This proposal focuses on an important but unexplored problem - howsteroid hormones, which are well known risk factors, interact with p53 mutations to produce aneuploidy and malignancy, and how the chromosomal segregation protein Separase is involved? Our sex-steroid dependent p53-mice preneoplastic breast cancer model allows a unique approach to this problem. In this model, steroidal induction in p53 mutant mammary glands results in chromosomal instability, aneuploidy and tumor formation analogous to that seen in majority of human breast cancers. We propose a paradigm that there is a set of proteins whose deregulation promotes aneuploidy (termed PRAN;Promoter of Aneuploidy) including chromosomal instability which results in loss or gain of whole or parts of chromosomes, and that PRAN proteins are interactively regulated by steroid hormones and the tumor suppressor p53. Our published and new preliminary data provide the first evidence that steroid hormones play a role in the regulation of mitotic proteins involved in sister chromatid cohesion and separation. We propose that the combined effect of mutation of the tumor suppressor p53 and signaling by steroid hormones produces aneuploidv in breast cancer by affecting expression of key proteins involved in chromosomal separation. We focuses on the elements that regulate chromosomal segregation, particularly sister chromatid cohesion/separation proteins, as candidate PRAN proteins, since chromosome missegregation during mitosis can lead to aneuploidy. A key gene in this analysis is ESPL1, which encodes an endopeptidase called Separase that separates joined sister chromatids by cleaving cohesin Rad21/SCC1/MCD1 during the metaphase to anaphase transition. The hypothesis is that hormonal stimulation of p53 null mouse mammary glands results in misexpression of the ESPL1 gene, thus promoting aneuploidy and breast cancer formation. This proposal applies in vivo transplantaion of p53 mutant and wild type (WT)mammary cells that are stably transfeeted with ESPL1, and an ESPL1 transgenic mice model to test the PRAN paradigm following hormone treatment. Steroid and p53 regulation of ESPL1 at the transcriptional level is studied by characterizing the ESPL1 promoter region. These objectives will be accomplished by pursuing two specific aims: 1) Functional role of Separaseoverexpressionin aneuploidy, and 2) Transcriptional regulation of ESPL1 gene expression. The proposed study not only elucidate underlying mechanisms of hormone-induced aneuploidy, a fundamental unresolved question in cancer biology, but also likely to identify a new class of proteins that are responsible for chromosomal instability and breast cancer progression.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01CA109330-05
Application #
7769897
Study Section
Cancer Molecular Pathobiology Study Section (CAMP)
Program Officer
Sathyamoorthy, Neeraja
Project Start
2006-03-07
Project End
2012-02-28
Budget Start
2010-03-01
Budget End
2012-02-28
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
2010
Total Cost
$232,676
Indirect Cost
Name
Baylor College of Medicine
Department
Pediatrics
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
051113330
City
Houston
State
TX
Country
United States
Zip Code
77030
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Shete, Amol; Rao, Pulivarthi; Pati, Debananda et al. (2014) Spatial quantitation of FISH signals in diploid versus aneuploid nuclei. Cytometry A 85:339-52
Mukherjee, Malini; Byrd, Tiara; Brawley, Vita S et al. (2014) Overexpression and constitutive nuclear localization of cohesin protease Separase protein correlates with high incidence of relapse and reduced overall survival in glioblastoma multiforme. J Neurooncol 119:27-35
Zhang, Nenggang; Pati, Debananda (2012) Sororin is a master regulator of sister chromatid cohesion and separation. Cell Cycle 11:2073-83
Zhang, Nenggang; Panigrahi, Anil K; Mao, Qilong et al. (2011) Interaction of Sororin protein with polo-like kinase 1 mediates resolution of chromosomal arm cohesion. J Biol Chem 286:41826-37
Mukherjee, Malini; Ge, Gouqing; Zhang, Nenggang et al. (2011) Separase loss of function cooperates with the loss of p53 in the initiation and progression of T- and B-cell lymphoma, leukemia and aneuploidy in mice. PLoS One 6:e22167
Basu, Dipanjan; Zhang, Nenggang; Panigrahi, Anil K et al. (2009) Development and validation of a fluorogenic assay to measure separase enzyme activity. Anal Biochem 392:133-8
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Panigrahi, Anil K; Pati, Debananda (2009) Road to the crossroads of life and death: linking sister chromatid cohesion and separation to aneuploidy, apoptosis and cancer. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 72:181-93

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