Investigação do papel de HJURP (Holliday Junction Recognizing Protein) na resistência de células de glioblastoma multiforme à radiação ionizante

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Serafim, Rodolfo Bortolozo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Tumores - Crescimento; Cerebro - Tumores; Glioblastoma multiforme; Citologia; Neoplasias - Growth
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127582; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/28-08-2015/000842459.pdf

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and lethal type of primary brain tumor, and usually leads the patient to death in approximately 14 months after diagnosis. The treatment consists of surgical removal of the tumor, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, due to the high resistance of tumor cells, frequently the tumor grows again a few weeks after surgery. We recently demonstrated that HJURP (Holliday Junction Recognizing Protein), a novel protein involved in DNA repair, is highly overexpressed in glioblastoma cells. This protein is also overexpressed in other tumor types, such as lung and breast cancer, in which higher expression levels are correlated with a poorer survival prognosis, as we also observed for GBM patients. In this study we found that HJURP mRNA levels are increased in the GBM cell lines T98G, U138MG, U251MG e U343MG, while in U87MG cells HJURP levels are similar to that of non-tumoral fibrobalsts. We have also observed that the repair of DNA double-stranded breaks, induced by ionizing radiation, occurs similarly in GBM cells U138MG, U251MG and U343MG when HJURP is silenced or not. We also saw that U87MG and T98G cells were more sensitive to radiation when HJURP is knocked down, presenting higher rates of apoptosis and cell death. Moreover, we observed that HJURP silencing promotes premature senescence in the U87MG cell line, whereas T98G cells and non-tumoral fibroblasts are not significantly affected. Altogether, these data suggests that HJURP is related with the control of DNA repair activity and is required for the maintenance of GBM cells viability.