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Carcinogen-induced S-Phase Arrest Is Chk1 Mediated and Caffeine Sensitive¹

Cancer Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118

We have investigated the mechanism of S-phase arrest elicited by the carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene dihydrodiol epoxide (BPDE) in p53-deficient cells. Inhibition of DNA synthesis after BPDE treatment was rapid and dose dependent (50% inhibition after 2 h with 50 nM BPDE). Cells treated with low doses (50–100 nM) of BPDE resumed DNA synthesis after a delay of 4–8 h, whereas cells that received high doses of BPDE (600 nM) failed to recover from S-phase arrest. The checkpoint kinase Chk1 (but not Chk2) was phosphorylated after treatment with low doses of BPDE. High concentrations of BPDE elicited phosphorylation of both Chk1 and Chk2. Adenovirus-mediated expression of "dominant-negative" Chk1 (but not dominant-negative Chk2) and the Chk1 inhibitor UCN-01 abrogated the S-phase delay elicited by low doses of BPDE. Consistent with a role for the caffeine-sensitive ATM or ATR protein kinase in low-dose BPDE-induced S-phase arrest, both Chk1 phosphorylation and S-phase arrest were abrogated by caffeine. However, low doses of BPDE elicited Chk1 phosphorylation and S-phase arrest in AT cells (from ataxia telangiectasia patients), demonstrating that ATM is dispensable for S-phase checkpoint responses to this genotoxin. BPDE-induced Chk1 phosphorylation and S-phase arrest were abrogated by caffeine treatment in AT cells, suggesting that a caffeine-sensitive kinase other than ATM is an important mediator of responses to BPDE-adducted DNA. Overall, our data demonstrate the existence of a caffeine-sensitive, Chk1-mediated, S-phase checkpoint that is operational in response to BPDE.

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