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SUBMITTER: Moiseeva O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2725737 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moiseeva Olga O Bourdeau Véronique V Roux Antoine A Deschênes-Simard Xavier X Ferbeyre Gerardo G
Molecular and cellular biology 20090615 16
The expression of oncogenic ras in normal human cells quickly induces an aberrant proliferation response that later is curtailed by a cell cycle arrest known as cellular senescence. Here, we show that cells expressing oncogenic ras display an increase in the mitochondrial mass, the mitochondrial DNA, and the mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) prior to the senescent cell cycle arrest. By the time the cells entered senescence, dysfunctional mitochondria accumulated around th ...[more]