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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46052-8
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- Foundation of Hunan Double First-rate Discipline Construction Project
- American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant [RSG-17-221-01-TBG]
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mTOR signaling pathway is deregulated in most cancers and uncontrolled cell cycle progression is a hallmark of cancer cell. However, the precise molecular mechanisms of the regulation of DNA replication and chromatin metabolism by mTOR signaling are largely unknown. We herein report that mTOR signaling promotes the loading of MCM2-7 helicase onto chromatin and upregulates DNA replication licensing factor CDC6. Pharmacological inhibition of mTOR kinase resulted in CHK1 checkpoint activation and decreased MCM2-7 replication helicase and PCNA associated with chromatins. Further pharmacological and genetic studies demonstrated CDC6 is positively controlled by mTORC1-S6K1 and mTORC2 signaling. miRNA screening revealed mTOR signaling suppresses miR-3178 thereby upregulating CDC6. Analysis of TCGA data found that CDC6 is overexpressed in most cancers and associates with the poor survival of cancer patients. Our findings suggest that mTO R signaling may control DNA replication origin licensing and replisome stability thereby cell cycle progression through CDC6 regulation.
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