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2. 2347 LEONIS: Long term everolimus observation non-interventional study in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET)
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Wiedenmann, B., primary, Stauch, M., additional, Akca, A., additional, Kleylein-Sohn, J., additional, Klausmann, M., additional, and Tessen, H.W., additional
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- 2015
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3. Octreotide LAR and Prednisone as Neoadjuvant Treatment in Patients with Primary or Locally Recurrent Unresectable Thymic Tumors: A Phase II Study.
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Kirzinger L, Boy S, Marienhagen J, Schuierer G, Neu R, Ried M, Hofmann HS, Wiebe K, Ströbel P, May C, Kleylein-Sohn J, Baierlein C, Bogdahn U, Marx A, and Schalke B
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- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Delayed-Action Preparations, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoadjuvant Therapy, Octreotide adverse effects, Prednisone adverse effects, Thymoma pathology, Thymus Neoplasms pathology, Treatment Outcome, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols therapeutic use, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local drug therapy, Octreotide administration & dosage, Prednisone administration & dosage, Thymoma drug therapy, Thymus Neoplasms drug therapy
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Therapeutic options to cure advanced, recurrent, and unresectable thymomas are limited. The most important factor for long-term survival of thymoma patients is complete resection (R0) of the tumor. We therefore evaluated the response to and the induction of resectability of primarily or locally recurrent unresectable thymomas and thymic carcinomas by octreotide Long-Acting Release (LAR) plus prednisone therapy in patients with positive octreotide scans. In this open label, single-arm phase II study, 17 patients with thymomas considered unresectable or locally recurrent thymoma (n = 15) and thymic carcinoma (n = 2) at Masaoka stage III were enrolled. Octreotide LAR (30 mg once every 2 weeks) was administered in combination with prednisone (0.6 mg/kg per day) for a maximum of 24 weeks (study design according to Fleming´s one sample multiple testing procedure for phase II clinical trials). Tumor size was evaluated by volumetric CT measurements, and a decrease in tumor volume of at least 20% at week 12 compared to baseline was considered as a response. We found that octreotide LAR plus prednisone elicited response in 15 of 17 patients (88%). Median reduction of tumor volume after 12 weeks of treatment was 51% (range 20%-86%). Subsequently, complete surgical resection was achieved in five (29%) and four patients (23%) after 12 and 24 weeks, respectively. Octreotide LAR plus prednisone treatment was discontinued in two patients before week 12 due to unsatisfactory therapeutic effects or adverse events. The most frequent adverse events were gastrointestinal (71%), infectious (65%), and hematological (41%) complications. In conclusion, octreotide LAR plus prednisone is efficacious in patients with primary or recurrent unresectable thymoma with respect to tumor regression. Octreotide LAR plus prednisone was well tolerated and adverse events were in line with the known safety profile of both agents., Competing Interests: Dr. Kleylein-Sohn, Dr. May and Dr. Baierlein are employees of Novartis. Dr. Boy is an employee of Asclepios clinic. Prof. Schalke reports grants from Novartis within and outside the submitted work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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- 2016
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4. Acentrosomal spindle organization renders cancer cells dependent on the kinesin HSET.
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Kleylein-Sohn J, Pöllinger B, Ohmer M, Hofmann F, Nigg EA, Hemmings BA, and Wartmann M
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- Cell Line, Tumor, DNA Damage, Humans, Microtubules metabolism, Multiprotein Complexes metabolism, Centrosome metabolism, Kinesins metabolism, Neoplasms metabolism, Neoplasms pathology, Spindle Apparatus metabolism
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Centrosomes represent the major microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) of animal somatic cells and orchestrate bipolar spindle assembly during mitotic cell division. In meiotic cells, the kinesin HSET compensates for the lack of centrosomes by focusing acentrosomal MTOCs into two spindle poles. By clustering multiple centrosomes into two spindle poles, HSET also mediates bipolar mitosis in cancer cells with supernumerary centrosomes. However, although dispensable in non-transformed human cells, the role of HSET in cancer cells with two centrosomes has remained elusive. In this study, we demonstrate that HSET is required for proper spindle assembly, stable pole-focusing and survival of cancer cells irrespective of normal or supernumerary centrosome number. Strikingly, we detected pronounced acentrosomal MTOC structures in untreated mitotic cancer cells. While in most cancer cells these acentrosomal MTOCs were rapidly incorporated into the assembling bipolar spindle, some cells eventually established bipolar spindles with acentrosomal poles and free centrosomes. These observations demonstrate that acentrosomal MTOCs were functional and that both centrosomal and acentrosomal mechanisms were required for bipolar spindle organization. Our study shows that HSET is critical for clustering acentrosomal and centrosomal MTOCs during spindle formation in human cancer cells with two bona fide centrosomes. Furthermore, we show that in checkpoint-defective cancer cells, acentrosomal spindle formation and HSET-dependence are partially mediated by a constitutive activation of the DNA damage response. In summary, we propose that acentrosomal spindle assembly mechanisms are hyperactive in cancer cells and promote HSET, a key driver of acentrosomal spindle organization, as an attractive target for cancer therapy.
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- 2012
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5. Characterization of the mechanism of action of the pan class I PI3K inhibitor NVP-BKM120 across a broad range of concentrations.
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Brachmann SM, Kleylein-Sohn J, Gaulis S, Kauffmann A, Blommers MJ, Kazic-Legueux M, Laborde L, Hattenberger M, Stauffer F, Vaxelaire J, Romanet V, Henry C, Murakami M, Guthy DA, Sterker D, Bergling S, Wilson C, Brümmendorf T, Fritsch C, Garcia-Echeverria C, Sellers WR, Hofmann F, and Maira SM
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- Animals, Cell Cycle Checkpoints drug effects, Cell Line, Tumor, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic drug effects, Humans, Indazoles pharmacology, Mice, Mitosis drug effects, Protein Multimerization drug effects, Rats, Sulfonamides pharmacology, Tubulin metabolism, Aminopyridines pharmacology, Morpholines pharmacology, Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors
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The pan-phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor BKM120 was found, at high concentrations, to cause cell death in various cellular systems, irrespective of their level of PI3K addiction. Transcriptional and biochemical profiling studies were used to identify the origin of these unexpected and apparently PI3K-independent effects. At 5- to 10-fold, the concentration needed to half-maximally inhibit PI3K signaling. BKM120 treatment caused changes in expression of mitotic genes and the induction of a robust G(2)-M arrest. Tubulin polymerization assays and nuclear magnetic resonance-binding studies revealed that BKM120 inhibited microtubule dynamics upon direct binding to tubulin. To assess the contribution of this off-target activity vis-à-vis the antitumor activity of BKM120 in PI3K-dependent tumors, we used a mechanistic PI3K-α-dependent model. We observed that, in vivo, daily treatment of mice with doses of BKM120 up to 40 mg/kg led to tumor regressions with no increase in the mitotic index. Thus, strong antitumor activity can be achieved in PI3K-dependent models at exposures that are below those necessary to engage the off-target activity. In comparison, the clinical data indicate that it is unlikely that BKM120 will achieve exposures sufficient to significantly engage the off-target activity at tolerated doses and schedules. However, in preclinical settings, the consequences of the off-target activity start to manifest themselves at concentrations above 1 μmol/L in vitro and doses above 50 mg/kg in efficacy studies using subcutaneous tumor-bearing mice. Hence, careful concentration and dose range selection is required to ensure that any observation can be correctly attributed to BKM120 inhibition of PI3K.
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- 2012
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6. Control of centriole length by CPAP and CP110.
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Schmidt TI, Kleylein-Sohn J, Westendorf J, Le Clech M, Lavoie SB, Stierhof YD, and Nigg EA
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- Animals, Cell Cycle Proteins genetics, Cell Line, Humans, Microtubule-Associated Proteins genetics, Phosphoproteins genetics, RNA, Small Interfering genetics, RNA, Small Interfering metabolism, Tubulin metabolism, Cell Cycle Proteins metabolism, Centrioles metabolism, Centrioles ultrastructure, Microtubule-Associated Proteins metabolism, Phosphoproteins metabolism
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Centrioles function as the major components of centrosomes, which organize microtubule (MT) arrays in proliferating cells, and as basal bodies for primary cilia formation in quiescent cells. Centrioles and basal bodies are structurally similar, barrel-shaped organelles composed of MTs. In proliferating cells, two new centrioles, termed procentrioles, form during the S phase of the cell cycle in close proximity to the proximal ends of the two preexisting parental centrioles, often at a near-orthogonal angle. Considerable progress has been made toward understanding the biogenesis of centrioles, but the mechanisms that determine their lengths remain unknown. Here we show that overexpression of the centriolar protein CPAP in human cells enhances the accumulation of centriolar tubulin, leading to centrioles of strikingly increased length. Consistent with earlier work, we also find that elongated MT structures can be induced by depletion of the distal end-capping protein CP110 from centrioles. Importantly, though, these structures differ from genuine primary cilia. We thus propose that CPAP and CP110 play antagonistic roles in determining the extent of tubulin addition during centriole elongation, thereby controlling the length of newly formed centrioles.
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- 2009
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7. Plk4-induced centriole biogenesis in human cells.
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Kleylein-Sohn J, Westendorf J, Le Clech M, Habedanck R, Stierhof YD, and Nigg EA
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- Cell Cycle, Cell Cycle Proteins metabolism, Cell Line, Tumor, Centrioles ultrastructure, Humans, Microscopy, Immunoelectron, Models, Biological, Centrioles metabolism, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases metabolism
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We show that overexpression of Polo-like kinase 4 (Plk4) in human cells induces centrosome amplification through the simultaneous generation of multiple procentrioles adjoining each parental centriole. This provided an opportunity for dissecting centriole assembly and characterizing assembly intermediates. Critical components were identified and ordered into an assembly pathway through siRNA and localized through immunoelectron microscopy. Plk4, hSas-6, CPAP, Cep135, gamma-tubulin, and CP110 were required at different stages of procentriole formation and in association with different centriolar structures. Remarkably, hSas-6 associated only transiently with nascent procentrioles, whereas Cep135 and CPAP formed a core structure within the proximal lumen of both parental and nascent centrioles. Finally, CP110 was recruited early and then associated with the growing distal tips, indicating that centrioles elongate through insertion of alpha-/beta-tubulin underneath a CP110 cap. Collectively, these data afford a comprehensive view of the assembly pathway underlying centriole biogenesis in human cells.
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- 2007
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8. Astrin is required for the maintenance of sister chromatid cohesion and centrosome integrity.
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Thein KH, Kleylein-Sohn J, Nigg EA, and Gruneberg U
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- Animals, Cell Cycle physiology, Cell Cycle Proteins genetics, Centrioles metabolism, Endopeptidases metabolism, Enzyme Activation, HeLa Cells, Humans, Kinetochores metabolism, Microtubules metabolism, RNA, Small Interfering metabolism, Separase, Spindle Apparatus metabolism, Cell Cycle Proteins metabolism, Centrosome metabolism, Chromatids metabolism, Chromosome Segregation
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Faithful chromosome segregation in mitosis requires the formation of a bipolar mitotic spindle with stably attached chromosomes. Once all of the chromosomes are aligned, the connection between the sister chromatids is severed by the cysteine protease separase. Separase also promotes centriole disengagement at the end of mitosis. Temporal coordination of these two activities with the rest of the cell cycle is required for the successful completion of mitosis. In this study, we report that depletion of the microtubule and kinetochore protein astrin results in checkpoint-arrested cells with multipolar spindles and separated sister chromatids, which is consistent with untimely separase activation. Supporting this idea, astrin-depleted cells contain active separase, and separase depletion suppresses the premature sister chromatid separation and centriole disengagement in these cells. We suggest that astrin contributes to the regulatory network that controls separase activity.
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- 2007
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9. Dictyostelium LIS1 is a centrosomal protein required for microtubule/cell cortex interactions, nucleus/centrosome linkage, and actin dynamics.
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Rehberg M, Kleylein-Sohn J, Faix J, Ho TH, Schulz I, and Gräf R
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- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Cell Shape, Dictyostelium cytology, Gene Expression, Golgi Apparatus metabolism, Green Fluorescent Proteins metabolism, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Microtubule-Associated Proteins chemistry, Microtubule-Associated Proteins genetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Point Mutation, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Protozoan Proteins chemistry, Protozoan Proteins genetics, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Actins metabolism, Centrosome metabolism, Dictyostelium chemistry, Microtubule-Associated Proteins physiology, Microtubules metabolism, Protozoan Proteins physiology
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The widespread LIS1-proteins were originally identified as the target for sporadic mutations causing lissencephaly in humans. Dictyostelium LIS1 (DdLIS1) is a microtubule-associated protein exhibiting 53% identity to human LIS1. It colocalizes with dynein at isolated, microtubule-free centrosomes, suggesting that both are integral centrosomal components. Replacement of the DdLIS1 gene by the hypomorphic D327H allele or overexpression of an MBP-DdLIS1 fusion disrupted various dynein-associated functions. Microtubules lost contact with the cell cortex and were dragged behind an unusually motile centrosome. Previously, this phenotype was observed in cells overexpressing fragments of dynein or the XMAP215-homologue DdCP224. DdLIS1 was coprecipitated with DdCP224, suggesting that both act together in dynein-mediated cortical attachment of microtubules. Furthermore, DdLIS1-D327H mutants showed Golgi dispersal and reduced centrosome/nucleus association. Defects in DdLIS1 function also altered actin dynamics characterized by traveling waves of actin polymerization correlated with a reduced F-actin content. DdLIS1 could be involved in actin dynamics through Rho-GTPases, because DdLIS1 interacted directly with Rac1A in vitro. Our results show that DdLIS1 is required for maintenance of the microtubule cytoskeleton, Golgi apparatus and nucleus/centrosome association, and they suggest that LIS1-dependent alterations of actin dynamics could also contribute to defects in neuronal migration in lissencephaly patients.
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- 2005
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