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Endo K, et al.  (2010) Nocodazole induces mitotic cell death with apoptotic-like features in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Lett 584(11):2387-2392

Abstract: We investigated the fate of budding yeast treated with nocodazole, a microtubule-depolymerizing drug. Cells died after mitotic arrest while staying in mitosis, suggesting that mitotic cell death, but not mitotic slippage, mainly occurs in nocodazole-treated cells. Nocodazole-treated cells showed features of apoptotic-like cell death, but not those of cell lysis or autophagy. Consistently, mitochondria-dependent production of reactive oxygen species was involved in the cell death. Similar cell death was also seen in cells after mitotic arrest by perturbation of the anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome. In addition, caspase activity was found in nocodazole-treated cells, which was independent of the metacaspase, Mca1. Our results suggest that budding yeast can be a model to study mitotic cell death in cancer treatment with antimitotic drugs.CI - Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Status: Published Type: Journal Article PubMed ID: 20399776

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