Molecular Mechanism of Pe5-Induced Cytotoxicity and Generation of New Cytotoxic Nuclear-Directed

Molecular Mechanism of Pe5-Induced Cytotoxicity and Generation of New Cytotoxic Nuclear-Directed

MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF PE5-INDUCED CYTOTOXICITY AND GENERATION OF NEW CYTOTOXIC NUCLEAR-DIRECTED Anna Vert Company Dipòsit legal: Gi. 1801-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/283575 ADVERTIMENT. L'accés als continguts d'aquesta tesi doctoral i la seva utilització ha de respectar els drets de la persona autora. Pot ser utilitzada per a consulta o estudi personal, així com en activitats o materials d'investigació i docència en els termes establerts a l'art. 32 del Text Refós de la Llei de Propietat Intel·lectual (RDL 1/1996). Per altres utilitzacions es requereix l'autorització prèvia i expressa de la persona autora. En qualsevol cas, en la utilització dels seus continguts caldrà indicar de forma clara el nom i cognoms de la persona autora i el títol de la tesi doctoral. No s'autoritza la seva reproducció o altres formes d'explotació efectuades amb finalitats de lucre ni la seva comunicació pública des d'un lloc aliè al servei TDX. 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PhD Thesis Molecular mechanism of PE5-induced cytotoxicity and generation of new cytotoxic nuclear-directed ribonuclease variants Anna Vert Company - 2014 Ciències Experimentals i Sostenibilitat Dirigida per Dirigida per Dra. Maria Vilanova Brugués Dr. Antoni Benito Mundet Catedràtica de Bioquímica Professor Titular de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular i Biologia Molecular Memòria presentada per optar al títol de doctora per la Universitat de Girona Aquesta tesi ha estat realitzada amb el suport del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (beca AP2007-01944 i projecte BFU2006-15543-CO2-02/BMC) i del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (projecte BFU2009-06935/BMC). Moltes gràcies a tots els que m’heu acompanyat. Contents List of tables .................................................................................................................. 11 List of figures ................................................................................................................ 13 List of abbreviations .................................................................................................... 15 Publication arising from this thesis ............................................................................ 18 Summary ........................................................................................................................ 19 Resum ............................................................................................................................. 21 Resumen ........................................................................................................................ 23 Introduction ........................................................................................... 25 RNases as potential antitumor drugs ......................................................................... 28 Natural antitumor RNases .......................................................................................... 29 Onconase ................................................................................................................. 29 Bovine seminal RNase ........................................................................................... 34 Amphinase ............................................................................................................... 35 jSBL and cSBL lectins ............................................................................................ 35 Engineered cytotoxic RNases ..................................................................................... 36 PE5 variant .............................................................................................................. 37 Gene and miRNA expression profiles of cells treated with RNases .................... 39 Objectives ............................................................................................... 41 Methods .................................................................................................. 45 Construction of RNase variants ................................................................................. 47 RNase expression and purification ............................................................................ 50 Determination of thermal stability ............................................................................. 51 Determination of steady-state kinetic parameters ................................................... 52 RNase inhibitor binding assay .................................................................................... 52 Cell lines and culture conditions ................................................................................ 52 Cell proliferation assays ............................................................................................... 53 Cytosolic and nuclear RNA degradation assay ......................................................... 54 Phosphatidylserine exposure assay ............................................................................ 54 09 Contents Procaspase activation assay .......................................................................................... 55 Western blot analysis .................................................................................................... 55 Doxorubicin accumulation assay ................................................................................ 56 RNA isolation for microarray analysis ....................................................................... 57 Gene expression microarrays ...................................................................................... 57 miRNA microarrays ...................................................................................................... 59 Results .................................................................................................. 61 Study of the molecular mechanism of PE5- and onconase- induced cytotoxicity .. 63 Selection of treatment conditions ......................................................................... 63 Generation of gene expression profiles ............................................................... 66 Identification of PE5 and onconase differentially expressed genes ................. 71 Gene ontology analysis and KEGG pathway annotation of PE5 and onconase differentially expressed genes ............................................................... 78 Generation of miRNA expression profiles .......................................................... 84 Identification of PE5 and onconase differentially expressed miRNAs ........... 88 Generation of new cytotoxic HP-RNase variants directed to the nucleus ........... 91 Half of the residues mutated in PE5 can be back-mutated to HP-RNase without decreasing its cytotoxicity ........................................................................ 91 The introduction of an additional NLS may increase the cytotoxicity of PE5 depending on the insertion site ................................................................ 93 The cytotoxicity of NLSPE5 and PE10 is dependent on the cleavage of nuclear RNA ........................................................................................................ 96 The effects induced by NLSPE5 and PE10 on cancer cells are analogous to those of PE5 ........................................................................................................ 98 Discussion .......................................................................................... 103 Conclusions ........................................................................................ 145 References .............................................................................................

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