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ArticleScientific reports2015

Fitness profiling links topoisomerase II regulation of centromeric integrity to doxorubicin resistance in fission yeast.

Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen, Julia Sze Lynn Lim, Richard Ming Yi Tang, Louxin Zhang, Ee Sin Chen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen1] Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597 [2] National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore.
Julia Sze Lynn Lim1] Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597 [2] National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore.
Richard Ming Yi Tang1] Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597 [2] National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore.
Louxin Zhang1] NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering [2] Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119076.
Ee Sin Chen1] Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597 [2] National University Health System (NUHS), Singapore [3] Synthetic Biology Research Consortium, National University of Singapore [4] NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering.
National University of Singapore · SGNational University Health System · SG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Doxorubicin, a chemotherapeutic agent, inhibits the religation step of topoisomerase II (Top2). However, the downstream ramifications of this action are unknown. Here we performed epistasis analyses of top2 with 63 genes representing doxorubicin resistance (DXR) genes in fission yeast and revealed a subset that synergistically collaborate with Top2 to confer DXR. Our findings show that the chromatin-regulating RSC and SAGA complexes act with Top2 in a cluster that is functionally distinct from the Ino80 complex. In various DXR mutants, doxorubicin hypersensitivity was unexpectedly suppressed by a concomitant top2 mutation. Several DXR proteins showed centromeric localization, and their disruption resulted in centromeric defects and chromosome missegregation. An additional top2 mutation could restore centromeric chromatin integrity, suggesting a counterbalance between Top2 and these DXR factors in conferring doxorubicin resistance. Overall, this molecular basis for mitotic catastrophe associated with doxorubicin treatment will help to facilitate drug combinatorial usage in doxorubicin-related chemotherapeutic regimens.

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Drug Resistance, FungalGenetic FitnessCentromereChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneChromosome AberrationsCluster AnalysisDNA Topoisomerases, Type IIDoxorubicinEpistasis, GeneticGene Expression Regulation, FungalMutationSchizosaccharomycesTranscription, GeneticChromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNA Topoisomerases, Type IIDoxorubicin

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