p19ARF对白血病细胞增殖与凋亡的影响

目的:克隆正常人p19ARF基因,探讨其对肿瘤细胞增殖、细胞周期与凋亡的影响。方法:用流式细胞术、MTT测定及末端标记观察p19ARF基因对白血病细胞HEL和K562的作用。结果:将p19ARF导入HEL细胞后可明显抑制细胞繁殖,细胞周期被阻滞在G1期并可导致部分细胞凋亡。但是p19ARF对于p53基因突变的K562细胞的增殖和细胞周期没有明显的影响,也不能诱导其凋亡。结论:p19ARF可显著抑制人白血病细胞的增殖,其抑制作用依赖于p53基因的存在。

Effect of p19ARF on growth and apoptosis of leukemia cells

AIM: To study the effect of p19ARF on the biological behavior of human leukemia cells. METHODS: p19ARF was cloned in eukaryotic expression vector pcDNA3.1 and transferred into INK4a/ARF locus-deficient leukemia cells HEL and K562. The changes in biological characteristics of the two p19ARF-transfected cells were observed. RESULTS: The growth of the p19ARF-transfected HEL cells was significantly inhibited compared with the vector-transfected cells; Cell cycle analysis showed that the expression of foreign p19ARF gene resulted in G1 phase cell cycle arrest and apoptosis cell death in some of HEL cells. However, p19ARF had no marked effects on the growth of K562 cells with p53 gene mutation and did not induce apoptosis in K562 cells. CONCLUSION: p19ARF suppressed the growth of leukemia cells by p53 -dependent pathway.