Year

2014

Type(s)

Journal Article

Author(s)

Pastwa, Elzbieta and Poplawski, Tomasz and Lewandowska, Urszula and Somiari, Stella B. and Blasiak, Janusz and Somiari, Richard I.

Source

The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 53: 423—431, 2014

Url

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1357272514002052

BibTeX

BibTeX

BibTeX

@article{pastwa_wortmannin_2014, title = {Wortmannin potentiates the combined effect of etoposide and cisplatin in human glioma cells}, volume = {53}, issn = {1878-5875}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1357272514002052}, doi = {10.1016/j.biocel.2014.06.007}, abstract = {The combination of etoposide and cisplatin represents a common modality for treating of glioma patients. These drugs directly and indirectly produce the most lethal DNA double-stand breaks (DSB), which are mainly repaired by non-homologous DNA end joining (NHEJ). Drugs that can specifically inhibit the kinase activity of the catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs), the major component of NHEJ, are of special interest in cancer research. These small molecule inhibitors can effectively enhance the efficacy of current cancer treatments that generate DNA damage. In this study, we investigated the effect of DNA-PKcs inhibitor, wortmannin, on the cytotoxic mechanism of etoposide and cisplatin in MO59K and MO59J human glioblastoma cell lines. These cell lines are proficient and deficient in DNA-PKcs, respectively. Wortmannin synergistically increased the cytotoxicity of cisplatin and etoposide, when combined, in NHEJ-proficient MO59K cells. Surprisingly, wortmannin sensitizing effect was also observed in DNA-PKcs-deficient MO59J cells. These data suggest that wortmannin sensitization to etoposide and cisplatin in human glioma cells is mediated by inhibition of not only DNA-PKcs activity but other enzymes from PI3-K family, e.g. ATM and ATR. A concentration-dependent increase in etoposide and cisplatin-induced DSB levels was potentiated by inhibitor in both cell lines. Moreover, drug-induced accumulation in the G2/M checkpoint and S-phase was increased by wortmannin. Wortmannin significantly inhibited drug-induced DSB repair in MO59 cells and this effect was more pronounced in MO59J cells. We conclude that the mechanism of wortmannin potentiation of etoposide and cisplatin cytotoxicity involves DSBs induction, DSBs repair inhibition, G2/M checkpoint arrest and inhibition of not only DNA-PKcs activity.}, language = {eng}, journal = {The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology}, author = {Pastwa, Elzbieta and Poplawski, Tomasz and Lewandowska, Urszula and Somiari, Stella B. and Blasiak, Janusz and Somiari, Richard I.}, month = aug, year = {2014}, pmid = {24953561}, pages = {423--431}