Differential DNA repair pathway choice in cancer cells after proton- and photon-irradiation
Radiotherapy and Oncology(2015)
摘要
Background and purpose
Non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR) contribute to the repair of irradiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). We investigated the impact of the two major DSB repair machineries for cellular survival of human tumor cells in response to proton- and photon-irradiation.
Materials and methods
DNA damage repair and cell survival were analyzed in wildtype, HR- and NHEJ-repair-compromised and pharmacologically DNA-PKcs-inhibited human tumor cells in response to clinically relevant, low-linear energy transfer proton- and 200-keV photon-irradiation.
Results
Pharmacological inhibition of DNA-PKcs strongly radiosensitized lung adenocarcinoma and glioblastoma cells to photon- but to a much lower extent to proton-irradiation. Enhanced radiosensitization correlated with strongly delayed repair kinetics with elevated amounts of γH2AX foci after photon-irradiation. Interestingly, we observed reduced phosphorylation of DNA-PKcs at Ser-2056 and Thr-2609 clusters after proton-irradiation compared to photon-irradiation. In contrast, A549 cells depleted of the RAD51 recombinase were markedly hypersensitive to proton-irradiation in comparison with control cells. Likewise, human BRCA2-deficient ovarian carcinoma cells were hypersensitive toward proton- in comparison with photon-irradiation.
Conclusion
A differential DNA damage response with enhanced susceptibility of HR-deficient tumor cells to proton-irradiation and increased sensitivity of photon-irradiated tumor cells to NHEJ inhibitors were demonstrated.
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Photon irradiation,Proton irradiation,Non-homologous end-joining,Homologous recombination,NU7026
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