title: Apoptosis of HeLa and CaSki cell lines incubated with All-trans retinoid acid.
abstract: The aim of the study was to evaluate the concentrations of a soluble form of APO-1/Fas antigen (sFas, CD95) and a soluble Ligand for APO-1/Fas antigen (sCD95L, sFasL) in supernatants from CaSki and HeLa cell line cultures after the incubation with All-trans-retinoic acid. HPV-16 and HPV18 - positive cell lines were cultivated with All-trans-retinoic acid in concentrations of 1 x 10(-6) M/L and 1 x 10(-8) M/L. The cultures were incubated for 24 hours. Control culture with 3 microl of dimethyl-sulphoxide (DMSO) was incubated under identical conditions. The concentrations of soluble APO-1/Fas antigen and Fas Ligand in cell culture supernatants were estimated using immunoenzymatic methods. The obtained results showed significant decrease of concentrations of soluble APO-1/Fas antigen in supernatants from HeLa cell lines incubated with retinol in comparison with the control culture. Moreover, the concentrations of soluble Ligand for APO-1/Fas antigen in the supernatants of CaSki and HeLa cell lines were significantly lower in the culture incubated with All-trans retinoid acid when compared to the control culture. Higher concentrations of soluble APO-1/Fas antigen in supernatants from HeLa cell line without retinol may constitute a protective mechanism of the cells infected with the virus before undergoing Fas/FasL-dependent apoptosis. Lower concentrations of soluble APO-1/Fas antigen and soluble Ligand for APO-1/Fas in the supernatants from CaSki and HeLa cell cultures incubated with retinol suggest that retinoids can decrease the synthesis of soluble APO-1//Fas and soluble FasL in HPV-16 and HPV - 18 positive cells and that mechanisms protecting infected cells against Fas/FasL-mediated apoptosis become defective under the influence of retinol.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland. dorotak@mp.pl
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Darmochwal-Kolarz
authors.forename: Urszula
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gasowska-Giszczak
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Paduch
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kolarz
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wilciński
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oleszczuk
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kwasniewska
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D053222:Fas Ligand Protein / Q000378:metabolism; D006367:HeLa Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D014212:Tretinoin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019014:fas Receptor / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D053222:Fas Ligand Protein; D019014:fas Receptor; D014212:Tretinoin