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. 2015 Dec;36(12):9365-72.
doi: 10.1007/s13277-015-3642-5. Epub 2015 Jun 25.

Targeting DNA-PKcs increased anticancer drug sensitivity by suppressing DNA damage repair in osteosarcoma cell line MG63

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Targeting DNA-PKcs increased anticancer drug sensitivity by suppressing DNA damage repair in osteosarcoma cell line MG63

Xin Li et al. Tumour Biol. 2015 Dec.
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Abstract

Many chemotherapy drugs exert anticancer effects through causing DNA damage, such as DNA topoisomerase inhibitor and platinum-containing drugs. DNA damage repair is an important mechanism of drug resistance which is responsible for metastasis and recurrence after chemotherapy. DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) plays an important role in non-homology end joining (NHEJ) pathway. In this study, we aimed to determine whether DNA-PK catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) is expressed in osteosarcoma MG63 cell line and involved in drug resistance induced by DNA repair. We found that DNA-PKcs was expressed in osteosarcoma cell line MG63. The pDNA-PKcs(T2609) was more expressed in cells treated with cisplatin (DDP) and etoposide (VP16). Down-regulation of DNA-PKcs produced higher sensitivity of MG63 cells to DDP or VP16 through increasing apoptosis and causing cell cycle arrest in the G1 phase. Our study supported that DNA-PKcs was involved in drug-induced DNA damage repair and related to chemosensitivity of osteosarcoma MG63 cells.

Keywords: DNA damage repair; DNA-PKcs; Drug resistance; Osteosarcoma.

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