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Wenzlau JM, Peterson OJ, Vomund AN, DiLisio JE, Hohenstein A, Haskins K, Wan X. Mapping of a hybrid insulin peptide in the inflamed islet β-cells from NOD mice. Front Immunol 2024; 15:1348131. [PMID: 38455055 PMCID: PMC10917911 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1348131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
Abstract
There is accumulating evidence that pathogenic T cells in T1D recognize epitopes formed by post-translational modifications of β-cell antigens, including hybrid insulin peptides (HIPs). The ligands for several CD4 T-cell clones derived from the NOD mouse are HIPs composed of a fragment of proinsulin joined to peptides from endogenous β-cell granule proteins. The diabetogenic T-cell clone BDC-6.9 reacts to a fragment of C-peptide fused to a cleavage product of pro-islet amyloid polypeptide (6.9HIP). In this study, we used a monoclonal antibody (MAb) to the 6.9HIP to determine when and where HIP antigens are present in NOD islets during disease progression and with which immune cells they associate. Immunogold labeling of the 6.9HIP MAb and organelle-specific markers for electron microscopy were employed to map the subcellular compartment(s) in which the HIP is localized within β-cells. While the insulin B9-23 peptide was present in nearly all islets, the 6.9HIP MAb stained infiltrated islets only in NOD mice at advanced stages of T1D development. Islets co-stained with the 6.9HIP MAb and antibodies to mark insulin, macrophages, and dendritic cells indicate that 6.9HIP co-localizes within insulin-positive β-cells as well as intra-islet antigen-presenting cells (APCs). In electron micrographs, the 6.9HIP co-localized with granule structures containing insulin alone or both insulin and LAMP1 within β-cells. Exposing NOD islets to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress inducer tunicamycin significantly increased levels of 6.9HIP in subcellular fractions containing crinosomes and dense-core granules (DCGs). This work demonstrates that the 6.9HIP can be visualized in the infiltrated islets and suggests that intra-islet APCs may acquire and present HIP antigens within islets.
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- Janet M. Wenzlau
- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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Wiles TA, Hohenstein A, Landry LG, Dang M, Powell R, Guyer P, James EA, Nakayama M, Haskins K, Delong T, Baker RL. Characterization of Human CD4 T Cells Specific for a C-Peptide/C-Peptide Hybrid Insulin Peptide. Front Immunol 2021; 12:668680. [PMID: 34113344 PMCID: PMC8185328 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.668680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Hybrid Insulin Peptides (HIPs), which consist of insulin fragments fused to other peptides from β-cell secretory granule proteins, are CD4 T cell autoantigens in type 1 diabetes (T1D). We have studied HIPs and HIP-reactive CD4 T cells extensively in the context of the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse model of autoimmune diabetes and have shown that CD4 T cells specific for HIPs are major contributors to disease pathogenesis. Additionally, in the human context, HIP-reactive CD4 T cells can be found in the islets and peripheral blood of T1D patients. Here, we performed an in-depth characterization of the CD4 T cell response to a C-peptide/C-peptide HIP (HIP11) in human T1D. We identified the TCR expressed by the previously-reported HIP11-reactive CD4 T cell clone E2, which was isolated from the peripheral blood of a T1D patient, and determined that it recognizes HIP11 in the context of HLA-DQ2. We also identified a HIP11-specific TCR directly in the islets of a T1D donor and demonstrated that this TCR recognizes a different minimal epitope of HIP11 presented by HLA-DQ8. We generated and tested an HLA-DQ2 tetramer loaded with HIP11 that will enable direct ex vivo interrogation of CD4 T cell responses to HIP11 in human patients and control subjects. Using mass spectrometric analysis, we confirmed that HIP11 is present in human islets. This work represents an important step in characterizing the role of CD4 T cell responses to HIPs in human T1D.
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- Timothy A. Wiles
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, United States,Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Translational Research, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Department of Translational Research, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States,Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States,*Correspondence: Rocky L. Baker,
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Wiles TA, Powell R, Michel C, Beard KS, Hohenstein A, Bradley B, Reisdorph N, Haskins K, Delong T. Identification of Hybrid Insulin Peptides (HIPs) in Mouse and Human Islets by Mass Spectrometry. J Proteome Res 2019; 18:814-825. [PMID: 30585061 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.8b00875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
We recently discovered hybrid insulin peptides (HIPs) as a novel class of post-translationally modified peptides in murine-derived beta cell tumors, and we demonstrated that these molecules are autoantigens in type 1 diabetes (T1D). A HIP consists of an insulin fragment linked to another secretory granule peptide via a peptide bond. We verified that autoreactive CD4 T cells in both mouse and human autoimmune diabetes recognize these modified peptides. Here, we use mass spectrometric analyses to confirm the presence of HIPs in both mouse and human pancreatic islets. We also present criteria for the confident identification of these peptides. This work supports the hypothesis that HIPs are autoantigens in human T1D and provides a foundation for future efforts to interrogate this previously unknown component of the beta cell proteome.
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- T. Aaron Wiles
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes , Aurora , Colorado 80045 , United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States,Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045,
United States
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Williams T, Krovi HS, Landry LG, Crawford F, Jin N, Hohenstein A, DeNicola ME, Michels AW, Davidson HW, Kent SC, Gapin L, Kappler JW, Nakayama M. Development of T cell lines sensitive to antigen stimulation. J Immunol Methods 2018; 462:65-73. [PMID: 30165064 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2018.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Revised: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Immortalized T cells such as T cell hybridomas, transfectomas, and transductants are useful tools to study tri-molecular complexes consisting of peptide, MHC, and T cell receptor (TCR) molecules. These cells have been utilized for antigen discovery studies for decades due to simplicity and rapidness of growing cells. However, responsiveness to antigen stimulation is typically less sensitive compared to primary T cells, resulting in occasional false negative outcomes especially for TCRs having low affinity to a peptide-MHC complex (pMHC). To overcome this obstacle, we genetically engineered T cell hybridomas to express additional CD3 molecules as well as CD4 with two amino acid substitutions that increase affinity to MHC class II molecules. The manipulated T cell hybridomas that were further transduced with retroviral vectors encoding TCRs of interest responded to cognate antigens more robustly than non-manipulated cells without evoking non-antigen specific reactivity. Of importance, the manipulation with CD3 and mutated human CD4 expression was effective in increasing responsiveness of T cell hybridomas to a wide variety of TCR, peptide, and MHC combinations across class II genetic loci (i.e. HLA-DR, HLA-DQ, HLA-DP, and murine H2-IA) and species (i.e. both humans and mice), and thus will be useful to identify antigen specificity of T cells.
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- Theodore Williams
- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 12800 E. 19(th) Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Research, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Diabetes Center of Excellence, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, 368 Plantation Street, ASC7-2012, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 12800 E. 19(th) Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Diabetes Center of Excellence, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, 368 Plantation Street, ASC7-2012, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 12800 E. 19(th) Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 12800 E. 19(th) Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Biomedical Research, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA; Program in Structural Biology and Biochemistry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
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- Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1775 Aurora Court, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 12800 E. 19(th) Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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Fontana J, Vogt A, Hohenstein A, Vettermann U, Doroshenko E, Lammer E, Yard BA, Hoeger S. Impact of Steroids on the Inflammatory Response after Ischemic Acute Kidney Injury in Rats. Indian J Nephrol 2017; 27:365-371. [PMID: 28904432 PMCID: PMC5590413 DOI: 10.4103/ijn.ijn_40_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Inflammation plays a crucial role in acute kidney injury (AKI). The current study was designed to analyze the influence of prednisolone treatment on the inflammatory reaction during the first 96 h after AKI induction in a rat model. AKI was induced by unilateral clipping of the renal vessels. The treatment group received prednisolone 5 mg/kg s.c. daily. Infiltration rates of macrophages, leukocytes, and T-cells (24, 96 h) as well as plasma concentrations of the inflammatory markers intercellular adhesion molecule, interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β), IL-18, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (0, 6, 24, 96 h) were determined by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analysis only. Ninety-six hours after AKI induction, the prednisolone group demonstrated significantly lower creatinine concentrations compared to the control group (P < 0.05). Twenty-four hours after induction of AKI, a significantly higher rate of infiltrating leukocytes was detectable with FACS analysis in the control group (P < 0.01) with a corresponding significantly higher rate of macrophages after 96 h (P < 0.01). IL-6 and IL-1β demonstrated a peak after 6 h with a significantly higher release in the control group (IL-6: P < 0.01; IL-1β: P < 0.05). In contrast to the control group, the prednisolone group demonstrated no further incline of IL-18 after 24 h. The results demonstrate the importance of stretching the observation period in an ischemia-reperfusion-induced AKI setting beyond the first 24 h. Despite the demonstrated protective effects of a continuous prednisolone application, it seems that this single anti-inflammatory agent will not be able to completely suppress the inflammatory response after an ischemia-reperfusion-induced AKI.
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- J Fontana
- Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum Memmingen, Memmingen, Germany
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- Bioassay GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Bioassay GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Vth Medical Department, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Medical Center Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Bioassay GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
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Alépée N, Piroird C, Aujoulat M, Dreyfuss S, Hoffmann S, Hohenstein A, Meloni M, Nardelli L, Gerbeix C, Cotovio J. Prospective multicentre study of the U-SENS test method for skin sensitization testing. Toxicol In Vitro 2015; 30:373-82. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2015.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2015] [Revised: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 09/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Tagay S, Kribben A, Hohenstein A, Senf W. Posttraumatic stress disorder in hemodialysis patients. Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 2008. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1061597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Tagay S, Erim Y, Stoelk B, Kribben A, Hohenstein A, Langkafel M, Senf W. Was sagt die Lebenszufriedenheit über den psychischen Zustand eines Menschen aus? Psychother Psych Med 2005. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-863569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Abstract
Quinones are the second largest family of anticancer drugs clinically used in the United States. However, their exact mode of action at the cellular and molecular level is not completely understood. We have shown earlier that the quinone 3,6-diaziridinyl-1,4-benzoquinone (DZQ) leads to the increased expression of p21waf1/cip1/sdi1 protein, an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases. Because p21 has been established as an important negative regulator of the cell cycle, we further investigated the molecular basis of p21 induction by DZQ. Here we report that the induction of p21 by DZQ is regulated at the transcriptional level, and requires the activation of p53, a tumor suppressor protein. In cells that lack functional p53 protein, DZQ-mediated p21 induction is greatly diminished. However, the introduction of a wild type p53 gene into p53-negative cells restores the strong DZQ-inducibility of p21. Restoration of wild type p53 status in HL60 myeloid leukemia cells significantly increases the cells' sensitivity to the cytotoxic effects of DZQ. Thus, our results indicate that the p53-p21 pathway may play a central role in mediating the gene-regulatory and cytotoxic effects of aziridinylbenzoquinones.
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- R C Wu
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and K Norris Jr. Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA
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