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Journal Article
Derepression of hTERT gene expression promotes escape from oncogene-induced cellular senescence
2016
Overview
Oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) is a critical tumor-suppressing mechanism that restrains cancer progression at premalignant stages, in part by causing telomere dysfunction. Currently it is unknown whether this proliferative arrest presents a stable and therefore irreversible barrier to cancer progression. Here we demonstrate that cells frequently escape OIS induced by oncogenic H-Ras and B-Raf, after a prolonged period in the senescence arrested state. Cells that had escaped senescence displayed high oncogene expression levels, retained functional DNA damage responses, and acquired chromatin changes that promoted c-Myc–dependent expression of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase gene (hTERT). Telomerase was able to resolve existing telomeric DNA damage response foci and suppressed formation of new ones that were generated as a consequence of DNA replication stress and oncogenic signals. Inhibition of MAP kinase signaling, suppressing c-Myc expression, or inhibiting telomerase activity, caused telomere dysfunction and proliferative defects in cells that had escaped senescence, whereas ectopic expression of hTERT facilitated OIS escape. In human early neoplastic skin and breast tissue, hTERT expression was detected in cells that displayed features of senescence, suggesting that reactivation of telomerase expression in senescent cells is an early event during cancer progression in humans. Together, our data demonstrate that cells arrested in OIS retain the potential to escape senescence by mechanisms that involve derepression of hTERT expression.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Subject
/ Breast Neoplasms - metabolism
/ Breast Neoplasms - pathology
/ Cancer
/ DNA
/ Epithelial Cells - metabolism
/ Epithelial Cells - pathology
/ Female
/ Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
/ Genes
/ Genetics
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Oncogene Protein p21(ras) - genetics
/ Oncogene Protein p21(ras) - metabolism
/ Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
/ Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf - genetics
/ Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf - metabolism
/ Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc
/ Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc - genetics
/ Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc - metabolism
/ Telomere
/ Tumors
