Down-regulation of statin, a nonproliferation-specific nuclear protein, and up-regulation of c-myc after initiation of programmed cell death in mouse fibroblasts.
Down-regulation of statin, a nonproliferation-specific nuclear protein, and up-regulation of c-myc after initiation of programmed cell death in mouse fibroblasts.
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小鼠成纤维细胞程序性细胞死亡启动后,他汀类药物(一种非增殖特异性核蛋白)下调,c-myc 上调。
DOI:
10.1002/jcp.1041630118
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发表时间:
1995
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Pandey,S
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作者:
Wang,E;Pandey,S
Deprivation of growth factors has been shown to induce programmed cell death in many cell types, including mouse 3T3 fibroblasts. Programmed cell death (apoptosis) is an active process of self‐destruction which is thought to require the expression of unique genes. Recently, the expression of cell cycle genes such asc‐fosandc‐myc, and re‐entrance to cell cycle traverse, are thought to be necessary to induce programmed cell death. Previous work in this laboratory has shown that statin is a nonproliferation‐specific nuclear protein present in the nuclei of young quiescent or senescent human fibroblasts, as well as in growth‐arrested mouse 3T3 fibroblasts; we have reported that statin disappears rapidly after the blockage of growth arrest is removed and cells are allowed to resume cell cycle traverse. In this report we address the question of whether cells induced to enter the programmed cell death process also lose the expression of statin. We studied density‐arrested quiescent mouse 3T3 cells, which undergo rapid cell death by apoptosis upon serum deprivation. Our results suggest thatc‐mycexpression is induced, as previously reported in other systems of apoptotic death. Interestingly, we also find that statin indeed disappears after the induction of programmed cell death is initiated. These results further support the notion that when apoptosis is induced, cells behave as though released from replication arrest, and experience some part of the G1phase of the cell cycle. The difference between this event and normal cell cycle traverse is that this experience of the G1phase in the apoptotic process is an abortive one, with the end result of cell demise. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.