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CANCER BIOLOGY & THERAPY
Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 113-117Publisher
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/cbt.53
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microtubule-active drugs; caspases; mitotic slippage; multinucleation
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Microtubule-active drugs, including paclitaxel (Taxol, PTX), cause mitotic arrest, and this can result in apoptosis. A recently study has reported that PTX mediates apoptosis by upregulating FasL in Jurkat and MDA-231 cells. In contrast to the previous report, we found that anti-FasL antibodies failed to inhibit PTX-induced apoptosis in Jurkat cells. In MDA-231 cells, neither FasL nor PTX induced apoptosis. In these cells, PTX caused slow cell death without activation of caspase-3 or -8 or PARP cleavage. Doxorubicin at cytostatic concentrations did not affect FasL-induced apoptosis but inhibited PTX-induced apoptosis in Jurkat cells. Following PTX-induced mitotic arrest Jurkat cells undergo apoptosis, whereas MDA-MB-231 cells exit mitosis and form multinucleated cells which then die in a slower nonapoptotic manner.
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