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Cosper PF, Copeland SE, Tucker JB, Weaver BA. Chromosome Missegregation as a Modulator of Radiation Sensitivity. Semin Radiat Oncol 2022; 32:54-63. [PMID: 34861996 PMCID: PMC8883596 DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2021.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Chromosome missegregation over the course of multiple cell divisions, termed chromosomal instability (CIN), is a hallmark of cancer. Multiple causes of CIN have been identified, including defects in the mitotic checkpoint, altered kinetochore-microtubule dynamics, centrosome amplification, and ionizing radiation. Here we review the types, mechanisms, and cellular implications of CIN. We discuss the evidence that CIN can promote tumors, suppress them, or do neither, depending on the rates of chromosome missegregration and the cellular context. Very high rates of chromosome missegregation lead to cell death due to loss of essential chromosomes; thus elevating CIN above a tolerable threshold provides a mechanistic opportunity to promote cancer cell death. Lethal rates of CIN can be achieved by a single insult or through a combination of insults. Because ionizing radiation induces CIN, additional therapies that increase CIN may serve as useful modulators of radiation sensitivity. Ultimately, quantifying the intrinsic CIN in a tumor and modulating this level pharmacologically as well as with radiation may allow for a more rational, personalized radiation therapy prescription, thereby decreasing side effects and increasing local control.
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- Pippa F. Cosper
- Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA,University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology Graduate Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- Cancer Biology Graduate Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA,Department of Cellular and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA,Department of Oncology/McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA,Corresponding author: Beth A. Weaver, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1111 Highland Ave, 6109 WIMR Tower 1, Madison, WI 53705-2275, Phone: 608-263-5309, Fax: 608-265-6905,
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Funk LC, Wan J, Ryan SD, Kaur C, Sullivan R, Roopra A, Weaver BA. p53 Is Not Required for High CIN to Induce Tumor Suppression. Mol Cancer Res 2021; 19:112-123. [PMID: 32948674 PMCID: PMC7810023 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-20-0488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 09/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of cancer. While low levels of CIN can be tumor promoting, high levels of CIN cause cell death and tumor suppression. The widely used chemotherapeutic, paclitaxel (Taxol), exerts its anticancer effects by increasing CIN above a maximally tolerated threshold. One significant outstanding question is whether the p53 tumor suppressor is required for the cell death and tumor suppression caused by high CIN. Both p53 loss and reduction of the mitotic kinesin, centromere-associated protein-E, cause low CIN. Combining both genetic insults in the same cell leads to high CIN. Here, we test whether high CIN causes cell death and tumor suppression even in the absence p53. Despite a surprising sex-specific difference in tumor spectrum and latency in p53 heterozygous animals, these studies demonstrate that p53 is not required for high CIN to induce tumor suppression. Pharmacologic induction of high CIN results in equivalent levels of cell death due to loss of essential chromosomes in p53+/+ and p53-/- cells, further demonstrating that high CIN elicits cell death independently of p53 function. IMPLICATIONS: These results provide support for the efficacy of anticancer therapies that induce high CIN, even in tumors that lack functional p53.
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- Laura C Funk
- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
- Department of Comparative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
- Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
- Department of Oncology/McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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Curtis NL, Ruda GF, Brennan P, Bolanos-Garcia VM. Deregulation of Chromosome Segregation and Cancer. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CANCER BIOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-cancerbio-030419-033541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The mitotic spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) is an intricate cell signaling system that ensures the high fidelity and timely segregation of chromosomes during cell division. Mistakes in this process can lead to the loss, gain, or rearrangement of the genetic material. Gross chromosomal aberrations are usually lethal but can cause birth and development defects as well as cancer. Despite advances in the identification of SAC protein components, important details of the interactions underpinning chromosome segregation regulation remain to be established. This review discusses the current understanding of the function, structure, mode of regulation, and dynamics of the assembly and disassembly of SAC subcomplexes, which ultimately safeguard the accurate transmission of a stable genome to descendants. We also discuss how diverse oncoviruses take control of human cell division by exploiting the SAC and the potential of this signaling circuitry as a pool of drug targets to develop effective cancer therapies.
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- Natalie L. Curtis
- Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
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- Target Discovery Institute and Structural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom
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- Target Discovery Institute and Structural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
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Hojo MA, Masuda K, Hojo H, Nagahata Y, Yasuda K, Ohara D, Takeuchi Y, Hirota K, Suzuki Y, Kawamoto H, Kawaoka S. Identification of a genomic enhancer that enforces proper apoptosis induction in thymic negative selection. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2603. [PMID: 31197149 PMCID: PMC6565714 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10525-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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During thymic negative selection, autoreactive thymocytes carrying T cell receptor (TCR) with overtly strong affinity to self-MHC/self-peptide are removed by Bim-dependent apoptosis, but how Bim is specifically regulated to link TCR activation and apoptosis induction is unclear. Here we identify a murine T cell-specific genomic enhancer EBAB (Bub1-Acoxl-Bim), whose deletion leads to accumulation of thymocytes expressing high affinity TCRs. Consistently, EBAB knockout mice have defective negative selection and fail to delete autoreactive thymocytes in various settings, with this defect accompanied by reduced Bim expression and apoptosis induction. By contrast, EBAB is dispensable for maintaining peripheral T cell homeostasis via Bim-dependent pathways. Our data thus implicate EBAB as an important, developmental stage-specific regulator of Bim expression and apoptosis induction to enforce thymic negative selection and suppress autoimmunity. Our study unravels a part of genomic enhancer codes that underlie complex and context-dependent gene regulation in TCR signaling.
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- Miki Arai Hojo
- Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan
- The Thomas N. Sato BioMEC-X Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan
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- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- The Thomas N. Sato BioMEC-X Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan
- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
- ERATO Sato Live Bio-forecasting Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan
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- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan
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- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
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- The Thomas N. Sato BioMEC-X Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan.
- Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan.
- ERATO Sato Live Bio-forecasting Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan.
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Zasadil LM, Britigan EMC, Ryan SD, Kaur C, Guckenberger DJ, Beebe DJ, Moser AR, Weaver BA. High rates of chromosome missegregation suppress tumor progression but do not inhibit tumor initiation. Mol Biol Cell 2016; 27:1981-9. [PMID: 27146113 PMCID: PMC4927272 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e15-10-0747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 04/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Aneuploidy, an abnormal chromosome number that deviates from a multiple of the haploid, has been recognized as a common feature of cancers for >100 yr. Previously, we showed that the rate of chromosome missegregation/chromosomal instability (CIN) determines the effect of aneuploidy on tumors; whereas low rates of CIN are weakly tumor promoting, higher rates of CIN cause cell death and tumor suppression. However, whether high CIN inhibits tumor initiation or suppresses the growth and progression of already initiated tumors remained unclear. We tested this using the Apc(Min/+) mouse intestinal tumor model, in which effects on tumor initiation versus progression can be discriminated. Apc(Min/+) cells exhibit low CIN, and we generated high CIN by reducing expression of the kinesin-like mitotic motor protein CENP-E. CENP-E(+/-);Apc(Min/+) doubly heterozygous cells had higher rates of chromosome missegregation than singly heterozygous cells, resulting in increased cell death and a substantial reduction in tumor progression compared with Apc(Min/+) animals. Intestinal organoid studies confirmed that high CIN does not inhibit tumor cell initiation but does inhibit subsequent cell growth. These findings support the conclusion that increasing the rate of chromosome missegregation could serve as a successful chemotherapeutic strategy.
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- Lauren M Zasadil
- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705 Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705 Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705 Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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- Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705 Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705 Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705
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Aneuploidy, an aberrant number of chromosomes, has been recognized as a feature of human malignancies for over a century, but compelling evidence for causality was largely lacking until mouse models for chromosome number instability were used. These in vivo studies have not only uncovered important new insights into the extremely complex aneuploidy-cancer relationship but also into the molecular mechanisms underlying proper and aberrant chromosome segregation. A series of diverse mouse models for the mitotic checkpoint protein BubR1 has provided evidence for a provocative novel link between aneuploidization and the development of age-related pathologies.
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- Robin M Ricke
- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Zasadil LM, Britigan EMC, Weaver BA. 2n or not 2n: Aneuploidy, polyploidy and chromosomal instability in primary and tumor cells. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2013; 24:370-9. [PMID: 23416057 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2013.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2012] [Revised: 01/28/2013] [Accepted: 02/06/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Mitotic defects leading to aneuploidy have been recognized as a hallmark of tumor cells for over 100 years. Current data indicate that ∼85% of human cancers have missegregated chromosomes to become aneuploid. Some maintain a stable aneuploid karyotype, while others consistently missegregate chromosomes over multiple divisions due to chromosomal instability (CIN). Both aneuploidy and CIN serve as markers of poor prognosis in diverse human cancers. Despite this, aneuploidy is generally incompatible with viability during development, and some aneuploid karyotypes cause a proliferative disadvantage in somatic cells. In vivo, the intentional introduction of aneuploidy can promote tumors, suppress them, or do neither. Here, we summarize current knowledge of the effects of aneuploidy and CIN on proliferation and cell death in nontransformed cells, as well as on tumor promotion, suppression, and prognosis.
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- Lauren M Zasadil
- Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
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Schliekelman M, Cowley DO, O'Quinn R, Oliver TG, Lu L, Salmon ED, Van Dyke T. Impaired Bub1 function in vivo compromises tension-dependent checkpoint function leading to aneuploidy and tumorigenesis. Cancer Res 2009; 69:45-54. [PMID: 19117986 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-07-6330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bub1 is a serine/threonine kinase originally described as a core component of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) mechanism in yeast. Bub1 binding at kinetochores has been reported to be required for SAC function and localization of other SAC components. A proper SAC is believed to be essential for murine embryonic development, as all previously described null mutations in SAC components in mice cause embryonic lethality. We produced mice harboring a Bub1 mutant allele lacking exons 2 and 3, resulting in a hypomorphic mutant expressed at <5% of wild-type levels. Despite this significant reduction, homozygous mutant animals are viable on a mixed 129P2/B6 or FVB background but display increased tumorigenesis with aging, whereas mice with a C57Bl/6J background die perinatally. Bub1 mutant murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) display defects in chromosome congression to the metaphase plate, severe chromosome missegregation, and aneuploidy accompanied by high levels of premature senescence. Mutant MEFs have a robust SAC in response to nocodazole treatment but an impaired response to Taxol. Mutant MEFs also show reduced kinetochore localization of BubR1, but not of Mad2. The significant reduction in SAC response to Taxol, but not nocodazole, coupled with the reduced binding of BubR1, but not Mad2, indicates that Bub1 is particularly critical for the SAC response to a lack of tension on kinetochores. Thus, Bub1 is essential for proper chromosome segregation, a defect that can lead to severe phenotypes, including perinatal lethality and a predisposition to cancer.
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- Mark Schliekelman
- Curriculum in Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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Niikura Y, Dixit A, Scott R, Perkins G, Kitagawa K. BUB1 mediation of caspase-independent mitotic death determines cell fate. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 178:283-96. [PMID: 17620410 PMCID: PMC2064447 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200702134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The spindle checkpoint that monitors kinetochore–microtubule attachment has been implicated in tumorigenesis; however, the relation between the spindle checkpoint and cell death remains obscure. In BUB1-deficient (but not MAD2-deficient) cells, conditions that activate the spindle checkpoint (i.e., cold shock or treatment with nocodazole, paclitaxel, or 17-AAG) induced DNA fragmentation during early mitosis. This mitotic cell death was independent of caspase activation; therefore, we named it caspase-independent mitotic death (CIMD). CIMD depends on p73, a homologue of p53, but not on p53. CIMD also depends on apoptosis-inducing factor and endonuclease G, which are effectors of caspase-independent cell death. Treatment with nocodazole, paclitaxel, or 17-AAG induced CIMD in cell lines derived from colon tumors with chromosome instability, but not in cells from colon tumors with microsatellite instability. This result was due to low BUB1 expression in the former cell lines. When BUB1 is completely depleted, aneuploidy rather than CIMD occurs. These results suggest that cells prone to substantial chromosome missegregation might be eliminated via CIMD.
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- Yohei Niikura
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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Zhang T, Stilwell JL, Gerion D, Ding L, Elboudwarej O, Cooke PA, Gray JW, Alivisatos AP, Chen FF. Cellular effect of high doses of silica-coated quantum dot profiled with high throughput gene expression analysis and high content cellomics measurements. NANO LETTERS 2006; 6:800-8. [PMID: 16608287 PMCID: PMC2730586 DOI: 10.1021/nl0603350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Quantum dots (Qdots) are now used extensively for labeling in biomedical research, and this use is predicted to grow because of their many advantages over alternative labeling methods. Uncoated Qdots made of core/shell CdSe/ZnS are toxic to cells because of the release of Cd2+ ions into the cellular environment. This problem has been partially overcome by coating Qdots with polymers, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), or other inert molecules. The most promising coating to date, for reducing toxicity, appears to be PEG. When PEG-coated silanized Qdots (PEG-silane-Qdots) are used to treat cells, toxicity is not observed, even at dosages above 10-20 nM, a concentration inducing death when cells are treated with polymer or mercaptoacid coated Qdots. Because of the importance of Qdots in current and future biomedical and clinical applications, we believe it is essential to more completely understand and verify this negative global response from cells treated with PEG-silane-Qdots. Consequently, we examined the molecular and cellular response of cells treated with two different dosages of PEG-silane-Qdots. Human fibroblasts were exposed to 8 and 80 nM of these Qdots, and both phenotypic as well as whole genome expression measurements were made. PEG-silane-Qdots did not induce any statistically significant cell cycle changes and minimal apoptosis/necrosis in lung fibroblasts (IMR-90) as measured by high content image analysis, regardless of the treatment dosage. A slight increase in apoptosis/necrosis was observed in treated human skin fibroblasts (HSF-42) at both the low and the high dosages. We performed genome-wide expression array analysis of HSF-42 exposed to doses 8 and 80 nM to link the global cell response to a molecular and genetic phenotype. We used a gene array containing approximately 22,000 total probe sets, containing 18,400 probe sets from known genes. Only approximately 50 genes (approximately 0.2% of all the genes tested) exhibited a statistically significant change in expression level of greater than 2-fold. Genes activated in treated cells included those involved in carbohydrate binding, intracellular vesicle formation, and cellular response to stress. Conversely, PEG-silane-Qdots induce a down-regulation of genes involved in controlling the M-phase progression of mitosis, spindle formation, and cytokinesis. Promoter analysis of these results reveals that expression changes may be attributed to the down-regulation of FOXM and BHLB2 transcription factors. Remarkably, PEG-silane-Qdots, unlike carbon nanotubes, do not activate genes indicative of a strong immune and inflammatory response or heavy-metal-related toxicity. The experimental evidence shows that CdSe/ZnS Qdots, if appropriately protected, induce negligible toxicity to the model cell system studied here, even when exposed to high dosages. This study indicates that PEG-coated silanized Qdots pose minimal impact to cells and are a very promising alternative to uncoated Qdots.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Life Sciences Division, Lawrence, Berkley National Laboratory, MS 977R0225A, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720. Phone: (510) 495-2444. FAX: (510) 486-5586. E-mail:
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