Bystander effects (RIBE) as manifestation of intercellular communication of DNA damage and of the cellular oxidative status
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George IliakisCorrespondence information about the author George IliakisEmail the author George Iliakis
Institute of Medical Radiation Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen Medical School, Essen, Germany
Abstract
It
is becoming increasingly clear that cells exposed to ionizing radiation
(IR) and other genotoxic agents (targeted cells) can communicate their
DNA damage response (DDR) status to cells that have not been directly
irradiated (bystander cells). The term radiation-induced bystander
effects (RIBE) describes facets of this phenomenon, but its molecular
underpinnings are incompletely characterized. Consequences of DDR in
bystander cells have been extensively studied and include transformation
and mutation induction; micronuclei, chromosome aberration and sister
chromatid exchange formation; as well as modulations in gene expression,
proliferation and differentiation patterns. A fundamental question
arising from such observations is why targeted cells induce DNA damage
in non-targeted, bystander cells threatening thus their genomic
stability and risking the induction of cancer. Here, we review and
synthesize available literature to gather support for a model according
to which targeted cells modulate as part of DDR their redox status and
use it as a source to generate signals for neighboring cells. Such
signals can be either small molecules transported to adjacent
non-targeted cells via gap-junction intercellular communication (GJIC),
or secreted factors that can reach remote, non-targeted cells by
diffusion or through the circulation. We review evidence that such
signals can induce in the recipient cell modulations of redox status
similar to those seen in the originating targeted cell – occasionally
though self-amplifying feedback loops. The resulting increase of
oxidative stress in bystander cells induces, often in conjunction with
DNA replication, the observed DDR-like responses that are at times
strong enough to cause apoptosis. We reason that RIBE reflect the
function of intercellular communication mechanisms designed to spread
within tissues, or the entire organism, information about DNA damage
inflicted to individual, constituent cells. Such responses are thought
to protect the organism by enhancing repair in a community of cells and
by eliminating severely damaged cells.
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