%0 Journal Article %@ 1535-6108 %A Boege, Y %A Malehmir, M %A Healy, ME %A Bettermann, K %A Lorentzen, A %A Vucur, M %A Ahuja, AK %A Böhm, F %A Mertens, JC %A Shimizu, Y %A Frick, L %A Remouchamps, C %A Mutreja, K %A Kähne, T %A Sundaravinayagam, D %A Wolf, MJ %A Rehrauer, H %A Koppe, C %A Speicher, T %A Padrissa-Altés, S %A Maire, R %A Schattenberg, JRM %A Jeong, J-S %A Liu, L %A Zwirner, S %A Boger, R %A Hüser, N %A Davis, RJ %A Müllhaupt, B %A Moch, H %A Schulze-Bergkamen, H %A Clavien, P-A %A Werner, S %A Borsig, L %A Luther, SA %A Jost, PJ %A Weinlich, R %A Unger, K %A Behrens, A %A Hillert, L %A Dillon, C %A Di Virgilio, M %A Wallach, D %A Dejardin, E %A Zender, L %A Naumann, M %A Walczak, H %A Green, DR %A Lopes, M %A Lavrik, I %A Luedde, T %A Heikenwalder, M %A Weber, A %D 2017 %F discovery:10049372 %I CELL PRESS %J Cancer Cell %K liver, hepatocellular carcinoma, DNA damage response, replication stress, apoptosis %N 3 %P 342-359 %T A Dual Role of Caspase-8 in Triggering and Sensing Proliferation-Associated DNA Damage, a Key Determinant of Liver Cancer Development %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049372/ %V 32 %X Concomitant hepatocyte apoptosis and regeneration is a hallmark of chronic liver diseases (CLDs) predisposing to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Here, we mechanistically link caspase-8-dependent apoptosis to HCC development via proliferation- and replication-associated DNA damage. Proliferation-associated replication stress, DNA damage, and genetic instability are detectable in CLDs before any neoplastic changes occur. Accumulated levels of hepatocyte apoptosis determine and predict subsequent hepatocarcinogenesis. Proliferation-associated DNA damage is sensed by a complex comprising caspase-8, FADD, c-FLIP, and a kinase-dependent function of RIPK1. This platform requires a non-apoptotic function of caspase-8, but no caspase-3 or caspase-8 cleavage. It may represent a DNA damage-sensing mechanism in hepatocytes that can act via JNK and subsequent phosphorylation of the histone variant H2AX. %Z © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).