Impact of hypoxia on the double-strand break repair after photon and carbon ion irradiation of radioresistant HNSCC cells

Abstract DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by photon irradiation are the most deleterious damage for cancer cells and their efficient repair may contribute to radioresistance, particularly in hypoxic conditions. Carbon ions (C-ions) act independently of the oxygen concentration and trigger com...

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Autores principales: Anne-Sophie Wozny, Gersende Alphonse, Audrey Cassard, Céline Malésys, Safa Louati, Michael Beuve, Philippe Lalle, Dominique Ardail, Tetsuo Nakajima, Claire Rodriguez-Lafrasse
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/b9246a0bfb4742b4a947afac465121a4
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Sumario:Abstract DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by photon irradiation are the most deleterious damage for cancer cells and their efficient repair may contribute to radioresistance, particularly in hypoxic conditions. Carbon ions (C-ions) act independently of the oxygen concentration and trigger complex- and clustered-DSBs difficult to repair. Understanding the interrelation between hypoxia, radiation-type, and DNA-repair is therefore essential for overcoming radioresistance. The DSBs signaling and the contribution of the canonical non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ-c) and homologous-recombination (HR) repair pathways were assessed by immunostaining in two cancer-stem-cell (CSCs) and non-CSCs HNSCC cell lines. Detection and signaling of DSBs were lower in response to C-ions than photons. Hypoxia increased the decay-rate of the detected DSBs (γH2AX) in CSCs after photons and the initiation of DSB repair signaling (P-ATM) in CSCs and non-CSCs after both radiations, but not the choice of DSB repair pathway (53BP1). Additionally, hypoxia increased the NHEJ-c (DNA-PK) and the HR pathway (RAD51) activation only after photons. Furthermore, the involvement of the HR seemed to be higher in CSCs after photons and in non-CSCs after C-ions. Taken together, our results show that C-ions may overcome the radioresistance of HNSCC associated with DNA repair, particularly in CSCs, and independently of a hypoxic microenvironment.