DNA fragmentation induced in high-cell-density culture of primary rat hepatocytes is an active process dependent on energy availability, gene expression, and calmodulin.

Abstract:

:We previously reported that internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, a biochemical feature of apoptosis, was induced spontaneously in high-cell-density culture of adult rat hepatocytes. To understand better the intracellular mechanism of the DNA fragmentation in this system, we have examined the effects of several inhibitors of specific intracellular functions on the DNA fragmentation. We found that the DNA fragmentation could be suppressed by treatment of the cells with inhibitors of mitochondrial respiration, KCN and CCCP, or a protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide. We also demonstrated that calmodulin inhibitors, chlorpromazine and W-7, could suppress the DNA fragmentation. Together, these results lead us to conclude that the DNA fragmentation in hepatocytes cultured at high cell density is an active process dependent on energy availability, gene expression, and calmodulin, rather than a passive event resulting from necrosis. However, by analyzing the incidence of apoptotic morphology during culture, we found that only 2-3% of cells exhibited apoptotic morphology, while the incidence of DNA fragmentation was estimated to be much higher. Based on these results, we estimated that the DNA fragmentation may result from the incomplete progression of apoptosis or from the occurrence of another type of active cell death.

journal_name

J Biochem

journal_title

Journal of biochemistry

authors

Maeda S,Suzuki A,Lin KH,Inagaki H,Saito T

doi

10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a125002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1161-5

issue

6

eissn

0021-924X

issn

1756-2651

journal_volume

118

pub_type

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