Weak p53 permits senescence during cell cycle arrest
Weak p53 permits senescence during cell cycle arrest
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DOI:
10.4161/cc.9.21.13584
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发表时间:
2010-11-01
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影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Blagosklonny, Mikhail V.
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作者:
Leontieva, Olga V.;Gudkov, Andrei V.;Blagosklonny, Mikhail V.
Cell cycle arrest coupled with hyper-active mTO R leads to cellular senescence. While arresting cell cycle, high levels of p53 can inhibit mTO R (in some cell lines), thus causing reversible quiescence instead of senescence. Nutlin-3a-induced p53 inhibited mTO R and thus caused quiescence in WI-38 cells. In contrast, while arresting cell cycle, the DNA-damaging drug doxorubicin (DOX) did not inhibit mTO R and caused senescence. Super-induction of p53 by either nutlin-3a or high concentrations of DOX (high-DOX) prevented low-DOX-induced senescence, converting it into quiescence. This explains why in order to cause senescence, DNA damaging drugs must be used at low concentrations, which arrest cell cycle but do not induce p53 at levels sufficient to suppress mTO R. Noteworthy, very prolonged treatment with nutlin-3a also caused senescence preventable by rapamycin. In RPE cells, low concentrations of nutlin-3a caused a semi-senescent morphology. Higher concentrations of nutlin-3a inhibited mTO R and caused quiescent morphology. We conclude that low p53 levels during prolonged cell cycle arrest tend to cause senescence, whereas high levels of p53 tend to cause either quiescence or cell death.