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  • Title: Thermal tolerance during S phase for cell killing and chromosomal aberrations.
    Author: Li XL, Wong RS, Dewey WC.
    Journal: Radiat Res; 1990 May; 122(2):193-6. PubMed ID: 2336465.
    Abstract:
    Synchronous Chinese hamster ovary cells in early S phase were obtained by selecting mitotic cells, accumulating them at the G1/S border by incubating them in aphidicolin for 12 h, and then incubating them for 2 h after releasing them from the aphidicolin block. To determine if thermotolerance could be induced, the cells were heated at 43 degrees C for 20 min in early S phase, incubated for 160 min, and then heated a second time at 43 degrees C for different durations (30-100 min). For the control, nontolerant population, the cells in early S phase were incubated for 50 min and then heated once at 43 degrees C for different durations (20-60 min). Flow cytometric analysis indicated that the population receiving the second heat dose was in the same part of S phase as the population receiving the single heat dose. A comparison of the heat response for the two populations indicated that heating during early S phase induced thermotolerance for both cell killing and chromosomal aberrations; i.e., for 10% survival, which corresponded to 10% of the cells being cytologically normal, the thermal dose was twofold greater in the thermotolerant cells than in the control, nontolerant cells. Furthermore, this thermotolerance developed during S phase. These observations support the hypothesis that heating during S phase kills cells primarily by inducing chromosomal aberrations.
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