PUBLICATION
Nephronophthisis-Associated CEP164 Regulates Cell Cycle Progression, Apoptosis and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition
- Authors
- Slaats, G.G., Ghosh, A.K., Falke, L.L., Le Corre, S., Shaltiel, I.A., van de Hoek, G., Klasson, T.D., Stokman, M.F., Logister, I., Verhaar, M.C., Goldschmeding, R., Nguyen, T.Q., Drummond, I.A., Hildebrandt, F., Giles, R.H.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-141024-2
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- PLoS Genetics 10: e1004594 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Drummond, Iain, Logister, Ive
- Keywords
- Apoptosis, Cell cycle and cell division, Synthesis phase, Small interfering RNAs, DNA damage, Fibrosis, Transfection, Embryos
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Cell Cycle/genetics
- Cilia/genetics*
- Cilia/pathology
- DNA Damage/genetics
- Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
- Fibrosis/genetics*
- Fibrosis/pathology
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- Humans
- Kidney Diseases, Cystic/genetics*
- Kidney Diseases, Cystic/pathology
- Microtubule Proteins/biosynthesis
- Microtubule Proteins/genetics*
- RNA, Small Interfering
- Signal Transduction
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 25340510 Full text @ PLoS Genet.
Citation
Slaats, G.G., Ghosh, A.K., Falke, L.L., Le Corre, S., Shaltiel, I.A., van de Hoek, G., Klasson, T.D., Stokman, M.F., Logister, I., Verhaar, M.C., Goldschmeding, R., Nguyen, T.Q., Drummond, I.A., Hildebrandt, F., Giles, R.H. (2014) Nephronophthisis-Associated CEP164 Regulates Cell Cycle Progression, Apoptosis and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition. PLoS Genetics. 10:e1004594.
Abstract
We recently reported that centrosomal protein 164 (CEP164) regulates both cilia and the DNA damage response in the autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease nephronophthisis. Here we examine the functional role of CEP164 in nephronophthisis-related ciliopathies and concomitant fibrosis. Live cell imaging of RPE-FUCCI (fluorescent, ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator) cells after siRNA knockdown of CEP164 revealed an overall quicker cell cycle than control cells, although early S-phase was significantly longer. Follow-up FACS experiments with renal IMCD3 cells confirm that Cep164 siRNA knockdown promotes cells to accumulate in S-phase. We demonstrate that this effect can be rescued by human wild-type CEP164, but not disease-associated mutants. siRNA of CEP164 revealed a proliferation defect over time, as measured by CyQuant assays. The discrepancy between accelerated cell cycle and inhibited overall proliferation could be explained by induction of apoptosis and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Reduction of CEP164 levels induces apoptosis in immunofluorescence, FACS and RT-QPCR experiments. Furthermore, knockdown of Cep164 or overexpression of dominant negative mutant allele CEP164 Q525X induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, and concomitant upregulation of genes associated with fibrosis. Zebrafish injected with cep164 morpholinos likewise manifest developmental abnormalities, impaired DNA damage signaling, apoptosis and a pro-fibrotic response in vivo. This study reveals a novel role for CEP164 in the pathogenesis of nephronophthisis, in which mutations cause ciliary defects coupled with DNA damage induced replicative stress, cell death, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, and suggests that these events drive the characteristic fibrosis observed in nephronophthisis kidneys.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping