Abstract 2574: Werner syndrome helicase is required for the survival of cancer cells with microsatellite instability
| Autor: | Lisa D. Belmont, Jeffrey H. Hager, Lorn Kategaya, Senthil K. Perumal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Premature aging
congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities Cancer Research education.field_of_study RecQ helicase nutritional and metabolic diseases Cancer Microsatellite instability Synthetic lethality Biology medicine.disease MLH1 Werner Syndrome Helicase Oncology Cancer cell medicine Cancer research education |
| Zdroj: | Cancer Research. 79:2574-2574 |
| ISSN: | 1538-7445 0008-5472 |
| DOI: | 10.1158/1538-7445.am2019-2574 |
| Popis: | Werner Syndrome protein (WRN) is a RecQ enzyme involved in the maintenance of genome integrity. Germline loss of function mutations in WRN lead to premature aging and pre-disposition to cancer. We evaluated synthetic lethality (SL) between not only of WRN, but also of another human RecQ helicase, BLM, with DNA damage response genes in cancer cell lines. We found that WRN exhibited SL with a DNA mismatch repair protein MutL homolog 1 (MLH1), loss of which is associated with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H). We then demonstrated that MSI-H cells exhibited increased double-stranded DNA breaks, altered cell cycles and decreased viability in response to WRN knockdown. Although WRN is the only human RecQ enzyme with a distinct exonuclease domain, only loss of helicase activity drives the MSI SL interaction. This SL interaction in MSI cancer cells positions WRN as a relevant therapeutic target in patients with MSI-H tumors. Citation Format: Lorn Kategaya, Senthil K. Perumal, Jeffrey H. Hager, Lisa D. Belmont. Werner syndrome helicase is required for the survival of cancer cells with microsatellite instability [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2574. |
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