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Checkpoint non-fidelity induces a complex landscape of lineage fitness after DNA damage

Callum J. Campbell, Ashok R. Venkitaraman, View ORCID ProfileAlessandro Esposito
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/431486
Callum J. Campbell
The Medical Research Council Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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Ashok R. Venkitaraman
The Medical Research Council Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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Alessandro Esposito
The Medical Research Council Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK
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DNA damage in proliferating mammalian cells causes death1, senescence2 or continued survival, via checkpoints that monitor damage and regulate cell cycle progression, DNA repair and fate determination3. Cell cycle checkpoints facilitate tumour suppression by preventing the generation of proliferating mutated cells4, particularly by blocking passage of DNA lesions into replication and mitosis5. While checkpoint non-fidelity permits cells to carry genomic aberrations into subsequent cell cycle phases6, its long-term consequences on lineages descendant from damaged cells remains poorly characterised. Devising methods for microscopy-based lineage tracing, we unexpectedly demonstrate that transient DNA damage to single living cells bearing a negligent checkpoint induces heterogenous cell-fate outcomes in their descendant generations removed from the initial insult. After transiently damaged cells undergo an initial arrest, pairs of descendant cells without obvious cell-cycle abnormalities either divide or die in a seemingly stochastic way. Progeny of transiently damaged cells may die generations afterwards, creating considerable variability of lineage fitness that promotes overall persistence in a mutagenic environment. Descendants of damaged cells frequently form micronuclei, activating immunogenic signalling. Our findings reveal previously unrecognized, heterogenous effects of cellular DNA damage that manifest long afterwards in descendant cells. We suggest that these heterogenous descendant cell-fate responses may function physiologically to ensure the elimination and immune clearance of damaged cell lineages, but pathologically, may enable the prolonged survival of cells bearing mutagenic damage.

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Checkpoint non-fidelity induces a complex landscape of lineage fitness after DNA damage
Callum J. Campbell, Ashok R. Venkitaraman, Alessandro Esposito
bioRxiv 431486; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/431486
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Checkpoint non-fidelity induces a complex landscape of lineage fitness after DNA damage
Callum J. Campbell, Ashok R. Venkitaraman, Alessandro Esposito
bioRxiv 431486; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/431486

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