p53-dependent elimination of aneuploid mitotic offspring by entosis

Cell Death Differ. 2021 Feb;28(2):799-813. doi: 10.1038/s41418-020-00645-3. Epub 2020 Oct 27.

Abstract

Entosis was proposed to promote aneuploidy and genome instability by cell-in-cell mediated engulfment in tumor cells. We reported here, in epithelial cells, that entosis coupled with mitotic arrest functions to counteract genome instability by targeting aneuploid mitotic progenies for engulfment and elimination. We found that the formation of cell-in-cell structures associated with prolonged mitosis, which was sufficient to induce entosis. This process was controlled by the tumor suppressor p53 (wild-type) that upregulates Rnd3 expression in response to DNA damages associated with prolonged metaphase. Rnd3-compartmentalized RhoA activities accumulated during prolonged metaphase to drive cell-in-cell formation. Remarkably, this prolonged mitosis-induced entosis selectively targets non-diploid progenies for internalization, blockade of which increased aneuploidy. Thus, our work uncovered a heretofore unrecognized mechanism of mitotic surveillance for entosis, which eliminates newly born abnormal daughter cells in a p53-dependent way, implicating in the maintenance of genome integrity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aneuploidy*
  • Breast Neoplasms / genetics
  • Breast Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Entosis
  • Epithelial Cells
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • HEK293 Cells
  • Humans
  • MCF-7 Cells
  • Mitosis*
  • Models, Genetic
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / genetics*
  • rhoA GTP-Binding Protein / metabolism*

Substances

  • TP53 protein, human
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
  • RHOA protein, human
  • rhoA GTP-Binding Protein