Inhibition of benzo(a)pyrene-induced cell cycle progression by all-trans retinoic acid partly through cyclin D1/E2F-1 pathway in human embryo lung fibroblasts

Xiaowei Jia, Bingci Liu, Xianglin Shi, Ai Gao, Baorong You, Meng Ye, Fuhai Shen, Hongju Du

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Abstract

Benzo(a)pyrene [B(a)P] is a potent environmental carcinogen, which induces cell cycle changes. All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) is a promising agent in prevention and treatment of human cancers. In the present study, we investigated the inhibition of B(a)P-induced cell cycle progression by ATRA in human embryo lung fibroblast (HELF). Our results showed that after treatment with B(a)P, the expression of cyclin D1 and E2F-1 were both increased significantly in HELF. There were almost no changes of CDK4 and E2F-4 expression by treatment with B(a)P. As expected, pretreatment with ATRA could efficiently decrease B(a)P-induced overexpression of cyclin D1 and E2F-1. In a further study, we stably transfected antisense cyclin D1 and antisense CDK4 plasmid into HELF. The inhibition of cyclin D1 expression and the inhibition of CDK4 expression significantly impaired the B(a)P-induced overexpression of E2F-1 respectively. Pretreatment with ATRA, cells expressing antisense cyclinD1 or antisense CDK4 showed a lesser decrease of B(a)P-induced overexpression of E2F-1 compared with similarly treated HELF. Furthermore, flow cytometry analysis showed that B(a)P promoted cell cycle progression from G1 phase to S phase, while pretreatment with ATRA could inhibit B(a)P-induced cell cycle progression by an accumulation of cells in the G1 phase. It was suggested that ATRA could block B(a)P-induced cell cycle promotion partly through the cyclin D1/E2F-1 pathway in HELF.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)183-189
Number of pages7
JournalCell Biology International
Volume30
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2006

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30028019, 30371206), 973 National Key Basic Research and Development Program (2002 CB 512905), and Foundation of Institute for Nutritional Sciences (INS), USA.

Keywords

  • All-trans retinoic acid
  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • CDK4
  • Cell cycle
  • Cyclin D1
  • E2F

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cell Biology

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