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Vol. 278, Issue 1, G1-G5, January 2000

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Lessons From Genetically Engineered Animal Models
VII. Apoptosis in intestinal epithelium: lessons from transgenic and knockout mice*

Alastair J. M. Watson1 and D. Mark Pritchard2

1 Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GA; and 2 Royal Preston Hospital, Preston PR2 4HT, United Kingdom

Apoptosis plays an important role in homeostasis of intestinal epithelia and is also a stress response to toxic stimuli. Transgenic and knockout mice have provided insights into the regulation of intestinal epithelial apoptosis that could not have been obtained by cell culture techniques. Two broad types of apoptosis have been characterized: spontaneous apoptosis, which occurs continuously at low levels in the normal, unstressed intestine, and stress-induced apoptosis, which occurs after genotoxic insult such as exposure to gamma radiation or DNA-damaging drugs. Spontaneous apoptosis occurs at the base of the crypt at or near the position of epithelial stem cells. Knockout studies have shown that spontaneous apoptosis is independent of p53 and Bax in both small and large intestine, whereas Bcl2 only regulates spontaneous apoptosis in the colon. Little is known about the regulation of the specialized form of cell death at the villus tip. In contrast, knockout studies have demonstrated that both p53 and Bcl2 are important regulators of stress-induced apoptosis but that there are significant differences between early and late time points. Bax plays only a minor role in the regulation of stress-induced apoptosis. The cumulative effect of stress-induced apoptosis on tissue architecture is not straightforward, and cell cycle arrest also plays a critical role. Nevertheless, p53 is an important determinant of the histopathological damage induced by 5-fluorouracil in murine intestinal epithelium. These studies have important implications for the development of more effective treatment for inflammatory bowel disease and cancer.

radiation-induced apoptosis; cell cycle arrest; wild-type p53; DNA damage; clonogenic survival; hierarchical status; growth arrest; G1 checkpoint; Bax; Bcl2; 5-fluorouracil

* Seventh in a series of invited articles on Lessons From Genetically Engineered Animal Models.




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