PMID- 11960384 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20020510 LR - 20161124 IS - 0950-9232 (Print) IS - 0950-9232 (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 13 DP - 2002 Mar 27 TI - Activation of caspase-3 and cleavage of Rb are associated with p16-mediated apoptosis in human non-small cell lung cancer cells. PG - 2108-13 AB - The p16 tumor suppressor gene is frequently inactivated in human cancer tissues and cell lines. We previously reported that wild-type p16 expression from an adenovirus vector (Adv/p16) induced p53-dependent apoptotic cell death in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines. Here we show the potential mechanism of apoptosis induced by Adv/p16 infection. Infection of human NSCLC cell line A549, which carries the wild-type p53 gene, with Adv/p16 resulted in activation of caspase-3, accompanied by the cleavage of its substrate poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), on day 3 of infection. The retinoblastoma (Rb) cell cycle regulator protein was also cleaved after activation of caspase-3; when the levels of Rb significantly diminished, apoptosis began. When A549 cells were pretreated with the caspase-inhibitory peptide N-acetyl-asp-Glu-Val-Asp-CHO (aldehyde) (Ac-DEVD-CHO), Adv/p16-mediated apoptosis and Rb cleavage were greatly inhibited. Furthermore, MDM2, a negative regulator of p53 expression was upregulated 3 days after Adv/p16 infection, and MDM2 was subsequently cleaved by caspase-3; MDM2 cleavage was inhibited by Ac-DEVD-CHO treatment. These data implied that cleavage of Rb, in addition to activation of caspase-3, represented a mechanism by which Adv/p16 induced apoptotic cell death in human NSCLC cells. Our results support the clinical relevance of Adv/p16 as a treatment for p16-null human NSCLC that express wild-type p53. FAU - Katsuda, Koh AU - Katsuda K AD - Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. FAU - Kataoka, Masafumi AU - Kataoka M FAU - Uno, Futoshi AU - Uno F FAU - Murakami, Takayoshi AU - Murakami T FAU - Kondo, Tadashi AU - Kondo T FAU - Roth, Jack A AU - Roth JA FAU - Tanaka, Noriaki AU - Tanaka N FAU - Fujiwara, Toshiyoshi AU - Fujiwara T LA - eng GR - 2P50-CA70970-04/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA16672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 CA78778-01A1/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - England TA - Oncogene JT - Oncogene JID - 8711562 RN - 0 (Caspase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16) RN - 0 (Nuclear Proteins) RN - 0 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins) RN - 0 (Retinoblastoma Protein) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (MDM2 protein, human) RN - EC 2.3.2.27 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (CASP3 protein, human) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Caspase 3) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Caspases) SB - IM MH - Adenoviridae MH - *Apoptosis MH - Blotting, Western MH - Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/enzymology/*metabolism/*pathology MH - Caspase 3 MH - Caspase Inhibitors MH - Caspases/*metabolism MH - Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16/*metabolism MH - Enzyme Activation MH - Genetic Vectors MH - Humans MH - Lung Neoplasms/enzymology/*metabolism/*pathology MH - *Nuclear Proteins MH - Protein Processing, Post-Translational MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2 MH - Retinoblastoma Protein/*metabolism MH - Time Factors MH - Tumor Cells, Cultured EDAT- 2002/04/18 10:00 MHDA- 2002/05/11 10:01 CRDT- 2002/04/18 10:00 PHST- 2001/09/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2001/12/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2001/12/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2002/04/18 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2002/05/11 10:01 [medline] PHST- 2002/04/18 10:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1038/sj.onc.1205272 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Oncogene. 2002 Mar 27;21(13):2108-13. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1205272.