Research Paper Volume 2, Issue 12 pp 924—935
DNA damaging agents and p53 do not cause senescence in quiescent cells, while consecutive re-activation of mTOR is associated with conversion to senescence
Figure 12. Rapamycin and serum starvation prevents nutlin-induced senescence in MCF-7 cells. A-B. MCF7 cells were plated at 5000 or 10000/well in 12 well plates, allowed to attach and then were either pretreated with 500 nM rapamycin (R), placed in serum free medium or left untreated in complete medium (control). The next day, 5μM nutlin-3a was added. After 5 days, cells were stained for beta-Gal and microphotographed (bars −50 micron) (A). (B) In replicate plate, cells were counted.
C. MCF7 cells were treated as indicated for 24 hr, and immunoblot was performed.