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FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.00036
Keywords
ZEB1; plasticity; DNA damage response; therapy resistance; EMT-epithelial to mesenchymal transition
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- Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic [17-28518A, NV18-08-00245]
- National Program of Sustainability II (MEYS CR) [LQ1605]
- European Regional Development Fund-Project ENOCH [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000868]
- European Structural and Investment Funds, Operational Programme Research, Development and Education-Preclinical Progression of New Organic Compounds with Targeted Biological Activity (Preclinprogress) [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_025/0007381]
- Ramanujan Fellowship by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India [SB/S2/RJN-049/2018]
- FNUSA-ICRC [LQ1605]
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The predominant way in which conventional chemotherapy kills rapidly proliferating cancer cells is the induction of DNA damage. However, chemoresistance remains the main obstacle to therapy effectivity. An increasing number of studies suggest that epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) represents a critical process affecting the sensitivity of cancer cells to chemotherapy. Zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB1) is a prime element of a network of transcription factors controlling EMT and has been identified as an important molecule in the regulation of DNA damage, cancer cell differentiation, and metastasis. Recent studies have considered upregulation of ZEB1 as a potential modulator of chemoresistance. It has been hypothesized that cancer cells undergoing EMT acquire unique properties that resemble those of cancer stem cells (CSCs). These stem-like cells manifest enhanced DNA damage response (DDR) and DNA repair capacity, self-renewal, or chemoresistance. In contrast, functional experiments have shown that ZEB1 induces chemoresistance regardless of whether other EMT-related changes occur. ZEB1 has also been identified as an important regulator of DDR by the formation of a ZEB1/p300/PCAF complex and direct interaction with ATM kinase, which has been linked to radioresistance. Moreover, ATM can directly phosphorylate ZEB1 and enhance its stability. Downregulation of ZEB1 has also been shown to reduce the abundance of CHK1, an effector kinase of DDR activated by ATR, and to induce its ubiquitin-dependent degradation. In this perspective, we focus on the role of ZEB1 in the regulation of DDR and describe the mechanisms of ZEB1-dependent chemoresistance.
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