期刊
ONCOGENE
卷 27, 期 17, 页码 2365-2374出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210886
关键词
telomerase; p53; progesterone; breast epithelial; aging
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [CN-05106, P50 CA75907, N01-CN43301, N01CN43301, P50 CA070907] Funding Source: Medline
Within the hierarchy of epithelial stem cells, normal progenitor cells may express regulated telomerase during renewal cycles of proliferation and differentiation. Discontinuous telomerase activity may promote increased renewal capacity of progenitor cells, while deregulated/ continuous telomerase activity may promote immortalization when differentiation and/ or senescent pathways are compromised. In the present work, we show that resveratrol activates, while progesterone inactivates, continuous telomerase activity within 24 h in subpopulations of human Li - Fraumeni syndrome- derived breast epithelial cells. Resveratrol results in immortalization of mixed progenitor cells with mutant p53, but not human epithelial cells with wild type p53. Our results demonstrate the potential for renewing progenitor cells with mutant p53 to immortalize after continuous telomerase expression when exposed to certain environmental compounds. Understanding the effects of telomerase modulators on endogenous telomerase activity in progenitor cells is relevant to the role of immortalization in the initiation and progression of cancer subtypes.
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