Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 285-294Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2006.04.007
Keywords
GADD45 alpha; arsenite; As(III); arsenic; BEAS-2B; DNA damage; cell cycle control
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Arsenic is a ubiquitous environmental contaminant associated with increased risks of human cancers of the skin, lung, bladder, and prostate. Intriguingly, it is also used to treat certain types of leukemia. It has recently been suggested that these paradoxic effects may be mediated by arsenic's ability to simultaneously activate DNA damage and apoptotic and transformation pathways. Here, we investigate the effects of arsenic exposure on the induction of the growth arrest and DNA damage protein 45 alpha (GADD45 alpha), which is thought to play roles in apoptosis, DNA damage response, and cell cycle arrest. We found that arsenic transcriptionally activates the gadd45 alpha promoter located in a 153-bp region between -234 and -81, relative to the transcriptional start site. In addition, this transcriptional induction was abrogated in the presence of H2O2 scavengers, suggesting a role for H2O2 in the transcriptional control of the gadd45 alpha gene through a Fenton-like free radical mechanism. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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