A non-genetic route to aneuploidy in human cancers
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Aneuploidy is common in human tumours and is often indicative of aggressive disease. Aneuploidy can result from cytokinesis failure, which produces binucleate cells that generate aneuploid offspring with subsequent divisions. In cancers, disruption of cytokinesis is known to result from genetic perturbations to mitotic pathways or checkpoints. Here we describe a non-genetic mechanism of cytokinesis failure that occurs as a direct result of cell-in-cell formation by entosis. Live cells internalized by entosis, which can persist through the cell cycle of host cells, disrupt formation of the contractile ring during host cell division. As a result, cytokinesis frequently fails, generating binucleate cells that produce aneuploid cell lineages. In human breast tumours, multinucleation is associated with cell-in-cell structures. These data define a previously unknown mechanism of cytokinesis failure and aneuploid cell formation that operates in human cancers.
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Entotic invasion has been suggested to favor aneuploidization and polyploidization through cytokinesis failure of engulfing cells.
“entotic invasion has also been suggested to favor aneuploidization and polyploidization (which promote tumor progression) [711–713] through a mechanism involving cytokinesis failure of engulfing cells [714, 715].”
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- Authors
- Krajcovic, M., Johnson, N. B., Sun, Q., Normand, G., Hoover, N., Yao, E., Richardson, A. L., King, R. W., Cibas, E. S., Schnitt, S. J., Brugge, J. S., & Overholtzer, M.
- Affiliations
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Overholtzer, Michael
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Cell Biology
- Published
- 2011-02-20
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 324-330
- ISSN
- 1465-7392 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4679
- PMC
- PMC3576821
- OpenAlex
- W2018917075
- Cited by
- 188
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Cell Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (P01CA080111, R01CA105134)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM66492, R56GM066492, R01GM066492)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cell death mechanisms and regulation
- Keywords
- aneuploidy, entosis, cytokinesis failure, multinucleation, contractile ring, binucleated cells, breast cancer, tumor aggressiveness
- MeSH terms
- Aneuploidy, Cell Line, Humans, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Mitosis, Models, Biological, Models, Genetic, Neoplasms, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Cell Lineage, Cell Line, Tumor, Cytokinesis, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Entosis
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