%0 Journal Article %T Effect of p27mt gene on apoptosis of the colorectal cancer cell line Lovo %A Jun Chen %A Wu-Hua Ding %A Shao-Yong Xu %A Jia-Ning Wang %A Yong-Zhang Huang %A Chang-Sheng Deng %J World Journal of Gastroenterology %D 2009 %I Baishideng Publishing Group Co. Limited %X AIM: To construct p27mt recombinant adenovirus, transfect the colorectal cell line Lovo and observe the effects of p27mt on Lovo cell apoptosis and cell cycle inhibition.METHODS: We constructed recombinant adenovirus containing p27mt by homologous recombination in bacteria. The colorectal cancer cell line Lovo was infected with recombinant replication-defective adenovirus Ad-p27mt, and expression of p27mt was determined by Western blotting; the inhibitory effect of p27mt on Lovo cells was detected by cytometry. Cell cycle was determined by flow cytometry. DNA fragment analysis identified the occurrence of apoptosis.RESULTS: The recombinant adenovirus which already contained p27mt target gene was successfully constructed. When multiplicity of infection was ¡Ý 50, the infection efficiency was 100%. After transfection of Lovo cells with Ad-p27mt the cells had high p27 expression which was identified by immunoblotting assay. PI staining and flow cytometry showed that 77.96% of colorectal cancer cells were inhibited in phase G0/G1, while in the Ad-LacZ group and blank control group, 27.57% and 25.29% cells were inhibited in the same phase, respectively. DNA fragment analysis, flow cytometry and TUNEL assay demonstrated that p27mt is able to induce apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells.CONCLUSION: p27mt has an obvious blocking effect on colorectal cancer cell cycle, and most cells were inhibited in phase G0/G1. Therefore, p27mt can induce apoptosis in colorectal cells. %K Apoptosis %K Cell cycle %K Colorectal cancer %K p27mt %K Recombinant adenovirus %U http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v15/i22/2794.htm