A Genetic Analysis of Tumor Progression in Drosophila Identifies the Cohesin Complex as a Suppressor of Individual and Collective Cell Invasion

Metastasis is the leading cause of death for patients with cancer. Consequently it is imperative that we improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underlie progression of tumor growth toward malignancy. Advances in genome characterization technologies have been very successful in id...

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Published iniScience Vol. 23; no. 6; p. 101237
Main Authors Canales Coutiño, Brenda, Cornhill, Zoe E., Couto, Africa, Mack, Natalie A., Rusu, Alexandra D., Nagarajan, Usha, Fan, Yuen Ngan, Hadjicharalambous, Marina R., Castellanos Uribe, Marcos, Burrows, Amy, Lourdusamy, Anbarasu, Rahman, Ruman, May, Sean T., Georgiou, Marios
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 26.06.2020
Elsevier
Subjects
Biological Sciences
Cancer
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Cancer
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Summary:Metastasis is the leading cause of death for patients with cancer. Consequently it is imperative that we improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underlie progression of tumor growth toward malignancy. Advances in genome characterization technologies have been very successful in identifying commonly mutated or misregulated genes in a variety of human cancers. However, the difficulty in evaluating whether these candidates drive tumor progression remains a major challenge. Using the genetic amenability of Drosophila melanogaster we generated tumors with specific genotypes in the living animal and carried out a detailed systematic loss-of-function analysis to identify conserved genes that enhance or suppress epithelial tumor progression. This enabled the discovery of functional cooperative regulators of invasion and the establishment of a network of conserved invasion suppressors. This includes constituents of the cohesin complex, whose loss of function either promotes individual or collective cell invasion, depending on the severity of effect on cohesin complex function. [Display omitted] •Screen identifies genes that affect tumor behavior in a wide variety of ways•A functionally validated network of invasion-suppressor genes was generated•Loss of cohesin complex function can promote individual or collective cell invasion•The fly pupal notum is an excellent in vivo system to study tumor progression Biological Sciences; Molecular Biology; Cell Biology; Cancer
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ISSN:2589-0042
2589-0042
DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2020.101237