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From the Department of Pathology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
To elucidate the role of p53 and apoptosis in the pathogenesis of lung injury, we examined histological changes, expressions of p53 and p21waf1/cip1 (p21), apoptosis, DNA double strand breaks, cell kinetics, and DNA synthesis in C57/BL6 mice (p53+/+) and mice deficient for p53 (p53-/-) at 2 hours to 7 days after a single intravenous administration of bleomycin. We also compared these parameters between the lung cells and small intestinal epithelial cells to explore potential differences in their response to DNA damage. Bleomycin induced p21 expression in a p53-dependent manner in p53+/+ mice but neither p53 nor p21 expression in p53-/- mice. In the lung of both groups of mice, focal inflammation followed by fibrosis was observed, but there was no evidence of apoptosis. Cells with DNA breaks and those undergoing DNA synthesis were unequivocally increased, but the cycling cell fraction remained unchanged, suggesting that the DNA synthesis detected in the lung reflected unscheduled DNA synthesis for repair of damaged DNA. DNA breaks and unscheduled DNA synthesis were prolonged in p53-/- mice compared to p53+/+ mice. By contrast, in the small intestine, marked cell cycle arrest and extensive apoptosis were evoked in the cycling crypt cells of both groups of mice, but these changes were milder and DNA breaks remained detectable for a longer time in p53-/- mice than in p53+/+ mice. Among the resting enterocytes in the villi, apoptosis was observed almost equally in both groups, but repair of DNA breaks was significantly delayed in the p53-/- mice. These observations imply that apoptosis is mediated largely by the p53-dependent pathway in the crypts but exclusively by the p53-independent pathway in the villi, that this pathway is particularly important in DNA repair in the villi, and that despite this difference in the significance of apoptosis, p53 plays an important role in DNA repair in both the crypts and villi. Our results suggest that the lung cells and small intestinal cells respond to the bleomycin treatment in different ways in terms of the induction of apoptosis and that p53 carries out an essential role in the early response to and repair of DNA damage by a non-apoptotic mechanism which appears to be crucial in the noncycling lung cells and enterocytes. Importantly, the p53-p21 pathway and apoptosis are unlikely to be essential for bleomycin-induced tissue injury in the lung.
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