INDUCTION OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES WITHOUT 8-HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE FORMATION IN DNA OF INITIATED MOUSE KERATINOCYTES TREATED WITH 12-O-TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL-13-ACETATE
J. Przybyszewski et al., INDUCTION OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES WITHOUT 8-HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE FORMATION IN DNA OF INITIATED MOUSE KERATINOCYTES TREATED WITH 12-O-TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL-13-ACETATE, Carcinogenesis (New York. Print), 19(8), 1998, pp. 1467-1474
Evidence for the involvement of oxidative stress in 12-O-tetradecanoyl
phorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-mediated tumor promotion has focused on non-i
nitiated immune cells, tumor cell lines and non-initiated epidermis tr
eated in vivo. This paper reports the effects of TPA on 8-hydroxydeoxy
guanosine (80HdG) formation and the generation of reactive oxygen spec
ies (ROS) in cloned initiated mouse epidermal keratinocytes in order t
o determine whether TPA can directly damage DNA through ROS production
within the keratinocytes. Using high performance liquid chromatograph
y with electrochemical detection (HPLC-EC), TPA did not induce 80HdG f
ormation in DNA of initiated keratinocytes treated under a variety of
conditions. The reliability of the HPLC-EC system is demonstrated by (
i) the linearity of the 80HdG standard curve; (ii) the consistency of
80HdG measurements in calf thymus and cellular DNA; and (iii) the dose
-dependent increase in 80HdG in DNA of initiated keratinocytes treated
with UVC in the presence and absence of H2O2. Though not DNA-damaging
, TPA induced a 65% increase in ROS (P < 0.05) as detected by luminol-
dependent chemiluminescence, These results support a mechanism for the
role of oxidative stress in tumor promotion that does not involve dir
ect DNA damage to the keratinocyte target cell. The relationship betwe
en ROS, signal transduction and tumor promotion is discussed in light
of the above results which is consistent with the role of TPA-induced
ROS as second messengers in signal transduction.