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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on July 18, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-02-0504.
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Blood, 1 December 2002, Vol. 100, No. 12, pp. 3990-4000
HEMATOPOIESIS
The death-promoting activity of p53 can be inhibited by
distinct signaling pathways
Yunping Lin,
Lauren Brown,
David W. Hedley,
Dwayne L. Barber, and
Samuel Benchimol
From the Ontario Cancer Institute and Departments of
Medical Biophysics, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Various cytokines have been shown to protect cells from
p53-dependent apoptosis. To investigate the mechanism underlying
cytokine-mediated survival, we used a Friend virus-transformed
erythroleukemia cell line that expresses a temperature-sensitive p53
allele. These cells express the spleen focus-forming virus-encoded
envelope glycoprotein gp55 that allows the cells to proliferate in the absence of erythropoietin (EPO). These cells respond to p53 activation at 32°C by undergoing G1 cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.
In the presence of EPO, p53 activation leads only to prolonged but
viable G1 arrest. These findings indicate that EPO
functions as a survival factor and that gp55/EPO receptor signaling is
distinct from EPO/EPO receptor signaling. We demonstrate that
p53-dependent apoptosis results in mitochondrial damage as shown by
loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, increase in intracellular
calcium, and release of mitochondrial cytochrome c into the
cytosol. EPO prevented all of these changes including the subsequent
activation of caspases. We identify an intrinsic
phosphatidylinositol-3'-OH kinase/protein kinase B
(PI3'K/PKB)-dependent survival pathway that is constitutively active
in these cells. This survival pathway limits p53-dependent apoptosis. We propose that EPO promotes survival through a
distinct pathway that is dependent on JAK2 but independent of STAT5 and PI3'K.

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