Overexpression of CDCA2 in Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Correlation with Prevention of G1 Phase Arrest and Apoptosis
Open Access
- 13 February 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLOS ONE
- Vol. 8 (2), e56381
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056381
Abstract
Cell division cycle associated 2 (CDCA2) recruits protein phosphatase 1 to chromatin to antagonize activation of ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM)-dependent signal transduction. ATM kinase plays a critical role in the DNA damage response and its phosphorylation cascade to inhibit the p53-MDM2 interaction, which releases p53 to induce p21 and G1 cell-cycle arrest. However, the relevance of CDCA2 to human malignancy including oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is unknown. In the current study, we found that CDCA2 expression was up-regulated in OSCC cell lines. Functional studies with shRNA system showed that knockdown of CDCA2 significantly (PCip1, p27Kip1, p15INK4B, and p16INK4A). CDCA2 knockdown also promoted apoptosis after treatment with the DNA damage reagent, cisplatin. In clinical samples, the CDCA2 protein expression level in primary OSCCs was significantly (PP<0.05) with high cancer progression. Our results showed for the first time that CDCA2 frequently is overexpressed in OSCCs and might be associated closely with OSCC progression by preventing cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis.This publication has 37 references indexed in Scilit:
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