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  • Title: Glucocorticoids induce a G1/G0 cell cycle arrest of Con8 rat mammary tumor cells that is synchronously reversed by steroid withdrawal or addition of transforming growth factor-alpha.
    Author: Goya L, Maiyar AC, Ge Y, Firestone GL.
    Journal: Mol Endocrinol; 1993 Sep; 7(9):1121-32. PubMed ID: 8247014.
    Abstract:
    Con8 mammary tumor cells are an epithelial cell line derived from the 7,12-dimethylbenz(alpha)anthracene-induced 13762NF rat mammary adenocarcinoma. The synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone suppresses the growth of Con8 cells, and after 5 days of treatment with this steroid, Con8 cells undergo less than 0.5 population doublings. This growth arrest is accompanied by a 30-fold elevation in c-jun transcript levels, no change in c-fos expression, and a moderate increase in total AP-1 transcriptional activity. Dexamethasone inhibited DNA synthesis within one cell cycle, and flow cytometry of propidium iodide-stained nuclei demonstrated that dexamethasone growth-suppressed cells had a DNA content indicative of a specific cell cycle block in either G1 or G0. Consistent with a G1/G0 arrest of the cell cycle, dexamethasone did not prevent Con8 cells from entering the S phase after release from synchronization at the G1/S boundary by a double thymidine block. Analysis of [3H]thymidine incorporation and autoradiography of [3H]thymidine-labeled nuclei revealed that after either dexamethasone withdrawal or the addition of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF alpha), Con8 cells synchronously reinitiate cell cycle progression. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that an induction of transcripts for the G1 marker genes c-myc and cyclin D1 occurs before cells enter the S-phase. After dexamethasone withdrawal, c-myc and cyclin D1 expression transiently peak at 2 and 4 h, respectively. In contrast, c-myc expression peaked at 0.5-1 h, whereas cyclin D1 expression was induced at 2 h and maintained at a high level after the addition of TGF alpha. Our results demonstrate that glucocorticoids induce a specific block of the cell cycle progression of a rat mammary tumor cell, and that after synchronous progression through the cell cycle, the temporal expression pattern for c-myc and cyclin D1 is distinct for dexamethasone release vs. the addition of TGF alpha to glucocorticoid-suppressed cells.
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