PMID: 11320145Apr 26, 2001Paper

Increased formation of micronuclei after hormonal stimulation of cell proliferation in human breast cancer cells

Mutagenesis
Wolfgang H FischerH Stopper

Abstract

The carcinogenicity of sex hormones is considered to be the result of a combination of genotoxic and epigenetic modes of action. For estrogens, genotoxic activities include DNA damage by reactive metabolites and indirect genotoxicity by redox cycling and production of reactive oxygen species. Here, we present data on the induction of micronuclei in estrogen receptor-positive (MCF-7) and -negative (MDA) human breast cancer cell lines treated with estradiol to support an additional mechanism of chromosomal damage. MCF-7 cells, but not MDA cells, treated with estradiol in the picomolar concentration range showed an increase in micronucleus formation which correlated with the estradiol-induced cell proliferation. Addition of the specific estradiol-receptor antagonist hydroxytamoxifen suppressed the estradiol-induced formation of micronuclei in MCF-7 cells. Increased frequencies were also seen after normalization of the data to the number of cell divisions by additional treatment of the cells with cytochalasin B. Thus, formation of micronuclei was not due to the chromosomal damaging activity of estradiol. The induced genomic damage may be explained by a hormone-specific forcing of responsive cells through the cell cycle, thereby ove...Continue Reading

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