Localisation et fonction de CHK2 en mitose
Centrosomes function primarily as microtubule-organizing centres and play a crucial role during mitosis by organizing the bipolar spindle. In addition to this function, centrosomes act as reaction centers where numerous key regulators meet to control cell cycle progression. One of these factors involved in genome stability, the checkpoint kinase CHK2, was shown to localize at centrosomes throughout the cell cycle. Here, we clarify that CHK2 only localized at centrosomes during mitosis. Using wild-type and CHK2-/- HCT116 human colon cancer cells, or human osteosarcoma U2OS cells depleted for CHK2 with small hairpin RNAs, we show that several CHK2 antibodies are non-specific for immunofluorescence and cross-react with an unknown centrosomal protein(s). To analyse further CHK2 localization, we established cells expressing inducible GFP-CHK2 and Flag-CHK2 fusion proteins. We show that CHK2 localizes to the nucleus in interphase cells but that a fraction of CHK2 associates with centrosomes in mitotic cells, from early mitotic stages until cytokinesis. In contrast to previous data obtained by A. Stolz and colleagues with the human colon carcinoma HCT116 cell line, our experiments exploring the possible functions for CHK2 during mitosis did not support a role for CHK2 in the bipolar spindle formation and the timely progression of mitosis in human osteosarcoma U2OS cells.
Chk2 Centrosome Cell Cycle Mitosis Dommages ADN DNA Dammage