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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 603, Issue 1-3, Pages 29-36Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2008.12.002
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Antitumor activity; Camptothecin; Global transcriptional profiles; DNA topoisomerase I; DNA damage response; (S. cerevisiae)
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- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Milan, Italy
- Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca, Rome
- University of Bologna, Bologna
- University of Bologna PhD Program in Functional Biology of Molecular and Cellular Systems
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Topoisomerase I (Top1) is the specific target of the anticancer drug camptothecin (CPT) that interferes with enzyme activity promoting Top1-mediated DNA breaks and inhibition of DNA and RNA synthesis. To define the specific transcriptional response to CPT we have determined the CPT-altered transcription profiles in yeast by using a relatively low concentration of the drug. CPIT could alter global expression profiles only if a catalytically active Top1p was expressed in the cell, demonstrating that drug interference with Top1 was the sole trigger of the response. A total of 95 genes showed a statistically-significant alterations. Gene Ontology term analyses suggested that the cell response was mainly to the inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis and cell cycle progression. Promoter sequence analyses of the 22 up-regulated genes and expression studies in gene-deleted strains showed that the transcription factors, Swi4p and Mbp1p, mediate at least partially the transcriptional response to CPT. The MBPI gene deletion abrogates a transient cell growth delay caused by CPT whereas the SWI4 gene deletion increases yeast resistance to CPT. Thus, the findings show that yeast cells have a highly selective and sensitive transcriptional response to CPT depending on SWI4 and MBPI genes suggesting a complex regulation of cell cycle progression by the two factors in the presence of CPT. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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