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Influence of caspase activity on micronuclei detection: a possible role for caspase-3 inmicronucleation. (Articolo in rivista)
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- Influence of caspase activity on micronuclei detection: a possible role for caspase-3 inmicronucleation. (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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- 2005-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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- Decordier I, Cundari E, Kirsch-Volders M. (literal)
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laboratorium voor Cellulaire Genetica,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium and 1Istituto di biologia e patologia
molecolari, C.N.R., Via degli Apuli 4, I-00185 Roma, Italy (literal)
- Titolo
- Influence of caspase activity on micronuclei detection: a possible role for caspase-3 inmicronucleation. (literal)
- Abstract
- Aneugenic and clastogenic agents are good inducers of
both micronuclei and apoptosis. In its turn, apoptosis
may modify the threshold values for the induction of micronuclei.
This is of major concern for accurate assessment of
hazard related to exposure to mutagens. In the present
work we studied the influence of caspases, the key regulators
of the apoptotic process, on the induction of micronuclei
in the cytokinesis block micronucleus assay. For this,
we applied a combined approach in which both human
peripheral blood mononucleated cells (PBMC) and the
paired human breast carcinoma cell lines MCF-7, which
is caspase-3 deficient, and the caspase-3 transfected MCF-7
(MCF-7casp-3) were used to study the influence of caspase
activity on micronuclei. When nocodazole induced apoptosis
was inhibited by the use of inhibitors of the two main
apical caspases-8 and -9 in PBMC, the frequencies of
micronucleated binucleates (MNCB) increased with inhibition
of these caspases confirming that apoptosis can eliminate
micronucleated cells. On the contrary when caspase-3
was inhibited, the frequencies of MNCB was lower, suggesting
a role of caspase-3, also in micronuclei formation.
To verify this hypothesis, we compared the induction
of apoptosis and micronuclei by the aneugen nocodazole,
the clastogen methyl methane sulfonate (MMS) and
the non-mutagenic apoptogen staurosporin in MCF-7 and
MCF-7casp-3 cells. The results showed that when caspase-3
activity was impaired, in the parental MCF-7 cell line or
in the MCF-7casp-3 cells in the presence of the caspase-3
inhibitor, the frequencies of nocodazole or MMS induced
micronuclei decreased. These results suggest that caspase-
3, besides its function as an effector caspase in the apoptotic
pathway, is also involved in the formation of micronuclei. (literal)
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