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Fabbrizi MR, Nickson CM, Hughes JR, Robinson EA, Vaidya K, Rubbi CP, Kacperek A, Bryant HE, Helleday T, Parsons JL. Targeting OGG1 and PARG radiosensitises head and neck cancer cells to high-LET protons through complex DNA damage persistence. Cell Death Dis 2024; 15:150. [PMID: 38368415 PMCID: PMC10874437 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-024-06541-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/19/2024]
Abstract
Complex DNA damage (CDD), containing two or more DNA lesions within one or two DNA helical turns, is a signature of ionising radiation (IR) and contributes significantly to the therapeutic effect through cell killing. The levels and complexity of CDD increases with linear energy transfer (LET), however, the specific cellular response to this type of DNA damage and the critical proteins essential for repair of CDD is currently unclear. We performed an siRNA screen of ~240 DNA damage response proteins to identify those specifically involved in controlling cell survival in response to high-LET protons at the Bragg peak, compared to low-LET entrance dose protons which differ in the amount of CDD produced. From this, we subsequently validated that depletion of 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (OGG1) and poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (PARG) in HeLa and head and neck cancer cells leads to significantly increased cellular radiosensitivity specifically following high-LET protons, whilst no effect was observed after low-LET protons and X-rays. We subsequently confirmed that OGG1 and PARG are both required for efficient CDD repair post-irradiation with high-LET protons. Importantly, these results were also recapitulated using specific inhibitors for OGG1 (TH5487) and PARG (PDD00017273). Our results suggest OGG1 and PARG play a fundamental role in the cellular response to CDD and indicate that targeting these enzymes could represent a promising therapeutic strategy for the treatment of head and neck cancers following high-LET radiation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maria Rita Fabbrizi
- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L7 8TX, UK
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L7 8TX, UK
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Medical School, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, L39 4QP, UK
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- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Clatterbridge Road, Bebington, CH63 4JY, UK
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- Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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Toto NA, Malak M, Kheirallah N, Eldrieny AM, El-Samad LM, Giesy JP, El Wakil A. Eco-friendly postharvest irradiation strategy with 131I isotope for environmental management of populations of migratory locust, Locusta migratoria. Int J Radiat Biol 2023; 99:1978-1989. [PMID: 37382969 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2023.2232033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE Irradiation of food is promising for control of pests to minimize postharvest losses of yields and thus improvement of food safety, shelf life of produce. It is a method of choice that induces a series of lethal biochemical and molecular changes culminating into the engagement of a downstream cascade to cause abnormalities in irradiated pests. In this study, the effects of iodine-131 (131I) isotope radiation on the male gonad development of the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, were evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Newly emerged adult male locusts, less than one-day-old, were divided into two groups, control and irradiated. Locusts in the control group (n = 20 insects) didn't drink irradiated water and were reared under normal environmental conditions for one week. Locusts in the irradiated group (n = 20 insects) were exposed to irradiated water at a dose of 30 mCi and they were subsequently observed until they drank the whole quantity. RESULTS At the end of the experiment, scanning and electron microscopic examination of testes obtained from irradiated locusts revealed several major abnormalities, including malformed nuclei of spermatozoa, irregular plasma membranes, shrinkage of testicular follicles, vacuolated cytoplasm, disintegrated nebenkern and agglutinations of spermatids. Flow cytometry analysis revealed that 131I radiation induced both early and late apoptosis, but not necrosis, in testicular tissues. Testes of irradiated insects also exhibited a burst in reactive oxygen species (ROS), as indicated by significant elevation in amounts of malondialdehyde (MDA), a marker for peroxidation of lipids. In contrast, irradiation coincided with significant reductions in activities of enzymatic antioxidant biomarkers. Relative to controls, a three-fold upregulation of expression of mRNA of heat shock protein, Hsp90, was observed in testicular tissue of irradiated locusts. 131I-irradiated insects exhibited genotoxicity, as indicated by significant increases in various indicators of DNA damage by the comet assay, including tail length (7.80 ± 0.80 µm; p < .01), olive tail moment (40.37 ± 8.08; p < .01) and tail DNA intensity % (5.1 ± 0.51; p < .01), in testicular cells compared to the controls. CONCLUSION This is the first report on elucidation of I131-irradiation-mediated histopathological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms in gonads of male L. migratoria. Herein, the findings underscore the utility of 131I radiation as an eco-friendly postharvest strategy for management of insect pests and in particular for control of populations of L. migratoria.
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- Noura A Toto
- Department of Zoology, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt
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- Department of Biological and Geological Sciences, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging Technology, Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
- Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological and Geological Sciences, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Barbé L, Lam S, Holub A, Faghihmonzavi Z, Deng M, Iyer R, Finkbeiner S. AutoComet: A fully automated algorithm to quickly and accurately analyze comet assays. Redox Biol 2023; 62:102680. [PMID: 37001328 PMCID: PMC10090439 DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102680] [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: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023] Open
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DNA damage is a common cellular feature seen in cancer and neurodegenerative disease, but fast and accurate methods for quantifying DNA damage are lacking. Comet assays are a biochemical tool to measure DNA damage based on the migration of broken DNA strands towards a positive electrode, which creates a quantifiable 'tail' behind the cell. However, a major limitation of this approach is the time needed for analysis of comets in the images with available open-source algorithms. The requirement for manual curation and the laborious pre- and post-processing steps can take hours to days. To overcome these limitations, we developed AutoComet, a new open-source algorithm for comet analysis that utilizes automated comet segmentation and quantification of tail parameters. AutoComet first segments and filters comets based on size and intensity and then filters out comets without a well-connected head and tail, which significantly increases segmentation accuracy. Because AutoComet is fully automated, it minimizes curator bias and is scalable, decreasing analysis time over ten-fold, to less than 3 s per comet. AutoComet successfully detected statistically significant differences in tail parameters between cells with and without induced DNA damage, and was more comparable to the results of manual curation than other open-source software analysis programs. We conclude that the AutoComet algorithm provides a fast, unbiased and accurate method to quantify DNA damage that avoids the inherent limitations of manual curation and will significantly improve the ability to detect DNA damage.
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- Lise Barbé
- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Center for Systems and Therapeutics, Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA; Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
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Wilkinson B, Hill MA, Parsons JL. The Cellular Response to Complex DNA Damage Induced by Ionising Radiation. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:4920. [PMID: 36902352 PMCID: PMC10003081 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Radiotherapy (ionising radiation; IR) is utilised in the treatment of ~50% of all human cancers, and where the therapeutic effect is largely achieved through DNA damage induction. In particular, complex DNA damage (CDD) containing two or more lesions within one to two helical turns of the DNA is a signature of IR and contributes significantly to the cell killing effects due to the difficult nature of its repair by the cellular DNA repair machinery. The levels and complexity of CDD increase with increasing ionisation density (linear energy transfer, LET) of the IR, such that photon (X-ray) radiotherapy is deemed low-LET whereas some particle ions (such as carbon ions) are high-LET radiotherapy. Despite this knowledge, there are challenges in the detection and quantitative measurement of IR-induced CDD in cells and tissues. Furthermore, there are biological uncertainties with the specific DNA repair proteins and pathways, including components of DNA single and double strand break mechanisms, that are engaged in CDD repair, which very much depends on the radiation type and associated LET. However, there are promising signs that advancements are being made in these areas and which will enhance our understanding of the cellular response to CDD induced by IR. There is also evidence that targeting CDD repair, particularly through inhibitors against selected DNA repair enzymes, can exacerbate the impact of higher LET, which could be explored further in a translational context.
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- Beth Wilkinson
- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, 6 West Derby Street, Liverpool L7 8TX, UK
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- MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Nickson CM, Fabbrizi MR, Carter RJ, Hughes JR, Kacperek A, Hill MA, Parsons JL. USP9X Is Required to Maintain Cell Survival in Response to High-LET Radiation. Front Oncol 2021; 11:671431. [PMID: 34277417 PMCID: PMC8281306 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.671431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Ionizing radiation (IR) principally acts through induction of DNA damage that promotes cell death, although the biological effects of IR are more broad ranging. In fact, the impact of IR of higher-linear energy transfer (LET) on cell biology is generally not well understood. Critically, therefore, the cellular enzymes and mechanisms responsible for enhancing cell survival following high-LET IR are unclear. To this effect, we have recently performed siRNA screening to identify deubiquitylating enzymes that control cell survival specifically in response to high-LET α-particles and protons, in comparison to low-LET X-rays and protons. From this screening, we have now thoroughly validated that depletion of the ubiquitin-specific protease 9X (USP9X) in HeLa and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (UMSCC74A) cells using small interfering RNA (siRNA), leads to significantly decreased survival of cells after high-LET radiation. We consequently investigated the mechanism through which this occurs, and demonstrate that an absence of USP9X has no impact on DNA damage repair post-irradiation nor on apoptosis, autophagy, or senescence. We discovered that USP9X is required to stabilize key proteins (CEP55 and CEP131) involved in centrosome and cilia formation and plays an important role in controlling pericentrin-rich foci, particularly in response to high-LET protons. This was also confirmed directly by demonstrating that depletion of CEP55/CEP131 led to both enhanced radiosensitivity of cells to high-LET protons and amplification of pericentrin-rich foci. Our evidence supports the importance of USP9X in maintaining centrosome function and biogenesis and which is crucial particularly in the cellular response to high-LET radiation.
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- Catherine M. Nickson
- Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Bebington, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, University of Oxford, Gray Laboratories, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Cancer Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Bebington, United Kingdom
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