Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2024.2302413
Ge Jiang, Xingzhi Zhou, Ye Hu, Xiaoyu Tan, Dan Wang, Lina Yang, Qinggao Zhang, Shuangping Liu
{"title":"The antipsychotic drug pimozide promotes apoptosis through the RAF/ERK pathway and enhances autophagy in breast cancer cells.","authors":"Ge Jiang, Xingzhi Zhou, Ye Hu, Xiaoyu Tan, Dan Wang, Lina Yang, Qinggao Zhang, Shuangping Liu","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2302413","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2302413","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The antipsychotic drug pimozide has been demonstrated to inhibit cancer. However, the precise anti-cancer mechanism of pimozide remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of pimozide on human MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell lines, and the potential involvement in the RAF/ERK signaling. The effects of pimozide on cells were examined by 4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl-3,5-diphenylformazan, wound healing, colony formation, transwell assays, and caspase activity assay. Flow cytometry and acridine orange and ethidium bromide staining were performed to assess changes in cells. Transmission electron microscopy and monodansylcadaverine staining were used to observe autophagosomes. The cyclic adenosine monophosphate was evaluated using the FRET system. Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, RNA interference, and western blot investigated the expression of proteins. Mechanistically, we focus on the RAF1/ERK signaling. We detected pimozide was docked to RAF1 by Schrodinger software. Pimozide down-regulated the phosphorylation of RAF1, ERK 1/2, Bcl-2, and Bcl-xl, up-regulated Bax, and cleaved caspase-9 to induce apoptosis. Pimozide might promote autophagy by up-regulating cAMP. The enhancement of autophagy increased the conversion of LC3-I to LC3-II and down-regulated p62 expression. But mTOR signaling was not involved in promoting autophagy. The knockdown of RAF1 expression induced autophagy and apoptosis in breast cancer cells, consistent with the results of pimozide or sorafenib alone. Blocked autophagy by chloroquine resulted in the impairment of pimozide-induced apoptosis. These data showed that pimozide inhibits breast cancer by regulating the RAF/ERK signaling pathway and might activate cAMP-induced autophagy to promote apoptosis and it may be a potential drug for breast cancer treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10878017/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139734570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SATB1 mediated tumor colonization and β-catenin nuclear localization are associated with colorectal cancer progression.","authors":"Luan Sun, Feng Wang, Xufei Wang, Feiying Zhang, Sujuan Ma, Jinghuan Lv","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2320307","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2320307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a malignancy with high incidence and poor prognosis. It is urgent to identify valuable biomarkers for early diagnosis and potent therapeutic targets. It has been reported that SATB1 is associated with the malignant progression in CRC. To explore the role of SATB1 in CRC progression and the underlying mechanism, we evaluated the expression of SATB1 in the paired CRC tissues with immunohistochemistry. The results showed that the expression of SATB1 in lymph node metastasis was higher than that in primary lesion, and that in distant organ metastasis was higher than that in primary lesion. The retrospective analysis showed that patients with high expression of SATB1 had a significantly worse prognosis than those with negative and moderate expression. <i>In vitro</i> experiments that employing SATB1 over-expressing and depleted CRC cell lines confirmed that SATB1 contributes to cell proliferation and colonization, while inhibiting cell motility. Furthermore, the tissue immunofluorescence assay, Co-IP and Western blot were conducted to reveal that SATB1 induced translocation of β-catenin and formed a protein complex with it in the nuclei. In conclusion, SATB1 mediated tumor colonization and β-catenin nuclear localization are associated with the malignant progression and poor prognosis of CRC.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10885174/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139930204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2024.2321770
Qian Sun, Junjie Xu, Fan'en Yuan, Yan Liu, Qianxue Chen, Lirui Guo, Huimin Dong, Baohui Liu
{"title":"RND1 inhibits epithelial-mesenchymal transition and temozolomide resistance of glioblastoma via AKT/GSK3-β pathway.","authors":"Qian Sun, Junjie Xu, Fan'en Yuan, Yan Liu, Qianxue Chen, Lirui Guo, Huimin Dong, Baohui Liu","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2321770","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2321770","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>GBM is one of the most malignant tumor in central nervous system. The resistance to temozolomide (TMZ) is inevitable in GBM and the characterization of TMZ resistance seriously hinders clinical treatment. It is worthwhile exploring the underlying mechanism of aggressive invasion and TMZ resistance in GBM treatment. Bioinformatic analysis was used to analyze the association between RND1 and a series of EMT-related genes. Colony formation assay and cell viability assay were used to assess the growth of U87 and U251 cells. The cell invasion status was evaluated based on transwell and wound-healing assays. Western blot was used to detect the protein expression in GBM cells. Treatment targeted RND1 combined with TMZ therapy was conducted in nude mice to evaluate the potential application of RND1 as a clinical target for GBM. The overexpression of RND1 suppressed the progression and migration of U87 and U251 cells. RND1 knockdown facilitated the growth and invasion of GBM cells. RND1 regulated the EMT of GBM cells via inhibiting the phosphorylation of AKT and GSK3-β. The promoted effects of RND1 on TMZ sensitivity was identified both <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>. This research demonstrated that the overexpression of RND1 suppressed the migration and EMT status by downregulating AKT/GSK3-β pathway in GBM. RND1 enhanced the TMZ sensitivity of GBM cells both <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>. Our findings may contribute to the targeted therapy for GBM and the understanding of mechanisms of TMZ resistance in GBM.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936657/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140038742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2024.2321769
Hugo J M Miniere, Ernesto A B F Lima, Guillermo Lorenzo, David A Hormuth, Sophia Ty, Amy Brock, Thomas E Yankeelov
{"title":"A mathematical model for predicting the spatiotemporal response of breast cancer cells treated with doxorubicin.","authors":"Hugo J M Miniere, Ernesto A B F Lima, Guillermo Lorenzo, David A Hormuth, Sophia Ty, Amy Brock, Thomas E Yankeelov","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2321769","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2321769","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tumor heterogeneity contributes significantly to chemoresistance, a leading cause of treatment failure. To better personalize therapies, it is essential to develop tools capable of identifying and predicting intra- and inter-tumor heterogeneities. Biology-inspired mathematical models are capable of attacking this problem, but tumor heterogeneity is often overlooked in <i>in-vivo</i> modeling studies, while phenotypic considerations capturing spatial dynamics are not typically included in <i>in-vitro</i> modeling studies. We present a data assimilation-prediction pipeline with a two-phenotype model that includes a spatiotemporal component to characterize and predict the evolution of <i>in-vitro</i> breast cancer cells and their heterogeneous response to chemotherapy. Our model assumes that the cells can be divided into two subpopulations: surviving cells unaffected by the treatment, and irreversibly damaged cells undergoing treatment-induced death. MCF7 breast cancer cells were previously cultivated in wells for up to 1000 hours, treated with various concentrations of doxorubicin and imaged with time-resolved microscopy to record spatiotemporally-resolved cell count data. Images were used to generate cell density maps. Treatment response predictions were initialized by a training set and updated by weekly measurements. Our mathematical model successfully calibrated the spatiotemporal cell growth dynamics, achieving median [range] concordance correlation coefficients of > .99 [.88, >.99] and .73 [.58, .85] across the whole well and individual pixels, respectively. Our proposed data assimilation-prediction approach achieved values of .97 [.44, >.99] and .69 [.35, .79] for the whole well and individual pixels, respectively. Thus, our model can capture and predict the spatiotemporal dynamics of MCF7 cells treated with doxorubicin in an <i>in-vitro</i> setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11057790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139970981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2023.2284849
Yan Wang, Wen-Xian Guan, Yuan Zhou, Xiao-Yu Zhang, Hai-Jian Zhao
{"title":"Red ginseng polysaccharide promotes ferroptosis in gastric cancer cells by inhibiting PI3K/Akt pathway through down-regulation of AQP3.","authors":"Yan Wang, Wen-Xian Guan, Yuan Zhou, Xiao-Yu Zhang, Hai-Jian Zhao","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2023.2284849","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2023.2284849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to investigate the effect of red ginseng polysaccharide (RGP) on gastric cancer (GC) development and explore its mechanism.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>GC cell lines AGS were treated with varying concentrations of RGP (50, 100, and 200 μg/mL). AGS cells treated with 200 μg/mL RGP were transfected with aquaporin 3 (AQP3) overexpression vector. Cell proliferation, viability, and apoptosis were evaluated by MTT, colony formation assay, and flow cytometry, respectively. Real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) was used to detect the expression of AQP3. The levels of Fe2+, malondialdehyde, and lactate dehydrogenase were measured using their respective detection kits, and the reactive oxygen species levels was determined by probe 2',7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate. The expression of ferroptosis-related protein and PI3K/Akt pathway-related protein were assessed by western blot. In vivo experiments in nude mice were performed and the mice were divided into four groups (<i>n</i> = 5/group) which gavage administrated with 150 mg/kg normal saline, and 75, 150, 300 mg/kg RGP, respectively. Their tumor weight and volume were recorded.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>RGP treatment effectively inhibited the proliferation and viability of AGS cells in a dosage-dependent manner and induced apoptosis. It induced ferroptosis in AGS cells, as well as inhibiting the expression of PI3K/Akt-related proteins. AQP3 overexpression could reversed the effect of RGP treatment on ferroptosis. Confirmatory in vivo experiments showed that RGP could reduce the growth of implanted tumor, with increased RGP concentration resulting in greater tumor inhibitory effects.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>RGP might have therapeutic potential against GC, effectively inhibiting the proliferation and viability of AGS cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10761076/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138486802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2024.2382524
Spenser S Johnson, Dijie Liu, Jordan T Ewald, Claudia Robles-Planells, Casey Pulliam, Keegan A Christensen, Khaliunaa Bayanbold, Brian R Wels, Shane R Solst, M Sue O'Dorisio, Yusuf Menda, Douglas R Spitz, Melissa A Fath
{"title":"Auranofin inhibition of thioredoxin reductase sensitizes lung neuroendocrine tumor cells (NETs) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cells to sorafenib as well as inhibiting SCLC xenograft growth.","authors":"Spenser S Johnson, Dijie Liu, Jordan T Ewald, Claudia Robles-Planells, Casey Pulliam, Keegan A Christensen, Khaliunaa Bayanbold, Brian R Wels, Shane R Solst, M Sue O'Dorisio, Yusuf Menda, Douglas R Spitz, Melissa A Fath","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2382524","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2382524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thioredoxin Reductase (TrxR) functions to recycle thioredoxin (Trx) during hydroperoxide metabolism mediated by peroxiredoxins and is currently being targeted using the FDA-approved anti-rheumatic drug, auranofin (AF), to selectively sensitize cancer cells to therapy. AF treatment decreased TrxR activity and clonogenic survival in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines (DMS273 and DMS53) as well as the H727 atypical lung carcinoid cell line. AF treatment also significantly sensitized DMS273 and H727 cell lines <i>in vitro</i> to sorafenib, an FDA-approved multi-kinase inhibitor that depleted intracellular glutathione (GSH). The pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and safety profile of AF was examined in nude mice with DMS273 xenografts administered AF intraperitoneally at 2 mg/kg or 4 mg/kg (IP) once (QD) or twice daily (BID) for 1-5 d. Plasma levels of AF were 10-20 μM (determined by mass spectrometry of gold), and the optimal inhibition of TrxR activity was obtained at 4 mg/kg once daily, with no effect on glutathione peroxidase 1 activity. This AF treatment extended for 14 d, inhibited TrxR (>75%), and resulted in a significant prolongation of median overall survival from 19 to 23 d (<i>p</i> = .04, <i>N</i> = 30 controls, 28 AF). In this experiment, there were no observed changes in animal bodyweight, complete blood counts (CBCs), bone marrow toxicity, blood urea nitrogen, or creatinine. These results support the hypothesis that AF effectively inhibits TrxR both <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> in SCLC, sensitizes NETs and SCLC to sorafenib, and could be repurposed as an adjuvant therapy with targeted agents that induce disruptions in thiol metabolism.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11275529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141757297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-10-23DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2024.2416221
Ping Xing, Zhenzhen Chen, Wenbo Zhu, Bangyi Lin, Mingming Quan
{"title":"NRF3 suppresses the malignant progression of TNBC by promoting M1 polarization of macrophages via ROS/HMGB1 axis.","authors":"Ping Xing, Zhenzhen Chen, Wenbo Zhu, Bangyi Lin, Mingming Quan","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2416221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15384047.2024.2416221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive form of breast cancer. Due to its lack of targeted therapy options, TNBC remains a significant clinical challenge. In this study, we investigated the role of nuclear respiratory factor 3 (NRF3) and high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) in the progression of TNBC.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study analyzed NRF3's clinical expression, differentially expressed genes (DEGs), and immune infiltration in TNBC using the TCGA database and bioinformatics tools. Cellular functions of MDA-MB-468 and Hs578t cells were evaluated through MTT, colony formation, transwell, flow cytometry, and western blotting. The regulatory function of NRF3 in TNBC cell lines was assessed using Immunofluorescence, Immunohistochemistry, qRT-PCR, CHIP, luciferase assay, and ELISA. Moreover, a xenograft model was established to investigate the role of NRF3 in TNBC in vivo.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Low expression of NRF3 in TNBC tumors was associated with unfavorable prognosis and transcripts from tumors with higher NRF3 levels were enriched in oxidative stress and immune-related pathways. The subsequent gain- and loss-functional experiments indicated that NRF3 overexpression significantly suppressed malignant phenotypes, MAPK/ERK signaling pathways, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), whereas it promoted reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels in TNBC. Further mechanistic exploration showed that NRF3 inhibited TNBC cell function by regulating oxidative stress-related genes to inhibit the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway by promoting the release of HMGB1 via ROS, thereby promoting M1 macrophage polarization.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>NRF3 promotes M1 macrophage polarization through the ROS/HMGB1 axis, thereby inhibiting the malignant progression of TNBC. It is expected to become a therapeutic biomarker for TNBC.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11509002/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142495691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2024.2301802
Manas Sehgal, Sonali Priyadarshini Nayak, Sarthak Sahoo, Jason A Somarelli, Mohit Kumar Jolly
{"title":"Mutually exclusive teams-like patterns of gene regulation characterize phenotypic heterogeneity along the noradrenergic-mesenchymal axis in neuroblastoma.","authors":"Manas Sehgal, Sonali Priyadarshini Nayak, Sarthak Sahoo, Jason A Somarelli, Mohit Kumar Jolly","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2301802","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2301802","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neuroblastoma is the most frequent extracranial pediatric tumor and leads to 15% of all cancer-related deaths in children. Tumor relapse and therapy resistance in neuroblastoma are driven by phenotypic plasticity and heterogeneity between noradrenergic (NOR) and mesenchymal (MES) cell states. Despite the importance of this phenotypic plasticity, the dynamics and molecular patterns associated with these bidirectional cell-state transitions remain relatively poorly understood. Here, we analyze multiple RNA-seq datasets at both bulk and single-cell resolution, to understand the association between NOR- and MES-specific factors. We observed that NOR-specific and MES-specific expression patterns are largely mutually exclusive, exhibiting a \"teams-like\" behavior among the genes involved, reminiscent of our earlier observations in lung cancer and melanoma. This antagonism between NOR and MES phenotypes was also associated with metabolic reprogramming and with immunotherapy targets PD-L1 and GD2 as well as with experimental perturbations driving the NOR-MES and/or MES-NOR transition. Further, these \"teams-like\" patterns were seen only among the NOR- and MES-specific genes, but not in housekeeping genes, possibly highlighting a hallmark of network topology enabling cancer cell plasticity.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10795782/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139478087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cancer Biology & TherapyPub Date : 2024-12-31Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1080/15384047.2024.2322206
Xiaoping Wang, Zhendong Zhang, Xiaolan Cao
{"title":"Salidroside inhibited the proliferation of gastric cancer cells through up-regulating tumor suppressor miR-1343-3p and down-regulating MAP3K6/MMP24 signal molecules.","authors":"Xiaoping Wang, Zhendong Zhang, Xiaolan Cao","doi":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2322206","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15384047.2024.2322206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Salidroside inhibited the proliferation of cancer cell. Nevertheless, the mechanism has not been completely clarified. The purpose of the study is to explore the mechanisms of salidroside against gastric cancer. To analyze the changes of microRNA (miRNA) in gastric cancer cells under the treatment of salidroside, the miRNA expression was analyzed by using RNA-seq in cancer cells for 24 h after salidroside treatment. The differentially expressed miRNAs were clustered and their target genes were analyzed. Selected miRNA and target mRNA genes were further verified by q-PCR. The expressions of target genes in cancer cells were detected by immunohistochemistry. Cancer cell apoptotic index was significantly increased after salidroside treatment. The proliferation of gastric cancer cells were blocked at S-phase cell cycle. The expression of 44 miRNAs changed differentially after salidroside treatment in cancer cells. Bioinformatic analysis showed that there were 1384 target mRNAs corresponding to the differentially expressed miRNAs. Surprisingly, salidroside significantly up-regulated the expression of tumor suppressor miR-1343-3p, and down-regulated the expression of MAP3K6, STAT3 and MMP24-related genes. Salidroside suppressed the growth of gastric cancer by inducing the cancer cell apoptosis, arresting the cancer cell cycle and down-regulating the related signal transduction pathways. miRNAs are expressed differentially in gastric cancer cells after salidroside treatment, playing important roles in regulating proliferation and metastasis. Salidroside may suppress the growth of gastric cancer by up-regulating the expression of the tumor suppressor miR-1343-3p and down-regulating the expression of MAP3K6 and MMP24 signal molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":9536,"journal":{"name":"Cancer Biology & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10913707/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140020972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}