Mechanism of action of salinomycin on growth and migration in pancreatic cancer cell lines

Pancreatology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei He ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Wei-Qi Dai ◽  
Dong Wu ◽  
Chun-Lei Lin ◽  
...  
Cells ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiziana Tataranni ◽  
Francesca Agriesti ◽  
Consiglia Pacelli ◽  
Vitalba Ruggieri ◽  
Ilaria Laurenzana ◽  
...  

Targeting metabolism represents a possible successful approach to treat cancer. Dichloroacetate (DCA) is a drug known to divert metabolism from anaerobic glycolysis to mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation by stimulation of PDH. In this study, we investigated the response of two pancreatic cancer cell lines to DCA, in two-dimensional and three-dimension cell cultures, as well as in a mouse model. PANC-1 and BXPC-3 treated with DCA showed a marked decrease in cell proliferation and migration which did not correlate with enhanced apoptosis indicating a cytostatic rather than a cytotoxic effect. Despite PDH activation, DCA treatment resulted in reduced mitochondrial oxygen consumption without affecting glycolysis. Moreover, DCA caused enhancement of ROS production, mtDNA, and of the mitophagy-marker LC3B-II in both cell lines but reduced mitochondrial fusion markers only in BXPC-3. Notably, DCA downregulated the expression of the cancer stem cells markers CD24/CD44/EPCAM only in PANC-1 but inhibited spheroid formation/viability in both cell lines. In a xenograft pancreatic cancer mouse-model DCA treatment resulted in retarding cancer progression. Collectively, our results clearly indicate that the efficacy of DCA in inhibiting cancer growth mechanistically depends on the cell phenotype and on multiple off-target pathways. In this context, the novelty that DCA might affect the cancer stem cell compartment is therapeutically relevant.


1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (5) ◽  
pp. R1078-R1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Smith ◽  
A. Shih ◽  
Y. Wu ◽  
P. J. McLaughlin ◽  
I. S. Zagon

The gastrointestinal peptides gastrin and cholecystokinin (CCK) stimulate growth of human pancreatic cancer through a CCK-B/gastrin- like receptor. In the present study we evaluated whether growth of human pancreatic cancer is endogenously regulated by gastrin. Immunohistomical examination of BxPC-3 cells and tumor xenografts revealed specifc gastrin immunoreactivity. Gastrin was detected by radioimmunoassay in pancreatic cancer cell extracts and in pancreatic cancer cell extracts and in the growth media. With use of reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction gastrin gene expression was detected in both cultured BxPC-3 cancer cells and transplanted tumors, as well as seven addition human pancreatic cancer cell lines. Growth of BxPC-3 human pancreatic cancer cell in serum-free medium was inhibited by the addition of the CCK-B/gastrin receptor antagonist L-365,260, and gastrin treatment reversed the inhibitory effect of the antagonist. A selective gastrin antibody (Ab repressed growth of BxPC-3 cells. Gastrin immunoreactivity was detected in fresh human pancreatic cancer specimens but not in normal human pancreatic tissue. These data provide the first evidence that growth of a human pancreatic cancer is tonically stimulated by the autocrine production of gastrin. Evidence for the ubiquity of this system was provided by the detection of gastrin gene expression in multiple human pancreatic cancer cell lines and detection of gastrin in cell lines and fresh pancreatic tumors.


2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 565-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Celli ◽  
Nicolas Solban ◽  
Alvin Liang ◽  
Stephen P. Pereira ◽  
Tayyaba Hasan

Oncotarget ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
pp. 29233-29246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan-Chi Tsai ◽  
Li-Yuan Bai ◽  
Yi-Jin Chen ◽  
Po-Chen Chu ◽  
Ya-Wen Hsu ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Nazia Hoque ◽  
Choudhury Mahmood Hasan ◽  
Md. Sohel Rana ◽  
Amrit Varsha ◽  
Md. Hossain Sohrab ◽  
...  

As a part of our ongoing research on endophytic fungi, we have isolated a sesterterpene mycotoxin, fusaproliferin (FUS), from Fusarium solani strain associated with the plant Aglaonema hookerianum Schott. FUS showed rapid and sub-micromolar IC50 against pancreatic cancer cell lines. Time dependent survival analysis and microscopy imaging showed rapid morphological changes in cancer cell lines 4 hours after incubation with FUS. This provides a new chemical scaffold that can be further developed to obtain more potent synthetic agents against pancreatic cancer.


Biomedicines ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
David J. Wooten ◽  
Indu Sinha ◽  
Raghu Sinha

Survival rate for pancreatic cancer remains poor and newer treatments are urgently required. Selenium, an essential trace element, offers protection against several cancer types and has not been explored much against pancreatic cancer specifically in combination with known chemotherapeutic agents. The present study was designed to investigate selenium and Gemcitabine at varying doses alone and in combination in established pancreatic cancer cell lines growing in 2D as well as 3D platforms. Comparison of multi-dimensional synergy of combinations’ (MuSyc) model and highest single agent (HSA) model provided quantitative insights into how much better the combination performed than either compound tested alone in a 2D versus 3D growth of pancreatic cancer cell lines. The outcomes of the study further showed promise in combining selenium and Gemcitabine when evaluated for apoptosis, proliferation, and ENT1 protein expression, specifically in BxPC-3 pancreatic cancer cells in vitro.


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