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#17681423   2007/08/06 To Up

23,24-Dihydrocucurbitacin B induces G2/M cell-cycle arrest and mitochondria-dependent apoptosis in human breast cancer cells (Bcap37).

23,24-Dihydrocucurbitacin B (DHCB), a cucurbitacin-derived compound known to posses anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities. In this study, DHCB, isolated from roots of Trichosanthes kirilowli which is a traditional Chinese herb medicine used as treatments for cancer and other diseases, has been found to inhibit the proliferation of human cancer cell lines Bcap37, HeLa, SW620, SMMC-7721, K562 and MCF-7 in a dose- and time-dependent manner, and induce apoptosis in human breast cancer cell line Bcap37 at low concentration. DHCB-induced Bcap37 apoptosis was characterized with the changes in nuclear morphology, DNA fragmentation, activation of caspase-like activities, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase cleavage, release of cytochrome c into cytosol. The cell death was partly prevented by a caspase-family inhibitor Z-VAD-FMK. The results suggest that DHCB-induced Bcap37 apoptosis through mitochondrial dependent pathway. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that at the lower dose of 1.8 and 3.6muM, DHCB-induced cancer cell lines death via an apoptotic process rather than necrotic one; whereas, the higher dose of 8.9, 17.9 and 35.7muM induced cell death via the necrotic process. Cell-cycle analysis demonstrated DHCB induction of G(2)/M phase cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis. The overall results suggest that DHCB might have the therapeutic value against human cancer cell lines, especially the breast cancer cell lines.
Lu Yang, Shihua Wu, Qiuhui Zhang, Feiyan Liu, Ping Wu

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8-Chloro-adenosine sensitizes a human hepatoma cell line to TRAIL-induced apoptosis by caspase-dependent and -independent pathways.

Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) super-family, induces apoptosis in various cancer cells with little or no effect on normal cells. 8-Chloro-adenosine (8-Cl-Ado) is a potential anti-cancer chemical agent now in clinical trail phase II, though its molecular mechanism remains poorly understood. In the present study, we report that 8-Cl-Ado can promote TRAIL killing activity in the hepatoma cell line BEL-7402 in dose- and time-dependent manner when jointly used in vitro. We showed that the expression of death receptor DR5, but not DR4 was up-regulated and the decoy receptor DcR1 was down-regulated in the cells treated with 8-Cl-Ado and the recombinant soluble TRAIL (rsTRAIL, 95-281 a.a.). Further experiments demonstrated that caspase-family inhibitor z-VAD-fmk prevented the cells from apoptosis induced by co-treatment with 8-Cl-Ado and rsTRAIL for 6 h, however, apoptosis occurred in the cells cultured for 24 h, suggesting that co-treatment induce a caspase-dependent and -independent signaling pathway in the BEL-7402 cells. This phenomenon was confirmed by cleavage analysis of caspase-3 and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP), and ROS (reactive oxygen species) assay, respectively. Moreover, transcriptional activity test showed that NF-kappaB was inhibited in the BEL-7402 cells during co-treatment. Our results provided evidence for the first time that 8-Cl-Ado sensitizes the human hepatoma cells BEL-7402 to rsTRAIL-induced apoptosis by up-regulating DR5 expression, inactivating the NF-kappaB activity, and signaling by the caspase-dependent and -independent pathway.
Mingjie Wang, Yanxin Liu, Shilian Liu, Dexian Zheng

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Experimental validation of deuterium oxide-mediated antitumoral activity as it relates to apoptosis in murine malignant astrocytoma cells.

Deuterium oxide (D2O), or heavy water, affects a variety of biological activities different from those of water. The authors examined the antitumoral effect of D2O on brain neoplasms and demonstrated D2O-mediated cytotoxicity by using a Rous sarcoma virus-induced murine malignant astrocytoma cell line, RSVM. The mechanism of the observed cytotoxicity may involve D2O-induced apoptosis and cell-cycle modulation.
Takeshi Uemura, Kouzo Moritake, Yasuhiko Akiyama, Yoriyoshi Kimura, Takashi Shingu, Toshiki Yamasaki

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