Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7156
Authors: Knizhnik, Anna V.
Roos, Wynand Paul
Nikolova, Teodora
Quiros, Steve
Tomaszowski, Karl-Heinz
Christmann, Markus
Kaina, Bernd
Title: Survival and death strategies in glioma cells : autophagy, senescence and apoptosis triggered by a single type of temozolomide-induced DNA damage
Online publication date: 15-Jun-2022
Year of first publication: 2013
Language: english
Abstract: Apoptosis, autophagy, necrosis and cellular senescence are key responses of cells that were exposed to genotoxicants. The types of DNA damage triggering these responses and their interrelationship are largely unknown. Here we studied these responses in glioma cells treated with the methylating agent temozolomide (TMZ), which is a first-line chemotherapeutic for this malignancy. We show that upon TMZ treatment cells undergo autophagy, senescence and apoptosis in a specific time-dependent manner. Necrosis was only marginally induced. All these effects were completely abrogated in isogenic glioma cells expressing O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), indicating that a single type of DNA lesion, O(6)-methylguanine (O(6)MeG), is able to trigger all these responses. Studies with mismatch repair mutants and MSH6, Rad51 and ATM knockdowns revealed that autophagy induced by O(6)MeG requires mismatch repair and ATM, and is counteracted by homologous recombination. We further show that autophagy, which precedes apoptosis, is a survival mechanism as its inhibition greatly ameliorated the level of apoptosis following TMZ at therapeutically relevant doses (<100 microM). Cellular senescence increases with post-exposure time and, similar to autophagy, precedes apoptosis. If autophagy was abrogated, TMZ-induced senescence was reduced. Therefore, we propose that autophagy triggered by O(6)MeG adducts is a survival mechanism that stimulates cells to undergo senescence rather than apoptosis. Overall, the data revealed that a specific DNA adduct, O(6)MeG, has the capability of triggering autophagy, senescence and apoptosis and that the decision between survival and death is determined by the balance of players involved. The data also suggests that inhibition of autophagy may ameliorate the therapeutic outcome of TMZ-based cancer therapy.
DDC: 610 Medizin
610 Medical sciences
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 04 Medizin
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7156
Version: Published version
Publication type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License: CC BY
Information on rights of use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Journal: PLoS one
8
1
Pages or article number: e55665
Publisher: PLoS
Publisher place: Lawrence, Kan.
Issue date: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055665
Publisher DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055665
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