Abstract
Triple-negative breast cancer is more aggressive than other types of breast cancer. Protein kinase R (PKR), which is activated by dsRNA, is known to play a role in doxorubicin-mediated apoptosis; however, its role in DNA damage-mediated apoptosis is not well understood. In this study, we investigated the roles of PKR and its downstream players in doxorubicin-treated HCC1143 triple-negative breast cancer cells. Doxorubicin treatment induces DNA damage and apoptosis. Interestingly, doxorubicin treatment induced the phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 alpha (eIF2α) via PKR, whereas the inhibition of PKR with inhibitor C16 reduced eIF2α phosphorylation. Under these conditions, doxorubicin-mediated DNA fragmentation, cell death, and poly(ADP ribose) polymerase and caspase 7 levels were recovered. In addition, phosphorylation of checkpoint kinase 1 (CHK1), which is known to be involved in doxorubicin-mediated DNA damage, was increased by doxorubicin treatment, but blocked by PKR inhibition. Protein translation was downregulated by doxorubicin treatment and upregulated by blocking PKR phosphorylation. These results suggest that PKR activation induces apoptosis by increasing the phosphorylation of eIF2α and CHK1 and decreasing the global protein translation in doxorubicin-treated HCC1143 triple-negative breast cancer cells.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Korea
Ministry of Education
Korea government
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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