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Rong Li Lab offers insight into adaptive ability of cells
Date:11/26/2008

The Stowers Institute's Rong Li Lab has published findings that shed light on the ability of cells to adapt to disruptions to their basic division machineries findings that may help explain how cancer cells elude the body's natural defense mechanisms or chemotherapy treatment. The work was published in the November 26 issue of Cell.

Working with yeast cells, the team disabled a motor protein, type II myosin which normally powers cell division and observed the cellular response. As predicted, blocking division initially resulted in severe growth and cytokinesis defects. But after several selection passages, some cells were able to solve the problems. Unexpectedly, these cells ended up with more than the normal number of chromosomes. The abnormal chromosome numbers led to changes in the patterns of gene expression, which correlated with the cells' ability to evolve new ways to complete division and resume growth.

"The ability of cellular systems to evolve is linked to their component and network complexity, which allows the cell to develop 'workarounds' to salvage normal functions, even in times of crisis," said Giulia Rancati, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate and co-equal lead author on the paper. "Surprisingly, the adaptation was accomplished not by changes in DNA sequences but largely by modifying the number of chromosomes in the cell (known as aneuploidy), which were passed on to future generations."

"Another process that contributed to the successful adaptation involved polyploidization, in which yeast cells multiplied their entire set of chromosomes," said Norman Pavelka, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate and co-equal lead author on the paper. "Aneuploidy and polyploidy are hallmarks of cancer, and these findings suggest that they may contribute directly to the ability of cancer cells to evolve, allowing them to multiply, even as the body's natural mechanisms for cellular regulation or chemotherapeutic drug t
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Contact: Marie Jennings
mfj@stowers-institute.org
816-926-4015
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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