Hypoxia-induced apoptosis in human cells with normal p53 status and function, without any alteration in the nuclear protein level

Experimental Cell Research
Ø AmellemE O Pettersen

Abstract

We have studied hypoxia-induced inactivation of cells from three established human cell lines with different p53 status. Hypoxia was found to induce apoptosis in cells expressing wild-type p53 (MCF-7 cells), but not in cells where p53 is either mutated (T-47D cells), or abrogated by expression of the HPV18 E6 oncoprotein (NHIK 3025 cells). Apoptosis was demonstrated by DNA fragmentation, using agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA and DNA nick end labeling (TUNEL). We demonstrate that extremely hypoxic conditions (< 4 ppm O2) do not cause any change of expression in the p53 protein level in these three cell lines. In addition, the localization of p53 in MCF-7 cells was found exclusively in the nucleus in only some of the cells both under aerobic and hypoxic conditions. Furthermore, no correlation was found between the p53-expression level and whether or not a cell underwent apoptosis. Flow cytometric TUNEL analysis of MCF-7 cells revealed that initiation of apoptosis occurred in all phases of the cell cycle, although predominantly for cells in S phase. Apoptosis was observed only during a limited time window (i.e., approximately 10 to approximately 24 h) after the onset of extreme hypoxia. While 66% of the MCF-7 cells lost their a...Continue Reading

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