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ArticleScientific reports2018

Mammalian Cells Undergo Endoreduplication in Response to Lactic Acidosis.

Zhihao Tan, De Zhi Valerie Chu, Yong Jie Andrew Chan, Yi Ena Lu, Giulia Rancati

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhihao TanInstitute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.
De Zhi Valerie ChuInstitute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.
Yong Jie Andrew ChanInstitute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0002-3662-5964
Yi Ena LuInstitute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore.
Giulia RancatiInstitute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore. giulia.rancati@imb.a-star.edu.sg.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyploidization, a common event during the evolution of different tumours, has been proposed to confer selective advantages to tumour cells by increasing the occurrence of mutations promoting cancer progression and by conferring chemotherapy resistance. While conditions leading to polyploidy in cancer cells have been described, a general mechanism explaining the incidence of this karyotypic change in tumours is still missing. In this study, we tested whether a widespread tumour microenvironmental condition, low pH, could induce polyploidization in mammalian cells. We found that an acidic microenvironment, in the range of what is commonly observed in tumours, together with the addition of lactic acid, induced polyploidization in transformed and non-transformed human cell lines in vitro. In addition, we provide evidence that polyploidization was mainly driven through the process of endoreduplication, i.e. the complete skipping of mitosis in-between two S-phases. These findings suggest that acidic environments, which characterize solid tumours, are a plausible path leading to polyploidization of cancer cells.

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EndoreduplicationAcidosis, LacticCell CycleCell Line, TumorCell Transformation, NeoplasticHumansPolyploidy

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PMID29440645
PMCPMC5811548
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