title: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha induces p53-dependent apoptosis in rat glioma cells.
abstract: In this study, we demonstrated that tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibited the viability of rat glioma (C6) cells and induced apoptosis but did not affect the viability of rat newborn brain, mainly astroglial cells. The antitumor activity of TNF-alpha against C6 cells was partially inhibited by actinomycin D and cycloheximide, suggesting that it is possibly dependent upon new ribonucleic acid and protein synthesis. The results of immunoblotting assay demonstrated that TNF-alpha decreased the expression of mutant p53 protein but induced the expression of wild-type p53 in C6 cells during apoptosis. We suggest that TNF-alpha may activate the function of wild-type p53 protein by the suppression of mutant p53, at least indirectly, and induce p53-dependent apoptosis in glioma cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, National Utano Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Morimura
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000196:embryology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D002460:Cell Line; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / Q000187:drug effects; D005910:Glioma / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D051381:Rats; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53