Jordi Bertran-Alamillo, Ana Giménez-Capitán, Ruth Román, Sara Talbot, Rebecca Whiteley, Nicolas Floc'h, Elizabeth Martínez-Pérez, Matthew J Martin, Paul D Smith, Ivana Sullivan, Mikkel G Terp, Jamal Saeh, Cristina Marino-Buslje, Giulia Fabbri, Grace Guo, Man Xu, Cristian Tornador, Andrés Aguilar-Hernández, Noemí Reguart, Henrik J Ditzel, Alejandro Martínez-Bueno, Núria Nabau-Moretó, Amaya Gascó, Rafael Rosell, J Elizabeth Pease, Urszula M Polanska, Jon Travers, Jelena Urosevic, Miguel A Molina-Vila
BACKGROUND: Drugs targeting the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), such as inhibitors of Aurora kinase B (AURKB) and dual specific protein kinase TTK, are in different stages of clinical development. However, cell response to SAC abrogation is poorly understood and there are no markers for patient selection. METHODS: A panel of 53 tumor cell lines of different origins was used. The effects of drugs were analyzed by MTT and flow cytometry. Copy number status was determined by FISH and Q-PCR; mRNA expression by nCounter and RT-Q-PCR and protein expression by Western blotting...
July 13, 2023: Molecular Cancer