title: [Effect of ectopic superexperssion of the anti-apoptotic gene bcl-2 on the level and character of karyotypic instability in the CHLL V-79 RJK Chinese hamster cell line].
abstract: Karyotypic destabilization in cells of Chinese hamster fibroblasts CHL V-79 RJK with ectopically overexpressed antiapoptotical human bcl-2 gene from pSFFV-bcl-2 vector has been analysed. Analysis of G-banded metaphase chromosomes from 4 clones with different levels of bcl-2 expression revealed an increased level of chromosomal instability in bcl-2-transfected cells. Besides, an increased percentage of aneu- and polyploid cells and high level of cells with different chromosomal aberrations was observed. The degree of karyotypic instability positively correlated with the level of bcl-2 expression in bcl-2-transfected cells. Cells of a clone with the highest bcl-2 expression at the 13th passage of cultivation displayed an almost 100% polyploidization and the presence of specific aberrations and a tricentric marker chromosome. Selection of cells with non-random specific chromosome changes was observed in pSFFV-bcl-2-transfected CHL V-79 RJK cells in the process of their long-term cultivation. By contrast, cells of the parental cell line, as well as the control pSFFV-neo transfectants, displayed a stable karyotype throughout the long period of cultivation. It is important that the presence of morphological markers of gene amplifications--DOO, DM, MH--was observed in bcl-2-transfected cells. These findings suggest that the overexpression of antiapoptotic human bcl-2 gene may result in destabilization of the karyotype structure in cells of Chinese hamster fibroblasts CHL V-79 RJK. The character and level of destabilization correlate with the level of ectopic overexpression of this gene.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cytology RAS, St. Petersburg.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Grinchuk
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Povlenko
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Pugovkina
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Alekseenko
authors.forename: Z V
authors.initials: ZV
authors.lastname: Kovaleva
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Meliksetian
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000235:genetics*; D002460:Cell Line; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D019254:Genes, bcl-2; D007621:Karyotyping
vernacular_title: Vliianie éktopicheskoĭ sverkhékspressii antiapoptoticheskogo gena bcl-2 na uroven' i kharakter kariotipicheskoĭ nestabil'nosti v kletkakh kitaĭskogo khomiachka linii CHL V-79 RJK