title: Low-dose etoposide-treatment induces endoreplication and cell death accompanied by cytoskeletal alterations in A549 cells: Does the response involve senescence? The possible role of vimentin.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Senescence in the population of cells is often described as a program of restricted proliferative capacity, which is manifested by broad morphological and biochemical changes including a metabolic shift towards an autophagic-like response and a genotoxic-stress related induction of polyploidy. Concomitantly, the cell cycle progression of a senescent cell is believed to be irreversibly arrested. Recent reports suggest that this phenomenon may have an influence on the therapeutic outcome of anticancer treatment. The aim of this study was to verify the possible involvement of this program in the response to the treatment of the A549 cell population with low doses of etoposide, as well as to describe accompanying cytoskeletal alterations.
  
  
  METHODS
  After treatment with etoposide, selected biochemical and morphological parameters were examined, including: the activity of senescence-associated ß-galactosidase, SAHF formation, cell cycle progression, the induction of p21Cip1/Waf1/Sdi1 and cyclin D1, DNA strand breaks, the disruption of cell membrane asymmetry/integrity and ultrastructural alterations. Vimentin and G-actin cytoskeleton was evaluated both cytometrically and microscopically.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Etoposide induced a senescence-like phenotype in the population of A549 cells. Morphological alterations were nevertheless not directly coupled with other senescence markers including a stable cell cycle arrest, SAHF formation or p21Cip1/Waf1/Sdi1 induction. Instead, a polyploid, TUNEL-positive fraction of cells visibly grew in number. Also upregulation of cyclin D1 was observed. Here we present preliminary evidence, based on microscopic analyses, that suggest a possible role of vimentin in nuclear alterations accompanying polyploidization-depolyploidization events following genotoxic insults.
authors: Laboratory of Biotechnology, Department of Genetics and Breeding of Root Crops, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute - National Research Institute Radzików, 05-870 Błonie, Research Division in Bydgoszcz, Powstańców Wielkopolskich 10, 85-090, Bydgoszcz, Poland. annalitwiniec@wp.pl.
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Litwiniec
authors: Lidia
authors: L
authors: Gackowska
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Helmin-Basa
authors: Agnieszka
authors: A
authors: Zuryń
authors: Alina
authors: A
authors: Grzanka
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