Genome wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen identifies the coagulation factor IX (F9) as a regulator of senescence

During this last decade, the development of prosenescence therapies has become an attractive strategy as cellular senescence acts as a barrier against tumour progression. In this context, CDK4/6 inhibitors induce senescence and reduce tumour growth in breast cancer patients. However, even though can...

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Autores: Carpintero Fernández, Paula, Borghesan, Michela, Eleftheriadou, Olga, Pan Castillo, Belén, Fafian Labora, Juan, Mitchell, Tom P, García Yuste, Alejandro, Ogrunc, Muge, Nightingale, Thomas D., Mayán Santos, María Dolores, O'Loghlen, Ana
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS)
Repositorio:RUNA. Repositorio da Consellería de Sanidade e Sergas
OAI Identifier:oai:runa.sergas.gal:20.500.11940/17064
Acesso em linha:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35184131/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11940/17064
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Breast Neoplasms
Cell Line, Tumor
Factor IX
neoplasias de la mama
línea celular tumoral
factor IX
INIBIC
CHUAC
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Resumo:During this last decade, the development of prosenescence therapies has become an attractive strategy as cellular senescence acts as a barrier against tumour progression. In this context, CDK4/6 inhibitors induce senescence and reduce tumour growth in breast cancer patients. However, even though cancer cells are arrested after CDK4/6 inhibitor treatment, genes regulating senescence in this context are still unknown limiting their antitumour activity. Here, using a functional genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screen we found several genes that participate in the proliferation arrest induced by CDK4/6 inhibitors. We find that downregulation of the coagulation factor IX (F9) using sgRNA and shRNA prevents the cell cycle arrest and senescent-like phenotype induced in MCF7 breast tumour cells upon Palbociclib treatment. These results were confirmed using another breast cancer cell line, T47D, and with an alternative CDK4/6 inhibitor, Abemaciclib, and further tested in a panel of 22 cancer cells. While F9 knockout prevents the induction of senescence, treatment with a recombinant F9 protein was sufficient to induce a cell cycle arrest and senescence-like state in MCF7 tumour cells. Besides, endogenous F9 is upregulated in different human primary cells cultures undergoing senescence. Importantly, bioinformatics analysis of cancer datasets suggest a role for F9 in human tumours. Altogether, these data collectively propose key genes involved in CDK4/6 inhibitor response that will be useful to design new therapeutic strategies in personalised medicine in order to increase their efficiency, stratify patients and avoid drug resistance.