Weipert, Fabian (2018)
Studies on the interaction of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein Survivin with DNA-dependent protein kinase to modulate DNA double-strand break repair.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
|
Text
Doktorarbeit_FW_tuprints.pdf Copyright Information: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International - Creative Commons, Attribution NonCommercial, NoDerivs. Download (29MB) | Preview |
Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Studies on the interaction of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein Survivin with DNA-dependent protein kinase to modulate DNA double-strand break repair | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Laube, Prof. Dr. Bodo ; Löbrich, Prof. Dr. Markus ; Rödel, Prof. Dr. Franz | ||||
Date: | 2018 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 30 May 2018 | ||||
Abstract: | During the last years, the ability of tumour cells to evade apoptosis was considered to be an important mechanism to develop resistance against tumour therapies. In this context, members of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family gained increasing attention. Survivin, the smallest member of the IAP family, is a functionally unique protein that is involved in a variety of molecular mechanisms and cellular networks including cell proliferation, regulation of apoptosis and metastasis formation. Furthermore, an overexpression of Survivin in the tumour tissue was correlated with tumour progression as well as a decreased survival of the patients. Besides inhibition of apoptosis and its role as a member of the chromosomal passenger complex, Survivin was also found being accumulated in the nucleus after irradiation. That accumulation was linked to a modulation of DNA double-strand break repair due to its interaction with DNA repair factors such as the catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs). The aim of this thesis was to gain further insight on the molecular mechanisms facilitating a Survivin-mediated regulation of DNA repair by characterising the interaction between Survivin and DNA-PKcs, a major enzyme in the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) DNA double-strand break repair pathway, in more detail. Docking of Survivin wild type (wt) and a X-linked IAP (XIAP) binding site deletion mutant (ΔXIAP) of Survivin to DNA-PKcs was evaluated in colorectal cancer SW480 and glioblastoma LN-229 cells via immunoprecipitation experiments. These experiments indicated that recombinant Survivin (wt) was able to co-immunoprecipitate with DNA-PKcs in both lines while the ΔXIAP mutant of Survivin did not show complexation to DNA-PKcs. In case of the Aurora-B kinase it has been reported that Survivin stimulates Aurora-B kinase activity by binding to the catalytic domain. In analogy, an interaction of Survivin with the kinase domain of DNA-PKcs (PI3K) was analysed by different methods, including GST pulldown assay, NanoLuc Binary Technology (NanoBiT®) complementation assay and flow cytometry-based Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET). All of these methods confirmed an interaction between Survivin and the PI3K domain of DNA-PKcs, indicating that Survivin is binding directly to the kinase domain but not to other domains like the HEAT1 and FATC domain. Additionally, functional analysis, such as autophosphorylation of serine 2056 of DNA-PKcs, revealed a decreased DNA-PK activity after Survivin knockdown in both SW480 and LN-229 cells. Finally, attenuation of endogenous Survivin in the ΔXIAP mutant of Survivin resulted in a decreased DNA-PK activity measured by SignaTECT kinase assay, while recombinant Survivin (wt) rescued DNA-PK activity following irradiation with 4 Gy. In conclusion these findings for the first time indicate that Survivin not only interacts with DNA-PKcs but directly binds to its kinase domain. Thus, it modulates DNA-PKcs kinase activity and as a consequence repair of radiation induced DNA double-strand breaks. These results add a further facet to the plethora of functions exerted by the nodal protein Survivin in the cellular radiation response in cancer cells. |
||||
Alternative Abstract: |
|
||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-74734 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 570 Life sciences, biology | ||||
Divisions: | 10 Department of Biology DFG-Graduiertenkollegs > Research Training Group 1657 Molecular and cellular responses to ionizing radiation |
||||
Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2018 13:33 | ||||
Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2020 02:07 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/7473 | ||||
PPN: | 433774061 | ||||
Export: |
View Item |