenic mice in which UbcH10 was overexpressed in graded fashion. In this study, we show that UbcH10 overexpression leads to precocious degradation of cyclin B by the APC/C, supernumerary centrioles, lagging chromosomes, and aneuploidy. Importantly, we find that UbcH10 transgenic mice are prone to carcinogen-induced lung tumors and a broad spectrum of spontaneous tumors. Our results identify UbcH10 as a prominent protooncogene that causes whole chromosome instability and tumor formation over a wide gradient of overexpression levels.
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- Janine H van Ree
- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Sargent LM, Shvedova AA, Hubbs AF, Salisbury JL, Benkovic SA, Kashon ML, Lowry DT, Murray AR, Kisin ER, Friend S, McKinstry KT, Battelli L, Reynolds SH. Induction of aneuploidy by single-walled carbon nanotubes. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2009; 50:708-17. [PMID: 19774611 DOI: 10.1002/em.20529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Engineered carbon nanotubes are newly emerging manufactured particles with potential applications in electronics, computers, aerospace, and medicine. The low density and small size of these biologically persistent particles makes respiratory exposures to workers likely during the production or use of commercial products. The narrow diameter and great length of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) suggest the potential to interact with critical biological structures. To examine the potential of nanotubes to induce genetic damage in normal lung cells, cultured primary and immortalized human airway epithelial cells were exposed to SWCNT or a positive control, vanadium pentoxide. After 24 hr of exposure to either SWCNT or vanadium pentoxide, fragmented centrosomes, multiple mitotic spindle poles, anaphase bridges, and aneuploid chromosome number were observed. Confocal microscopy demonstrated nanotubes within the nucleus that were in association with cellular and mitotic tubulin as well as the chromatin. Our results are the first to report disruption of the mitotic spindle by SWCNT. The nanotube bundles are similar to the size of microtubules that form the mitotic spindle and may be incorporated into the mitotic spindle apparatus.
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- L M Sargent
- Toxicology and Molecular Biology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA.
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Schatten H, Sun QY. The functional significance of centrosomes in mammalian meiosis, fertilization, development, nuclear transfer, and stem cell differentiation. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2009; 50:620-636. [PMID: 19402157 DOI: 10.1002/em.20493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Centrosomes had been discovered in germ cells and germ cells continue to provide excellent but also challenging material in which to study complex centrosomal dynamics. The present review highlights the importance of centrosomes for meiotic spindle integrity and the susceptibility of meiotic spindle centrosomes to aging and drugs or toxic agents which may be associated with female infertility, aneuploidy, and developmental abnormalities. We discuss cell and molecular aspects of centrosomes during fertilization, a critical stage in which centrosomes play crucial roles in precisely organizing the sperm aster that allows apposition of male and female genomes followed by formation of the zygote aster that is important for the formation of the bipolar spindle apparatus during cell division. Development of an embryo involves sequential cell divisions in which centrosomes play a critical role in establishing asymmetry that allows differentiation of cells and targeted signal transductions for the developing embryo. Asymmetric centrosome dynamics are also critical for stem cell division to maintain one daughter cell as a stem cell while the other daughter cell undergoes centrosome growth in preparation for differentiation. This review also discusses the complex interactions of somatic cell centrosomes with the recipient oocyte in reconstructed (cloned) embryos in which centrosome remodeling is crucial to fulfill functions that are carried out by the zygote centrosome in fertilized eggs. We close our discussion with a look at centrosome dysfunctions and implications for male fertility and assisted reproduction.
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- Heide Schatten
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, 1600 E Rollins Street, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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The cilium is a characteristic organelle of eukaryotes constructed from over 600 proteins. Bacterial flagella are entirely different. 9 + 2 motile cilia evolved before the divergence of the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA). This chapter explores, compares, and contrasts two potential pathways of evolution: (1) via invasion of a centriolar-like virus and (2) via autogenous formation from a pre-existing microtubule-organizing center (MTOC). In either case, the intraflagellar transport (IFT) machinery that is nearly universally required for the assembly and maintenance of cilia derived from the evolving intracellular vesicular transport system. The sensory function of cilia evolved first and the ciliary axoneme evolved gradually with ciliary motility, an important selection mechanism, as one of the driving forces.
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- Peter Satir
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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