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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 59, Issue 11, Pages 2004-2012Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012523
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sulforaphane; T lymphocyte; cell cycle; apoptosis; necrosis; cyclin D3; p53
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Despite experimental evidence that sulforaphane can exert chemopreventive effects, whether these effects are specific for neoplastic cells is not known. Following our previous demonstration that sulforaphane induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human T lymphoblastoid Jurkat leukemia cells and increases p53 and bax protein expression, we tested sulforaphane on non-transformed phytohemagglutinin-stimulated human lymphocytes. Here, we demonstrate that sulforaphane arrested cell cycle progression in G, phase, through a decrease in the protein expression of cyclin D3. Moreover, sulforaphane induced apoptosis (and also necrosis), mediated by an increase in the expression of p53. These findings suggest that sulforaphane is a growth modulator for T cells. Our in vitro evidence that sulforaphane is active and even cytotoxic in normal as well as transformed lymphocytes raises important questions regarding its suitability for cancer chemoprevention.
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