Publication Date:
2008-08-23
Description:
The mechanisms by which quiescent cells, including adult stem cells, preserve their ability to resume proliferation after weeks or even years of cell cycle arrest are not known. We report that reversibility is not a passive property of nondividing cells, because enforced cell cycle arrest for a period as brief as 4 days initiates spontaneous, premature, and irreversible senescence. Increased expression of the gene encoding the basic helix-loop-helix protein HES1 was required for quiescence to be reversible, because HES1 prevented both premature senescence and inappropriate differentiation in quiescent fibroblasts. In some human tumors, the HES1 pathway was activated, which allowed these cells to evade differentiation and irreversible cell cycle arrest. We conclude that HES1 safeguards against irreversible cell cycle exit both during normal cellular quiescence and pathologically in the setting of tumorigenesis.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721335/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721335/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sang, Liyun -- Coller, Hilary A -- Roberts, James M -- P50 GM071508/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P50 GM071508-05/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA118043/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA118043-03/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2008 Aug 22;321(5892):1095-100. doi: 10.1126/science.1155998.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18719287" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism
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Cell Aging
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*Cell Cycle
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Cell Differentiation
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Cell Line
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Cell Line, Tumor
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*Cell Proliferation
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Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21/metabolism
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Fibroblasts/*cytology/metabolism
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Homeodomain Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Humans
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Muscle Development
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MyoD Protein/metabolism
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Receptors, Notch/metabolism
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Rhabdomyosarcoma/metabolism/pathology
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Signal Transduction
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Transduction, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
