Reprogramming of replicative senescence in hepatocellular carcinoma-derived cells

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Ozturk N., Erdal E., Mumcuoglu M., Akcali K. C., Yalcin O., ŞENTÜRK Ş., ...More

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, vol.103, no.7, pp.2178-2183, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)

• Publication Type: Article / Article
• Volume: 103 Issue: 7
• Publication Date: 2006
• Doi Number: 10.1073/pnas.0510877103
• Journal Name: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
• Page Numbers: pp.2178-2183
• Keywords: immortality, liver cancer, SIP1, telomerase, p53, DNA-BINDING, TELOMERASE, GENE, SIP1, EXPRESSION, PATHWAYS, GROWTH, LINES
• Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Tumor cells have the capacity to proliferate indefinitely that is qualified as replicative immortality. This ability contrasts with the intrinsic control of the number of cell divisions in human somatic tissues by a mechanism called replicative senescence. Replicative immortality is acquired by inactivation of p53 and p16(INK4a) genes and reactivation of hTERT gene expression. It is unknown whether the cancer cell replicative immortality is reversible. Here, we show the spontaneous induction of replicative senescence in p53-and p16(INK4a)-deficient hepatocellular carcinoma cells. This phenomenon is characterized with hTERT repression, telomere shortening, senescence arrest, and tumor suppression. SIP1 gene (ZFHX1B) is partly responsible for replicative senescence, because short hairpin RNA-mediated SIP1 inactivation released hTERT repression and rescued clonal hepatocellular carcinoma cells from senescence arrest.