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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages 1760-1773Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01124-08
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- BBSRC
- The Wellcome Trust
- Cancer Research UK
- BBSRC [BB/F010702/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F010702/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Cancer cells frequently exhibit overduplicated centrosomes that lead to formation of multipolar spindles, chromosome missegregation, and aneuploidy. However, the molecular events involved in centrosome overduplication remain largely unknown. Experimentally, centrosome overduplication is observed in p53-deficient cells arrested in S phase with hydroxyurea. Using this assay, we have identified distinct roles for Cdk2, microtubules, dynein, and Hsp90 in the overduplication of functional centrosomes in mammalian cells and show that Cdk2 is also required for the generation of centriolar satellites. Moreover, we demonstrate that nuclear export is required for centriolar satellite formation and centrosome overduplication, with export inhibitors causing a Cdk-dependent accumulation of nuclear centrin granules. Hence, we propose that centrosome precursors may arise in the nucleus, providing a novel mechanistic explanation for how nuclear Cdk2 can promote centrosome overduplication in the cytoplasm. Furthermore, this study defines a molecular pathway that may be targeted to prevent centrosome overduplication in S-phase-arrested cancer cells.
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