单位:[1]Department of pharmacy, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330039,[2]Department of Oncology, Beijing Daxing District People’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 102600,[3]Cancer center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 10050,临床科室肿瘤中心首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院[4]Department of respiration, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330039, China
RAD51 recombinase plays a critical role in homologous recombination and DNA damage repair. Here we showed that expression of RAD51 is frequently upregulated in lung cancer tumors compared with normal tissues and is associated with poor survival (hazard ratio (HR) = 2, P = 0.0009). Systematic investigation of lung cancer cell lines revealed higher expression of RAD51 in KRAS mutant (MT) cells compared to wildtype (WT) cells. We further showed that MT KRAS, but not WT KRAS, played a critical role in RAD51 overexpression via MYC. Moreover, our results revealed that KRAS MT cells are highly dependent on RAD51 for survival and depletion of RAD51 resulted in enhanced DNA double strand breaks, defective colony formation and cell death. Together, our results suggest that mutant KRAS promotes RAD51 expression to enhance DNA damage repair and lung cancer cell survival, suggesting that RAD51 may be an effective therapeutic target to overcome chemo/radioresistance in KRAS mutant cancers.
基金:
Foundation of Science and Technology Department of Jiangxi Province [GJJ160266]
第一作者单位:[1]Department of pharmacy, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330039,
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Jinfang Hu,Zhiguo Zhang,Lei Zhao,et al.High expression of RAD51 promotes DNA damage repair and survival in KRAS-mutant lung cancer cells[J].BMB REPORTS.2019,52(2):151-156.doi:10.5483/BMBRep.2019.52.2.213.
APA:
Jinfang Hu,Zhiguo Zhang,Lei Zhao,Li Li,Wei Zuo&Lei Han.(2019).High expression of RAD51 promotes DNA damage repair and survival in KRAS-mutant lung cancer cells.BMB REPORTS,52,(2)
MLA:
Jinfang Hu,et al."High expression of RAD51 promotes DNA damage repair and survival in KRAS-mutant lung cancer cells".BMB REPORTS 52..2(2019):151-156