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Goepp M, Le Guennec D, Rossary A, Vasson MP. Cell Cycle Synchronization of the Murine EO771 Cell Line Using Double Thymidine Block Treatment. Bioessays 2020; 42:e1900116. [PMID: 32643186 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201900116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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This study shows that double thymidine block treatment efficiently arrests the EO771 cells in the S-phase without altering cell growth or survival. A long-term analysis of cell behavior, using 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein diacetate N-succinimidyl ester (CFSE) staining, show synchronization to be stable and consistent over time. The EO771 cell line is a medullary breast-adenocarcinoma cell line isolated from a spontaneous murine mammary tumor, and can be used to generate murine tumor implantation models. Different biological (serum or amino acid deprivation), physical (elutriation, mitotic shake-off), or chemical (colchicine, nocodazole, thymidine) treatments are widely used for cell synchronization. Of the different methods tested, the double thymidine block is the most efficient for synchronization of murine EO771 cells if a large quantity of highly synchronized cells is recommended to study functional and biochemical events occurring in specific points of cell cycle progression.
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- Marie Goepp
- Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 1019 INRAE-UCA, UNH (Human Nutrition Unity), ECREIN Team, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 1019 INRAE-UCA, UNH (Human Nutrition Unity), ECREIN Team, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 1019 INRAE-UCA, UNH (Human Nutrition Unity), ECREIN Team, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 1019 INRAE-UCA, UNH (Human Nutrition Unity), ECREIN Team, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000, France.,Unité de Nutrition, CHU, Centre Jean Perrin, CLARA, Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000, France
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Langan TJ, Rodgers KR, Chou RC. Synchronization of Mammalian Cell Cultures by Serum Deprivation. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1524:97-105. [PMID: 27815898 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6603-5_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Mammalian cells are amenable to the study of regulatory mechanisms dictating cell cycle progression in vitro by shifting them into the same phase of the cycle. Procedures to arrest cultured cells in specific phases of the cell cycle may be termed in vitro synchronization. The procedure described here was developed for the study of primary astrocytes and a glioma cell line, but is broadly applicable to other mammalian cells. Its application allows astrocytes to re-enter the cell cycle from a state of quiescence (G0) under carefully defined experimental conditions to move together into subsequent phases such as the G1 and S phases. A number of methods have been established to synchronize mammalian cell cultures, which include counterflow centrifugal elutriation, mitotic shake off, chemically induced cell cycle arrest, and newer live cell methods, such as cell permeable dyes. Yet, there are intrinsic limitations associated with these methods. In the present protocol, we describe a simple, reliable, and reversible procedure to synchronize astrocyte and glioma cultures from newborn rat brain by serum deprivation. The procedure is similar, and generally applicable, to other mammalian cells. This protocol consists essentially of two parts: (1) proliferation of astrocytes under optimal conditions in vitro until reaching desired confluence; and (2) synchronization and G0 phase arrest of cultures by serum down-shift. This procedure has been utilized to examine cell cycle control in astroglioma cells and astrocytes from injured adult brain. It has also been employed in precursor cloning studies in developmental biology, suggesting wide applicability.
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- Thomas J Langan
- Department of Neurology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, 219 Bryant St., Buffalo, NY, 14222, USA. .,Department of Pediatrics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, 219 Bryant St., Buffalo, NY, 14222, USA. .,Department of Physiology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, 219 Bryant St., Buffalo, NY, 14222, USA. .,Department of Biophysics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, 219 Bryant St., Buffalo, NY, 14222, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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Halicka D, Zhao H, Li J, Garcia J, Podhorecka M, Darzynkiewicz Z. DNA Damage Response Resulting from Replication Stress Induced by Synchronization of Cells by Inhibitors of DNA Replication: Analysis by Flow Cytometry. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1524:107-119. [PMID: 27815899 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6603-5_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Cell synchronization is often achieved by transient inhibition of DNA replication. When cultured in the presence of such inhibitors as hydroxyurea, aphidicolin or excess of thymidine the cells that become arrested at the entrance to S-phase upon release from the block initiate progression through S then G2 and M. However, exposure to these inhibitors at concentrations commonly used to synchronize cells leads to activation of ATR and ATM protein kinases as well as phosphorylation of Ser139 of histone H2AX. This observation of DNA damage signaling implies that synchronization of cells by these inhibitors is inducing replication stress. Thus, a caution should be exercised while interpreting data obtained with use of cells synchronized this way since they do not represent unperturbed cell populations in a natural metabolic state. This chapter critically outlines virtues and vices of most cell synchronization methods. It also presents the protocol describing an assessment of phosphorylation of Ser139 on H2AX and activation of ATM in cells treated with aphidicolin, as a demonstrative of one of several DNA replication inhibitors that are being used for cell synchronization. Phosphorylation of Ser139H2AX and Ser1981ATM in individual cells is detected immunocytochemically with phospho-specific Abs and intensity of immunofluorescence is measured by flow cytometry. Concurrent measurement of cellular DNA content followed by multiparameter analysis allows one to correlate the extent of phosphorylation of these proteins in response to aphidicolin with the cell cycle phase.
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- Dorota Halicka
- Department of Pathology, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College, 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College, 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College, 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College, 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA
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- Department of Hemato-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College, 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA.
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Rosner M, Schipany K, Hengstschläger M. Merging high-quality biochemical fractionation with a refined flow cytometry approach to monitor nucleocytoplasmic protein expression throughout the unperturbed mammalian cell cycle. Nat Protoc 2013; 8:602-26. [DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Chatre L, Ricchetti M. Prevalent coordination of mitochondrial DNA transcription and initiation of replication with the cell cycle. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:3068-78. [PMID: 23345615 PMCID: PMC3597681 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Nuclear (nDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) communication is essential for cell function, but it remains unclear whether the replication of these genomes is linked. We inspected human cells with a novel fluorescence in situ hybridization protocol (mitochondrial Transcription and Replication Imaging Protocol) that identifies mitochondrial structures engaged in initiation of mtDNA replication and unique transcript profiles, and reconstruct the temporal series of mitochondrial and nuclear events in single cells during the cell cycle. We show that mtDNA transcription and initiation of replication are prevalently coordinated with the cell cycle, preceding nuclear DNA synthesis, and being reactivated towards the end of S-phase. This coordination is achieved by modulating the fraction of mitochondrial structures that intiate mtDNA synthesis and/or contain transcript at a given time. Thus, although replication of the mitochondrial genome is active through the entire cell cycle, but in a limited fraction of mitochondrial structures, peaks of these activities are synchronized with nDNA synthesis. After release from blockage of mtDNA replication with either nocodazole or double thymidine treatment, prevalent mtDNA and nDNA synthesis occurred simultaneously, indicating that mitochondrial coordination with the nuclear phase can be adjusted in response to physiological alterations. These findings will help redefine other nuclear-mitochondrial links in cell function.
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- Laurent Chatre
- Institut Pasteur, Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Levures, Departement of Genomes and Genetics, CNRS UMR 3525, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris, France
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Mammalian cells are amenable to study the regulation of cell cycle progression in vitro by shifting them into the same phase of the cycle. Procedures to arrest cultured cells in specific phases of the cell cycle may be termed in vitro synchronization. The procedure described here was developed for the study of primary astrocytes and a glioma cell line, but is applicable to other mammalian cells. Its application allows astrocytes to reenter the cell cycle from a state of quiescence (G(0)), and then, under carefully defined experimental conditions, to move together into subsequent phases such as the G(1) and S phases. A number of methods have been established to synchronize mammalian cell cultures, which include physical separation by centrifugal elutriation and mitotic shake off or chemically induced cell cycle arrest. Yet, there are intrinsic limitations associated with these methods. In the present protocol, we describe a simple, reliable, and reversible procedure to synchronize astrocyte and glioma cultures from newborn rat brain by serum deprivation. The procedure is similar, and generally applicable, to other mammalian cells. This protocol consists essentially of two parts: (1) proliferation of astrocytes under optimal conditions in vitro until reaching desired confluence; and (2) synchronization of cultures by serum downshift and arrested in the G(0) phase of the cell cycle. This procedure has been extended to the examination of cell cycle control in astroglioma cells and astrocytes from injured adult brain. It has also been employed in precursor cloning studies in developmental biology, suggesting wide applicability.
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- Thomas J Langan
- Department of Neurology, Pediatrics, Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Children's Hospital, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA.
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Darzynkiewicz Z, Halicka HD, Zhao H, Podhorecka M. Cell synchronization by inhibitors of DNA replication induces replication stress and DNA damage response: analysis by flow cytometry. Methods Mol Biol 2011; 761:85-96. [PMID: 21755443 PMCID: PMC3137244 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-182-6_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Cell synchronization is often achieved by inhibition of DNA replication. The cells cultured in the presence of such inhibitors as hydroxyurea, aphidicolin, or thymidine become arrested at the entrance to S phase and upon release from the block they synchronously progress through S, G(2), and M. We recently reported that exposure of cells to these inhibitors at concentrations commonly used to synchronize cell populations led to phosphorylation of histone H2AX on Ser139 (induction of γH2AX) through activation of ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3-related protein kinase (ATR). These findings imply that the induction of DNA replication stress by these inhibitors activates the DNA damage response signaling pathways and caution about interpreting data obtained with use of cells synchronized such way as representing unperturbed cells. The protocol presented in this chapter describes the methodology of assessment of phosphorylation of histone H2AX-Ser139, ATM/ATR substrate on Ser/Thr at SQ/TQ cluster domains as well as ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein kinase in cells treated with inhibitors of DNA replication. Phosphorylation of these proteins is detected in individual cell immunocytochemically with phospho-specific antibody (Ab) and measured by flow cytometry. Concurrent measurement of cellular DNA content and phosphorylated proteins followed by multiparameter cytometric analysis allows one to correlate extent of their phosphorylation with cell cycle phase.
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- Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz
- Department of Pathology, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College, 10595, Valhalla, NY, USA.
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Banfalvi G. Cell cycle synchronization of animal cells and nuclei by centrifugal elutriation. Nat Protoc 2008; 3:663-73. [DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Liliensiek SJ, Schell K, Howard E, Nealey P, Murphy CJ. Cell sorting but not serum starvation is effective for SV40 human corneal epithelial cell cycle synchronization. Exp Eye Res 2006; 83:61-8. [PMID: 16545370 PMCID: PMC3061619 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2005] [Revised: 10/28/2005] [Accepted: 11/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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SV40 human corneal epithelial cell (HCEC) populations are readily used as a substitute for primary corneal epithelial cells that are difficult to maintain in vitro. To initiate cell-cycle experiments with the SV40-HCEC cells, two separate methods of cell synchronization were compared including serum starvation and sterile cell sorting. We hypothesized that SV40 cells are synchronized at higher efficiencies into each cell cycle phase (G1, S, G2M) when cell sorting is performed when compared to alternative methods of synchronization. SV40 cells were synchronized by deprivation of serum over 96 h or labeled with Höechst 33342 dye and sorted based on DNA content. Cells were synchronized using both methods and harvested at time points up to 72 h after release. To define more precisely the nature of sorted fractions, cells were pulsed with BrdU prior to sorting. SV40-HCEC cells exhibit a well-defined cell cycle profile. Serum deprivation up to 96 h was ineffective for cell synchronization of SV40-HCECs. In comparison, we achieved efficient synchronization of the SV40-HCECs with sterile cell sorting. SV40-HCEC cells gated into G1, S and G2M were synchronized up to 85% following the sort and maintained synchronization up to 24 h. Our findings indicate that serum starvation is not effective for synchronization of the SV40-HCEC cell line. We present a more effective approach, the use of cell sorting for cell synchronization of the SV40-HCEC cells.
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- Sara J Liliensiek
- Department of Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, 2015 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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Kurose A, Tanaka T, Huang X, Traganos F, Darzynkiewicz Z. Synchronization in the cell cycle by inhibitors of DNA replication induces histone H2AX phosphorylation: an indication of DNA damage. Cell Prolif 2006; 39:231-40. [PMID: 16672000 PMCID: PMC6496703 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.2006.00380.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Several methods to synchronize cultured cells in the cell cycle are based on temporary inhibition of DNA replication. Previously it has been reported that cells synchronized this way exhibited significant growth imbalance and unscheduled expression of cyclins A and B1. We have now observed that HL-60 cells exposed to inhibitors of DNA replication (thymidine, aphidicolin and hydroxyurea), at concentrations commonly used to synchronize cell populations, had histone H2AX phosphorylated on Ser-139. This modification of H2AX, a marker of DNA damage (induction of DNA double-strand breaks; DSBs), was most pronounced in S-phase cells, and led to their apoptosis. Thus, to a large extent, synchronization was caused by selective kill of DNA replicating cells through induction of replication stress. In fact, similar synchronization has been achieved by exposure of cells to the DNA topoisomerase I inhibitor camptothecin, a cytotoxic drug known to target S-phase cells. A large proportion of the surviving cells 'synchronized' by DNA replication inhibitors at the G1/S boundary had phosphorylated histone H2AX. Inhibitors of DNA replication, thus, not only selectively kill DNA replicating cells, induce growth imbalance and alter the machinery regulating progression through the cycle, but they also cause DNA damage involving formation of DSBs in the surviving ('synchronized') cells. The above effects should be taken into account when interpreting data obtained with the use of cells synchronized by inhibitors of DNA replication.
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- A. Kurose
- Brander Cancer Research Institute and
- Department of Pathology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
- Department of Pathology, Iwate Medical University, 19‐1 Uchimaru, Morioka, Iwate 020‐8505, Japan, and
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- Brander Cancer Research Institute and
- First Department of Surgery, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine 1‐1‐1 Minami‐kogushi, Ube, Yamaguchi 755‐8505, Japan
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- Brander Cancer Research Institute and
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Chou RC, Langan TJ. In vitro synchronization of mammalian astrocytic cultures by serum deprivation. BRAIN RESEARCH. BRAIN RESEARCH PROTOCOLS 2003; 11:162-7. [PMID: 12842221 DOI: 10.1016/s1385-299x(03)00043-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The study of the regulation of cell division cycle in vitro requires cell cultures growing in the same phase of the cycle. The procedure by which cells are arrested in specific phases of the cell cycle is termed synchronization. Synchronization is particularly important in the study of astrocyte biology, as its application allows astrocytes to re-enter the cell cycle from a state of quiescence (G(0)), and, under carefully defined experimental conditions, move together into subsequent phases such as the G(1) and S phases. A number of methods have been established to synchronize mammalian cell cultures, including centrifugal elutriation, mitotic shake-off, and chemically induced cell cycle arrest. Yet there are intrinsic limitations associated with these methods. In the present protocol, we describe a simple, reliable, and reversible procedure to synchronize astrocytic cultures from newborn rat brains by serum deprivation. This protocol consists essentially of two parts: (1) proliferation of astrocytes under optimal conditions in vitro until reaching desired confluence; and (2) synchronization of cultures by serum down-shift and arrested in the G(0) phase of the cell cycle. This procedure has recently been extended toward the study of cell cycle control in astroglioma cells and astrocytes from injured adult brains. Since it was also employed in recent precursor cloning studies in developmental biology, this procedure will certainly find increasing use in future research.
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- Richard C Chou
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
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Fatatis A, Miller RJ. Cell cycle control of PDGF-induced Ca(2+) signaling through modulation of sphingolipid metabolism. FASEB J 1999; 13:1291-301. [PMID: 10428754 DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.13.11.1291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The effects of growth factors have been shown to depend on the position of a cell in the cell cycle. However, the physiological basis for this phenomenon remains unclear. Here we show that the majority of both CEINGE clone3 (cl3) and human embryonic kidney 293 cells, when arrested in a quiescent phase (G(0)), responded to platelet-derived growth factor BB (PDGF-BB) with non-oscillatory Ca(2+) signals. Furthermore, the same type of Ca(2+) response was also observed in CEINGE cl3 cells (and to a lesser extent in HEK 293 cells) blocked at the G(1)/S boundary. In contrast, CEINGE cl3 cells synchronized in early G(1) or released from G(1)/S arrest responded in an oscillatory fashion. This cell cycle-dependent modulation of Ca(2+) signaling was not observed on epidermal growth factor and G-protein-coupled receptor stimulation and was not due to differences in the expression of PDGF receptors (PDGFRs) during the cell cycle. We demonstrate that inhibition of sphingosine-kinase, which converts sphingosine to sphingosine-1-phosphate, caused G(0) as well as G(1)/S synchronized cells to restore the oscillatory Ca(2+) response to PDGF-BB. In addition, we show that the synthesis of sphingosine and sphingosine-1-phosphate is regulated by the cell cycle and may underlie the differences in Ca(2+) signaling after PDGFR stimulation.
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- A Fatatis
- Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Graeser R, Wernli B, Franklin RM, Kappes B. Plasmodium falciparum protein kinase 5 and the malarial nuclear division cycles. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1996; 82:37-49. [PMID: 8943149 DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02716-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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In the course of our studies on cell cycle regulation mechanisms of Plasmodium falciparum, we investigated expression pattern, kinase activity, and localization of PfPK5, a putative malarial member of the family of cyclin-dependent protein kinase (cdks). The kinase was immunoprecipitated from parasites of selected stages and from parasites blocked with the cell-cycle inhibitor aphidicolin. An elevated kinase activity of PfPK5 from aphidicolin-blocked cells suggested that the enzyme might be implicated in the regulation of the parasite's S-phase. To further investigate this hypothetical function, parasite cultures were treated with the specific cdk inhibitors flavopiridol and olomoucine, which act on PfPK5 in vitro at similar concentrations as on other cdks. When applied during the nuclear division cycles of the parasite, both drugs markedly inhibited the DNA synthesis, as predicted from our proposition that PfPK5 is necessary to activate or maintain the parasite S-phase. Immunolocalization studies provide further evidence for this potential role of PfPK5.
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- R Graeser
- Department of Structural Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Grinstein E, Weinert I, Droese B, Pagano M, Royer HD. Cell cycle regulation of nuclear factor p32 DNA-binding activity by novel phase-specific inhibitors. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:9215-22. [PMID: 8621580 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.16.9215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The nuclear factor p92, originally discovered by its interaction with the human papillomavirus type 18 enhancer, is a cellular protein whose activity is restricted to S phase in human primary fibroblasts. The human papillomavirus type 18 p92 binding sequence confers enhancer activity on a heterologous promoter, suggesting that p92 acts as a transcription factor. We have identified a class of nuclear inhibitory proteins, I-92s, which noncovalently associate with p92 but not with other transcription factors such as AP1, E2F, or NF-kappaB. Different I-92s occur in G1, G2, and G0, while no I-92 is detectable in S phase. Phase-specific inhibitors, therefore, are responsible for the cell cycle dependence of p92 activity and provide a novel mechanism linking transcription factor regulation with the cell cycle.
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- E Grinstein
- Department of Medical Genetics, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Pocsik E, Mihalik R, Penzes M, Loetscher H, Gallati H, Aggarwal BB. Effect of cell cycle on the regulation of the cell surface and secreted forms of type I and type II human tumor necrosis factor receptors. J Cell Biochem 1995; 59:303-16. [PMID: 8567749 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240590303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The cell cycle has been shown to regulate the biological effects of human tumor necrosis factor (TNF), but to what extent that regulation is due to the modulation of TNF receptors is not clear. In the present report we investigated the effect of the cell cycle on the expression of surface and soluble TNF receptors in human histiocytic lymphoma U-937. Exposure to hydroxyurea, thymidine, etoposide, bisbensimide, and demecolcine lead to accumulation of cells primarily in G1/S, S, S/G2/M, G2/M, and M stages of the cell cycle, respectively. While no significant change in TNF receptors occurred in cells arrested in G1/S or S/G2 stages, about a 50% decrease was observed in cells at M phase of the cycle. Scatchard analysis showed a reduction in receptor number rather than affinity. In contrast, cells arrested at S phase (thymidine) showed an 80% increase in receptor number. The decrease in the TNF receptors was not due to changes in cell size or protein synthesis. The increase in receptors, however, correlated with an increase in total protein synthesis (to 3.8-fold of the control levels). A proportional change was observed in the p60 and p80 forms of the TNF receptors. A decrease in the surface receptors in cells arrested in M phase correlated with an increase in the amount of soluble receptors. The cellular response to TNF increased to 8- and 2-fold in cells arrested in G1 and S phase, respectively; but cells at G2/M phase showed about 6-fold decrease in response. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that the cell cycle plays an important role in regulation of cell-surface and soluble TNF receptors and also in the modulation of cellular response.
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- E Pocsik
- Department of Immunology, National Institute of Haematology, Blood Transfusion, and Immunology, Budapest, Hungary
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As detailed information accumulates about how cell cycle events are regulated, we can expect new opportunities for application to cancer therapy. The altered expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes that commonly occurs in human cancers may impair the ability of the cells to respond to metabolic perturbations of stress. Impaired cell cycle regulation would make cells vulnerable to pharmacologic intervention by drug regimens tailored to the defects existing in particular tumors. Recent findings that may become applicable to therapy are reviewed, and the possible form of new therapeutic stratagems is considered.
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- K W Kohn
- Laboratory of Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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The objective of this brief review is to stress the importance of multiple levels of molecular regulation of complex processes such as cell growth and to illustrate their derangements as they occur in cancer cells. One major research emphasis today is the regulation of transcription by binding of transactivating proteins to promoter motifs. Another focus is on the multiple roles of protein phosphorylations in signal transduction pathways. Evidence is strong, however, that major controls exist at numerous other molecular levels as well (Fig. 1). These include pre-mRNA processing, pre-mRNA degradation, mRNA degradation, control of translation, permanent protein modifications, protein degradation, reversible covalent protein alterations, noncovalent interactions with small molecules and with other proteins, and effects of relocations into cell compartments. These controls are exhibited in all biological processes. A few illustrative examples are briefly discussed, which come mainly from our researches in the area of cell cycle regulation and its derangement in cancer.
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- A B Pardee
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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