Characterization of checkpoint adaptation in human fibroblastic glioma cells and an analysis of protein phosphatase inhibitors
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Date
2012
Authors
Lanser, Brittany
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Biological Sciences, c2012
Abstract
This thesis reports that checkpoint adaptation occurs in human brain cancer cells. M059K cells, after treatment with camptothecin (CPT), recruited γ-histone H2AX, phosphorylated Chk1 and arrested in the G2 phase. Strikingly, cells escaped the checkpoint, became rounded and entered mitosis as measured by phospho-histone H3 signals. Lamin A/C immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that 48% of the cells that survived checkpoint adaptation contained micronuclei. These data suggest that brain cancer cells undergo checkpoint adaptation and may have an altered genome. This thesis also explored if phosphatases participate in checkpoint adaptation. Human colon cancer cells were treated with CPT and the PP2A inhibitor cantharidin. Following treatment the cells became rounded and 65% were positive for phospho-histone H3 signals indicating that cantharidin caused cells to be in mitosis following CPT treatment. These data suggest that PP2A might have a role in checkpoint adaptation, or participate in a pathway that bypasses checkpoint adaptation.
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xi, 114 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Keywords
Gliomas , Cancer cells -- Adaptation , Brain -- Tumors , Cellular control mechanisms , Cell cycle -- Regulation , Phosphoprotein phosphatases , Dissertations, Academic