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Mol. Hum. Reprod. Advance Access originally published online on February 8, 2006
Molecular Human Reproduction 2006 12(2):99-105; doi:10.1093/molehr/gah250
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IFN{gamma} pretreatment sensitizes human choriocarcinoma cells to etoposide-induced apoptosis

Quan-Hong Sun, Jing-Pian Peng1 and Hong-Fei Xia

State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed at: State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China. E-mail: pengjp{at}ioz.ac.cn

Choriocarcinoma is a malignant trophoblast-derived tumour, which can arise in any type of gestation. Cell proliferation assays showed that interferon {gamma} (IFN{gamma}) alone significantly inhibited proliferation of choriocarcinoma JAR and JEG-3 cells. TdT (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase)-mediated dUDP nick-end labelling (TUNEL) assays and Hoechst staining indicated that IFN{gamma} alone could not induce apoptosis of JAR and JEG-3 cells, but IFN{gamma} could enhance the sensitivity of JAR cells to etoposide-induced apoptosis. RT–PCR and western blotting were performed to detect expression of apoptosis-related molecules IFN{gamma}R, interferon regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1), p53 and pro-caspase 3. In JAR cells, etoposide increased expression of the proteins including IFN{gamma}R, p53 and pro-caspase 3 as well as IRF-1 mRNA and IFN{gamma}-pretreatment apparently promoted up-regulation of these molecules expression. In addition, the responses of IRF-1, p53 and pro-caspase 3 expression to IFN{gamma} pretreatment were dose dependent. IRF-1 knock down assays demonstrated that IRF-1 directly mediated IFN{gamma} pretreatment enhanced sensitivity of JAR cells to etoposide-induced apoptosis and that pro-caspase 3 was one of the target genes of IRF-1.

Key words: apoptosis/IFN{gamma}/IRF-1/P53/pro-caspase 3


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