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Butyrate, a physiologically occurring agent, has been reported to decrease constitutively high expressed p53 levels in transformed cells. To elucidate whether butyrate also inhibits DNA-damage-induced p53 response we investigated the effects of butyrate and the anticancer drug mitomycin C in normal C3H10T1/2 cells harbouring wild-type p53. In comparison with p53-deficient fibroblasts we examined p53 protein level, cell cycle arrest, differentiation, and apoptosis. Butyrate induced G1 phase arrest, differentiation, and p53-independent increase in p21waf1/cip1 protein. Moreover, butyrate induced p53-independent apoptosis, which was, as well as p53-mediated apoptosis, associated with a dose-dependent increase in Bax and c-Myc protein. Pretreatment with butyrate repressed dose-dependently mitomycin-C-induced p53 accumulation and interfered with p53-dependent cell cycle arrest. Butyrate further partially inhibited p53-mediated apoptosis, but low doses of butyrate were more effective than higher concentrations. This was reflected in an enhanced decrease in c-Myc and Bax protein in response to mitomycin C with low concentrations of butyrate. Our data indicate that the differentiation stimulus of butyrate, in association with p21waf1/cip1 induction, and apoptosis, may explain anti-neoplastic effects of butyrate. Co-carcinogenic features of butyrate may result from inhibition of p53-mediated DNA damage response.
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Janson, W., Brandner, G. & Siegel, J. Butyrate modulates DNA-damage-induced p53 response by induction of p53-independent differentiation and apoptosis. Oncogene 15, 1395–1406 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1201304
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