Systemic DNA damage accumulation under in vivo tumor growth can be inhibited by the antioxidant Tempol.
Cancer Lett. 2014 Oct 28;353(2):248-57
Systemic DNA damage accumulation under in vivo tumor growth can be inhibited by the antioxidant Tempol.
Georgakilas AG1, Redon CE2, Ferguson NF3, Kryston TB3, Parekh P2, Dickey JS4, Nakamura AJ5, Mitchell JB6, Bonner WM2, Martin OA7.
1Department of Biology, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA; Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, Athens GR-15773, Greece.
2Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
3Department of Biology, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
4Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Office of In Vitro Diagnostics, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA.
5Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan.
6Radiation Biology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
7Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Division of Radiation Oncology and Cancer Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Vic. 3002, Australia; Laboratory of Molecular Radiation Biology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Vic. 3002, Australia; Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3002, Australia.
Abstract
Recently we found that mice bearing subcutaneous non-metastatic tumors exhibited elevated levels of two types of complex DNA damage, i.e., double-strand breaks and oxidatively-induced clustered DNA lesions in various tissues throughout the body, both adjacent to and distant from the tumor site. This DNA damage was dependent on CCL2, a cytokine involved in the recruitment and activation of macrophages, suggesting that this systemic DNA damage was mediated via tumor-induced chronic inflammatory responses involving cytokines, activation of macrophages, and consequent free radical production. If free radicals are involved, then a diet containing an antioxidant may decrease the distant DNA damage. Here we repeated our standard protocol in cohorts of two syngeneic tumor-bearing C57BL/6NCr mice that were on a Tempol-supplemented diet. We show that double-strand break and oxidatively-induced clustered DNA lesion levels were considerably decreased, about two- to three fold, in the majority of tissues studied from the tumor-bearing mice fed the antioxidant Tempol compared to the control tumor-bearing mice. Similar results were also observed in nude mice suggesting that the Tempol effects are independent of functioning adaptive immunity. This is the first in vivo study demonstrating the effect of a dietary antioxidant on abscopal DNA damage in tissues distant from a localized source of genotoxic stress. These findings may be important for understanding the mechanisms of genomic instability and carcinogenesis caused by chronic stress-induced systemic DNA damage and for developing preventative strategies.
