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ArticleDevelopmental cell2016

Proliferation of Double-Strand Break-Resistant Polyploid Cells Requires Drosophila FANCD2.

Heidi S Bretscher, Donald T Fox

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Article in Developmental cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Growth under pressure: The pros and cons of polyploidy induced by stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Polyploidy and Senescence of Cancer Cells: Impact of Cell Fusion.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  14. Artificial Diploid Escherichia coli by a CRISPR Chromosome-Doubling Technique.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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  20. Focal Point of Fanconi Anemia Signaling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Heidi S BretscherDepartment of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, DUMC Box 3813, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Donald T FoxDepartment of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, DUMC Box 3813, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Electronic address: don.fox@duke.edu.
Duke University · US

Funding

Polyploidy after tissue injury: a Drosophila modelR01GM118447 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FOX, DONALD T. · 2016 to 2025
$3.1M
Non-Canonical Responses to DNA damage in Drosophila Polyploid CellsF31CA186545 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BRETSCHER, HEIDI · 2015 to 2017
$98k
NCI NIH HHS F31 CA186545NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118447
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conserved DNA-damage responses (DDRs) sense genome damage and prevent mitosis of broken chromosomes. How cells lacking DDRs cope with broken chromosomes during mitosis is poorly understood. DDRs are frequently inactivated in cells with extra genomes (polyploidy), suggesting that study of polyploidy can reveal how cells with impaired DDRs/genome damage continue dividing. Here, we show that continued division and normal organ development occurs in polyploid, DDR-impaired Drosophila papillar cells. As papillar cells become polyploid, they naturally accumulate broken acentric chromosomes but do not apoptose/arrest the cell cycle. To survive mitosis with acentric chromosomes, papillar cells require Fanconi anemia proteins FANCD2 and FANCI, as well as Blm helicase, but not canonical DDR signaling. FANCD2 acts independently of previous S phases to promote alignment and segregation of acentric DNA produced by double-strand breaks, thus avoiding micronuclei and organ malformation. Because polyploidy and impaired DDRs can promote cancer, our findings provide insight into disease-relevant DNA-damage tolerance mechanisms.

Indexed as

DNA Breaks, Double-StrandedPolyploidyAnimalsApoptosisCell ProliferationCell SurvivalChromosome SegregationChromosomes, InsectDNADNA HelicasesDNA RepairDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsFanconi Anemia Complementation Group D2 ProteinMicronuclei, Chromosome-DefectivePhenotypeblm protein, DrosophilaDNADNA HelicasesDrosophila ProteinsFancd2 protein, DrosophilaFanconi Anemia Complementation Group D2 ProteinTumor Suppressor Protein p53endocycleFANCD2polyploidy

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PMID27270041
PMCPMC4901310
OpenAlexW2415381687

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