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[Cancer Research 62, 1129-1133, February 15, 2002]
© 2002 American Association for Cancer Research

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Targeted Inactivation of p53 in Human Cells Does Not Result in Aneuploidy1

Fred Bunz, Christine Fauth, Michael R. Speicher, Annie Dutriaux, John M. Sedivy, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein and Christoph Lengauer2

The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, [F. B., K. W. K., B. V., C. L.] and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute [B. V.], Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21231; Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics, University of Munich, Munich 80333, Germany [C. F., M. R. S.]; and Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 [A. D., J. M. S.]


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Because p53 mutation and aneuploidy usually coexist, it has been suggested that p53 inactivation leads to aneuploidy. We have rigorously tested this hypothesis in diploid human cell lines in which p53 was experimentally inactivated by targeted homologous recombination. Cells completely deficient in p53 did not become aneuploid, although a slight tendency toward tetraploidization was observed. No increased rates of numerical or structural chromosomal instabilities were observed in the p53-deficient cells. Rates of sister chromatid exchange and homologous recombination were also unaffected by p53 status. These results show that inactivation of p53 does not, in and of itself, lead to the development of aneuploidy.


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Loss of p53 typically occurs in the late stages of tumor formation, and such tumors are almost always aneuploid (1 , 2) . Aneuploidy denotes a chromosome number different from a multiple of 2n and is often associated with structural alterations of chromosomes. This aneuploidy likely results from a high rate of losses and gains of chromosomes during abnormal mitoses (3) . The concurrence of p53 loss and aneuploidy in naturally occurring and experimental neoplasms has led to the hypothesis that p53 functions to actively repress CIN3 (4 , 5) . However, such correlations do not prove causality.

To rigorously test whether p53 deficiency caused measurable changes in the structural or numerical stability of chromosomes, we evaluated human cell lines whose p53 alleles were disrupted by gene targeting. By comparing these lines to parental cells containing wild-type p53 alleles, unambiguous assessments of the role of endogenous p53 in various forms of genetic instability could be made.


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Cells and Cell Culture.
The human colon cancer cell line HCT116 and its derivatives HCTp53HET, which has a single p53 allele disrupted, and HCTp53KO, which has both p53 alleles disrupted (6) , were cultured in McCoy’s 5A supplemented with 10% FCS and penicillin/streptomycin. No selective drug was included during routine culture.

One allele of p53 was disrupted in lung-derived human fetal fibroblasts (FBp53HET) by homologous integration of a targeting vector. The remaining p53 allele was found to be lost in a subpopulation of cells that had an increased life span (FBp53KO), resulting in a p53 null cell line (6) . Fetal fibroblast cell lines were grown in Ham’s F-10 medium supplemented with 15% FCS, penicillin/streptomycin, and 2 mM glutamine.

FISH.
Methods for FISH analysis with chromosome-specific centromeric probes and quantitative analysis of chromosome loss rates have been described (7) . To prepare metaphase spreads, cells were treated with 0.1 µg/ml Colcemid (KaryoMax; Life Technologies, Inc.) and processed by standard methods. Multiplex-FISH analysis was performed as described (8) . The full karyotype of wild-type HCT116 cells (9) was confirmed as 45,X,-Y, der(10)dup(10)(q24q26)t(10;16)(q26;q24), der(16)t(8;16)(q13;p13), der(18)t(17;18)(q21;p11.3).

SCE Assay.
Assays for SCE were performed essentially as described (10) . Cells were grown in bromodeoxyuridine for 40 h, an interval in which chromatin was replicated twice. Differentially stained chromosomes were bleached under UV light and visualized under fluorescence. Individual exchanges between sister chromatids were scored manually.

Assay of Homologous Integration.
A targeting vector (pRV6.9 h) with a total of 6.9 kb of sequence homologous to a region encompassing exon 3 of the HPRT gene has been described previously (11) and was modified for our experiments. The presence of both neomycin and hygromycin resistance markers in the HCT116 derivatives necessitated the construction of a version of this vector, designated pE3PUR, in which the neomycin transferase gene was replaced with a cassette encoding puromycin resistance.

All cell lines were passaged in medium supplemented with hypoxanthine/aminopterin/thymidine supplement (Life Technologies, Inc.) for 10–15 generations. The targeting vector was introduced into cells using Lipofectamine (Life Technologies, Inc.). Resistant colonies were grown in 2.5 µg/ml puromycin for 5 days, at which time the medium was removed and exchanged with medium containing 6-TG (Sigma Chemical Co.). 6-TG-resistant clones were grown for an additional 10 days. Genomic DNA was purified by a spin column procedure (Qiagen), and homologous integration was assessed by PCR as described (11) .


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Numerical and Structural Stability of Chromosomes.
The colorectal cell line HCT116 has intact, wild-type p53 genes and is stably diploid (7) . The pathways leading to p53-dependent cell cycle arrest and apoptosis appear to be intact in HCT116 cells (12) , and the two wild-type p53 alleles in this line have been successfully targeted by homologous recombination, resulting in cells that do not express detectable p53 protein (6) . These lines were examined by M-FISH, a technique that allows the visualization and identification of individual metaphase chromosomes that are "painted" with different colors. Twenty-two metaphases of parental HCT116 cells and of each p53-targeted subclone were examined in this way after growth for >50 generations in the same medium. In each case, the majority of metaphases from each cell line were indistinguishable from one another. Eighteen of 22 of the p53-deficient cells showed no karyotypic abnormalities, a fraction similar to that observed in parental HCT116 cells in the current study as well as in previous analyses of similar parental cells (Fig. 1aCitation ; Refs. 13 , 14 ). In the remaining four metaphases, the following changes were observed: (a) absence of one copy of chromosome 11; (b) a derivative chromosome produced by fusion of chromosomes 13 and 16; (c) absence of single copies of chromosomes 4 and der(10); and (d) absence of chromosomes X and 20 and the absence of a single copy of chromosome 12. A similar degree of numerical aberrations was observed in the parental HCT116 cell line, and the same aberrations were never found in more than one cell, suggesting that these karyotypic changes were not clonal.



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  		Fig. 1. Multiplex-FISH. a, representative metaphase of HCTp53KO, present in 18 of 22 metaphases that were evaluated extensively. The only clonal change between the parental line HCT116 and the p53-targeted derivatives is the translocation between chromosome 5 and 7 (arrow). b, example of a chromosomally stable, tetraploid cell found in a small fraction of the p53-deficient cells analyzed. Arrow indicates the two t(5;7) translocation chromosomes.

 
One persistent change observed in all HCT116 derivatives and not in the parental population was a balanced translocation between chromosomes 5 and 7 (Fig. 1a)Citation . This was observed in both the HCTp53HET (data not shown) and in the HCTp53KO clones. In previous experiments, we have shown that heterozygous disruption of p53 has no measurable effect on several important p53 functions, including those that govern the regulation of cell cycle checkpoints (6) . This translocation therefore appears to be a random change that occurred before the homozygous targeting of p53 and therefore was unrelated to the disruption of p53 function.

Losses and Gains of Specific Chromosomes.
The M-FISH assays described above show that the state of the chromosome complement was unchanged after p53 disruption. Such states cannot reliably be used to determine rates of chromosome changes, however. We therefore used FISH with probes for specific centromeric sequences to determine the precise rates of chromosome losses and gains in these cells. Immediately after targeting of the second p53 allele, five subclones were isolated by limiting dilution. These "knockout" cell lines (HCTp53KO.1, KO.2, and others), plus a sibling control line (HCTp53HET) that was heterozygous for p53 disruption, were serially passaged in parallel. Each clone was grown for 25 generations after its establishment, and 100 interphase cells were examined with probes for several different chromosomes. Previous examination of unstable cells with these probes revealed no apparent bias as to which chromosomes are lost or gained (7) . No significant differences in the rate of loss or gain of single chromosomes were observed among the lines, whether or not intact p53 genes were present (Table 1)Citation . In particular, the number of cells that contained a chromosome number different from the modal number (two per autosome, one for the single X chromosome) was never >6%, regardless of p53 genotype. This high degree of stability is consistent with previous studies of wild-type HCT116 cells (7 , 14) .


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  		Table 1 Losses and gains of chromosomes

 
Homologous Recombination.
Another type of genetic instability has been associated with aberrant rates of HR (15) . A function for p53 in the suppression of HR has been suggested by experiments in murine knockout cell lines (16) as well as in human cells that overexpress a dominant mutant p53 allele (17) . We quantified HR in our line in two different ways. The first involved counting of SCE in the presence of bromodeoxyuridine. SCE has been shown to be associated with the high levels of HR in cells from Bloom’s syndrome patients (10 , 18) . SCE rates in HCT116 cells and its p53-disrupted derivatives were similar (Table 2)Citation .


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  		Table 2 SCE

 
A second means of assaying HR processes involves measurement of the frequency of integration of a gene-targeting vector. An assay was used that takes advantage of the fact that a functional HPRT gene product is required for growth in medium containing hypoxanthine/aminopterin/thymidine supplements. Disruption of this gene, which is present as a single copy on the X chromosome, is required for cell growth in medium supplemented with the purine analogue 6-TG. Cells that have undergone homologous recombination at the HPRT locus can be grown as colonies after 6-TG selection. The frequency of HR among the population of clones that had stably integrated the vector was approximately 4 x 10-4 (Table 3)Citation . The HR frequency did not differ significantly between parental and p53-deficient cell lines (Table 3)Citation .


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  		Table 3 Frequency of targeted plasmid integration

 
The Effects of p53 Knock-Out in Normal Human Fibroblasts.
To determine whether p53 disruption affected chromosome loss or gain rates in cells not derived from a cancer, we analyzed analogous primary human fibroblast cells (FBWT). In addition to parental cells, two derivative cell lines, one with a single targeted p53 allele (FBp53HET), and another that had undergone loss of heterozygosity at the p53 locus which resulted in deletion of p53 (FBp53KO), were examined. M-FISH analyses of these cells could not be performed, because the fibroblast lines grew relatively slowly and exhibited a low frequency of cells in metaphase. However, we could assess CIN through our standard FISH analysis of interphase cells using centromeric probes (7) . The fibroblast-derived lines generally showed a somewhat greater number of nonmodal cells than the HCT116 cancer cells (Table 1)Citation . However, in 10 of 11 determinations, the fraction of cells off the mode was <=8%, and there was no correlation of this number with p53 genotype. In contrast, 25–30% of the cells with a CIN phenotype typically are found to lose or gain any tested chromosome, with a correspondingly higher variation in chromosome number from cell to cell (7) .

Interestingly, although the fibroblast lines with disrupted p53 genes did not show high rates of loss or gain of specific single chromosomes, these cells had a marked tendency to become tetraploid (Table 1)Citation . Thus, p53-deficient fibroblasts exhibited a high percentage of metaphases with four and occasionally eight markers per chromosome. Such effects have been noted in p53-deficient rodent fibroblast cells treated with inhibitors of mitotic spindle formation (19 , 20) .

No obvious tendency to tetraploidization was evident in our CIN assays of p53-deficient HCT116 cells (Table 1)Citation . However, inspired by the fibroblast results, we assessed a larger number of cells to determine whether any differences in tetraploidization occurred. In 400 metaphases from the p53-deficient cells, 35 exhibited tetraploidy (example in Fig. 1bCitation ), whereas a smaller fraction (10 of 400) of parental HCT116 cells were tetraploid. This 3.5-fold difference in tetraploidization, although small, was statistically significant (P < 0.001, {chi}2 test).


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In summary, our studies of isogenic human cell lines provide no evidence that p53 disruption causes aneuploidy, either in a cell line derived from a colon cancer or from one derived from normal human fibroblasts. Over many generations, chromosome number remained stable in both the wild-type and p53-deficient cells. No structural instability was observed by karyotyping and no increased rate in SCE was observed in the HCT116-derived cells. Furthermore, the rate of homologous integration of an exogenous DNA construct did not differ between p53-proficient and p53-deficient cells.

One might legitimately ask whether the mismatch repair deficiency in HCT116 cells (21) may prevent the advent of CIN, even with p53 disrupted. This hypothesis has been excluded in recent experiments wherein it was demonstrated that the targeted disruption of hSecurin, a gene involved in the regulation of anaphase initiation, leads to marked chromosomal instability in HCT116 cells (14) . The securin-deficient cells were studied with some of the same assays used here to evaluate CIN.

Do these results therefore imply that p53 plays no role in maintaining chromosome stability? A conservative interpretation of our results is that p53 disruption alone does not cause chromosome instability. It remains possible that, in the presence of other genetic or epigenetic alterations, the absence of p53 could exacerbate a preexisting tendency toward such instability. For example, although we observed no CIN in the cell lines studied here, they exhibited a small but consistent tendency to become tetraploid in the two cell types studied. This tendency to polyploidy has been attributed to the loss of the G1 checkpoint function of p53 (22) , which prevents rereplication of the genome, and should be distinguished from CIN, in which individual chromosomes are gained or lost in a haphazard fashion (7) . It is unclear whether the tetraploid cells in either the HCTp53KO or the FBp53KO population maintain their proliferative potential, because we have not yet been able to recover tetraploid clones of any of these cells. Regardless, the difference in the frequencies of tetraploidization between the epithelial-derived cancer cells and the fibroblasts demonstrates that loss of p53 can have different consequences in different cell types. Such cell type differences as well as differences between murine and human cells may explain the discrepancies among previous studies (23 , 24) and those recorded here.

Previous studies have implicated p53-independent pathways in the development of chromosomal instability. Tetraploidy has been observed previously in human cells transduced with viral oncogenes, although not with those that interact directly with p53 (25) . Experiments with murine tumor models have suggested that other mutations in caretaker genes such as Brca1 (26) and Brca2 (27) can lead to instability in the context of p53 mutation.

Most importantly, we believe that our results convincingly demonstrate, in both normal human fibroblasts and human epithelial cancer cells, that p53 loss does not simply lead to aneuploidy. This conclusion is consistent with the previously documented existence of human diploid cancers (2 , 5) , as well as diploid murine experimental tumors (28) that contain mutant p53 genes. It is also consistent with observations on colorectal tumors showing that aneuploidy occurs early during the neoplastic process, whereas p53 inactivation occurs only decades later, near the transition from adenoma to carcinoma (29) . We conclude that the aneuploidy that is nearly ubiquitous in cancers should not be ascribed primarily to defects in p53, and that a continuing search for the central mediators of chromosomal instability is justified.


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
We acknowledge the expert assistance of Leslie Meszler of the Johns Hopkins Cell Imaging Core Facility.


   FOOTNOTES
 
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

1 This work was supported by the Clayton Fund, the V-Foundation, and NIH Grant CA 43460. Back

2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, CRB Room 585, 1650 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. E-mail: lengauer{at}jhmi.edu Back

3 The abbreviations used are: CIN, chromosomal instability; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; SCE, sister chromatid exchange; HPRT, hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase; 6-TG, 6-thioguanine; HR, homologous recombination. Back

Received 6/13/01. Accepted 12/14/01.


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