University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
Publication Date
2020-10-16
Document Type
Article Preprint
Disciplines
Cell Biology | Genetics and Genomics
Abstract
Vertebrate mammals express a protein called Ki-67 which is most widely known as a clinically useful marker of highly proliferative cells. Previous studies of human cells indicated that acute depletion of Ki-67 can elicit a delay at the G1/S boundary of the cell cycle, dependent on induction of the checkpoint protein p21. Consistent with those observations, we show here that acute Ki-67 depletion causes hallmarks of DNA damage, and the damage occurs even in the absence of checkpoint signaling. This damage is not observed in cells traversing S phase but is instead robustly detected in mitotic cells. The C-terminal chromatin binding domain of Ki-67 is necessary and sufficient to protect cells from this damage. We also observe synergistic effects when Ki-67 and p53 are simultaneously depleted, resulting in increased levels of chromosome bridges at anaphase, followed by the appearance of micronuclei. Therefore, these studies identify the C-terminus of Ki-67 as an important module for genome stability.
Keywords
Cell Biology, DNA damage, Ki-67, proteins
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DOI of Published Version
10.1101/2020.10.16.342352
Source
bioRxiv 2020.10.16.342352; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.342352. Link to preprint on bioRxiv.
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bioRxiv
Repository Citation
Garwain O, Sun X, Ramalingam Iyer D, Li R, Zhu LJ, Kaufman PD. (2020). The chromatin-binding domain of Ki-67 together with p53 protects human chromosomes from mitotic damage [preprint]. University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.342352. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/1851
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