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Hsp90-associated DNA replication checkpoint protein and proteasome-subunit components are involved in the age-related macular degeneration. Chin Med J (Engl) 2021; 134:2322-2332. [PMID: 34629418 PMCID: PMC8510006 DOI: 10.1097/cm9.0000000000001773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Background: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss worldwide. However, the mechanisms involved in the development and progression of AMD are poorly delineated. We aimed to explore the critical genes involved in the progression of AMD. Methods: The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in AMD retinal pigment epithelial (RPE)/choroid tissues were identified using the microarray datasets GSE99248 and GSE125564, which were downloaded from the gene expression omnibus database. The overlapping DEGs from the two datasets were screened to identify DEG-related biological pathways using gene ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes enrichment analyses. The hub genes were identified from these DEGs through protein-protein interaction network analyses. The expression levels of hub genes were evaluated by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction following the induction of senescence in ARPE-19 with FK866. Following the identification of AMD-related key genes, the potential small molecule compounds targeting the key genes were predicted by PharmacoDB. Finally, a microRNA-gene interaction network was constructed. Results: Microarray analyses identified 174 DEGs in the AMD RPE compared to the healthy RPE samples. These DEGs were primarily enriched in the pathways involved in the regulation of DNA replication, cell cycle, and proteasome-mediated protein polyubiquitination. Among the top ten hub genes, HSP90AA1, CHEK1, PSMA4, PSMD4, and PSMD8 were upregulated in the senescent ARPE-19 cells. Additionally, the drugs targeting HSP90AA1, CHEK1, and PSMA4 were identified. We hypothesize that Hsa-miR-16-5p might target four out of the five key DEGs in the AMD RPE. Conclusions: Based on our findings, HSP90AA1 is likely to be a central gene controlling the DNA replication and proteasome-mediated polyubiquitination during the RPE senescence observed in the progression of AMD. Targeting HSP90AA1, CHEK1, PSMA4, PSMD4, and/or PSMD8 genes through specific miRNAs or small molecules might potentially alleviate the progression of AMD through attenuating RPE senescence.
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Active Replication Checkpoint Drives Genome Instability in Fission Yeast mcm4 Mutant. Mol Cell Biol 2020; 40:MCB.00033-20. [PMID: 32341083 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00033-20] [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: 01/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Upon replication fork arrest, the replication checkpoint kinase Cds1 is stimulated to preserve genome integrity. Robust activation of Cds1 in response to hydroxyurea prevents the endonuclease Mus81 from cleaving the stalled replication fork inappropriately. However, we find that the response is different in temperature-sensitive mcm4 mutants, affecting a subunit of the MCM replicative helicase. We show that Cds1 inhibition of Mus81 promotes genomic instability and allows mcm4-dg cells to evade cell cycle arrest. Cds1 regulation of Mus81 activity also contributes to the formation of the replication stress-induced DNA damage markers replication protein A (RPA) and Ku. These results identify a surprising role for Cds1 in driving DNA damage and disrupted chromosomal segregation under certain conditions of replication stress.
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Ahmed Ezzat H, Price C. Characterisation of unessential genes required for survival under conditions of DNA stress. J Genet Eng Biotechnol 2020; 18:14. [PMID: 32372157 PMCID: PMC7201005 DOI: 10.1186/s43141-020-00025-x] [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: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND Genomic instability is a hallmark of cancer. Cancer progression depends on the development and amplification of mutations that alter the cellular response to threats to the genome. This can lead to DNA replication stress and the potential loss of genetic integrity of the newly formed cells. This study utilised fission yeast to map the interactions occurring in some of the most crucial pathways in both DNA replication and checkpoint monitoring involving Rad4, the Schizosaccharomyces pombe (S. pombe) TopBP1 homologue. We have modelled conditions of replication stress in the genetically tractable fission yeast, S. pombe using the hypomorphic rad4-116 allele. Synthetic genetic analysis was used to identify processes required for cell survival under conditions of DNA replication stress. With the aim of mapping the genetic interactions of rad4 and its mutant allele, rad4-116, several genes that could have an interaction with rad4 during replication stress have emerged as attractive. RESULTS Interactions with genes involved in chromatin remodelling, such as hip1, and replication fork stalling resolution, such as mrc1, swi1 and swi3 were explored and confirmed. The interactions of Rad4 with each of the genes provided separate and distinct tumour formation pathways, as evident in the synthetically lethal interactions. Even within the same complex, rad4-116 double mutants behaved differently proving that Rad4 interacts at different levels and functions with the same proteins. CONCLUSION Results from this study provide a novel view of the rad4 interactions, the association of Rad4 with the replisome. The study also provides the groundwork on a theoretical and practical level for the exploration and separation of interactions of TopBP1 with the histone chaperone family and the replisome.
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- Hassan Ahmed Ezzat
- Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
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- Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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Zhong A, Zheng H, Zhang H, Sun J, Shen J, Deng M, Chen M, Lu R, Guo L. MUS81 Inhibition Increases the Sensitivity to Therapy Effect in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer via Regulating CyclinB Pathway. J Cancer 2019; 10:2276-2287. [PMID: 31258731 PMCID: PMC6584407 DOI: 10.7150/jca.30818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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MUS81 is a key endonuclease involved in homologous recombination (HR) repair after DNA double-strand damage. Structure-specific endonucleases (SSEs) plays a crucial role in DNA replication, repair and transcription, and SSEs are also important for maintaining the secondary structure of DNA; therefore, their activity must be precisely controlled to ensure genome stability. We previously described that MUS81 expression was significantly correlated with CyclinB expression based on protein microarray analysis. CyclinB is a cell-cycle regulatory protein that has been shown to be involved in the activation of DNA damage repair checkpoints by inducing G2/M phase arrest, promoting apoptosis, and participating in the regulation of chemotherapeutic drug sensitivity by inducing nuclear degradation, as shown by immunofluorescence assays. In this study, MUS81-downregulated cells were generated using lentivirus-mediated RNAi. Our results demonstrated that the inhibition of MUS81 expression activated the CHK1 and CyclinB signaling pathways and sensitized ovarian cancer cells to X-ray and Olaparib treatment both in vitro and in vivo. MUS81 may be a potential therapeutic target for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).
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- Ailing Zhong
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.,Department of Oncology, Shanghai, Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.,Department of Oncology, Shanghai, Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.,Department of Oncology, Shanghai, Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Coulton N, Caspari T. The kinase domain residue serine 173 of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Chk1 kinase is critical for the response to DNA replication stress. Biol Open 2017; 6:1840-1850. [PMID: 29092815 PMCID: PMC5769658 DOI: 10.1242/bio.029272] [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] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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While mammalian Chk1 kinase regulates replication origins, safeguards fork integrity and promotes fork progression, yeast Chk1 acts only in G1 and G2. We report here that the mutation of serine 173 (S173A) in the kinase domain of fission yeast Chk1 abolishes the G1-M and S-M checkpoints with little impact on the G2-M arrest. This separation-of-function mutation strongly reduces the Rad3-dependent phosphorylation of Chk1 at serine 345 during logarithmic growth, but not when cells experience exogenous DNA damage. Loss of S173 lowers the restrictive temperature of a catalytic DNA polymerase epsilon mutant (cdc20.M10) and is epistatic with a mutation in DNA polymerase delta (cdc6.23) when DNA is alkylated by methyl-methanesulfate (MMS). The chk1-S173A allele is uniquely sensitive to high MMS concentrations where it displays a partial checkpoint defect. A complete checkpoint defect occurs only when DNA replication forks break in cells without the intra-S phase checkpoint kinase Cds1. Chk1-S173A is also unable to block mitosis when the G1 transcription factor Cdc10 (cdc10.V50) is impaired. We conclude that serine 173, which is equivalent to lysine 166 in the activation loop of human Chk1, is only critical in DNA polymerase mutants or when forks collapse in the absence of Cds1. Summary: Mutation of serine-173 in the kinase domain of Chk1 increases genomic instability as it abolishes the response to DNA lesions that arise while chromosomes are being copied.
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- Naomi Coulton
- Genome Biology Group, Bangor University, School of Medical Sciences, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
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- Genome Biology Group, Bangor University, School of Medical Sciences, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK .,Postgraduate School, Paracelsus Medical University, Strubergasse 21, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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Arnould S, Rodier G, Matar G, Vincent C, Pirot N, Delorme Y, Berthet C, Buscail Y, Noël JY, Lachambre S, Jarlier M, Bernex F, Delpech H, Vidalain PO, Janin YL, Theillet C, Sardet C. Checkpoint kinase 1 inhibition sensitises transformed cells to dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibition. Oncotarget 2017; 8:95206-95222. [PMID: 29221122 PMCID: PMC5707016 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.19199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Reduction in nucleotide pools through the inhibition of mitochondrial enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) has been demonstrated to effectively reduce cancer cell proliferation and tumour growth. The current study sought to investigate whether this antiproliferative effect could be enhanced by combining Chk1 kinase inhibition. The pharmacological activity of DHODH inhibitor teriflunomide was more selective towards transformed mouse embryonic fibroblasts than their primary or immortalised counterparts, and this effect was amplified when cells were subsequently exposed to PF477736 Chk1 inhibitor. Flow cytometry analyses revealed substantial accumulations of cells in S and G2/M phases, followed by increased cytotoxicity which was characterised by caspase 3-dependent induction of cell death. Associating PF477736 with teriflunomide also significantly sensitised SUM159 and HCC1937 human triple negative breast cancer cell lines to dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibition. The main characteristic of this effect was the sustained accumulation of teriflunomide-induced DNA damage as cells displayed increased phospho serine 139 H2AX (γH2AX) levels and concentration-dependent phosphorylation of Chk1 on serine 345 upon exposure to the combination as compared with either inhibitor alone. Importantly a similar significant increase in cell death was observed upon dual siRNA mediated depletion of Chk1 and DHODH in both murine and human cancer cell models. Altogether these results suggest that combining DHODH and Chk1 inhibitions may be a strategy worth considering as a potential alternative to conventional chemotherapies.
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- Stéphanie Arnould
- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Réseau d'Histologie Expérimentale de Montpellier, BioCampus, UMS3426 CNRS-US009 INSERM-UM, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Réseau d'Histologie Expérimentale de Montpellier, BioCampus, UMS3426 CNRS-US009 INSERM-UM, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Réseau d'Histologie Expérimentale de Montpellier, BioCampus, UMS3426 CNRS-US009 INSERM-UM, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Réseau d'Histologie Expérimentale de Montpellier, BioCampus, UMS3426 CNRS-US009 INSERM-UM, Montpellier, France
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- Montpellier RIO Imaging, BioCampus, UMS3426 CNRS-US009 INSERM-UM, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Réseau d'Histologie Expérimentale de Montpellier, BioCampus, UMS3426 CNRS-US009 INSERM-UM, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques, Equipe Chimie and Biologie, Modélisation et Immunologie pour la Thérapie, CNRS UMR 8601 CNRS-Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Chimie et Biocatalyse, CNRS UMR3523, Paris, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- INSERM U1194, Montpellier, France
- Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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The drinking water contaminant dibromoacetonitrile delays G1-S transition and suppresses Chk1 activation at broken replication forks. Sci Rep 2017; 7:12730. [PMID: 28986587 PMCID: PMC5630572 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13033-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Chlorination of drinking water protects humans from water-born pathogens, but it also produces low concentrations of dibromoacetonitrile (DBAN), a common disinfectant by-product found in many water supply systems. DBAN is not mutagenic but causes DNA breaks and elevates sister chromatid exchange in mammalian cells. The WHO issued guidelines for DBAN after it was linked with cancer of the liver and stomach in rodents. How this haloacetonitrile promotes malignant cell transformation is unknown. Using fission yeast as a model, we report here that DBAN delays G1-S transition. DBAN does not hinder ongoing DNA replication, but specifically blocks the serine 345 phosphorylation of the DNA damage checkpoint kinase Chk1 by Rad3 (ATR) at broken replication forks. DBAN is particularly damaging for cells with defects in the lagging-strand DNA polymerase delta. This sensitivity can be explained by the dependency of pol delta mutants on Chk1 activation for survival. We conclude that DBAN targets a process or protein that acts at the start of S phase and is required for Chk1 phosphorylation. Taken together, DBAN may precipitate cancer by perturbing S phase and by blocking the Chk1-dependent response to replication fork damage.
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Cyclin Dependent Kinases (CDKs) are important regulators of DNA replication. In this work we have investigated the consequences of increasing or decreasing the CDK activity in S phase. To this end we identified S-phase regulators of the fission yeast CDK, Cdc2, and used appropriate mutants to modulate Cdc2 activity. In fission yeast Mik1 has been thought to be the main regulator of Cdc2 activity in S phase. However, we find that Wee1 has a major function in S phase and thus we used wee1 mutants to investigate the consequences of increased Cdc2 activity. These wee1 mutants display increased replication stress and, particularly in the absence of the S-phase checkpoint, accumulate DNA damage. Notably, more cells incorporate EdU in a wee1(-) strain as compared to wildtype, suggesting altered regulation of DNA replication. In addition, a higher number of cells contain chromatin-bound Cdc45, an indicator of active replication forks. In addition, we found that Cdc25 is required to activate Cdc2 in S phase and used a cdc25 mutant to explore a situation where Cdc2 activity is reduced. Interestingly, a cdc25 mutant has a higher tolerance for replication stress than wild-type cells, suggesting that reduced CDK activity in S phase confers resistance to at least some forms of replication stress.
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- Silje Anda
- a Department of Radiation Biology , Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo , Montebello , Norway
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- a Department of Radiation Biology , Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo , Montebello , Norway
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- a Department of Radiation Biology , Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo , Montebello , Norway
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- a Department of Radiation Biology , Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo , Montebello , Norway
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Kramer D, Stark N, Schulz-Heddergott R, Erytch N, Edmunds S, Roßmann L, Bastians H, Concin N, Moll UM, Dobbelstein M. Strong antitumor synergy between DNA crosslinking and HSP90 inhibition causes massive premitotic DNA fragmentation in ovarian cancer cells. Cell Death Differ 2016; 24:300-316. [PMID: 27834954 DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2016.124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2016] [Revised: 08/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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All current regimens for treating ovarian cancer center around carboplatin as standard first line. The HSP90 inhibitor ganetespib is currently being assessed in advanced clinical oncology trials. Thus, we tested the combined effects of ganetespib and carboplatin on a panel of 15 human ovarian cancer lines. Strikingly, the two drugs strongly synergized in cytotoxicity in tumor cells lacking wild-type p53. Mechanistically, ganetespib and carboplatin in combination, but not individually, induced persistent DNA damage causing massive global chromosome fragmentation. Live-cell microscopy revealed chromosome fragmentation occurring to a dramatic degree when cells condensed their chromatin in preparation for mitosis, followed by cell death in mitosis or upon aberrant exit from mitosis. HSP90 inhibition caused the rapid decay of key components of the Fanconi anemia pathway required for repair of carboplatin-induced interstrand crosslinks (ICLs), as well as of cell cycle checkpoint mediators. Overexpressing FancA rescued the DNA damage induced by the drug combination, indicating that FancA is indeed a key client of Hsp90 that enables cancer cell survival in the presence of ICLs. Conversely, depletion of nuclease DNA2 prevented chromosomal fragmentation, pointing to an imbalance of defective repair in the face of uncontrolled nuclease activity as mechanistic basis for the observed premitotic DNA fragmentation. Importantly, the drug combination induced robust antitumor activity in xenograft models, again accompanied with depletion of FancA. In sum, our findings indicate that ganetespib strongly potentiates the antitumor efficacy of carboplatin by causing combined inhibition of DNA repair and cell cycle control mechanisms, thus triggering global chromosome disruption, aberrant mitosis and cell death.
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- Daniela Kramer
- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany.,Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Oncology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany
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Callegari AJ, Kelly TJ. Coordination of DNA damage tolerance mechanisms with cell cycle progression in fission yeast. Cell Cycle 2016; 15:261-73. [PMID: 26652183 PMCID: PMC5007584 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2015.1121353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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DNA damage tolerance (DDT) mechanisms allow cells to synthesize a new DNA strand when the template is damaged. Many mutations resulting from DNA damage in eukaryotes are generated during DDT when cells use the mutagenic translesion polymerases, Rev1 and Polζ, rather than mechanisms with higher fidelity. The coordination among DDT mechanisms is not well understood. We used live-cell imaging to study the function of DDT mechanisms throughout the cell cycle of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We report that checkpoint-dependent mitotic delay provides a cellular mechanism to ensure the completion of high fidelity DDT, largely by homology-directed repair (HDR). DDT by mutagenic polymerases is suppressed during the checkpoint delay by a mechanism dependent on Rad51 recombinase. When cells pass the G2/M checkpoint and can no longer delay mitosis, they completely lose the capacity for HDR and simultaneously exhibit a requirement for Rev1 and Polζ. Thus, DDT is coordinated with the checkpoint response so that the activity of mutagenic polymerases is confined to a vulnerable period of the cell cycle when checkpoint delay and HDR are not possible.
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- A John Callegari
- a Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center , New York , NY , USA
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- a Molecular Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center , New York , NY , USA
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Narita A, Kaminaga K, Yokoya A, Noguchi M, Kobayashi K, Usami N, Fujii K. Real-time observation of irradiated HeLa-cell modified by fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell-cycle indicator using synchrotron X-ray microbeam. RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY 2015; 166:192-196. [PMID: 25870438 DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncv156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell-cycle indicator (FUCCI) human cancer (HeLa) cells (red indicates G1; green, S/G2) were exposed to a synchrotron X-ray microbeam. Cells in either G1 or S/G2 were irradiated selectively according to their colour in the same microscopic field. Time-lapse micrographs of the irradiated cells were acquired for 24 h after irradiation. For fluorescent immunostaining, phosphorylated histone proteins (γ-H2AX) indicated the induction of DNA double-strand breaks. The cell cycle was arrested by irradiation at S/G2. In contrast, cells irradiated at G1 progressed to S/G2. The foci were induced in cells irradiated at both G1 and S/G2, suggesting that the G1-S (or S) checkpoint pathway does not function in HeLa cells due to the fact that the cells are functionally p53 deficient, even though X-ray microbeam irradiation significantly induces double-strand breaks. These results demonstrate that single FUCCI cell exposure and live cell imaging are powerful methods for studying the effects of radiation on the cell cycle.
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- A Narita
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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- Photon Factory, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Photon Factory, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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Kaminaga K, Noguchi M, Narita A, Sakamoto Y, Kanari Y, Yokoya A. Visualisation of cell cycle modifications by X-ray irradiation of single HeLa cells using fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicators. RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY 2015; 166:91-94. [PMID: 25877544 DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncv168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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To explore the effects of X-ray irradiation on mammalian cell cycle dynamics, single cells using the fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator (Fucci) technique were tracked. HeLa cells expressing Fucci were used to visualise cell cycle modifications induced by irradiation. After cultured HeLa-Fucci cells were exposed to 5 Gy X-rays, fluorescent cell images were captured every 20 min for 48 h using a fluorescent microscope. Time dependence of the fluorescence intensity of S/G2 cells was analysed to examine the cell cycle dynamics of irradiated and non-irradiated control cells. The results showed that irradiated cells could be divided into two populations: one with similar cell cycle dynamics to that of non-irradiated cells, and another displaying a prolonged G2 phase. Based on these findings, it is proposed in this article that an underlying switch mechanism is involved in cell cycle regulation and the G2/M checkpoint of HeLa cells.
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- K Kaminaga
- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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Jung YS, Chun HY, Yoon MH, Park BJ. Elevated estrogen receptor-α in VHL-deficient condition induces microtubule organizing center amplification via disruption of BRCA1/Rad51 interaction. Neoplasia 2015; 16:1070-81. [PMID: 25499220 PMCID: PMC4309251 DOI: 10.1016/j.neo.2014.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Revised: 09/15/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Since loss of VHL is frequently detected early phase genetic event in human renal cell carcinoma, pVHL is assumed to be indispensable for suppression of tumor initiation step. However, induction of HIF-1α, target of pVHL E3 ligase, is more adequate to angiogenesis step after tumor mass formation. Concerning this, it has been reported that pVHL is involved in centrosome location during metaphase and regulates ER-α signaling. Here, we provide the evidences that pVHL-mediated ER-α suppression is critical for microtubule organizing center (MTOC) maintaining and elevated ER-α promotes MTOC amplification through disruption of BRCA1-Rad51 interaction. In fact, numerous MTOC in VHL- or BRCA1-deficient cells are reduced by Fulvestrant, inhibitor of ER-α expression as well as antagonist. In addition, we reveal that activation of ER signaling can increase γ-tubulin, core factor of TuRC and render the resistance to Taxol. Thus, Fulvestrant but not Tamoxifen, antagonist against ER-α, can restore the Taxol sensitivity in VHL- or BRCA1-deficient cells. Our results suggest that pVHL-mediated ER-α suppression is important for regulation of MTOC as well as drug resistance.
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- Youn-Sang Jung
- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Department of Integrated Biological Science, graduated school, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Department of Integrated Biological Science, graduated school, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Department of Integrated Biological Science, graduated school, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Molecular Biology, College of Natural Science, Department of Integrated Biological Science, graduated school, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea.
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Caspari T, Hilditch V. Two Distinct Cdc2 Pools Regulate Cell Cycle Progression and the DNA Damage Response in the Fission Yeast S.pombe. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0130748. [PMID: 26131711 PMCID: PMC4488491 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2014] [Accepted: 05/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The activity of Cdc2 (CDK1) kinase, which coordinates cell cycle progression and DNA break repair, is blocked upon its phosphorylation at tyrosine 15 (Y15) by Wee1 kinase in the presence of DNA damage. How Cdc2 can support DNA repair whilst being inactivated by the DNA damage checkpoint remains to be explained. Human CDK1 is phosphorylated by Myt1 kinase at threonine 14 (T14) close to its ATP binding site before being modified at threonine 161 (T167Sp) in its T-loop by the CDK-activating kinase (CAK). While modification of T161 promotes association with the cyclin partner, phosphorylation of T14 inhibits the CDK1-cyclin complex. This inhibition is further enforced by the modification of Y15 by Wee1 in the presence of DNA lesions. In S.pombe, the dominant inhibition of Cdc2 is provided by the phosphorylation of Y15 and only a small amount of Cdc2 is modified at T14 when cells are in S phase. Unlike human cells, both inhibitory modifications are executed by Wee1. Using the novel IEFPT technology, which combines isoelectric focusing (IEF) with Phos-tag SDS electrophoresis (PT), we report here that S.pombe Cdc2 kinase exists in seven forms. While five forms are phosphorylated, two species are not. Four phospho-forms associate with cyclin B (Cdc13) of which only two are modified at Y15 by Wee1. Interestingly, only one Y15-modified species carries also the T14 modification. The fifth phospho-form has a low affinity for cyclin B and is neither Y15 nor T14 modified. The two unphosphorylated forms may contribute directly to the DNA damage response as only they associate with the DNA damage checkpoint kinase Chk1. Interestingly, cyclin B is also present in the unphosphorylated pool. We also show that the G146D mutation in Cdc2.1w, which renders Cdc2 insensitive to Wee1 inhibition, is aberrantly modified in a Wee1-dependent manner. In conclusion, our work adds support to the idea that two distinct Cdc2 pools regulate cell cycle progression and the response to DNA damage.
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- Thomas Caspari
- Genome Biology Group, School of Medical Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 2UW, Wales, United Kingdom
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- Genome Biology Group, School of Medical Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 2UW, Wales, United Kingdom
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Identification of novel inhibitors of human Chk1 using pharmacophore-based virtual screening and their evaluation as potential anti-cancer agents. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2014; 28:1247-56. [DOI: 10.1007/s10822-014-9800-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Accepted: 10/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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In this chapter we present basic protocols for the use of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, commonly known as fission yeast, in molecular biology and genetics research. Fission yeast is an increasingly popular model organism for the study of biological pathways because of its genetic tractability and as a model for metazoan biology. It provides an alternative and complimentary approach to Saccharomyces cerevisiae for addressing questions of cell biology, physiology, genetics, and genomics/proteomics. We include details and considerations for growing fission yeast, information on crosses and genetics, gene targeting and transformation, cell synchrony and analysis, and molecular biology protocols.
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- Sarah A Sabatinos
- Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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O'Driscoll M, Dobyns WB, van Hagen JM, Jeggo PA. Cellular and clinical impact of haploinsufficiency for genes involved in ATR signaling. Am J Hum Genet 2007; 81:77-86. [PMID: 17564965 PMCID: PMC1950915 DOI: 10.1086/518696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2007] [Accepted: 04/05/2007] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) protein, a kinase that regulates a DNA damage-response pathway, is mutated in ATR-Seckel syndrome (ATR-SS), a disorder characterized by severe microcephaly and growth delay. Impaired ATR signaling is also observed in cell lines from additional disorders characterized by microcephaly and growth delay, including non-ATR-SS, Nijmegen breakage syndrome, and MCPH1 (microcephaly, primary autosomal recessive, 1)-dependent primary microcephaly. Here, we examined ATR-pathway function in cell lines from three haploinsufficient contiguous gene-deletion disorders--a subset of blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome, Miller-Dieker lissencephaly syndrome, and Williams-Beuren syndrome--in which the deleted region encompasses ATR, RPA1, and RFC2, respectively. These three genes function in ATR signaling. Cell lines from these disorders displayed an impaired ATR-dependent DNA damage response. Thus, we describe ATR signaling as a pathway unusually sensitive to haploinsufficiency and identify three further human disorders displaying a defective ATR-dependent DNA damage response. The striking correlation of ATR-pathway dysfunction with the presence of microcephaly and growth delay strongly suggests a causal relationship.
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- Mark O'Driscoll
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
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Mandyam CD, Harburg GC, Eisch AJ. Determination of key aspects of precursor cell proliferation, cell cycle length and kinetics in the adult mouse subgranular zone. Neuroscience 2007; 146:108-22. [PMID: 17307295 PMCID: PMC2230096 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.12.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2006] [Revised: 12/27/2006] [Accepted: 12/29/2006] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Neurogenesis studies on the adult mouse hippocampal subgranular zone (SGZ) typically report increases or decreases in proliferation. However, key information is lacking about these proliferating SGZ precursors, from the fundamental--what dose of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) is appropriate for labeling all S phase cells?--to the detailed--what are the kinetics of BrdU-labeled cells and their progeny? To address these questions, adult C57BL/6J mice were injected with BrdU and BrdU-immunoreactive (IR) cells were quantified. Initial experiments with a range of BrdU doses (25-500 mg/kg) suggested that 150 mg/kg labels all actively dividing precursors in the mouse SGZ. Experiments using a saturating dose of BrdU suggested BrdU bioavailability is less than 15 min, notably shorter than in the developing mouse brain. We next explored precursor division and maturation by tracking the number of BrdU-IR cells and colabeling of BrdU with other cell cycle proteins from 15 min to 30 days after BrdU. We found that BrdU and the Gap2 and mitosis (G2/M) phase protein pHisH3 maximally colocalized 8 h after BrdU, indicating that the mouse SGZ precursor cell cycle length is 14 h. In addition, triple labeling with BrdU and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and Ki-67 showed that BrdU-IR precursors and/or their progeny express these endogenous cell cycle proteins up to 4 days after BrdU injection. However, the proportion of BrdU/Ki-67-IR cells declined at a greater rate than the proportion of BrdU/PCNA-IR cells. This suggests that PCNA protein is detectable long after cell cycle exit, and that reliance on PCNA may overestimate the length of time a cell remains in the cell cycle. These findings will be critical for future studies examining the regulation of SGZ precursor kinetics in adult mice, and hopefully will encourage the field to move beyond counting BrdU-IR cells to a more mechanistic analysis of adult neurogenesis.
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- *Address correspondence to Amelia J. Eisch, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75390-9070; tele 214-648-5549; fax 214-645-9549;
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Germinating fission yeast spores delay in G1 in response to UV irradiation. BMC Cell Biol 2004; 5:40. [PMID: 15498101 PMCID: PMC528784 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-5-40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2004] [Accepted: 10/21/2004] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background Checkpoint mechanisms prevent cell cycle transitions until previous events have been completed or damaged DNA has been repaired. In fission yeast, checkpoint mechanisms are known to regulate entry into mitosis, but so far no checkpoint inhibiting S phase entry has been identified. Results We have studied the response of germinating Schizosaccharomyces pombe spores to UV irradiation in G1. When germinating spores are irradiated in early G1 phase, entry into S phase is delayed. We argue that the observed delay is caused by two separate mechanisms. The first takes place before entry into S phase, does not depend on the checkpoint proteins Rad3, Cds1 and Chk1 and is independent of Cdc2 phosphorylation. Furthermore, it is not dependent upon inhibiting the Cdc10-dependent transcription required for S phase entry, unlike a G1/S checkpoint described in budding yeast. We show that expression of Cdt1, a protein essential for initiation of DNA replication, is delayed upon UV irradiation. The second part of the delay occurs after entry into S phase and depends on Rad3 and Cds1 and is probably due to the intra-S checkpoint. If the germinating spores are irradiated in late G1, they enter S phase without delay and arrest in S phase, suggesting that the delay we observe upon UV irradiation in early G1 is not caused by nonspecific effects of UV irradiation. Conclusions We have studied the response of germinating S. pombe spores to UV irradiation in G1 and shown that S phase entry is delayed by a mechanism that is different from classical checkpoint responses. Our results point to a mechanism delaying expression of proteins required for S phase entry.
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Smeets MFMA, Francesconi S, Baldacci G. High dosage Rhp51 suppression of the MMS sensitivity of DNA structure checkpoint mutants reveals a relationship between Crb2 and Rhp51. Genes Cells 2003; 8:573-86. [PMID: 12839619 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2003.00657.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND In eukaryotic cells DNA structure checkpoints organize the cellular responses of DNA repair and transient cell cycle arrest and thereby ensure genomic stability. To investigate the exact role of crb2+ in the DNA damage checkpoint response, a genetic screen was carried out in order to identify suppressors of the conditional MMS sensitivity of a crb2-1 mutant. Here we report the isolation of rhp51+ as a multicopy suppressor. RESULTS We show that suppression is not specific for the checkpoint mutant while it is specific for the MMS treatment. Rescue by rhp51+ over-expression is not a consequence of increased recombination repair or checkpoint compensation and epistasis analysis confirms that crb2+ and rhp51+ function in different pathways. A tight linkage between the two pathways is nevertheless suggested by the complementary expression or modification of Crb2 and Rhp51 proteins. Crb2 protein stability is down-regulated when Rhp51 is over-expressed and up-regulated in the absence of Rhp51. The up-regulation of Crb2 is independent of the activation of DNA structure checkpoints. Conversely Rhp51 is more readily activated and differentially modified in the absence of Crb2 or other checkpoint proteins. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that fission yeast Crb2 and Rhp51 function in two parallel, tightly connected and coordinately regulated pathways.
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- Monique F M A Smeets
- UMR2027, Génotoxicologie et Cycle Cellulaire, Institut Curie, 91405 Orsay, France
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Mulvihill DP, Hyams JS. Role of the two type II myosins, Myo2 and Myp2, in cytokinetic actomyosin ring formation and function in fission yeast. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 2003; 54:208-16. [PMID: 12589679 DOI: 10.1002/cm.10093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The formation and contraction of a cytokinetic actomyosin ring (CAR) is essential for the execution of cytokinesis in fission yeast. Unlike most organisms in which its composition has been investigated, the fission yeast CAR contains two type II myosins encoded by the genes myo2(+) and myp2(+). myo2(+) is an essential gene whilst myp2(+) is dispensable under normal growth conditions. Myo2 is hence the major contractile protein of the CAR whilst Myp2 plays a more subtle and, as yet, incompletely documented role. Using a fission yeast strain in which the chromosomal copy of the myo2(+) gene is fused to the gene encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP), we analysed CAR formation and function in the presence and absence of Myp2. No change in the rate of CAR contraction was observed when Myp2 was absent although the CAR persisted longer in the contracted state and was occasionally observed to split into two discrete rings. This was also observed in myp2Delta cells following actin depolymerisation with latrunculin. CAR contraction in the absence of Myp2 was completely abolished in the presence of elevated levels of chloride ions. Thus, Myp2 appears to contribute to the stability of the CAR, in particular at a late stage of CAR contraction, and to be a component of the signalling pathway that regulates cytokinesis in response to elevated levels of chloride. To determine whether the presence of two type II myosins was a feature of cytokinesis in other fungi that divide by septation, we searched the genomes of two filamentous fungi, Aspergillus fumigatus and Neurospora crassa, for myosin genes. As in fission yeast, both A. fumigatus and N. crassa contained myosins of classes I, II, and V. Unlike fission yeast, both contained a single type II myosin gene that, on the basis of its tail structure, was more reminiscent of Myp2 than Myo2. The significance of these observations to our understanding of septum to formation and cleavage is discussed.
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- Daniel P Mulvihill
- Department of Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Synnes M, Nilssen EA, Boye E, Grallert B. A novel chk1-dependent G1/M checkpoint in fission yeast. J Cell Sci 2002; 115:3609-18. [PMID: 12186947 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fission yeast cells with a temperature-sensitive Orp1 protein, a component of the origin recognition complex, cannot perform DNA replication at the restrictive temperature. Seventy percent of orp1-4 cells arrest with a 1C DNA content, whereas 30% proceed to mitosis ('cut'). The arrest depends upon the checkpoint Rad proteins and, surprisingly, the Chk1 protein, which is thought to act only from late S phase. The arrested cells maintain a 1C DNA content, as judged by flow cytometry, and the early origin ars3001 has not been initiated, as judged by 2D gel analysis. We show that in G1-arrested orp1-4 cells, Wee1 phosphorylates and inactivates Cdc2. Activation of Chk1 occurs earlier than Cdc2 phosphorylation, indicating a novel role for Chk1, namely to induce and/or maintain Cdc2 phosphorylation upon checkpoint activation in G1. We also show that commitment to cutting occurs already in early G1 phase.
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- Marianne Synnes
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Montebello, 0310 Oslo, Norway
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Mulvihill DP, Hyams JS. Cytokinetic actomyosin ring formation and septation in fission yeast are dependent on the full recruitment of the polo-like kinase Plo1 to the spindle pole body and a functional spindle assembly checkpoint. J Cell Sci 2002; 115:3575-86. [PMID: 12186944 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In dividing cells, the assembly and contraction of the cytokinetic actomyosin ring (CAR) is precisely coordinated with spindle formation and chromosome segregation. Despite having a cell wall, the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe forms a CAR reminiscent of the structure responsible for the cleavage of cells with flexible boundaries. We used the myo2-gc fission yeast strain in which the chromosomal copy of the type II myosin gene, myo2(+), is fused to the gene encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) to investigate the dynamics of Myo2 recruitment to the cytokinetic actomyosin ring in living cells. Analysis of CAR formation in relation to spindle pole body (SPB) and centromere separation enabled us to pinpoint the timing of Myo2 recruitment into a stable CAR structure to the onset of anaphase A. Depolymerisation of actin with latrunculin B did not affect the timing of Myo2 accumulation at the cell equator (although Myo2 no longer formed a ring), whereas depolymerisation of microtubules with either thiabendazole (TBZ) or methyl 2-benzimidazolecarbamate (MBC) resulted in a delay of up to 90 minutes in CAR formation. Microtubule depolymerisation also delayed the localisation of other CAR components such as actin and Mid1/Dmf1. The delay of cytokinesis in response to loss of microtubule integrity was abolished in cells lacking the spindle assembly checkpoint protein Mad2 or containing non-functional Cdc16, a component of the fission yeast septation initiation network (SIN). The delay was also abolished in cells lacking Zfs1, a component of the previously described S. pombe cytokinesis checkpoint. Recruitment of the polo-related kinase, Plo1, a key regulator of CAR formation, to the SPBs was substantially reduced in TBZ in a Mad2-dependent manner. Loading of Cdc7, a component of the SIN and downstream of Plo1 in the cytokinesis pathway, onto the the SPBs was also delayed in TBZ to the same extent as CAR formation. We conclude that CAR formation is subject to regulation by the spindle assembly checkpoint via the loading of Plo1 onto the SPBs and the consequent activation of the SIN.
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- Daniel P Mulvihill
- Department of Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Borgne A, Nurse P. The Spd1p S phase inhibitor can activate the DNA replication checkpoint pathway in fission yeast. J Cell Sci 2000; 113 Pt 23:4341-50. [PMID: 11069778 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.113.23.4341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Spd1p (for S phase delayed) is a cell cycle inhibitor in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Spd1p overexpression blocks the onset of both S phase and mitosis. In this study, we have investigated the mechanisms by which Spd1p overexpression blocks cell cycle progression, focussing on the block over mitotic onset. High levels of Spd1p lead to an increase in Y15 phosphorylation of Cdc2p and we show that the block over G(2) requires the Wee1p kinase and is dependent on the rad and chk1/cds1 checkpoint genes. We propose that high levels of Spd1p in G(2) cells activate the DNA replication checkpoint control, which leads to a Wee1p-dependent increase of Cdc2p Y15 phosphorylation blocking onset of mitosis. The Spd1p block at S phase onset may act by interfering directly with DNA replication, and also activates the G(2)rad/hus checkpoint pathway to block mitosis.
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- A Borgne
- Cell Cycle Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Found, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX, UK.
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Griffiths D, Uchiyama M, Nurse P, Wang TS. A novel mutant allele of the chromatin-bound fission yeast checkpoint protein Rad17 separates the DNA structure checkpoints. J Cell Sci 2000; 113 ( Pt 6):1075-88. [PMID: 10683155 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.113.6.1075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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To further dissect the genetic differences between the checkpoint pathway following S-phase cdc arrest versus DNA damage, a genetic screen was performed for checkpoint mutants that were unable to arrest mitosis following cell-cycle arrest with a temperature-sensitive DNA polymerase delta mutant, cdc20-M10. One such checkpoint mutant, rad17-d14, was found to display the cut phenotype following S-phase arrest by cdc20-M10, but not by the DNA synthesis inhibitor hydroxyurea, reminiscent of the chk1 mutant. Unlike chk1, rad17-d14 was not sensitive to UV irradiation. Interestingly, the ionising radiation sensitivity of rad17-d14 was only at higher doses, and cells were found to be defective in properly arresting cell division following irradiation in S phase, but not G(2) phase. Biochemical analysis attributes the checkpoint defects of rad17-d14 to the failure to phosphorylate the checkpoint effector Chk1p. To investigate if Rad17p monitors the genome for abnormal DNA structures specifically during DNA synthesis, chromatin association of Rad17p was analysed. Rad17p was found to be chromatin associated throughout the cell cycle, not just during S phase. This interaction occurred irrespective of the arrest with cdc20-M10 and, surprisingly, was also independent of the other checkpoint Rad proteins, and the cell-cycle effectors Chk1p and Cds1p.
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- D Griffiths
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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Chapman CR, Evans ST, Carr AM, Enoch T. Requirement of sequences outside the conserved kinase domain of fission yeast Rad3p for checkpoint control. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:3223-38. [PMID: 10512862 PMCID: PMC25583 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.10.3223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The fission yeast Rad3p checkpoint protein is a member of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related family of protein kinases, which includes human ATMp. Mutation of the ATM gene is responsible for the disease ataxia-telangiectasia. The kinase domain of Rad3p has previously been shown to be essential for function. Here, we show that although this domain is necessary, it is not sufficient, because the isolated kinase domain does not have kinase activity in vitro and cannot complement a rad3 deletion strain. Using dominant negative alleles of rad3, we have identified two sites N-terminal to the conserved kinase domain that are essential for Rad3p function. One of these sites is the putative leucine zipper, which is conserved in other phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related family members. The other is a novel motif, which may also mediate Rad3p protein-protein interactions.
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- C R Chapman
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Mulvihill DP, Petersen J, Ohkura H, Glover DM, Hagan IM. Plo1 kinase recruitment to the spindle pole body and its role in cell division in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:2771-85. [PMID: 10436027 PMCID: PMC25513 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.8.2771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Polo kinases execute multiple roles during cell division. The fission yeast polo related kinase Plo1 is required to assemble the mitotic spindle, the prophase actin ring that predicts the site for cytokinesis and for septation after the completion of mitosis (Ohkura et al., 1995; Bahler et al., 1998). We show that Plo1 associates with the mitotic but not interphase spindle pole body (SPB). SPB association of Plo1 is the earliest fission yeast mitotic event recorded to date. SPB association is strong from mitotic commitment to early anaphase B, after which the Plo1 signal becomes very weak and finally disappears upon spindle breakdown. SPB association of Plo1 requires mitosis-promoting factor (MPF) activity, whereas its disassociation requires the activity of the anaphase-promoting complex. The stf1.1 mutation bypasses the usual requirement for the MPF activator Cdc25 (Hudson et al., 1990). Significantly, Plo1 associates inappropriately with the interphase SPB of stf1.1 cells. These data are consistent with the emerging theme from many systems that polo kinases participate in the regulation of MPF to determine the timing of commitment to mitosis and may indicate that pole association is a key aspect of Plo1 function. Plo1 does not associate with the SPB when septation is inappropriately driven by deregulation of the Spg1 pathway and remains SPB associated if septation occurs in the presence of a spindle. Thus, neither Plo1 recruitment to nor its departure from the SPB are required for septation; however, overexpression of plo1+ activates the Spg1 pathway and causes transient Cdc7 recruitment to the SPB and multiple rounds of septation.
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- D P Mulvihill
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom
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Huberman JA. DNA damage and replication checkpoints in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 62:369-95. [PMID: 9932460 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60513-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Eukaryotic organisms have developed an array of mechanisms for minimizing the consequences of damage to their DNA molecules and the consequences of interference with their DNA replication. Among these mechanisms are the DNA damage and replication checkpoints, which inhibit passage from one cell cycle stage to the next when DNA is damaged or replication is incomplete. Studies of these checkpoints in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, complement studies in other organisms and provide valuable insight into the nature of the proteins responsible for these checkpoints and how such proteins may function.
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- J A Huberman
- Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
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The response to DNA damage includes a delay to progression through the cell cycle to aid DNA repair. Incorrectly replicated chromosomes (replication checkpoint) or DNA damage (DNA damage checkpoint) delay the onset of mitosis. These checkpoint pathways detect DNA perturbations and generate a signal. The signal is amplified and transmitted to the cell cycle machinery. Since the checkpoint pathways are essential for genome stability, the related proteins which are found in all eukaryotes (from yeast to mammals) are expected to have similar functions to the yeast progenitors. This review article focuses on the function of checkpoint proteins in the model system Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Checkpoint controls in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and mammalian cells are mentioned briefly to underscore common or diverse features.
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- T Caspari
- MRC Cell Mutation Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Martinho RG, Lindsay HD, Flaggs G, DeMaggio AJ, Hoekstra MF, Carr AM, Bentley NJ. Analysis of Rad3 and Chk1 protein kinases defines different checkpoint responses. EMBO J 1998; 17:7239-49. [PMID: 9857181 PMCID: PMC1171070 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.24.7239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Eukaryotic cells respond to DNA damage and S phase replication blocks by arresting cell-cycle progression through the DNA structure checkpoint pathways. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the Chk1 kinase is essential for mitotic arrest and is phosphorylated after DNA damage. During S phase, the Cds1 kinase is activated in response to DNA damage and DNA replication blocks. The response of both Chk1 and Cds1 requires the six 'checkpoint Rad' proteins (Rad1, Rad3, Rad9, Rad17, Rad26 and Hus1). We demonstrate that DNA damage-dependent phosphorylation of Chk1 is also cell-cycle specific, occurring primarily in late S phase and G2, but not during M/G1 or early S phase. We have also isolated and characterized a temperature-sensitive allele of rad3. Rad3 functions differently depending on which checkpoint pathway is activated. Following DNA damage, rad3 is required to initiate but not maintain the Chk1 response. When DNA replication is inhibited, rad3 is required for both initiation and maintenance of the Cds1 response. We have identified a strong genetic interaction between rad3 and cds1, and biochemical evidence shows a physical interaction is possible between Rad3 and Cds1, and between Rad3 and Chk1 in vitro. Together, our results highlight the cell-cycle specificity of the DNA structure-dependent checkpoint response and identify distinct roles for Rad3 in the different checkpoint responses. KEYWORDS ATM/ATR/cell-cycle checkpoints/Chk1/Rad3
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- R G Martinho
- MRC Cell Mutation Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9RR, UK
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Studies of the genetics of G2/M checkpoints in budding and fission yeasts have produced many of the defining concepts of checkpoint biology. Recent progress in the biochemistry of the checkpoint gene products is adding a mechanistic understanding to our models and identifying the components of the normal cell cycle machinery that are targeted by checkpoints.
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Kumagai A, Guo Z, Emami KH, Wang SX, Dunphy WG. The Xenopus Chk1 protein kinase mediates a caffeine-sensitive pathway of checkpoint control in cell-free extracts. J Cell Biol 1998; 142:1559-69. [PMID: 9744884 PMCID: PMC2141764 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.142.6.1559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/1998] [Revised: 07/07/1998] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We have analyzed the role of the protein kinase Chk1 in checkpoint control by using cell-free extracts from Xenopus eggs. Recombinant Xenopus Chk1 (Xchk1) phosphorylates the mitotic inducer Cdc25 in vitro on multiple sites including Ser-287. The Xchk1-catalyzed phosphorylation of Cdc25 on Ser-287 is sufficient to confer the binding of 14-3-3 proteins. Egg extracts from which Xchk1 has been removed by immunodepletion are strongly but not totally compromised in their ability to undergo a cell cycle delay in response to the presence of unreplicated DNA. Cdc25 in Xchk1-depleted extracts remains bound to 14-3-3 due to the action of a distinct Ser-287-specific kinase in addition to Xchk1. Xchk1 is highly phosphorylated in the presence of unreplicated or damaged DNA, and this phosphorylation is abolished by caffeine, an agent which attenuates checkpoint control. The checkpoint response to unreplicated DNA in this system involves both caffeine-sensitive and caffeine-insensitive steps. Our results indicate that caffeine disrupts the checkpoint pathway containing Xchk1.
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- A Kumagai
- Division of Biology, 216-76, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Desany BA, Alcasabas AA, Bachant JB, Elledge SJ. Recovery from DNA replicational stress is the essential function of the S-phase checkpoint pathway. Genes Dev 1998; 12:2956-70. [PMID: 9744871 PMCID: PMC317167 DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.18.2956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 358] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/1998] [Accepted: 08/11/1998] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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RAD53 and MEC1 are essential genes required for the transcriptional and cell cycle responses to DNA damage and DNA replication blocks. We have examined the essential function of these genes and found that their lethality but not their checkpoint defects can be suppressed by increased expression of genes encoding ribonucleotide reductase. Analysis of viable null alleles revealed that Mec1 plays a greater role in response to inhibition of DNA synthesis than Rad53. The loss of survival in mec1 and rad53 null or point mutants in response to transient inhibition of DNA synthesis is not a result of inappropriate anaphase entry but primarily to an inability to complete chromosome replication. We propose that this checkpoint pathway plays an important role in the maintenance of DNA synthetic capabilities when DNA replication is stressed.
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- B A Desany
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 USA
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Rhind N, Russell P. The Schizosaccharomyces pombe S-phase checkpoint differentiates between different types of DNA damage. Genetics 1998; 149:1729-37. [PMID: 9691032 PMCID: PMC1460286 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/149.4.1729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We have identified an S-phase DNA damage checkpoint in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. This checkpoint is dependent on Rad3, the S. pombe homolog of the mammalian ATM/ATR checkpoint proteins, and Cds1. Cds1 had previously been believed to be involved only in the replication checkpoint. The requirement of Cds1 in the DNA damage checkpoint suggests that Cds1 may be a general target of S-phase checkpoints. Unlike other checkpoints, the S. pombe S-phase DNA damage checkpoint discriminates between different types of damage. UV-irradiation, which causes base modification that can be repaired during G1 and S-phase, invokes the checkpoint, while gamma-irradiation, which causes double-stranded breaks that cannot be repaired by a haploid cell if induced before replication, does not invoke the checkpoint. Because the same genes are required to respond to UV- and gamma-irradiation during G2, this discrimination may represent an active suppression of the gamma response during S-phase.
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- N Rhind
- Departments of Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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- J Pines
- Wellcome/CRC Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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Kitamura K, Maekawa H, Shimoda C. Fission yeast Ste9, a homolog of Hct1/Cdh1 and Fizzy-related, is a novel negative regulator of cell cycle progression during G1-phase. Mol Biol Cell 1998; 9:1065-80. [PMID: 9571240 PMCID: PMC25330 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.5.1065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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When proliferating fission yeast cells are exposed to nitrogen starvation, they initiate conjugation and differentiate into ascospores. Cell cycle arrest in the G1-phase is one of the prerequisites for cell differentiation, because conjugation occurs only in the pre-Start G1-phase. The role of ste9(+) in the cell cycle progression was investigated. Ste9 is a WD-repeat protein that is highly homologous to Hct1/Cdh1 and Fizzy-related. The ste9 mutants were sterile because they were defective in cell cycle arrest in the G1-phase upon starvation. Sterility was partially suppressed by the mutation in cig2 that encoded the major G1/S cyclin. Although cells lacking Ste9 function grow normally, the ste9 mutation was synthetically lethal with the wee1 mutation. In the double mutants of ste9 cdc10(ts), cells arrested in G1-phase at the restrictive temperature, but the level of mitotic cyclin (Cdc13) did not decrease. In these cells, abortive mitosis occurred from the pre-Start G1-phase. Overexpression of Ste9 decreased the Cdc13 protein level and the H1-histone kinase activity. In these cells, mitosis was inhibited and an extra round of DNA replication occurred. Ste9 regulates G1 progression possibly by controlling the amount of the mitotic cyclin in the G1-phase.
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- K Kitamura
- Center for Gene Science, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 1-4-2, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan
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Hemmerlin A, Bach TJ. Effects of mevinolin on cell cycle progression and viability of tobacco BY-2 cells. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1998; 14:65-74. [PMID: 15494054 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00095.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Mevinolin, an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase, was used to study the importance of mevalonic acid (MVA) for cell cycle progression of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) BY-2 cells. After treatment with 5 microM mevinolin, the cell cycle progression was completely blocked and two cell populations accumulated (80% in phase G0/G1 and 20% in G2/M). The arrest could be released by subsequent addition of MVA. Effects were compared to those caused by aphidicolin, an inhibitor of alpha-like DNA polymerases that blocks cell cycle at the entry of the S phase. The 80% proportion of mevinolin-treated TBY-2 cells was clearly arrested before the aphidicolin-inducible block. By the aid of a double-blocking technique, it was shown that the mevinolin-induced cell arrest of highly synchronized cells was due to interaction with a control point located at the mitotic telophase/entry G1 phase. Depending on the developmental stage, mevinolin induced rapid cell death in a considerable percentage of cells. Mevinolin treatment led to a partial synchronization, as shown by the increase in mitotic index. The following decrease was correlated with the above-mentioned induction of cell death.
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- A Hemmerlin
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Département d'Enzymologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Institut de Botanique, Université Louis Pasteur, 28 rue Goethe, F67083 Strasbourg, France
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Willson J, Wilson S, Warr N, Watts FZ. Isolation and characterization of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe rhp9 gene: a gene required for the DNA damage checkpoint but not the replication checkpoint. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:2138-46. [PMID: 9153313 PMCID: PMC146707 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.11.2138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Checkpoint controls exist in eukaryotic cells to ensure that cells do not enter mitosis in the presence of DNA damage or unreplicated chromosomes. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe many of the checkpoint genes analysed to date are required for both the DNA damage and the replication checkpoints, an exception being chk1 . We report here on the characterization of nine new methylmethane sulphonate (MMS)-sensitive S.pombe mutants, one of which is defective in the DNA damage checkpoint but not the replication checkpoint. We have cloned and sequenced the corresponding gene. The predicted protein is most similar to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad9 protein, having 46% similarity and 26% identity. The S.pombe protein, which we have named Rhp9 (Rad9 homologue in S. pombe) on the basis of structural and phenotypic similarity, also contains motifs present in BRCA1 and 53BP1. Deletion of the gene is not lethal and results in a DNA damage checkpoint defect. Epistasis analysis with other S.pombe checkpoint mutants indicates that rhp9 acts in a process involving the checkpoint rad genes and that the rhp9 mutant is phenotypically very similar to chk1.
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- J Willson
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
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Uchiyama M, Galli I, Griffiths DJ, Wang TS. A novel mutant allele of Schizosaccharomyces pombe rad26 defective in monitoring S-phase progression to prevent premature mitosis. Mol Cell Biol 1997; 17:3103-15. [PMID: 9154809 PMCID: PMC232163 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.6.3103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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A semipermissive growth condition was defined for a Schizosaccharomyces pombe strain carrying a thermosensitive allele of DNA polymerase delta (pol delta ts03). Under this condition, DNA polymerase delta is semidisabled and causes a delay in S-phase progression. Using a genetic strategy, we have isolated a panel of mutants that enter premature mitosis when DNA replication is incomplete but which are not defective for arrest in G2/M following DNA damage. We characterized the aya14 mutant, which enters premature mitosis when S phase is arrested by genetic or chemical means. However, this mutant is sensitive to neither UV nor gamma irradiation. Two genomic clones, rad26+ and cds1+, were found to suppress the hydroxyurea sensitivity of the aya14 mutant. Genetic analysis indicates that aya14 is a novel allele of the cell cycle checkpoint gene rad26+, which we have named rad26.a14. cds1+ is a suppressor which suppresses the S-phase feedback control defect of rad26.a14 when S phase is inhibited by either hydroxyurea or cdc22, but it does not suppress the defect when S phase is arrested by a mutant DNA polymerase. Analyses of rad26.a14 in a variety of cdc mutant backgrounds indicate that strains containing rad26.a14 bypass S-phase arrest but not G1 or late S/G2 arrest. A model of how Rad26 monitors S-phase progression to maintain the dependency of cell cycle events and coordinates with other rad/hus checkpoint gene products in responding to radiation damage is proposed.
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- M Uchiyama
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5324, USA
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Navas TA, Sanchez Y, Elledge SJ. RAD9 and DNA polymerase epsilon form parallel sensory branches for transducing the DNA damage checkpoint signal in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genes Dev 1996; 10:2632-43. [PMID: 8895664 DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.20.2632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In response to DNA damage and replication blocks, yeast cells arrest at distinct points in the cell cycle and induce the transcription of genes whose products facilitate DNA repair. Examination of the inducibility of RNR3 in response to UV damage has revealed that the various checkpoint genes can be arranged in a pathway consistent with their requirement to arrest cells at different stages of the cell cycle. While RAD9, RAD24, and MEC3 are required to activate the DNA damage checkpoint when cells are in G1 or G2, POL2 is required to sense UV damage and replication blocks when cells are in S phase. The phosphorylation of the essential central transducer, Rad53p, is dependent on POL2 and RAD9 in response to UV damage, indicating that RAD53 functions downstream of both these genes. Mutants defective for both pathways are severely deficient in Rad53p phosphorylation and RNR3 induction and are significantly more sensitive to DNA damage and replication blocks than single mutants alone. These results show that POL2 and RAD9 function in parallel branches for sensing and transducing the UV DNA damage signal. Each of these pathways subsequently activates the central transducers Mec1p/Esr1p/Sad3p and Rad53p/Mec2p/Sad1p, which are required for both cell-cycle arrest and transcriptional responses.
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- T A Navas
- Verna and Mars McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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