title: Increase in expression levels of interferon-inducible genes in senescent human diploid fibroblasts and in SV40-transformed human fibroblasts with extended lifespan.
abstract: The normal human fibroblast line, TIG-3 which senesces at around 80 population doubling levels (PDLs), expressed interferon (IFN)-inducible genes such as 6-16, 2', 5'-oligoadenylate synthetase (2,5-A) and HLA B7 near the end of the proliferative lifespan. Other normal fibroblast line such as MRC-5 also expressed IFN-inducible genes when senesced. Clones transformed with SV40 T-antigen, which extended their proliferative lifespan by about 20-30 PDLs, also expressed IFN-inducible genes during their extended life. Anti-IFN-beta antibodies added in culture medium repressed the expression of IFN-inducible gene in both normal senescent and life-extended SV40-transformed cells. IFN-beta repressed DNA synthesis in normal TIG-3 and induced IFN-inducible genes in both normal and SV40-transformed TIG-3. Conditioned medium recovered from life-extended SV40-transformed cells contained IFN-beta, but not IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma or TNF-alpha and possessed an activity that inhibited DNA synthesis of young TIG-3. Addition of anti-IFN-beta antibodies into the medium enhanced the serum-induced DNA synthesis of near senescent (91% lifespan completed) TIG-3, while it neither induced DNA synthesis in fully senescent TIG-3 nor extended the proliferative lifespan of TIG-3. These results suggest that normal and SV40-transformed human fibroblasts increase expression of IFN-beta with increasing proliferative age especially near the end of their lifespan resulting in induction of IFN-inducible genes and possibly in growth repression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tahara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kamada
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tsuyama
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ide
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D016922:Cellular Senescence; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D005347:Fibroblasts; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007371:Interferon-gamma / Q000096:biosynthesis; D007372:Interferons / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013539:Simian virus 40 / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D007371:Interferon-gamma; D004247:DNA; D007372:Interferons