NF-κB DNA-binding activity in embryos responding to a teratogen, cyclophosphamide

BMC Developmental Biology - Tập 2 - Trang 1-11 - 2002
Arkady Torchinsky1, Lucy Lishanski1, Orit Wolstein2, Jeanne Shepshelovich1, Hasida Orenstein1, Shoshana Savion1, Zeev Zaslavsky1, Howard Carp1, Alexander Brill1, Rivka Dikstein2, Vladimir Toder1, Amos Fein1
1Department of Embryology & Teratology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2Department of Biological Chemistry, Weismann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel

Tóm tắt

The Rel/NF-κB transcription factors have been shown to regulate apoptosis in different cell types, acting as inducers or blockers in a stimuli- and cell type-dependent fashion. One of the Rel/NF-κB subunits, RelA, has been shown to be crucial for normal embryonic development, in which it functions in the embryonic liver as a protector against TNFα-induced physiological apoptosis. This study assesses whether NF-κB may be involved in the embryo's response to teratogens. Fot this, we evaluated how NF-KappaB DNA binding activity in embryonic organs demonstraiting differential sensitivity to a reference teratogen, cyclophosphamide, correlates with dysmorphic events induced by the teratogen at the cellular level (excessive apoptosis) and at the organ level (structural anomalies). The embryonic brain and liver were used as target organs. We observed that the Cyclophosphamide-induced excessive apoptosis in the brain, followed by the formation of severe craniofacial structural anomalies, was accompanied by suppression of NF-κB DNA-binding activity as well as by a significant and lasting increase in the activity of caspases 3 and 8. However, in the liver, in which cyclophosphamide induced transient apoptosis was not followed by dysmorphogenesis, no suppression of NF-κB DNA-binding activity was registered and the level of active caspases 3 and 8 was significantly lower than in the brain. It has also been observed that both the brain and liver became much more sensitive to the CP-induced teratogenic insult if the embryos were exposed to a combined treatment with the teratogen and sodium salicylate that suppressed NF-κB DNA-binding activity in these organs. The results of this study demonstrate that suppression of NF-κB DNA-binding activity in embryos responding to the teratogenic insult may be associated with their decreased resistance to this insult. They also suggest that teratogens may suppress NF-κB DNA-binding activity in the embryonic tissues in an organ type- and dose-dependent fashion.

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