Journal
CELL CYCLE
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages 1424-1439Publisher
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/cc.28402
Keywords
apoptosis resistance; DNA damage response; DNA repair; polyploidy; mTOR; autophagy; stem cells markers; senescence reversion
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- Russian Academy of Sciences (MCB RAS)
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [13-04-00552]
- Program of Saint Petersburg State University [1.38.247.2014]
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Cells respond to genotoxic stress by activating the DNA damage response (DDR). When injury is severe or irreparable, cells induce apoptosis or cellular senescence to prevent transmission of the lesions to the daughter cells upon cell division. Resistance to apoptosis is a hallmark of cancer that challenges the efficacy of cancer therapy. In this work, the effects of ionizing radiation on apoptosis-resistant E1A + E1B transformed cells were investigated to ascertain whether the activation of cellular senescence could provide an alternative tumor suppressor mechanism. We show that irradiated cells arrest cell cycle at G(2)/M phase and resume DNA replication in the absence of cell division followed by formation of giant polyploid cells. Permanent activation of DDR signaling due to impaired DNA repair results in the induction of cellular senescence in E1A + E1B cells. However, irradiated cells bypass senescence and restore the population by dividing cells, which have near normal size and ploidy and do not express senescence markers. Reversion of senescence and appearance of proliferating cells were associated with downregulation of mTOR, activation of autophagy, mitigation of DDR signaling, and expression of stem cell markers.
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