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S. <strong>Ghosh</strong> et al. / Mutation Research 723 (2011) 190–198 195<br />

Fig. 5. Phosphorylation of TP53 at 4 h after exposure to 2 Gy and 6 Gy gamma or 2 Gy oxygen irradiation in A549 cells. (A) Representative image showing p-TP53 4 h after<br />

irradiation. Each phospho-TP53 antibody was indirectly labeled with Molecular Probe 488 secondary antibody (green) and cells were mounted with ProLong Gold antifede<br />

with DAPI (blue). All images were captured using Carl Zeiss confocal microscope with the same exposure time. (B) Graph represents relative intensity of p-TP53 as determined<br />

by ImageJ software. At least 100 cells per experiment were analyzed from three independent experiments. Data represents means ± SD of three independent experiments;<br />

significantly different from unirradiated controls: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01. Significantly different from 6 Gy gamma: # P < 0.05. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this<br />

figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)<br />

foci from cells, unlike the -H2AX foci (that was seen in 60% of<br />

oxygen irradiated cells at 4 h), could reflect their different roles in<br />

the repair process with -H2AX foci playing a primary role in activating<br />

downstream pathways and initiating DNA repair while ATM<br />

foci remaining till broken DNA ends are present. Since the cell survival<br />

after 2 Gy oxygen irradiation was only 11%, ATM might be<br />

activating downstream apoptotic responses.<br />

ATR, another PI3 kinase family member, which is known to<br />

respond late to the IR induced damage, was also looked for its<br />

activation at 4 h. After gamma irradiation, average foci per cell<br />

were very less (2.7 ± 0.95 for 2 Gy and 4 ± 1 for 6 Gy) and that<br />

too were visible in only half of the irradiated cells (Fig. 4). On<br />

the other hand, although only 36% of oxygen ion irradiated cells<br />

showed ATR foci, the average foci per cell were (24 ± 14) at least<br />

six times more than that of gamma irradiated cells. Total intensity<br />

levels of phospho ATR matched with the number of foci<br />

observed (Fig. 4). The massive activation of ATR after oxygen<br />

irradiation when compared with gamma (Fig. 4) in 36% of the

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