Affiliation:
1. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
2. Department of Biochemistry and the Cancer Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We previously reported the phenotype of depletion of polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) using RNA interference (RNAi) and showed that p53 is stabilized in Plk1-depleted cancer cells. In this study, we further analyzed the Plk1 depletion-induced phenotype in both cancer cells and primary cells. The vector-based RNAi approach was used to evaluate the role of the p53 pathway in Plk1 depletion-induced apoptosis in cancer cells with different p53 backgrounds. Although DNA damage and cell death can occur independently of p53, p53-deficient cancer cells were much more sensitive to Plk1 depletion than cancer cells with functional p53. Next, the lentivirus-based RNAi approach was used to generate a series of Plk1 hypomorphs. In HeLa cells, two weak hypomorphs showed only slight G
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/M arrest, a medium hypomorph arrested with 4N DNA content, followed later by apoptosis, and a strong Plk1 hypomorph underwent serious mitotic catastrophe. In well-synchronized HeLa cells, a medium level of Plk1 depletion caused a 2-h delay of mitotic progression, and a high degree of Plk1 depletion significantly delayed mitotic entry and completely blocked cells at mitosis. In striking contrast, normal hTERT-RPE1 and MCF10A cells were much less sensitive to Plk1 depletion than HeLa cells; no apparent cell proliferation defect or cell cycle arrest was observed after Plk1 depletion in these cells. Therefore, these data further support suggestions that Plk1 may be a feasible cancer therapy target.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
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