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Prolonged mitotic arrest induces a caspase-dependent DNA damage response at telomeres that determines cell survival.

ABSTRACT: A delay in the completion of metaphase induces a stress response that inhibits further cell proliferation or induces apoptosis. This response is thought to protect against genomic instability and is important for the effects of anti-mitotic cancer drugs. Here, we show that mitotic arrest induces a caspase-dependent DNA damage response (DDR) at telomeres in non-apoptotic cells. This pathway is under the control of Mcl-1 and other Bcl-2 family proteins and requires caspase-9, caspase-3/7 and the endonuclease CAD/DFF40. The gradual caspase-dependent loss of the shelterin complex protein TRF2 from telomeres promotes a DDR that involves DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK). Suppression of mitotic telomere damage by enhanced expression of TRF2, or the inhibition of either caspase-3/7 or DNA-PK during mitotic arrest, promotes subsequent cell survival. Thus, we demonstrate that mitotic stress is characterised by the sub-apoptotic activation of a classical caspase pathway, which promotes telomere deprotection, activates DNA damage signalling, and determines cell fate in response to a prolonged delay in mitosis.

SUBMITTER: Hain KO

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4882748 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Prolonged mitotic arrest induces a caspase-dependent DNA damage response at telomeres that determines cell survival.

Hain Karolina O KO Colin Didier J DJ Rastogi Shubhra S Allan Lindsey A LA Clarke Paul R PR

Scientific reports 20160527

A delay in the completion of metaphase induces a stress response that inhibits further cell proliferation or induces apoptosis. This response is thought to protect against genomic instability and is important for the effects of anti-mitotic cancer drugs. Here, we show that mitotic arrest induces a caspase-dependent DNA damage response (DDR) at telomeres in non-apoptotic cells. This pathway is under the control of Mcl-1 and other Bcl-2 family proteins and requires caspase-9, caspase-3/7 and the e ...[more]

PMID: 27230693

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Prolonged mitotic arrest induces a caspase-dependent DNA damage response at telomeres that determines cell survival.

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Prolonged mitotic arrest induces a caspase-dependent DNA damage response at telomeres that determines cell survival.

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