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CANCER MEDICINE
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 3988-4003Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.1658
Keywords
cell cycle; inhibitors of apoptosis proteins; medulloblastoma; neddylation; p21
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- Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan [100-wf-phd-02, 101-wf-phd-04, 102-wf-eva-12]
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Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common type of malignant childhood brain tumor. We previously showed that inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (IAP) small-molecule inhibitors (LCL161 or LBW242) combined with chemotherapy have synergistic antiproliferative effects on MB cells. The synergistic antitumor effects of combination treatments happen through induction of autophagy and caspasc-3/7-activated apoptosis. Here, we investigated the effects of IAP inhibitors or silencing IAP on cell cycle regulation. We discovered that treatment with IAP inhibitors or their combination with conventional chemotherapy (vincristine or cisplatin), as well as RNAi knockdown of cIAP1/2 or XIAP arrested MB cells in the G2/M phase through downrcgulation of cyclin B1-CDK1 and cyclin A-CDK1/2. Among these three IAPs, only silencing cIAP1 expression enhanced p21 dependent-G2/M phase accumulation. IAP inhibitors reduced cIAP1 expression and increased p21 expression in time course experiments. Furthermore, cIAP1 can govern p21 proteasomal degradation via neddylation in lieu of ubiquitination. Inhibition of IAPs significantly abrogated cIAP1-mediated p21 degradation. We also observed an inverse correlation between nuclear cIAP1 and nuclear p21 expressions in MB tumor tissues. These findings provide new mechanistic evidence of the influence of IAP inhibitors on MB cell proliferation through disruption of the cell cycle.
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