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Role Of Raltegravir In Hiv-1 Management, Kristina E. Rokas, P Brandon Bookstaver, Caitlin L. Shamroe, S Scott Sutton, Vanessa E. Millisor, Jacquelyn E. Bryant, Sharon B. Weissman Apr 2012

Role Of Raltegravir In Hiv-1 Management, Kristina E. Rokas, P Brandon Bookstaver, Caitlin L. Shamroe, S Scott Sutton, Vanessa E. Millisor, Jacquelyn E. Bryant, Sharon B. Weissman

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OBJECTIVE: To review the literature concerning the role of raltegravir in the treatment of HIV-1 in antiretroviral (ARV)-experienced and ARV-naïve patients. DATA SOURCES: A PubMed search was conducted for published data through March 2012 using the search terms raltegravir, MK-0518, and integrase strand transfer inhibitor. An additional search of International Pharmaceutical Abstracts for unpublished data, including data from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the International AIDS Society, and the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, was conducted using similar search terms. STUDY SELECTION AND DATA EXTRACTION: In vitro and in vivo …


Reactive Oxygen Species And Mitochondrial Sensitivity To Oxidative Stress Determine Induction Of Cancer Cell Death By P21, Ionica Masgras, Samantha Carrera, Petra J. De Verdier, Paul Brennan, Aneela Majid, Wan Makhtar, Eugene Tulchinsky, George D. Jones, Igor Roninson, Salvador Macip Mar 2012

Reactive Oxygen Species And Mitochondrial Sensitivity To Oxidative Stress Determine Induction Of Cancer Cell Death By P21, Ionica Masgras, Samantha Carrera, Petra J. De Verdier, Paul Brennan, Aneela Majid, Wan Makhtar, Eugene Tulchinsky, George D. Jones, Igor Roninson, Salvador Macip

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p21(Waf1/Cip1/Sdi1) is a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor that mediates cell cycle arrest. Prolonged p21 up-regulation induces a senescent phenotype in normal and cancer cells, accompanied by an increase in intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, it has been shown recently that p21 expression can also lead to cell death in certain models. The mechanisms involved in this process are not fully understood. Here, we describe an induction of apoptosis by p21 in sarcoma cell lines that is p53-independent and can be ameliorated with antioxidants. Similar levels of p21 and ROS caused senescence in the absence of significant death in other cancer …


Tp53 Codon 72 Polymorphism Affects Accumulation Of Mtdna Damage In Human Cells, Serena Altilia, Aurelia Santoro, Davide Malagoli, Catia Lanzarini, Josué Adolfo Ballesteros Álvarez, Gianluca Galazzo, Donald Carl Porter, Paolina Crocco, Giuseppina Rose, Giuseppe Passarino, Igor Roninson, Claudio Franceschi, Stefano Salvioli Jan 2012

Tp53 Codon 72 Polymorphism Affects Accumulation Of Mtdna Damage In Human Cells, Serena Altilia, Aurelia Santoro, Davide Malagoli, Catia Lanzarini, Josué Adolfo Ballesteros Álvarez, Gianluca Galazzo, Donald Carl Porter, Paolina Crocco, Giuseppina Rose, Giuseppe Passarino, Igor Roninson, Claudio Franceschi, Stefano Salvioli

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Human TP53 gene is characterised by a polymorphism at codon 72 leading to an Arginine-to-Proline (R/P) substitution. The two resulting p53 isoforms have a different subcellular localisation after stress (more nuclear or more mitochondrial for the P or R isoform, respectively). p53P72 variant is more efficient than p53R72 in inducing the expression of genes involved in nuclear DNA repair. Since p53 is involved also in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) maintenance, we wondered whether these p53 isoforms are associated with different accumulation of mtDNA damage. We observed that cells bearing p53R72 accumulate lower amount of mtDNA damage upon rotenone stress with respect …