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To investigate the effect of cell cycle inhibitor p14ARF on replicative senescence of human diploid cell, recombinant p19ARF eukaryotic expression vector was constructed and p19ARF gene was transfected into human diploid fibroblasts (WI-38 cells) by liposome-mediated transfection for overexpression. Then, the effects of p19ARF on replicative senescence of WI-38 cells were observed. The results revealed that, compared with control cells, the WI-38 cells in which p19ARF gene was introduced showed significant up-regulation of p53 and p21 expression level, decrease of cell generation by 10–12 generations, decline of cell growth rate with cell cycle being arrested at G1 phase, increase of positive rate of senescent marker SA-β-gal staining, and decrease of mitochondrial membrane potential. The morphology of the transfected fibroblasts presented the characteristics changes similar to senescent cells. These results indicated that high expression of p19ARF may promote the senescent process of human diploid cells.
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Supported by the National Key Basic Research Development Program of China: Basic research for mechanism of senescence and intervention (973 Program) (Grant No. 2007CB507400), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30070288 and 30270505), and creative research group fund from NSFC (Grant No. 30121005)
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Bai, X., Chen, X., Hou, K. et al. Effect of cell cycle inhibitor p19ARF on senescence of human diploid cell. SCI CHINA SER C 50, 155–160 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-007-0024-2
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