scholarly journals OxyS small RNA induces cell cycle arrest to allow DNA damage repair

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shir Barshishat ◽  
Maya Elgrably‐Weiss ◽  
Jonathan Edelstein ◽  
Jens Georg ◽  
Sutharsan Govindarajan ◽  
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Blood ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 122 (21) ◽  
pp. 808-808
Author(s):  
Mrinal Y. Shah ◽  
Eva Martinez ◽  
Relja Popovic ◽  
Teresa Ezponda ◽  
Eliza C. Small ◽  
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Abstract MMSET/WHSC1 is a histone methyltransferase (HMT) overexpressed in t(4;14)+ multiple myeloma (MM) patients, and is believed to be the driving factor in the pathogenesis of this subtype of MM. Overexpression of MMSET also occurs in solid cancers, including neuroblastoma, colon and prostate. MMSET overexpression in MM and prostate cells leads to an increase in histone 3 lysine 36 dimethylation (H3K36me2), and a decrease in histone 3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3). This altered epigenetic landscape is accompanied by changes in proliferation, gene expression, and chromatin accessibility. Prior work linked methylation of histones, including H3K36, to the ability of cells to undergo DNA damage repair. In addition, t(4;14)+ patients frequently relapse after regimens that include DNA damage-inducing agents, suggesting that MMSET might play a role in DNA damage repair and response. To investigate the role of MMSET in DNA damage repair, we transfected U2OS cells with a linearized vector expressing a neomycin-resistant gene. In the presence of G418, only cells that are able to integrate this plasmid through non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) can survive. siRNA knockdown of MMSET led to a decrease in cell survival, suggesting that MMSET is necessary for efficient DNA repair. We also used U2OS cells engineered to express the AsiSI enzyme fused to an estrogen receptor hormone-binding domain. Upon tamoxifen treatment, double strand breaks (DSBs) are induced at multiple AsiSI recognition sites, accompanied by an increase in γH2AX foci. The extent of repair after AsiSI-induced damage was ascertained by the ability of a DNA fragment that spans a specific cut site to be PCR amplified. With MMSET knockdown, there was a >10 fold increase in unrepaired DNA. ChIP analysis showed that with the depletion of MMSET, γH2AX persisted at the cut site. ChIP for specific effectors of DNA damage showed a marked decrease of recruitment of CtIP and RAD51 to the DSB. However, immunoblot analysis showed that CtIP and RAD51 levels were drastically decreased with MMSET depletion, thus explaining the loss of their recruitment to DSBs. In contrast, XRCC4 levels were maintained with MMSET siRNA, but its recruitment to the DSB decreased. CtIP is important for both NHEJ and homologous recombination (HR), RAD51 is critical for HR, and XRCC4 is necessary for NHEJ, suggesting that MMSET is important in multiple pathways of DNA repair. To study the effect of MMSET in MM, we used the t(4;14)+ KMS11 cell line, NTKO, and genetically matched TKO cells in which the overexpressed MMSET allele was knocked out. NTKO cells have elevated levels of DNA damage at baseline, as measured by a comet assay and by the presence of elevated numbers of 53BP1-positive foci. Upon addition of the DNA damaging agent melphalan, NTKO cells showed increased damage as measured by an increase in the tail moment by the comet assay. Paradoxically, upon treatment of these cells with the DNA damaging agents, NTKO cells survived better than TKO cells. NTKO repaired DNA damage at an enhanced rate and continued to proliferate after a significant DNA damage insult, whereas TKO cells accumulated DNA damage and entered cell cycle arrest. We repleted TKO cells with constructs expressing either wild-type MMSET or an HMT-dead (Y1118A) isoform. Upon treatment, cells expressing the wild-type MMSET have showed enhanced DNA repair and continued proliferation after DNA damage, whereas cells expressing the HMT-dead protein repaired DNA damage more slowly and entered cell cycle arrest. The HMT activity of MMSET was critical for the induction of expression of genes required for multiple DNA repair pathways including CHEK2, DDB2, DDIT3, RAD51, and MRE11, again suggesting that MMSET modulates DNA repair by affecting expression of critical components of the repair machinery. The clinical relevance of these finds becomes more apparent in vivo. Luciferase-tagged KMS11 cells harboring doxycycline-inducible MMSET shRNA were injected into nude mice. After one week, mice were treated with doxycycline and injected with melphalan or saline. Knockdown of MMSET or melphalan treatment alone decreased tumor growth but eventually all mice had progressive disease. Only when MMSET was knocked down and chemotherapy given were the mice rendered tumor free. These findings indicate a new mechanism for the ability of MMSET to enhance DNA repair and identify the protein as a potential therapeutic target in MM and other cancers. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


2012 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Sunkaria ◽  
Willayat Yousuf Wani ◽  
Deep Raj Sharma ◽  
Kiran Dip Gill

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 555-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antje Klagge ◽  
Carl Weidinger ◽  
Kerstin Krause ◽  
Beate Jessnitzer ◽  
Monika Gutknecht ◽  
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Members of the forkhead box-O (FOXO) transcription factors family play an important role in stress defence. FOXO3 deregulation has recently been identified as a hallmark of thyroid carcinogenesis. In this study, we explore the role of FOXO3 in defence of oxidative stress in normal thyrocytes. Stable rat thyroid cell lines were generated expressing either the human wild-type FOXO3, a constitutively activating FOXO3 mutant, or the empty control vector. Cell clones were characterised for proliferation, function and morphology. Hydrogen peroxide and UV irradiation were used to induce oxidative stress. Changes in FOXO3 activity, induction of cell cycle arrest or apoptosis and kinetics of DNA damage repair were analysed. Upregulation of FOXO3 in thyrocytes resulted in decreased proliferation and changes in morphology, but did not affect differentiation. Hydrogen peroxide stimulated the expression of the FOXO3 target genes growth arrest and DNA damage-inducible protein 45 α (Gadd45α) and Bcl-2 interacting mediator of cell death (BIM) and induced programmed cell death in cells with overexpression of the human wild-type FOXO3. In contrast, UV irradiation resulted in a distinct cellular response with activation of FOXO3-c-Jun-N-terminal kinase-Gadd45α signalling and induction of cell cycle arrest at the G2-M-checkpoint. This was accompanied by FOXO3-induced DNA damage repair as evidenced by lower DNA breaks over time in a comet assay in FOXO3 cell clones compared with control cells. In conclusion, FOXO3 is a pivotal relay in the coordination of the cellular response to genotoxic stress in the thyroid. Depending on the stimulus, FOXO3 induces either cell cycle arrest or apoptosis. Conversely, FOXO3 inactivation in thyroid cancers is consistent with genomic instability and loss of cell cycle control.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1453
Author(s):  
Haoran Wang ◽  
Jianhua Wei ◽  
Hong Jiang ◽  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Caina Jiang ◽  
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The use of cisplatin is severely limited by its toxic side-effects, which has spurred chemists to employ different strategies in the development of new metal-based anticancer agents. Here, three novel dehydroabietyl piperazine dithiocarbamate ruthenium (II) polypyridyl complexes (6a–6c) were synthesized as antitumor agents. Compounds 6a and 6c exhibited better in vitro antiproliferative activity against seven tumor cell lines than cisplatin, they displayed no evident resistance in the cisplatin-resistant cell line A549/DPP. Importantly, 6a effectively inhibited tumor growth in the T-24 xenograft mouse model in comparison with cisplatin. Gel electrophoresis assay indicated that DNA was the potential targets of 6a and 6c, and the upregulation of p-H2AX confirmed this result. Cell cycle arrest studies demonstrated that 6a and 6c arrested the cell cycle at G1 phase, accompanied by the upregulation of the expression levels of the antioncogene p27 and the down-regulation of the expression levels of cyclin E. In addition, 6a and 6c caused the apoptosis of tumor cells along with the upregulation of the expression of Bax, caspase-9, cytochrome c, intracellular Ca2+ release, reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and the downregulation of Bcl-2. These mechanistic study results suggested that 6a and 6c exerted their antitumor activity by inducing DNA damage, and consequently causing G1 stage arrest and the induction of apoptosis.


2002 ◽  
Vol 277 (23) ◽  
pp. 21110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damu Tang ◽  
Dongcheng Wu ◽  
Atsushi Hirao ◽  
Jill M. Lahti ◽  
Lieqi Liu ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. S346
Author(s):  
Md Mohiuddin ◽  
Hideharu Kimura ◽  
Takashi Sone ◽  
Hiroki Matsuoka ◽  
Keigo Saeki ◽  
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Molecules ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 7241-7254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-Iong Yang ◽  
Chi-Chen Yeh ◽  
Jin-Ching Lee ◽  
Szu-Cheng Yi ◽  
Hurng-Wern Huang ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Song ◽  
Ping Hong ◽  
Chengeng Liu ◽  
Yueqi Zhang ◽  
Jinling Wang ◽  
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