Journal
MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS
Volume 294, Issue 1, Pages 149-158Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-018-1495-5
Keywords
Aneuploidy; CENP-E; P14ARF; HCT116 cells; RNAi
Funding
- Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy [ATE-0255]
- Centro di Oncobiologia Sperimentale (COBS)
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The spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) is a cellular surveillance mechanism that ensures the fidelity of chromosomes segregation. Reduced expression of some of its components weakens the SAC and induces chromosome instability and aneuploidy, which are both well-known hallmarks of cancer cells. Centromere protein-E (CENP-E) is a crucial component of the SAC and its function is to facilitate kinetochore microtubule attachment required to achieve and maintain chromosome alignment. The present study investigates the possible role of p14(ARF) as a controller of aneuploid cells proliferation. We used RNA interference to induce aneuploidy by partial depletion of CENP-E in human primary fibroblasts (IMR90) and in near diploid tumor cells (HCT116). In contrast to IMR90 aneuploid cell number, which was drastically reduced and leaned towards the WT condition, HCT116 aneuploid cell numbers were slightly decreased at later time points. This euploidy restoration was accompanied by increased p14(ARF) expression in IMR90 cells and followed ectopic p14(ARF) re-expression in p14(ARF)-null HCT116 cells. Collectively, our results suggest that hampering proliferation of aneuploid cells could be an additional role of the p14(ARF) tumor suppressor.
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