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BRCA1 Downregulation Leads to Premature Inactivation of Spindle Checkpoint and Confers Paclitaxel Resistance
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Chabalier, C. Lamare, C. Racca, C. Privat, M. Valette, A. Larminat, F. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Description | Journal: Cell Cycle BRCA1 germline mutations predispose women to early onset, familial breast and ovariancancer. BRCA1 has been recently implicated in the cellular response to agents that disruptthe mitotic spindle. In this report, we studied BRCA1 contribution to paclitaxel response inMCF-7 breast cancer cells. We show that MCF-7 cells transfected with BRCA1 siRNAdisplay a significant increase in resistance to paclitaxel compared with the control cells. Wenext demonstrate that down-regulation of BRCA1 reduces the mitotic index and triggerspremature cyclin B1 degradation and decrease in Cdk1 activity following paclitaxel treatment,suggesting that BRCA1 down-regulation results in precocious inactivation of the spindlecheckpoint. These findings were confirmed by showing that BRCA1 down-regulation inducespremature sister–chromatids separation in MCF-7 cells following spindle damage.Furthermore, we show that BRCA1 up-regulates the expression of the protein kinase BubR1,essential component of the functional spindle checkpoint, whose down-regulation is known toresult in paclitaxel resistance in MCF-7 cells. Altogether, our findings support the notion thatdown-regulation of BRCA1 expression mediates paclitaxel resistance through prematureinactivation of spindle checkpoint in MCF-7 breast cancer cells. They link BRCA1 to themitotic checkpoint that plays an essential role in the maintenance of chromosomal stability. |
| Related Links | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.4161/cc.5.9.2726?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 1007 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| Starting Page | 1001 |
| ISSN | 15384101 |
| e-ISSN | 15514005 |
| DOI | 10.4161/cc.5.9.2726 |
| Journal | Cell Cycle |
| Issue Number | 9 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2006-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Cell Cycle Paclitaxel Resistance Breast Cancer Cells |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Cell Biology Developmental Biology Medicine Molecular Biology |
