Polyoma small T upregulates the expression of cytoskeletal proteins in mammalian cells during mitosis

Reshi, Irfana; Sarwar, Zarka; Bhat, Sameer Ahmed; Gillani, Syed Qaaifah; Shah, Misbah; Fazili, Khalid Majid; Andrabi, Shaida

doi:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.10.110

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“…1C). Recently, we have shown that PyST expression in U2OS cells changes the expression of commonly used loading controls such as tubulin, vinculin, and glyceraldehyde-3phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) (33); therefore, we have used Ponceau S staining as a loading control in experiments that involved PyST expression. We also confirmed mitotic arrest in PyST-expressing cells by immunofluorescence experiments, using an anti phospho-histone 3 serine 10 antibody.…”

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Polyomavirus Small T Antigen Induces Apoptosis in Mammalian Cells through the UNC5B Pathway in a PP2A-Dependent Manner

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Sarwar

Gillani

et al. 2020

J Virol

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UNC5B is a dependence receptor that promotes survival in the presence of its ligand, netrin-1, while inducing cell death in its absence. The receptor has an important role in the development of the nervous and vascular systems. It is also involved in the normal turnover of intestinal epithelium. Netrin-1 and UNC5B are deregulated in multiple cancers, including colorectal, neuroblastoma, and breast tumors. However, the detailed mechanism of UNC5B function is not fully understood. We have utilized the murine polyomavirus small T antigen (PyST) as a tool to study UNC5B-mediated apoptosis. PyST is known to induce mitotic arrest followed by extensive cell death in mammalian cells. Our results show that the expression of PyST increases mRNA levels of UNC5B by approximately 3-fold in osteosarcoma cells (U2OS) and also stabilizes UNC5B at the posttranslational level. Furthermore, UNC5B is upregulated predominantly in those cells that undergo mitotic arrest upon PyST expression. Interestingly, although its expression was previously reported to be regulated by p53, our data show that the increase in UNC5B levels by PyST is p53 independent. The posttranslational stabilization of UNC5B by PyST is regulated by the interaction of PyST with PP2A. We also show that netrin-1 expression, which is known to inhibit UNC5B apoptotic activity, promotes survival of PyST-expressing cells. Our results thus suggest an important role of UNC5B in small-T antigen-induced mitotic catastrophe that also requires PP2A. IMPORTANCE UNC5B, PP2A, and netrin-1 are deregulated in a variety of cancers. UNC5B and PP2A are regarded as tumor suppressors, as they promote apoptosis and are deleted or mutated in many cancers. In contrast, netrin-1 promotes survival by inhibiting dependence receptors, including UNC5B, and is upregulated in many cancers. Here, we show that UNC5B-mediated apoptosis can occur independently of p53 but in a PP2A-dependent manner. A substantial percentage of cancers arise due to p53 mutations and are insensitive to chemotherapeutic treatments that activate p53. Unexpectedly, treatment of cancers having functional p53 with many conventional drugs leads to the upregulation of netrin-1 through activated p53, which is counterintuitive. Therefore, understanding the p53-independent mechanisms of the netrin-UNC5B axis, such as those involving PP2A, assumes greater clinical significance. Anticancer strategies utilizing anti-netrin-1 antibody treatment are already in clinical trials.

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