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  • 1
    In: Cancers, MDPI AG, Vol. 15, No. 15 ( 2023-08-05), p. 3979-
    Abstract: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has made the hypofractionation of high doses delivered in a few sessions more acceptable. While the benefits of hypofractionated SBRT have been attributed to additional vascular, immune effects, or specific cell deaths, a radiobiological and mechanistic model is still needed. By considering each session of SBRT, the dose is divided into hundreds of minibeams delivering some fractions of Gy. In such a dose range, the hypersensitivity to low dose (HRS) phenomenon can occur. HRS produces a biological effect equivalent to that produced by a dose 5-to-10 times higher. To examine whether HRS could contribute to enhancing radiation effects under SBRT conditions, we exposed tumor cells of different HRS statuses to SBRT. Four human HRS-positive and two HRS-negative tumor cell lines were exposed to different dose delivery modes: a single dose of 0.2 Gy, 2 Gy, 10 × 0.2 Gy, and a single dose of 2 Gy using a non-coplanar isocentric minibeams irradiation mode were delivered. Anti-γH2AX immunofluorescence, assessing DNA double-strand breaks (DSB), was applied. In the HRS-positive cells, the DSB produced by 10 × 0.2 Gy and 2 Gy, delivered by tens of minibeams, appeared to be more severe, and they provided more highly damaged cells than in the HRS-negative cells, suggesting that more severe DSB are induced in the “SBRT modes” conditions when HRS occurs in tumor. Each SBRT session can be viewed as hyperfractionated dose delivery by means of hundreds of low dose minibeams. Under current SBRT conditions (i.e., low dose per minibeam and not using ultra-high dose-rate), the response of HRS-positive tumors to SBRT may be enhanced significantly. Interestingly, similar conclusions were reached with HRS-positive and HRS-negative untransformed fibroblast cell lines, suggesting that the HRS phenomenon may also impact the risk of post-RT tissue overreactions.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2072-6694
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2023
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    In: Cancers, MDPI AG, Vol. 14, No. 24 ( 2022-12-13), p. 6141-
    Abstract: There are a number of genetic syndromes associated with both high cancer risk and clinical radiosensitivity. However, the link between these two notions remains unknown. Particularly, some cancer syndromes are caused by mutations in genes involved in DNA damage signaling and repair. How are the DNA sequence errors propagated and amplified to cause cell transformation? Conversely, some cancer syndromes are caused by mutations in genes involved in cell cycle checkpoint control. How is misrepaired DNA damage produced? Lastly, certain genes, considered as tumor suppressors, are not involved in DNA damage signaling and repair or in cell cycle checkpoint control. The mechanistic model based on radiation-induced nucleoshuttling of the ATM kinase (RIANS), a major actor of the response to ionizing radiation, may help in providing a unified explanation of the link between cancer proneness and radiosensitivity. In the frame of this model, a given protein may ensure its own specific function but may also play additional biological role(s) as an ATM phosphorylation substrate in cytoplasm. It appears that the mutated proteins that cause the major cancer and radiosensitivity syndromes are all ATM phosphorylation substrates, and they generally localize in the cytoplasm when mutated. The relevance of the RIANS model is discussed by considering different categories of the cancer syndromes.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2072-6694
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2022
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    In: Biomolecules, MDPI AG, Vol. 13, No. 3 ( 2023-03-16), p. 542-
    Abstract: Radiation-induced bystander effects (RIBE) describe the biological events occurring in non-targeted cells in the vicinity of irradiated ones. Various experimental procedures have been used to investigate RIBE. Interestingly, most micro-irradiation experiments have been performed with alpha particles, whereas most medium transfers have been done with X-rays. With their high fluence, synchrotron X-rays represent a real opportunity to study RIBE by applying these two approaches with the same radiation type. The RIBE induced in human fibroblasts by the medium transfer approach resulted in a generation of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) occurring from 10 min to 4 h post-irradiation. Such RIBE was found to be dependent on dose and on the number of donor cells. The RIBE induced with the micro-irradiation approach produced DSB with the same temporal occurrence. Culture media containing high concentrations of phosphates were found to inhibit RIBE, while media rich in calcium increased it. The contribution of the RIBE to the biological dose was evaluated after synchrotron X-rays, media transfer, micro-irradiation, and 6 MeV photon irradiation mimicking a standard radiotherapy session: the RIBE may represent less than 1%, about 5%, and about 20% of the initial dose, respectively. However, RIBE may result in beneficial or otherwise deleterious effects in surrounding tissues according to their radiosensitivity status and their capacity to release Ca2+ ions in response to radiation.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2218-273X
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2023
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    In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, MDPI AG, Vol. 23, No. 18 ( 2022-09-09), p. 10434-
    Abstract: Tissue overreactions (OR), whether called adverse effects, radiotoxicity, or radiosensitivity reactions, may occur during or after anti-cancer radiotherapy (RT). They represent a medical, economic, and societal issue and raise the question of individual response to radiation. To predict and prevent them are among the major tasks of radiobiologists. To this aim, radiobiologists have developed a number of predictive assays involving different cellular models and endpoints. To date, while no consensus has been reached to consider one assay as the best predictor of the OR occurrence and severity, radiation oncologists have proposed consensual scales to quantify OR in six different grades of severity, whatever the organ/tissue concerned and their early/late features. This is notably the case with the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE). Few radiobiological studies have used the CTCAE scale as a clinical endpoint to evaluate the statistical robustness of the molecular and cellular predictive assays in the largest range of human radiosensitivity. Here, by using 200 untransformed skin fibroblast cell lines derived from RT-treated cancer patients eliciting OR in the six CTCAE grades range, correlations between CTCAE grades and the major molecular and cellular endpoints proposed to predict OR (namely, cell survival at 2 Gy (SF2), yields of micronuclei, recognized and unrepaired DSBs assessed by immunofluorescence with γH2AX and pATM markers) were examined. To our knowledge, this was the first time that the major radiosensitivity endpoints were compared together with the same cohort and irradiation conditions. Both SF2 and the maximal number of pATM foci reached after 2 Gy appear to be the best predictors of the OR, whatever the CTCAE grades range. All these major radiosensitivity endpoints are mathematically linked in a single mechanistic model of individual response to radiation in which the ATM kinase plays a major role.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1422-0067
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2022
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    In: Cells, MDPI AG, Vol. 12, No. 13 ( 2023-06-29), p. 1747-
    Abstract: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative dementia, for which the molecular origins, genetic predisposition and therapeutic approach are still debated. In the 1980s, cells from AD patients were reported to be sensitive to ionizing radiation. In order to examine the molecular basis of this radiosensitivity, the ATM-dependent DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) signaling and repair were investigated by applying an approach based on the radiation-induced ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM) protein nucleoshuttling (RIANS) model. Early after irradiation, all ten AD fibroblast cell lines tested showed impaired DSB recognition and delayed RIANS. AD fibroblasts specifically showed spontaneous perinuclear localization of phosphorylated ATM (pATM) forms. To our knowledge, such observation has never been reported before, and by considering the role of the ATM kinase in the stress response, it may introduce a novel interpretation of accelerated aging. Our data and a mathematical approach through a brand-new model suggest that, in response to a progressive and cumulative stress, cytoplasmic ATM monomers phosphorylate the APOE protein (pAPOE) close to the nuclear membrane and aggregate around the nucleus, preventing their entry in the nucleus and thus the recognition and repair of spontaneous DSB, which contributes to the aging process. Our findings suggest that pATM and/or pAPOE may serve as biomarkers for an early reliable diagnosis of AD on any fibroblast sample.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2073-4409
    Language: English
    Publisher: MDPI AG
    Publication Date: 2023
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