scholarly journals Mechanisms generating cancer genome complexity from a single cell division error

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 368 (6488) ◽  
pp. eaba0712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil T. Umbreit ◽  
Cheng-Zhong Zhang ◽  
Luke D. Lynch ◽  
Logan J. Blaine ◽  
Anna M. Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Division ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Genome Instability ◽  
Chromosome Breakage ◽  
Genomic Complexity ◽  
Genome Complexity ◽  
Cancer Genomes ◽  
Chromosome Bridge ◽  
Bfb Cycle ◽  
Mutational Process

The chromosome breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle is a mutational process that produces gene amplification and genome instability. Signatures of BFB cycles can be observed in cancer genomes alongside chromothripsis, another catastrophic mutational phenomenon. We explain this association by elucidating a mutational cascade that is triggered by a single cell division error—chromosome bridge formation—that rapidly increases genomic complexity. We show that actomyosin forces are required for initial bridge breakage. Chromothripsis accumulates, beginning with aberrant interphase replication of bridge DNA. A subsequent burst of DNA replication in the next mitosis generates extensive DNA damage. During this second cell division, broken bridge chromosomes frequently missegregate and form micronuclei, promoting additional chromothripsis. We propose that iterations of this mutational cascade generate the continuing evolution and subclonal heterogeneity characteristic of many human cancers.

scholarly journals Mechanisms Generating Cancer Genome Complexity From A Single Cell Division Error

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil T. Umbreit ◽  
Cheng-Zhong Zhang ◽  
Luke D. Lynch ◽  
Logan J. Blaine ◽  
Anna M. Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genome Instability ◽  
Chromosome Breakage ◽  
Epigenetic Mark ◽  
Clonal Heterogeneity ◽  
Bridge Formation ◽  
Genome Complexity ◽  
Cancer Genomes ◽  
Chromosome Bridge ◽  
Bfb Cycle ◽  
Mutational Process

ABSTRACTThe chromosome breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle is a mutational process that produces gene amplification and genome instability. Signatures of BFB cycles can be observed in cancer genomes with chromothripsis, another catastrophic mutational process. Here, we explain this association by identifying a mutational cascade downstream of chromosome bridge formation that generates increasing amounts of chromothripsis. We uncover a new role for actomyosin forces in bridge breakage and mutagenesis. Chromothripsis then accumulates starting with aberrant interphase replication of bridge DNA, followed by an unexpected burst of mitotic DNA replication, generating extensive DNA damage. Bridge formation also disrupts the centromeric epigenetic mark, leading to micronucleus formation that itself promotes chromothripsis. We show that this mutational cascade generates the continuing evolution and sub-clonal heterogeneity characteristic of many human cancers.

scholarly journals Regulation of Cell Division in Bacteria by Monitoring Genome Integrity and DNA Replication Status

2019 ◽  
Vol 202 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E. Burby ◽  
Lyle A. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Dna Damage ◽  
Cell Division ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Cell Cycle Progression ◽  
Genome Instability ◽  
Sos Response ◽  
Bacterial Cells ◽  
Cycle Progression ◽  
Content Type

ABSTRACT All organisms regulate cell cycle progression by coordinating cell division with DNA replication status. In eukaryotes, DNA damage or problems with replication fork progression induce the DNA damage response (DDR), causing cyclin-dependent kinases to remain active, preventing further cell cycle progression until replication and repair are complete. In bacteria, cell division is coordinated with chromosome segregation, preventing cell division ring formation over the nucleoid in a process termed nucleoid occlusion. In addition to nucleoid occlusion, bacteria induce the SOS response after replication forks encounter DNA damage or impediments that slow or block their progression. During SOS induction, Escherichia coli expresses a cytoplasmic protein, SulA, that inhibits cell division by directly binding FtsZ. After the SOS response is turned off, SulA is degraded by Lon protease, allowing for cell division to resume. Recently, it has become clear that SulA is restricted to bacteria closely related to E. coli and that most bacteria enforce the DNA damage checkpoint by expressing a small integral membrane protein. Resumption of cell division is then mediated by membrane-bound proteases that cleave the cell division inhibitor. Further, many bacterial cells have mechanisms to inhibit cell division that are regulated independently from the canonical LexA-mediated SOS response. In this review, we discuss several pathways used by bacteria to prevent cell division from occurring when genome instability is detected or before the chromosome has been fully replicated and segregated.

scholarly journals Balanced transcription of cell division genes inBacillus subtilisas revealed by single cell analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 3196-3209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Nico Trip ◽  
Jan-Willem Veening ◽  
Eric J. Stewart ◽  
Jeff Errington ◽  
Dirk-Jan Scheffers
Keyword(s):  
Cell Division ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Single Cell Analysis ◽  
Cell Analysis

scholarly journals Haplotype-aware single-cell multiomics uncovers functional effects of somatic structural variation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyobin Jeong ◽  
Karen Grimes ◽  
Peter-Martin Bruch ◽  
Tobias Rausch ◽  
Patrick Hasenfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Cell ◽  
Nucleosome Occupancy ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Chromosomal Rearrangements ◽  
Regulatory Elements ◽  
Computational Method ◽  
Tumour Heterogeneity ◽  
Cancer Genomes ◽  
Functional Consequences ◽  
Oncogenic Transcription Factor

Somatic structural variants (SVs) are widespread in cancer genomes, however, their impact on tumorigenesis and intra-tumour heterogeneity is incompletely understood, since methods to functionally characterize the broad spectrum of SVs arising in cancerous single-cells are lacking. We present a computational method, scNOVA, that couples SV discovery with nucleosome occupancy analysis by haplotype-resolved single-cell sequencing, to systematically uncover SV effects on cis-regulatory elements and gene activity. Application to leukemias and cell lines uncovered SV outcomes at several loci, including dysregulated cancer-related pathways and mono-allelic oncogene expression near SV breakpoints. At the intra-patient level, we identified different yet overlapping subclonal SVs that converge on aberrant Wnt signaling. We also deconvoluted the effects of catastrophic chromosomal rearrangements resulting in oncogenic transcription factor dysregulation. scNOVA directly links SVs to their functional consequences, opening the door for single-cell multiomics of SVs in heterogeneous cell populations.

scholarly journals Extensive Regulation of Metabolism and Growth during the Cell Division Cycle

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Slavov ◽  
David Botstein ◽  
Amy Caudy
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Cell Division ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Single Cells ◽  
Emergent Behavior ◽  
Yeast Cells ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Synchronized Cultures ◽  
Metabolic Cycle

Yeast cells grown in culture can spontaneously synchronize their respiration, metabolism, gene expression and cell division. Such metabolic oscillations in synchronized cultures reflect single-cell oscillations, but the relationship between the oscillations in single cells and synchronized cultures is poorly understood. To understand this relationship and the coordination between metabolism and cell division, we collected and analyzed DNA-content, gene-expression and physiological data, at hundreds of time-points, from cultures metabolically-synchronized at different growth rates, carbon sources and biomass densities. The data enabled us to extend and generalize our mechanistic model, based on ensemble average over phases (EAP), connecting the population-average gene-expression of asynchronous cultures to the gene-expression dynamics in the single-cells comprising the cultures. The extended model explains the carbon-source specific growth-rate responses of hundreds of genes. Our physiological data demonstrate that the frequency of metabolic cycling in synchronized cultures increases with the biomass density, suggesting that this cycling is an emergent behavior, resulting from the entraining of the single-cell metabolic cycle by a quorum-sensing mechanism, and thus underscoring the difference between metabolic cycling in single cells and in synchronized cultures. Measurements of constant levels of residual glucose across metabolically synchronized cultures indicate that storage carbohydrates are required to fuel not only the G1/S transition of the division cycle but also the metabolic cycle. Despite the large variation in profiled conditions and in the scale of their dynamics, most genes preserve invariant dynamics of coordination with each other and with the rate of oxygen consumption. Similarly, the G1/S transition always occurs at the beginning, middle or end of the high oxygen consumption phases, analogous to observations in human and drosophila cells. These results highlight evolutionary conserved coordination among metabolism, cell growth and division.

scholarly journals Direct Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing on Clinical Urine Samples by Optical Tracking of Single Cell Division Events

Small ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (52) ◽  
pp. 2004148
Author(s):  
Fenni Zhang ◽  
Jiapei Jiang ◽  
Michelle McBride ◽  
Yunze Yang ◽  
Manni Mo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Division ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Antimicrobial Susceptibility ◽  
Susceptibility Testing ◽  
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing ◽  
Optical Tracking ◽  
Urine Samples

scholarly journals Stem cell dynamics in mouse hair follicles: A story from cell division counting and single cell lineage tracing

Cell Cycle ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1504-1510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying V. Zhang ◽  
Brian S. White ◽  
David I. Shalloway ◽  
Tudorita Tumbar
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Cell Division ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Cell Lineage ◽  
Hair Follicles ◽  
Lineage Tracing ◽  
Cell Dynamics

scholarly journals Single-cell dynamics of the chromosome replication and cell division cycles in mycobacteria

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Santi ◽  
Neeraj Dhar ◽  
Djenet Bousbaine ◽  
Yuichi Wakamoto ◽  
John D. McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Cell Division ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Chromosome Replication ◽  
Cell Dynamics
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