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CELL CYCLE
Volume 5, Issue 23, Pages 2697-2703Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/cc.5.23.3510
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senescence; stroma; metastasis; wound healing; p53; plasminogen activator inhibitor 1; uPA; fibroblast; growth factor
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Prolonged propagation of primary diploid fibroblasts in culture activates an ageing process known as replicative senescence, which is considered to provide a barrier against oncogenic transformation. Remarkably, both cell autonomous tumor-suppressive and cell nonautonomous tumor-promoting effects of senescent cells have been reported. Recently, we described that the p53 target gene plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is an essential mediator of replicative senescence. PAI-1 antagonizes the protease urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA). Both are secreted factors and involved in heterotypic signaling processes such as wound healing, angiogenesis and metastasis. Both uPA and PAI-1 are expressed in senescent cells and their relative abundance controls proliferation downstream of p53. Here, we present data that the effects of PAI-1 and uPA in the senescence response are not strictly cell autonomous. We discuss these findings in the context of the emerging roles of PAI-1 and uPA in heterotypic cellular signaling in senescence, wound healing and metastasis.
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