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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 591-597Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.05.062
Keywords
p53; carbon-ion beams; LET; apoptosis; necrosis
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Purpose: We analyzed the death pattern of human lung cancer cells harboring different p53 statuses after irradiation with different levels of linear energy transfer (LET). Methods and Materials: We used three kinds of human lung cancer cell lines with identical genotypes, except for the p53 gene. These cells were exposed to X-rays or accelerated carbon-ion beams. The cellular sensitivities were determined by a colony-forming assay. The detection and quantification of cell death (apoptosis and necrosis) were evaluated and compared by acridine orange/ethidium bromide double staining for fluorescence microscopy. Results: We found that (1) there was no significant difference in cellular sensitivity to LET radiation >70 KeV/mum, although wild-type p53 cell sensitivity to X-rays was higher than that of mutated p53 or p53-null cells; (2) low-LET radiation effectively induced apoptosis in wild-type p53 cells as compared with mutated p53 and p53-null cells; and (3) high-LET radiation induced p53-independent apoptosis. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that high-LET radiotherapy is expected to be a valid application for patients carrying mutated p53 cancer cells. We proposed that the elucidation of the p53-independent apoptosis-related genes might provide new insights into radiotherapy for cancer. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc.
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