Cell damage and death by autoschizis in human bladder (RT4) carcinoma cells resulting from treatment with ascorbate and menadione

Jacques Gilloteaux, James M. Jamison, Deborah R. Neal, Marios Loukas, Theresa Doberzstyn, Jack L Summers

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A human bladder carcinoma cell line RT4 was sham-treated with buffer or treated with ascorbate (VC) alone, menadione alone (VK3), or a combination of ascorbate:menadione (VCVK3) for 1, 2, and 4h. Cytotoxic damage was found to be treatment-dependent in this sequence: VCVK3>VC>VK3>sham. The combined treatment induced the greatest oxidative stress, with early tumor cell injury affecting the cytoskeletal architecture and contributing to the self-excisions of pieces of cytoplasm freed from organelles. Additional damage, including a reduction in cell size, organelle alterations, nuclear damage, and nucleic acid degradation as well as compromised lysosome integrity, is caused by reactivation of DNases and the redox cycling of VC or VCVK3. In addition, cell death caused by VCVK3 treatment as well as by prolonged VC treatment is consistent with cell demise by autoschizis, not apoptosis. This report confirms and complements previous observations about this new mode of tumor cell death. It supports the contention that a combination of VCVK3, also named Apatone, could be co-administered as a nontoxic adjuvant with radiation and/or chemotherapies to kill bladder tumor cells and other cancer cells without any supplementary risk or side effects for patients.

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)140-160
Nombre de pages21
journalUltrastructural Pathology
Volume34
Numéro de publication3
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 2010
Modification externeOui

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