Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated Is Involved in Autolysosome Formation

Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM), a master kinase of the DNA damage response (DDR), phosphorylates a multitude of substrates to activate signaling pathways after DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). ATM inhibitors have been evaluated as anticancer drugs to potentiate the cytotoxicity of DNA damage-based cancer therapy. ATM is also involved in autophagy, a conserved cellular process that maintains homeostasis by degrading unnecessary proteins and dysfunctional organelles. In this study, we report that ATM inhibitors (KU-55933 and KU-60019) provoked accumulation of autophagosomes and p62 and restrained autolysosome formation. Under autophagy-inducing conditions, the ATM inhibitors caused excessive autophagosome accumulation and cell death. This new function of ATM in autophagy was also observed in numerous cell lines. Repression of ATM expression using an siRNA inhibited autophagic flux at the autolysosome formation step and induced cell death under autophagy-inducing conditions. Taken together, our results suggest that ATM is involved in autolysosome formation and that the use of ATM inhibitors in cancer therapy may be expanded.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Biomolecules & therapeutics - 31(2023), 5 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 559-565

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hwang, Mihwa [VerfasserIn]
Jun, Dong Wha [VerfasserIn]
Song, Bo Ram [VerfasserIn]
Shim, Hanna [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Chang-Hun [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Sunshin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ATM
Autolysosome
Autophagy
Cancer therapy
Combination therapy
Journal Article

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Date Revised 02.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4062/biomolther.2023.003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354464426