Identification of DHC2 associated nuclear proteins in DHC2 knockdown U87 cells

The acquisition of temozolomide resistance is a major clinical challenge for glioblastoma treatment. Chemoresistance in glioblastoma is largely attributed to repair of temozolomide-induced DNA lesions by MGMT. However, many MGMT-negative glioblastomas are still resistant to temozolomide, and the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. We found that DHC2 was highly expressed in MGMT-negative recurrent glioblastoma specimens and its expression strongly correlated to poor progression-free survival in MGMT-negative glioblastoma patients. In vivo and in vitro, silencing DHC2 enhanced temozolomide-induced DNA damage and significantly improved the efficiency of temozolomide treatment in MGMT-negative glioblastoma cells. It is known DHC2 is related to intracellular cargo transportation. To identify the potential interacted “cargo” DHC2 transported and explore the underlying molecular mechanisms of DHC2-midiated DNA damage repair, we performed subcellular proteomic and bioinformatic analyses.