title: Apoptotic human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells have regularly spaced single strand DNA breaks and increased DNA-dependent protein kinase activity.
abstract: SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells died by apoptosis when treated with staurosporine or ceramide. The treated cells had both the nuclear morphology and patterns of DNA fragmentation which are characteristic of apoptosis. Higher order DNA fragments separable by pulse field gel electrophoresis were shown to contain regularly spaced single-strand nicks by producing a laddered pattern upon alkali treatment. Further evidence of DNA damage in treated cells was shown by increased activity of DNA-dependent protein kinase. This human cell model may prove useful in delineating the role of a cellular repair response to DNA damage prior to the irreversible steps of the cell death program.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Biological Sciences, Montreal Road Laboratories, National Research Council Ottawa, ON Canada. John.MacManus@NRC.CA
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: MacManus
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rasquinha
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chakravarthy
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology*; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis; D004249:DNA Damage / Q000502:physiology*; D051747:DNA-Activated Protein Kinase; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D006801:Humans; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000473:pathology*; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D004247:DNA; D051747:DNA-Activated Protein Kinase; C497263:PRKDC protein, human; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases