Lilas Courtot

Impact of low replication stress on normal and cancer cells

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Produktbeschreibung

DNA replication is very well orchestrated in mammalian cells thanks to a tight regulation of the temporal order of replication origin activation, called replication timing (RT). The RT is very robust and cell type specific. Upon low replication stress, replication forks progress slower and some fragile regions can undergo replication delay leading to DNA damage and genetic instability, a common marker of cancers. Except for these fragile regions, the direct impact of low replication stress on the RT of the whole genome has not been explored yet. In this thesis, I analyzed and compared the replication timing of 6 human cell lines from different tissues in response to mild replication stress. Strikingly, in some cancer cells, I observed genomic regions undergoing a switch from late to early replication under replication stress. Very interestingly, these RT alterations are still detected in daughter cells. These findings disclosed a new mechanism mainly used by cancer cells in response to replication stress that brings another proof of their genome plasticity, allowing a quick response and adaptation to stress that, eventually, gives better resistance to genotoxic agents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9786203854718
• ISBN-10: 6203854719
• Artikelnr.: 62053033

Autorenporträt

Lilas Courtot obtained a master degree in Biochemical engineering before completing a PhD at the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse in 2020. Fascinated about science, willing to decipher biological questions that help the understanding of human disease, she recently started to work as postdoctoral fellow at the University College of London (UK).