Werner Syndrome Helicase Is Required for the Survival of Cancer Cells with Microsatellite Instability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorn Kategaya ◽  
Senthil K. Perumal ◽  
Jeffrey H. Hager ◽  
Lisa D. Belmont
Keyword(s):  
Microsatellite Instability ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Werner Syndrome

scholarly journals Werner syndrome helicase is a selective vulnerability of microsatellite instability-high tumor cells

eLife ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Lieb ◽  
Silvia Blaha-Ostermann ◽  
Elisabeth Kamper ◽  
Janine Rippka ◽  
Cornelia Schwarz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microsatellite Instability ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Tumor Cells ◽  
Cell Lines ◽  
Cancer Cell ◽  
Werner Syndrome ◽  
Cancer Cell Lines ◽  
Selective Vulnerability ◽  
Functional Screening ◽  
Wrn Helicase

Targeted cancer therapy is based on exploiting selective dependencies of tumor cells. By leveraging recent functional screening data of cancer cell lines we identify Werner syndrome helicase (WRN) as a novel specific vulnerability of microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) cancer cells. MSI, caused by defective mismatch repair (MMR), occurs frequently in colorectal, endometrial and gastric cancers. We demonstrate that WRN inactivation selectively impairs the viability of MSI-H but not microsatellite stable (MSS) colorectal and endometrial cancer cell lines. In MSI-H cells, WRN loss results in severe genome integrity defects. ATP-binding deficient variants of WRN fail to rescue the viability phenotype of WRN-depleted MSI-H cancer cells. Reconstitution and depletion studies indicate that WRN dependence is not attributable to acute loss of MMR gene function but might arise during sustained MMR-deficiency. Our study suggests that pharmacological inhibition of WRN helicase function represents an opportunity to develop a novel targeted therapy for MSI-H cancers.

scholarly journals Werner Syndrome Helicase Is Required for the Survival of Cancer Cells with Microsatellite Instability

iScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 488-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorn Kategaya ◽  
Senthil K. Perumal ◽  
Jeffrey H. Hager ◽  
Lisa D. Belmont
Keyword(s):  
Microsatellite Instability ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Werner Syndrome

scholarly journals WRN modulates translation by influencing mRNA export from the nucleus through its interaction with the export receptor NXF1 in HeLa cancer cell

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Iglesias-Pedraz ◽  
Diego Matia Fossatti Jara ◽  
Valeria Del Carmen Valle-Riestra Felice ◽  
Sergio Rafael Cruz Visalaya ◽  
Jose Antonio Ayala Felix ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Nuclear Export ◽  
Werner Syndrome ◽  
Mrna Export ◽  
Premature Aging ◽  
Metabolic Shift ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Global Protein Synthesis

Abstract Background The Werner syndrome protein (WRN) belongs to the RecQ family of helicases and its loss of function results in the premature aging disease Werner syndrome (WS). We previously demonstrated that an early cellular change induced by WRN depletion is a posttranscriptional decrease in the levels of enzymes involved in metabolic pathways that control macromolecular synthesis and protect from oxidative stress. This metabolic shift is tolerated by normal cells but causes mitochondria dysfunction and acute oxidative stress in rapidly growing cancer cells, thereby suppressing their proliferation.Results To identify the mechanism underlying this metabolic shift, we examined global protein synthesis and mRNA nucleocytoplasmic distribution after WRN knockdown. We determined that WRN depletion in HeLa cells attenuates global protein synthesis without affecting the level of key components of the mRNA export machinery. We further observed that WRN depletion affects the nuclear export of mRNAs and demonstrated that WRN directly interacts with mRNA and the mRNA export receptor Nuclear Export Factor 1 (NXF1).Conclusions Our findings suggest that WRN influences the export of mRNAs from the nucleus through its interaction with the NXF1 export receptor thereby affecting cellular proteostasis. In summary, we identified a new partner and a novel function of WRN, which is especially important for the proliferation of cancer cells.

scholarly journals WRN modulates mRNA translation by influencing mRNA export from the nucleus through its interaction with the export receptor NXF1 in HeLa cancer cell

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Iglesias-Pedraz ◽  
Diego Matia Fossatti Jara ◽  
Valeria Del Carmen Valle-Riestra Felice ◽  
Sergio Rafael Cruz Visalaya ◽  
Jose Antonio Ayala Felix ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Nuclear Export ◽  
Werner Syndrome ◽  
Mrna Export ◽  
Mrna Translation ◽  
Premature Aging ◽  
Metabolic Shift ◽  
Global Protein Synthesis

Abstract BackgroundThe Werner syndrome protein (WRN) belongs to the RecQ family of helicases and its loss of function results in the premature aging disease Werner syndrome (WS). We previously demonstrated that an early cellular change induced by WRN depletion is a posttranscriptional decrease in the levels of enzymes involved in metabolic pathways that control macromolecular synthesis and protect from oxidative stress. This metabolic shift is tolerated by normal cells but causes mitochondria dysfunction and acute oxidative stress in rapidly growing cancer cells, thereby suppressing their proliferation.Results To identify the mechanism underlying this metabolic shift, we examined global protein synthesis and mRNA nucleocytoplasmic distribution after WRN knockdown. We determined that WRN depletion in HeLa cells attenuates global protein synthesis without affecting the level of key components of the mRNA export machinery. We further observed that WRN depletion affects the nuclear export of mRNAs and demonstrated that WRN directly interacts with mRNA and the mRNA export receptor Nuclear Export Factor 1 (NXF1).Conclusions Our findings suggest that WRN influences the export of mRNAs from the nucleus through its interaction with the NXF1 export receptor thereby affecting cellular proteostasis. In summary, we identified a new partner and a novel function of WRN, which is especially important for the proliferation of cancer cells.

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