期刊
EMBO JOURNAL
卷 31, 期 13, 页码 2839-2851出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.132
关键词
cancer progression; cellular senescence; oncogene; telomere dysfunction; tumour suppressing mechanism
资金
- New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research [09-1124-CCR-EO]
- Ellison Medical Foundation [AG-NS-0387-7]
- NCI [R01CA136533]
- Ministry of Education, Singpaore [T206B3108]
- AIRC (Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro)
- European Community [202230]
- GENINCA
- HFSP (Human Frontier Science Program)
- AICR (Association for International Cancer Research)
- EMBO
- Telethon
- Fondazione Umberto Veronesi (FUV)
In normal human somatic cells, telomere dysfunction causes cellular senescence, a stable proliferative arrest with tumour suppressing properties. Whether telomere dysfunction-induced senescence (TDIS) suppresses cancer growth in humans, however, is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that multiple and distinct human cancer precursor lesions, but not corresponding malignant cancers, are comprised of cells that display hallmarks of TDIS. Furthermore, we demonstrate that oncogenic signalling, frequently associated with initiating cancer growth in humans, dramatically affected telomere structure and function by causing telomeric replication stress, rapid and stochastic telomere attrition, and consequently telomere dysfunction in cells that lack hTERT activity. DNA replication stress induced by drugs also resulted in telomere dysfunction and cellular senescence in normal human cells, demonstrating that telomeric repeats indeed are hypersensitive to DNA replication stress. Our data reveal that TDIS, accelerated by oncogene-induced DNA replication stress, is a biological response of cells in human cancer precursor lesions and provide strong evidence that TDIS is a critical tumour suppressing mechanism in humans. The EMBO Journal (2012) 31, 2839-2851. doi:10.1038/emboj.2012.132; Published online 8 May 2012
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