Antiproliferative effects of retinoic acid/interferon in cervical carcinoma cell lines: Cooperative growth suppression of IRF-1 and p53
✍ Scribed by Soo-Jong Um; Eun-Joo Kim; Eun-Seong Hwang; Seung-Jo Kim; Sung-Eun Namkoong; Jong-Sup Park
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Volume
- 85
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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✦ Synopsis
Retinoids and interferons have been implicated in the growth regulation of cervical cancer cells. However, the molecular mechanisms are not fully defined. To analyze detailed mechanisms, HPV-positive (HeLa, CaSki), HPVnegative (C33A, HT-3) and non-cervical Cos-1 cell lines were treated with 1 M all-trans-retinoic acid (RA) and/or 10 ng/ml interferon-␥ (IFN-␥). The growth of RA-treated HeLa cells was less effectively suppressed than that of IFN-␥-treated ones. A combination of RA and IFN-␥ leads to an additive antiproliferative effect on the cell growth. CaSki cell growth was also inhibited by IFN-␥ but was little stimulated by RA treatment, and the IFN effect was attenuated when IFN-␥ was combined with RA. HPV-negative C33A and HT-3 cells, which are defective in p53 and Rb, and Cos-1 cells were weakly or not responsive to all combined treatments. The molecular mechanism underlying the differential effects of RA/IFN on HeLa and C33A cells was investigated. Combined RA/IFN-␥ treatment caused a marked increase in the level of IFN regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1) in HeLa, whereas no induction of IRF-1 was observed in C33A, consistent with the findings that IFN signaling is functional in HeLa but is defective in C33A cells. The increase of p53 in HeLa cells might account for the down-regulation of HPV-18 E6 gene expression by RA/IFN-␥. Furthermore, RA/IFN-␥ treatment resulted in the concurrent induction of p21 WAF1 CDK inhibitor and dephosphorylation of Rb protein. Transient co-expression of IRF-1 and p53 led to the cooperative activation of the p21 WAF1 promoter. Our results indicate that 2 transcription factors, increased in response to RA/IFN-␥, cooperate functionally to regulate the cell cycle through the activation of a common p21 WAF1 gene in HeLa cells. Int.