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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 4, Pages 1001-1010Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijo_00000751
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mTOR; rapamycin; radiosensitization; p53; apoptosis
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry in Japan
- Japan Space Forum
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22659224] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Activation to a large extent of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway and mutations in the p53 gene are involved in lung cancer therapeutic resistance. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) acts as a downstream effector for Akt. Activation of the Akt/mTOR signal is a contributing factor to decreased radiation sensitivity. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the effect of rapamycin on radiation sensitivity is affected by cellular p53 gene status. Cellular radiation sensitivity was evaluated by using two human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines with the same genetic background except for their p53 gene status (H1299/wtp53 and HI 299/mp53). The cells were treated with rapamycin and/or radiation. Cell viability, cell proliferation, apoptosis, cell cycle and Akt/mTOR signaling activity were explored. Rapamycin synergistically enhanced the cytotoxicity of radiation, promoting the induction of apoptosis. Moreover, the combined treatment augmented the cytostatic effects of radiation regardless of cellular p53 gene status. Rapamycin in combination with radiation increased G, arrest and suppressed progression to S phase in both cell lines. Furthermore, the combined treatment conduced to a prominent p53-independent down-regulation of the mTOR signal and pro-survival molecule, cyclin D1. Rapamycin can enhance the effect of radiation through the repression of prosurvival signals and the reduction in the apoptotic threshold. Taken together, inhibition of the mTOR signal may be a promising strategy for radiosensitization with no relevance to p53 gene status from the aspects of cell lethality and cell growth depression.
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