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Cadmium induced apoptotic changes in chromatin structure and subphases of nuclear growth during the cell cycle in CHO cells

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CHO cells were grown in the presence of 1 μ M CdCl2 and subjected to ATP-dependent replicative DNA synthesis after permeabilization. By decreasing the density of the cell culture replicative DNA synthesis was diminishing. At higher than 2 × 106 cell/ml concentration Cd had virtually no effect on the rate of DNA replication. Growth at higher cell concentrations could be supressed by increasing Cd concentration. After Cd treatment cells were synchronized by counterflow centrifugal elutriation. Cadmium toxicity on cell growth in early and mid S phase led to the accumulation of enlarged cells in late S phase. Flow cytometry showed increased cellular and nuclear sizes after Cd treatment. As the cells progressed through the S phase, 11 subpopulations of nuclear sizes were distinguished. Apoptotic chromatin changes were visualized by fluorescent microscopy in a cell cycle dependent manner. In the control untreated cells the main transitory forms of chromatin corresponded to those we have published earlier (veil-like, supercoiled chromatin, fibrous, ribboned structures, chromatin strings, elongated prechromosomes, precondensed chromosomes). Cadmium treatment caused: (a) the absence of decondensed veil-like structures and premature chromatin condensation in the form of apoptotic bodies in early S phase (2.2–2.4 average C-value), (b) the absence of fibrous structures, the lack of supercoiled chromatin, the appearance of uncoiled ribboned chromatin and perichromatin semicircles, in early mid S phase (2.5–2.9 C), (c) the presence of perichromatin fibrils and chromatin bodies in mid S phase (2.9–3.2 C), (d) early intra-nuclear inclusions, elongated forms of premature chromosomes, the extrusion and rupture of nuclear membrane later in mid S phase (3.3–3.4 C), (e) the exclusion of chromatin bodies and the formation of clusters of large-sized perichromatin granules in late S phase (3.5–3.8 C) and (f) large extensive disruptions and holes in the nuclear membrane and the clumping of incompletely folded chromosomes (3.8–4. C).

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    G. Banfalvi, M. Gacsi, G. Nagy, Z. B. Kiss & A. G. Basnakian

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Banfalvi, G., Gacsi, M., Nagy, G. et al. Cadmium induced apoptotic changes in chromatin structure and subphases of nuclear growth during the cell cycle in CHO cells. Apoptosis 10, 631–642 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10495-005-1897-9

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