Editor's Highlight: Hydroxyurea Exposure Activates the P53 Signaling Pathway in Murine Organogenesis-Stage Embryos
| Autor: | Ava E. Schlisser, Nazem El Husseini, Barbara F. Hales |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
DNA damage Organogenesis P53 Signaling and Organogenesis Blotting Western Developmental toxicity Biology Toxicology medicine.disease_cause Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Transcriptome 03 medical and health sciences Mice Western blot Pregnancy medicine Animals Hydroxyurea Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis medicine.diagnostic_test Embryo Embryo Mammalian Embryonic stem cell Cell biology 030104 developmental biology Female Signal transduction Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 Oxidative stress Signal Transduction |
| Zdroj: | Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology. 152(2) |
| ISSN: | 1096-0929 |
| Popis: | Hydroxyurea, an anticancer agent and potent teratogen, induces oxidative stress and activates a DNA damage response pathway in the gestation day (GD) 9 mouse embryo. To delineate the stress response pathways activated by this drug, we investigated the effect of hydroxyurea exposure on the transcriptome of GD 9 embryos. Timed pregnant CD-1 mice were treated with saline or hydroxyurea (400 mg/kg or 600 mg/kg) on GD 9; embryonic gene and protein expression were examined 3 h later. Microarray analysis revealed that the expression of 1346 probe sets changed significantly in embryos exposed to hydroxyurea compared with controls; the P53 signaling pathway was highly affected. In addition, P53 related family members, P63 and P73, were predicted to be activated and had common and unique downstream targets. Western blot analysis revealed that active phospho-P53 was significantly increased in drug-exposed embryos; confocal microscopy showed that the translocation of phospho-P53 to the nucleus was widespread in the embryo. Furthermore, qRT-PCR showed that the expression of P53-regulated genes (Cdkn1A, Fas, and Trp53inp1) was significantly upregulated in hydroxyurea-exposed embryos; the concentration of the redox sensitive P53INP1 protein was also increased in a hydroxyurea dose-dependent fashion. Thus, hydroxyurea elicits a significant effect on the transcriptome of the organogenesis stage murine embryo, activating several key developmental signaling pathways related to DNA damage and oxidative stress. We propose that the P53 pathway plays a central role in the embryonic stress response and the developmental outcome after teratogen exposure. |
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