scholarly journals Autocrine Growth Hormone-Triggered Curcumin Resistance Abolished by NF-κB Signaling Pathway Dependent on Inflammatory Cytokines and Active Polyamine Catabolic Machinery in MCF-7, MDA-MB-453 and MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer Cells

Proceedings ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajda Çoker Gürkan ◽  
Merve Çelik ◽  
Merve Uğur ◽  
Elif Damla Arisan ◽  
Pinar Obakan Yerlikaya ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 2966
Author(s):  
Pinar Demirel ◽  
Umit Ozorhan ◽  
Bilge Tuna ◽  
Margot Cleary ◽  
Soner Dogan

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 7445-7458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Houria Boulaiz ◽  
Pablo J. Álvarez ◽  
Jose Prados ◽  
Juan Marchal ◽  
Consolación Melguizo ◽  
...  

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Amani Abdulmunem ◽  
Pınar Obakan-Yerlikaya ◽  
Elif-Damla Arisan ◽  
Ajda Coker-Gurkan

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second most common cancer overall. Autocrine growth hormone (GH) expression induced cell proliferation, growth, invasion-metastasis in vitro and in vivo breast cancer models. Moreover, forced GH signaling acts as a drug resistance profile in breast cancer cell lines against chemotherapeutic drugs such as tamoxifen, mitomycin C, doxorubicin and curcumin. Triptolide, an active plant extract from Tripterygium wilfordii, has been shown to induce apoptotic cell death in various cancer cells such a prostate, colon, breast cancer. Metformin, a common therapeutic agent for type II Diabetes mellitus, has been shown to induce autophagy, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and apoptotic cell death in cancer cells. Our aim is to demonstrate the potential effect of metformin on triptolide-mediated drug resistance in autocrine GH expressing MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells through Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Autocrine GH-mediated triptolide (20 nM) resistance overcame by metformin (2 mM) co-teatment in MDA-MB231 breast cancer cells through accelerating cell viability loss, growth inhibition compared to alone triptolide treatment. Combined treatment increased apoptotic cell death via CHOP activation, IRE1α upregulation. Consequently, we suggest that triptolide can be more effective with metformin combination in MDA-MB-231 GH+ drug resistant breast cancer cells.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Qiu ◽  
Xianxin Yan ◽  
Xinqin Xiao ◽  
Guijuan Zhang ◽  
Yanqiu Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background The precancerous disease of breast cancer is an inevitable stage in the tumorigenesis and development of breast neoplasms. Quercetin (Que) has shown great potential in breast cancer treatment by inhibiting cell proliferation and regulating T cell function. γδ T cells are a class of nontraditional T cells that have long attracted attention due to their potential in immunotherapy. In this study, we revealed the immunomodulatory function of Que through regulation of the JAK/STAT1 signaling pathway, which was followed by the synergistic killing of breast cancer cells. Methods In the experimental design, we first screened target genes with or without Que treatment, and we intersected the Que target with the disease target by functional enrichment analysis. Second, MCF-10A, MCF-10AT, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell lines were treated with Que for 0 h, 24 h and 48 h. Then, we observed the expression of its subsets by coculturing Que and γδ T cells and coculturing Que and γδ T cells with breast tumor cells to investigate their synergistic killing effect on tumor cells. Finally, Western blotting was used to reveal the changes in proteins related to the JAK/STAT1 signaling pathway after Que treatment in MCF-10AT and MCF-7 cells for 48 h. Results The pathway affected by Que treatment was the JAK/STAT1 signaling pathway and was associated with precancerous breast cancer, as shown by network pharmacology analysis. Que induced apoptosis of MCF-10AT, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells in a time- and concentration-dependent manner (P < 0.05). Most importantly, Que promoted the differentiation of γδ T cells into the Vδ2 T cell subpopulation. The best ratio of effector cells to target cells (E/T) was 10:1, the killing percentages of γδ T cells against MCF-10A, MCF-10AT, MCF-7, and MDA-MB-231 were 61.44 ± 4.70, 55.52 ± 3.10, 53.94 ± 2.74, and 53.28 ± 1.73 (P = 0.114, P = 0.486, and P = 0.343, respectively), and the strongest killing effect on precancerous breast cancer cells and breast cancer cells was found when the Que concentration was 5 μM and the E/T ratio was 10:1 (64.94 ± 3.61, 64.96 ± 5.45, 55.59 ± 5.98, and 59.04 ± 5.67, respectively). In addition, our results showed that Que increased the protein levels of IFNγ-R, p-JAK2 and p-STAT1 while decreasing the protein levels of PD-L1 (P < 0.0001). Conclusions In conclusion, Que plays a synergistic role in killing breast cancer cells and promoting apoptosis by regulating the expression of IFNγ-R, p-JAK2, p-STAT1 and PD-L1 in the JAK/STAT1 signaling pathway and promoting the regulation of γδ T cells. Que may be a potential drug for the prevention of precancerous breast cancer and adjuvant treatment of breast cancer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Anqi Ge ◽  
Lifang Liu ◽  
Xian’guang Deng ◽  
Jun Luo ◽  
Yanghua Xu

Objective. To explore the mechanism of baicalin intervention in breast cancer based on microRNA microarrays. Methods. The inhibitory rate of baicalin intervention in MCF-7 breast cancer cells was determined by MTT. Then, the miRNA microarrays were used to validate the key microRNAs. After that, reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to validate microRNA, hsa-miR-15a, hsa-miR-100, hsa-miR-16, and hsa-miR-7t. Finally, the potential targets of these key microRNAs are predicted by miRWalk, and DAVID was utilized for gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis and pathway enrichment analysis. Results. Baicalin may inhibit the proliferation of MCF-7 cells in a dose-dependent and time-dependent manner. The concentration of baicalin 150 μmol/L was determined for the subsequent miRNA chip research. A total of 92 upregulated microRNAs and 35 downregulated microRNAs were obtained. The upregulated miRNAs include hsa-miR-6799-5p, hsa-miR-6126, hsa-miR-4792, hsa-miR-6848-5p, hsa-miR-3197, hsa-miR-6779-5p, and hsa-miR -654-5p. The downregulated miRNAs include hsa-miR-3911, hsa-miR-504-5p, hsa-miR-30a-3p, hsa-miR-193b-3p, and hsa-miR-181b-5p. Then, differentially expressed miRNA was verified by qRT-PCR. The results showed that the expression of hsa-miR-15a, hsa-miR-100, hsa-miR-16, and hsa-let-7c was upregulated ( P < 0.05 ), which was consistent with the results of the miRNA microarray. The enrichment analysis showed that baicalin might regulate the DNA-templated proliferation, DNA-templated transcription, p53 signaling pathway, etc., of MCF-7 breast cancer cells through miRNA. Conclusion. Baicalin inhibits the proliferation of breast cancer cells. It may achieve antitumor effects through regulating microRNAs so as to affect the DNA replication (such as cellular response to DNA damage stimulus and DNA binding), RNA transcription (such as regulation of transcription, DNA-templated, transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter, and transcription factor binding), protein synthesis (such as mRNA binding, Golgi apparatus, and protein complex), endocytosis, pathways in cancer, p53 signaling pathway, and so on.


Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (25) ◽  
pp. 1568
Author(s):  
Merve Karataş ◽  
Ajda Coker-Gurkan ◽  
Elif Damla Arisan ◽  
Pınar Obakan-Yerlikaya ◽  
Narcin Palavan-Unsal

Autocrine growth hormone (GH) induced cell proliferation, invasion-metastasis and drug resistance in breast cancer cells. Curcumin has an apoptotic effect on colon, melanoma, cervix, and breast cancer cells. Autophagy and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress are essential cellular processes activated under nutrient deprivation, pathogen infection and drug exposure. Our aim in this study is to investigate the time-dependent effect of curcumin on ER stress and autophagy and potential increase of curcumin efficiency by bafilomycin treatment. Autocrine GH expression triggered resistant profile against curcumin-induced cell viability loss in MCF-7 cells. However, this effect was prevented by the time-dependent manner in MCF-7 cells. In GH+ breast cancer cells bafilomycin increase curcumin-induced cell viability loss by MTT cell viability assay. In conclusion, autocrine GH-triggered curcumin resistance was overcome by autophagy inhibition condition by bafilomycin treatment in a dose-dependent manner in MCF-7 GH+ breast cancer cells.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9s2 ◽  
pp. BCBCR.S29371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wes E. Kim ◽  
Binbin Yue ◽  
Ginette Serrero

Her2 is a receptor tyrosine kinase overexpressed in 25% of breast tumors. We have shown that the 88 kDa autocrine growth and survival factor GP88 (progranulin) stimulated Her2 phosphorylation and proliferation and conferred Herceptin resistance in Her2-overexpressing cells. Herein, we report that GP88 stimulates c-myc phosphorylation and upregulates c-myc levels in Her2-overexpressing cells. c-myc phosphorylation and upregulation by GP88 were not observed in non-Her2-overexpressing breast cancer cells. c-myc activation was inhibited upon treatment with ERK, PI3 kinase, and c-src pathway inhibitors, U0126, LY294002, and PP2. GP88 also stimulated c-src phosphorylation, a known upstream regulator of c-myc. Thus, we describe here a signaling pathway for GP88 in Her2-overexpressing cells, with GP88 stimulating Src phosphorylation, followed by phosphorylation and upregulation of c-myc. These data would suggest that targeting GP88 could provide a novel treatment approach in breast cancer.


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