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CELL
Volume 113, Issue 1, Pages 87-99Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00202-2
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM50898] Funding Source: Medline
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In syncytial Drosophila embryos, damaged or incompletely replicated DNA triggers centrosome disruption in mitosis, leading to defects in spindle assembly and anaphase chromosome segregation. The damaged nuclei drop from the cortex and are not incorporated into the cells that form the embryo proper. A null mutation in the Drosophila checkpoint kinase 2 tumor suppressor homolog [DmChk2) blocks this mitotic response to DNA lesions and also prevents loss of defective nuclei from the cortex. In addition, DNA damage leads to increased DmChk2 localization to the centrosome and spindle microtubules. DmChk2 is therefore essential for a mitotic catastrophe signal that disrupts centrosome function in response to genotoxic stress and ensures that mutant and aneuploid nuclei are eliminated from the embryonic precursor pool.
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