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Khan S, Naseem I. Photocatalytic interaction of aminophylline-riboflavin leads to ROS-mediated DNA damage and cell death: A novel phototherapeutic mechanism for cancer. IUBMB Life 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/iub.1643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Saniyya Khan
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences; Aligarh Muslim University; Aligarh Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences; Aligarh Muslim University; Aligarh Uttar Pradesh India
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Mohamed EH, Lotfy HM, Hegazy MA, Mowaka S. Different applications of isosbestic points, normalized spectra and dual wavelength as powerful tools for resolution of multicomponent mixtures with severely overlapping spectra. Chem Cent J 2017; 11:43. [PMID: 29086829 PMCID: PMC5445062 DOI: 10.1186/s13065-017-0270-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2016] [Accepted: 05/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Analysis of complex mixture containing three or more components represented a challenge for analysts. New smart spectrophotometric methods have been recently evolved with no limitation. A study of different novel and smart spectrophotometric techniques for resolution of severely overlapping spectra were presented in this work utilizing isosbestic points present in different absorption spectra, normalized spectra as a divisor and dual wavelengths. A quaternary mixture of drotaverine (DRO), caffeine (CAF), paracetamol (PCT) and para-aminophenol (PAP) was taken as an example for application of the proposed techniques without any separation steps. The adopted techniques adopted of successive and progressive steps manipulating zero /or ratio /or derivative spectra. The proposed techniques includes eight novel and simple methods namely direct spectrophotometry after applying derivative transformation (DT) via multiplying by a decoding spectrum, spectrum subtraction (SS), advanced absorbance subtraction (AAS), advanced amplitude modulation (AAM), simultaneous derivative ratio (S1DD), advanced ratio difference (ARD), induced ratio difference (IRD) and finally double divisor–ratio difference-dual wavelength (DD-RD-DW) methods. Results The proposed methods were assessed by analyzing synthetic mixtures of the studied drugs. They were also successfully applied to commercial pharmaceutical formulations without interference from other dosage form additives. The methods were validated according to the ICH guidelines, accuracy, precision, repeatability, were found to be within the acceptable limits. Conclusion The proposed procedures are accurate, simple and reproducible and yet economic. They are also sensitive and selective and could be used for routine analysis of complex most of the binary, ternary and quaternary mixtures and even more complex mixtures.
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- Ekram H Mohamed
- Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, The British University in Egypt, El-Sherouk City, 11837, Egypt.
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- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science & Pharmaceutical Industries, Future University, Cairo, 12311, Egypt
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- Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Kasr El-Aini Street, Cairo, 11562, Egypt
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- Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, The British University in Egypt, El-Sherouk City, 11837, Egypt.,Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ein Helwan, Cairo, 11795, Egypt
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Son HY, Nishikawa A, Okazaki K, Kitamura Y, Kanki K, Lee KY, Umemura T, Hirose M. Specificity of Co-Promoting Effects of Caffeine on Thyroid Carcinogenesis in Rats Pretreated with N-Bis(2-hydroxypropyl)nitrosamine. Toxicol Pathol 2016; 32:338-44. [PMID: 15204976 DOI: 10.1080/01926230490431853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The specificity of copromotion effects of caffeine with known goitrogenic factors on thyroid carcinogenesis was examined in rats pretreated with N-bis(2-hydroxypropyl)nitrosamine (DHPN). Male F344 rats were divided into 8 groups, each consisting of 10 animals, and received a single sc injection of 2,800 mg/kg DHPN. From one week after the DHPN initiation, they were given basal diet, iodine deficiency (ID) diet, 500 ppm phenobarbital (PB) solution or 1,000 ppm sulfadimethoxine (SDM) solution with or without 1,500 ppm caffeine feeding for 12 weeks. The caffeine, PB, SDM, and ID treatments significantly ( p < 0 .05 or 0.01) increased the relative thyroid weights, and the increases with PB or ID were further ( p < 0 .05 or 0.01) enhanced in combination with caffeine. SDM drastically promoted thyroid carcinogenesis in association with increased serum TSH levels regardless of the caffeine treatment. Thyroid follicular carcinomas and adenomas were more frequently observed in the additional caffeine groups than in the ID alone groups. The incidence and multiplicity of focal thyroid follicular hyperplasias in the ID-treated groups were significantly ( p < 0 .05 and 0.01) elevated in the case of combination with caffeine. Increases in serum TSH levels with PB or ID were also further enhanced in combination with caffeine. Serum thyroid hormone levels were significantly ( p < 0 .01) decreased by SDM but significantly ( p < 0 .05 or 0.01) increased by caffeine, PB or ID. Our results clearly indicate that dietary caffeine at a high dose of 1,500 ppm interacts with ID, but neither SDM nor PB, to promote rat thyroid carcinogenesis although the combined caffeine + PB treatment somewhat affected thyroid weights as well as thyroid hormone levels.
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- Hwa-Young Son
- Division of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
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D'Andrea MR, Qiu Y, Haynes-Johnson D, Bhattacharjee S, Kraft P, Lundeen S. Expression of PDE11A in Normal and Malignant Human Tissues. J Histochem Cytochem 2016; 53:895-903. [PMID: 15995148 DOI: 10.1369/jhc.5a6625.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 11A (PDE11A) is the newest member in the PDE family. Although the tissue distribution of PDE11A mRNA has been shown, its protein expression pattern has not been well studied. The goal of this report is to investigate the distribution of PDE11A proteins in a wide range of normal and malignant human tissues. We utilized a polyclonal antibody that recognized all four PDE11A isoforms. Its specificity was demonstrated by Western blot analysis on a recombinant human PDE11A protein and native PDE11A proteins in various human tissues. Immunohistochemistry showed that PDE11A is widely expressed. Various degrees of immunoreactivity were observed in the epithelial cells, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells of all tissues examined. The highest expression was in the epithelial, endothelial, and smooth muscle cells of the prostate, Leydig, and spermatogenic cells of the testis, the tubule epithelial cells in the kidney, the epithelial and endothelial cells in the adrenal, the epithelial cells and macrophages in the colon, and the epidermis in the skin. Furthermore, PDE11A expression was also detected in several human carcinomas. Our results suggest that PDE11A might be involved in multiple physiological processes in various organs via its ability to modulate intracellular cAMP and cGMP levels.
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- Michael R D'Andrea
- Drug Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC, 1000 Route 202, Raritan, NJ 08869, USA
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Zhao Y. The Oncogenic Functions of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors. JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 2016; 2016:9650481. [PMID: 26981122 PMCID: PMC4769750 DOI: 10.1155/2016/9650481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Revised: 11/05/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ion channels that are expressed in the cell membrane of all mammalian cells, including cancer cells. Recent findings suggest that nAChRs not only mediate nicotine addiction in the brain but also contribute to the development and progression of cancers directly induced by nicotine and its derived carcinogenic nitrosamines whereas deregulation of the nAChRs is observed in many cancers, and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) indicate that SNPs nAChRs associate with risks of lung cancers and nicotine addiction. Emerging evidences suggest nAChRs are posited at the central regulatory loops of numerous cell growth and prosurvival signal pathways and also mediate the synthesis and release of stimulatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters induced by their agonists. Thus nAChRs mediated cell signaling plays an important role in stimulating the growth and angiogenic and neurogenic factors and mediating oncogenic signal transduction during cancer development in a cell type specific manner. In this review, we provide an integrated view of nAChRs signaling in cancer, heightening on the oncogenic properties of nAChRs that may be targeted for cancer treatment.
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- Yue Zhao
- Center of Cell biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, 47 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208, USA
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Schuller HM. Effects of tobacco constituents and psychological stress on the beta-adrenergic regulation of non-small cell lung cancer and pancreatic cancer: implications for intervention. Cancer Biomark 2014; 13:133-44. [PMID: 23912485 DOI: 10.3233/cbm-130323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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This review summarizes current preclinical and clinical evidence in support of the hypothesis that smoking and psychological stress have significant cancer promoting effects on non small cell lung cancer and pancreatic cancer via direct and indirect effects on nicotinic receptor-regulated beta-adrenergic signaling. Evidence is provided that targeted pharmacological interference with the resulting hyperactive cAMP-dependent signaling by beta-blockers or by γ-aminobutyric acid as well as positive psychological influences may be highly effective in preventing and improving clinical outcomes of these cancers, provided that appropriate diagnostic protocols are followed to monitor systemic levels of stress neurotransmitters and cAMP.
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- Hildegard M Schuller
- Experimental Oncology Laboratory, Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 2407 River Drive Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
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Cyclic phosphatidic acid stimulates cAMP production and inhibits growth in human colon cancer cells. PLoS One 2013; 8:e81139. [PMID: 24282571 PMCID: PMC3839875 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2013] [Accepted: 10/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Colon cancer is a malignancy that develops in colon and rectal tissues. The prognosis for metastatic colon cancer remains poor, and novel therapeutic options are required to reduce colon cancer mortality. Recently, intracellular cAMP levels have been suggested to influence the behavior of cancer cells. Intriguingly, cyclic phosphatidic acid (cPA) and its structural analogs inhibit growth in many cancer cell lines, and our previous work has suggested that cPA increases cAMP production. Phosphodiesterase (PDE) type 3 isoforms PDE3A and PDE3B are expressed mainly in cardiovascular tissue and adipose tissue, respectively. Moreover, increase in intracellular cAMP levels has been associated with the inhibition of growth in colon cancer cells. These findings suggest that cPA could be used in colon cancer therapy. In this study, we found that cPA inhibited the growth of HT-29 cells, which express high levels of PDE3B, but not the growth of DLD-1 cells, which express low levels of PDE3B. Furthermore, cPA inhibited the phosphorylation of Akt in HT-29 cells in a dose-dependent fashion. Our results suggest that PDE3B expression and intracellular cAMP levels are correlated with the proliferation of colon cancer cells. These findings demonstrate for the first time that cPA may serve as a useful a molecule in targeted therapy for colon cancer.
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Mylonaki E, Manika K, Zarogoulidis P, Domvri K, Voutsas V, Zarogoulidis K, Mourelatos D. In vivo synergistic cytogenetic effects of aminophylline on lymphocyte cultures from patients with lung cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Mutat Res 2012; 740:1-5. [PMID: 23116732 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2012.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2012] [Revised: 09/20/2012] [Accepted: 10/19/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND The anti-cancer and cytogenetic effects of aminophylline (AM) have been demonstrated in several clinical trials. The aim of the present study was to investigate the in vivo cytogenetic effects of AM in newly diagnosed patients with small cell (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), receiving chemotherapy for the first time. METHODS Sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) and proliferation rate index (PRI) were evaluated in peripheral blood lymphocyte cultures from six patients with SCLC and six patients with NSCLC after the in vitro addition of AM and after the in vivo administration of AM in patients receiving chemotherapy. RESULTS The in vitro addition of AM significantly increased SCEs only in SCLC patients (p<0.001). The in vivo administration of AM after chemotherapy increased SCEs in both cancer types (SCLC: p<0.001, NSCLC: p=0.003) and this increase was synergistic, the rates of SCEs in the presence of AM were higher than the expected SCE values if the increases above background for chemotherapy and AM were independent and additive (SCLC: p<0.001, NSCLC: p=0.008). Although in both groups of patients cell division delays were observed after the combined chemotherapy plus in vivo AM treatment, the correlation between the magnitude of the SCE response and the PRI depression was not statistically significant (p>0.05). CONCLUSIONS These observations suggest that AM enhances the results of concurrently administered chemotherapy by synergistically increasing its cytogenetic effects in patients with lung cancer.
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- Effie Mylonaki
- Pulmonary Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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Schuller HM, Al-Wadei HAN. Beta-adrenergic signaling in the development and progression of pulmonary and pancreatic adenocarcinoma. CURRENT CANCER THERAPY REVIEWS 2012; 8:116-127. [PMID: 23807873 DOI: 10.2174/157339412800675351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Small airway epithelial cells from, which most pulmonary adenocarcinomas (PACs) derive, and pancreatic duct epithelia, from which pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs) originate, share the ability to synthesize and release bicarbonate. This activity is stimulated in both cell types by the α7nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR)-mediated release of noradrenaline and adrenaline, which in turn activate β-adrenergic receptor (β-AR) signaling, leading to the cAMP-dependent release of bicarbonate. The same signaling pathway also stimulates a complex network of intracellular signaling cascades which regulate the proliferation, migration, angiogenesis and apoptosis of PAC and PDAC cells. The amino acid neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) serves as the physiological inhibitor of this cancer stimulating network by blocking the activation of adenylyl cyclase. This review summarizes experimental, epidemiological and clinical data that have identified risk factors for PAC and PDAC such as smoking, alcoholism, chronic non neoplastic diseases and their treatments as well as psychological stress and analyzes how these factors increase the cancer-stimulating effects of this regulatory cascade in PAC and PDAC. This analysis identifies the careful maintenance of balanced levels in stimulatory stress neurotransmitters and inhibitory GABA as a key factor for the prevention of PDAC and suggests the marker-guided use of beta-blockers, GABA or GABA-B receptor agonists as well as psychotherapeutic or pharmacological stress reduction as important tools that may render currently ineffective cancer intervention of PAC and PDAC more successful.
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- Hildegard M Schuller
- Experimental Oncology Laboratory, Department of Biomedical & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Insel PA, Zhang L, Murray F, Yokouchi H, Zambon AC. Cyclic AMP is both a pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic second messenger. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2012; 204:277-87. [PMID: 21385327 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02273.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The second messenger cyclic AMP (cAMP) can either stimulate or inhibit programmed cell death (apoptosis). Here, we review examples of cell types that show pro-apoptotic or anti-apoptotic responses to increases in cAMP. We also show that cells can have both such responses, although predominantly having one or the other. Protein kinase A (PKA)-promoted changes in phosphorylation and gene expression can mediate pro-apoptotic responses, such as in murine S49 lymphoma cells, based on evidence that mutants lacking PKA fail to undergo cAMP-promoted, mitochondria-dependent apoptosis. Mechanisms for the anti-apoptotic response to cAMP likely involve Epac (Exchange protein activated by cAMP), a cAMP-regulated effector that is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for the low molecular weight G-protein, Rap1. Therapeutic approaches that activate PKA-mediated pro-apoptosis or block Epac-mediated anti-apoptotisis may provide a means to enhance cell killing, such as in certain cancers. In contrast, efforts to block PKA or stimulate Epac have the potential to be useful in diseases settings (such as heart failure) associated with cAMP-promoted apoptosis.
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- P A Insel
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0636, USA.
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Zhou Y, Guan XX, Zhu ZL, Guo J, Huang YC, Hou WW, Yu HY. Caffeine inhibits the viability and osteogenic differentiation of rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells. Br J Pharmacol 2011; 161:1542-52. [PMID: 20726981 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2010.00998.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Caffeine is consumed extensively in Europe and North America. As a risk factor for osteoporosis, epidemiological studies have observed that caffeine can decrease bone mineral density, adversely affect calcium absorption and increase the risk of bone fracture. However, the exact mechanisms have not been fully investigated. Here, we examined the effects of caffeine on the viability and osteogenesis of rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (rBMSCs). EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Cell viability, apoptosis and necrosis were quantified using thymidine incorporation and flow cytometry. Sequential gene expressions in osteogenic process were measured by real-time PCR. cAMP, alkaline phosphatase and osteocalcin were assessed by immunoassay, spectrophotometry and radioimmunoassay, respectively. Mineralization was determined by calcium deposition. KEY RESULTS After treating BMSCs with high caffeine concentrations (0.1-1mM), their viability decreased in a concentration-dependent manner. This cell death was primarily due to necrosis and, to a small extent, apoptosis. Genes and protein sequentially expressed in osteogenesis, including Cbfa1/Runx2, collagen I, alkaline phosphatase and its protein, were significantly downregulated except for osteocalcin and its protein. Moreover, caffeine inhibited calcium deposition in a concentration- and time-dependent manner, but increased intracellular cAMP in a concentration-dependent manner. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS By suppressing the commitment of BMSCs to the osteogenic lineage and selectively inhibiting gene expression, caffeine downregulated some important events in osteogenesis and ultimately affected bone mass.
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- Y Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Abadi AH, Abouel-Ella DA, Lehmann J, Tinsley HN, Gary BD, Piazza GA, Abdel-Fattah MAO. Discovery of colon tumor cell growth inhibitory agents through a combinatorial approach. Eur J Med Chem 2010; 45:90-7. [PMID: 19836860 PMCID: PMC4980843 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2009.09.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2009] [Revised: 07/17/2009] [Accepted: 09/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Two series with the general formula of 4,6-diaryl-2-oxo-1,2 dihydropyridine-3-carbonitriles and their isosteric 4,6-diaryl-2-imino-1,2-dihydropyridine-3-carbonitrile were synthesized through one pot reaction of the appropriate acetophenone, aldehyde, ammonium acetate with ethyl cyanoacetate or malononitrile, respectively. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their tumor cell growth inhibitory activity against the human HT-29 colon tumor cell line, as well as their PDE3 inhibitory activity. Compound 4-(2-Ethoxyphenyl)-2-oxo-6-thiophen-3-yl-1,2-dihydropyridine-3 carbonitrile (21) showed tumor cell growth inhibitory activity with an IC50 value of 1.25 microM. Meanwhile, 4-(4-Ethoxyphenyl)-2-imino-6-(thiophen-3-yl)-1,2-dihydropyridine-3-carbonitrile (26) showed inhibitory effect upon PDE3 using cAMP or cGMP as substrate. No correlation exists between PDE3 inhibition and the tumor cell growth inhibitory activity. Docking compound 21 to other possible molecular targets showed the potential to bind PIM1 Kinase.
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- Ashraf H Abadi
- Department of Parmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo, Cairo 11835, Egypt.
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Beinfeld MC, Funkelstein L, Foulon T, Cadel S, Kitagawa K, Toneff T, Reinheckel T, Peters C, Hook V. Cathepsin L plays a major role in cholecystokinin production in mouse brain cortex and in pituitary AtT-20 cells: protease gene knockout and inhibitor studies. Peptides 2009; 30:1882-91. [PMID: 19589362 PMCID: PMC2755599 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.06.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2009] [Revised: 06/23/2009] [Accepted: 06/25/2009] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Cholecystokinin (CCK) is a peptide neurotransmitter whose production requires proteolytic processing of the proCCK precursor to generate active CCK8 neuropeptide in brain. This study demonstrates the significant role of the cysteine protease cathepsin L for CCK8 production. In cathepsin L knockout (KO) mice, CCK8 levels were substantially reduced in brain cortex by an average of 75%. To evaluate the role of cathepsin L in producing CCK in the regulated secretory pathway of neuroendocrine cells, pituitary AtT-20 cells that stably produce CCK were treated with the specific cathepsin L inhibitor, CLIK-148. CLIK-148 inhibitor treatment resulted in decreased amounts of CCK secreted from the regulated secretory pathway of AtT-20 cells. CLIK-148 also reduced cellular levels of CCK9 (Arg-CCK8), consistent with CCK9 as an intermediate product of cathepsin L, shown by the decreased ratio of CCK9/CCK8. The decreased CCK9/CCK8 ratio also suggests a shift in the production to CCK8 over CCK9 during inhibition of cathepsin L. During reduction of the PC1/3 processing enzyme by siRNA, the ratio of CCK9/CCK8 was increased, suggesting a shift to the cathepsin L pathway for the production of CCK9. The changes in ratios of CCK9 compared to CCK8 are consistent with dual roles of the cathepsin L protease pathway that includes aminopeptidase B to remove NH2-terminal Arg or Lys, and the PC1/3 protease pathway. These results suggest that cathepsin L functions as a major protease responsible for CCK8 production in mouse brain cortex, and participates with PC1/3 for CCK8 production in pituitary cells.
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- Margery C. Beinfeld
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Depts. of Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, FRE 2852 CNRS, Protéines: Biochimie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Paris, F-75005 France
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- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, FRE 2852 CNRS, Protéines: Biochimie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Paris, F-75005 France
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences, 5-13-2 Kaminshin'eicho, Niigata 950-2081, Japan
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Depts. of Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Institut fur Molekulare Medizin und Zellforschung, Albert-Ludwigs Universitat, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institut fur Molekulare Medizin und Zellforschung, Albert-Ludwigs Universitat, Freiburg, Germany
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Depts. of Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
- Corresponding author: Vivian Hook, Ph.D., Skaggs School of Pharmacy, Univ. of Calif, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. MC 0744, La Jolla, CA 92093, phone (858) 822-6682, E-mail:
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Choi YJ, Oh JM, Kim SY, Seo M, Juhnn YS. Stimulatory heterotrimeric GTP-binding protein augments cisplatin-induced apoptosis by upregulating Bak expression in human lung cancer cells. Cancer Sci 2009; 100:1069-74. [PMID: 19320642 PMCID: PMC11158464 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2009.01136.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the stimulatory heterotrimeric GTP-binding (Gs) protein signaling system on cisplatin-induced apoptosis of lung cancer cells and its underlying mechanism as an attempt to develop a novel strategy to improve the therapeutic efficacy of cisplatin. Overexpression of the constitutively active alpha subunit of Gs (GalphasQL) in A549 human lung cancer cells increased cisplatin-induced apoptosis, and knockdown of Galphas with small hairpin RNA decreased the percentage of apoptotic cells. GalphasQL increased the expression of the proapoptotic proteins B-cell leukemia/lymphoma-2 genes (Bcl-2) homologous antagonist killer protein (Bak) and Bcl-2 associated X protein (Bax), and decreased the expression of the antiapoptotic proteins Bcl-2 and Bcl-Xlong protein. Knockdown of Bak blocked the augmentative effects of GalphasQL. GalphasQL decreased the degradation rate of the Bak protein, and increased Bak mRNA transcript levels. GalphasQL increased Bak-luciferase activity in a protein kinase A and cyclic AMP response element-dependent manner. GalphasQL also augmented cisplatin-induced apoptosis of H1299 human lung cancer cells that lack functional p53. From this study, it is concluded that Galphas augments cisplatin-induced apoptosis of lung cancer cells partially through upregulating Bak expression by increasing transcription and by decreasing the rate of protein degradation.
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- Yoon Jung Choi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Cellular Signaling, Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Zhou Y, Zhu ZL, Guan XX, Hou WW, Yu HY. Reciprocal roles between caffeine and estrogen on bone via differently regulating cAMP/PKA pathway: the possible mechanism for caffeine-induced osteoporosis in women and estrogen's antagonistic effects. Med Hypotheses 2009; 73:83-5. [PMID: 19278793 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Revised: 01/12/2009] [Accepted: 01/16/2009] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Caffeine is consumed by most people in Europe and North America. As a risk factor for osteoporosis, caffeine has been reported to decrease bone mineral density, negatively influence calcium absorption and increase the risk of bone fracture in women. Except for the epidemiological observations and several studies which proved caffeine's unfavorable effects on osteoblast proliferation and impaired ability to form bone, little mechanism is known for the caffeine-induced osteoporosis. Since our unpublished studies showed that the precursor cells of osteoblasts, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), were more sensitive than osteoblasts when exposed to the same dose of caffeine. We herein hypothesize that MSCs may be the primary target cells for caffeine-induced osteoporosis. It is well established that increasing cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) can regulate the expression of key genes involved in bone metabolism, including Cbfa1, PPARgamma, RANKL and OPG. We thereby propose the hypothesis that caffeine, a known inhibitor of cAMP phosphodiesterase, may affect bone metabolism by activating cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) pathway. In addition, considering the fact observed in epidemiology that caffeine's negative effects on bone only occurred in postmenopausal women and the inverse roles of caffeine and estrogen on bone metabolism, we postulate that caffeine may exert its undesirable influences on bone only in absence or low level of estrogen in vivo and estrogen may antagonize the adverse effect of caffeine on bone. Since several studies have demonstrated that estrogen may have ability to temper the biological effects of cAMP stimulators' roles on bone through cAMP to regulate some important genes' expression in bone metabolism. We assume that estrogen may block cAMP-dependent PKA pathway which is shared by caffeine, to exhibit its antagonistic roles.
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- Yi Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, No.14, 3rd Section, Remin South Road, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, PR China
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are the central regulators of stimulatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters that control the synthesis and release of growth, angiogenic and neurotrophic factors in cancer cells, the cancer microenvironment and distant organs. Data discussed in this Review suggests that smoking and possibly other environmental and lifestyle factors increase the function of nAChRs that stimulate cancer cells and reduce the function of nAChRs that inhibit cancer cells. This novel paradigm necessitates the development of marker-guided cancer intervention strategies that aim to restore the balance between nAChR-mediated stimulatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters and their downstream effectors.
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- Hildegard M Schuller
- Experimental Oncology Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
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Song J, Bishop BL, Li G, Duncan MJ, Abraham SN. TLR4-initiated and cAMP-mediated abrogation of bacterial invasion of the bladder. Cell Host Microbe 2007; 1:287-98. [PMID: 17710226 PMCID: PMC1950120 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2007.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The remarkable resistance of the urinary tract to infection has been attributed to its physical properties and the innate immune responses triggered by pattern recognition receptors lining the tract. We report a distinct TLR4 mediated mechanism in bladder epithelial cells (BECs) that abrogates bacterial invasion, a necessary step for successful infection. Compared to controls, uropathogenic type 1 fimbriated Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae invaded BECs of TLR4 mutant mice in 10-fold or greater numbers. TLR4 mediated suppression of bacterial invasion was linked to increased intracellular cAMP levels which negatively impacted Rac-1 mediated mobilization of the cytoskeleton. Artificially increasing intracellular cAMP levels in BECs of TLR4 mutant mice restored resistance to type 1 fimbriated bacterial invasion. This finding reveals a novel function for TLR4 and another facet of bladder innate defense.
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- Jeongmin Song
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
- Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
- *Corresponding author, Mailing address; Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Campus Box 3020, Durham, NC 27710, USA; Phone: 919-684-6942; Fax: 919-684-2021; E-Mail:
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Caffeine inhibits UV-mediated NF-κB activation in A2058 melanoma cells: an ATM-PKCδ-p38 MAPK-dependent mechanism. Mol Cell Biochem 2007; 308:193-200. [DOI: 10.1007/s11010-007-9628-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2007] [Accepted: 10/03/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Svoboda N, Zierler S, Kerschbaum HH. cAMP mediates ammonia-induced programmed cell death in the microglial cell line BV-2. Eur J Neurosci 2007; 25:2285-95. [PMID: 17445227 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05452.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Although ammonia is a well-known neuropathogenic factor, the cellular mechanisms of ammonia toxicity are less characterized. Up to now, the main focus of ammonia toxicity has been on astrocytes and neurons. Despite the significance of microglia in neurodegenerative diseases, little is known about their responsiveness to ammonia. In the present study, we found that ammonia triggered mitosis at concentrations between 30 microm and 3.0 mm but apoptosis at concentrations >or= 1.0 mm in the murine microglial cell line BV-2. Most apoptotic cells showed an accumulation of condensed chromatin at the nuclear envelope, blebbing of the plasma membrane, formation of apoptotic bodies and an increase in caspase 3/7 activity. Blockade of caspase 3/7 activity by Ac-DEVD-CHO suppressed ammonia-induced apoptosis. Surprisingly, some BV-2 cells exposed to ammonia displayed clear signs of mitotic catastrophe, a type of cell death occurring during mitosis. In a further series of experiments, we found that cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) mediated the apoptogenic effects of ammonia, because (i) ammonia dose-dependently elevated the intracellular cAMP level, (ii) blockade of the adenylyl cyclase by SQ-22536 suppressed ammonia-induced apoptosis, (iii) inhibition of phosphodiesterases (PDEs) by the nonselective PDE inhibitor IBMX, or by the PDE4-selective inhibitor rolipram, increased the relative number of apoptotic cells, and (iv) the cAMP analogues 8-bromoadenosine cAMP and Sp-cAMP mimicked the effect of ammonia and triggered apoptosis. Taken together, our results indicate that distinct concentrations of ammonia trigger opposite signalling pathways in microglial cells.
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- Nina Svoboda
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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Al-Wadei HAN, Takahashi T, Schuller HM. Growth stimulation of human pulmonary adenocarcinoma cells and small airway epithelial cells by beta-carotene via activation of cAMP, PKA, CREB and ERK1/2. Int J Cancer 2007; 118:1370-80. [PMID: 16206275 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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An alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene supplementation trial (ATBC) and a chemoprevention trial with beta-carotene and retinoids (CARET trial) were conducted in the 1990s in populations at risk for the development of lung cancer. Both trials had to be discontinued due to significant increases in lung cancer and cardiovascular mortality. Clinical trials to test the cancer preventive effects of beta-carotene are still ongoing, and high concentrations of this provitamin are contained in numerous dietary supplements. Using a cell line derived from a human pulmonary adenocarcinoma (PAC) of Clara cell lineage and immortalized human small airway epithelial cells, our data show that low concentrations of beta-carotene that can be realistically expected in human tissues after oral administration caused a significant increase in intracellular cAMP and activated PKA, as well as in phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and CREB. Furthermore, the proliferation of cells was significantly stimulated by identical concentrations of beta-carotene as monitored by MTT assays. Control experiments with retinol also showed stimulation of cell proliferation and activation of PKA in both cell lines. In light of the fact that PAC is the leading type of lung cancer, these findings suggest that the growth promoting effects of beta-carotene on this cancer type observed in our experiments may have contributed to the unfortunate outcome of the ATBC and CARET trials. This interpretation is supported by the fact that elevated levels of cAMP in the cardiovascular system play a major role in the genesis of cardiovascular disease, which was also greatly promoted in the CARET trial. Our data challenge the widely accepted view that beta-carotene may be useful as a cancer preventive agent.
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- Hussein A N Al-Wadei
- Experimental Oncology Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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Song J, Duncan MJ, Li G, Chan C, Grady R, Stapleton A, Abraham SN. A novel TLR4-mediated signaling pathway leading to IL-6 responses in human bladder epithelial cells. PLoS Pathog 2007; 3:e60. [PMID: 17465679 PMCID: PMC1857715 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2006] [Accepted: 03/08/2007] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The vigorous cytokine response of immune cells to Gram-negative bacteria is primarily mediated by a recognition molecule, Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), which recognizes lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and initiates a series of intracellular NF-κB–associated signaling events. Recently, bladder epithelial cells (BECs) were reported to express TLR4 and to evoke a vigorous cytokine response upon exposure to LPS. We examined intracellular signaling events in human BECs leading to the production of IL-6, a major urinary cytokine, following activation by Escherichia coli and isolated LPS. We observed that in addition to the classical NF-κB–associated pathway, TLR4 triggers a distinct and more rapid signaling response involving, sequentially, Ca2+, adenylyl cyclase 3–generated cAMP, and a transcriptional factor, cAMP response element–binding protein. This capacity of BECs to mobilize secondary messengers and evoke a more rapid IL-6 response might be critical in their role as first responders to microbial challenge in the urinary tract. In spite of frequent cross contamination by bacteria from the gut, urinary tract infections are relatively infrequent. Although much of the credit goes to cells lining the urinary tract, such as bladder cells, how this is achieved remains unclear. Human bladder cells display, on their surfaces, special molecules called Toll-like receptors, which sense the presence of bacteria and trigger the cells to release a variety of chemicals called cytokines. Cytokines contribute to the recruitment of phagocytic cells from the blood to the site of infection to clear bacteria. In this paper, we reveal that the Toll-like receptor–initiated intracellular signals leading to the production of cytokines by bladder cells involve the same pathway seen in other cells, as well as an additional and more rapid signaling pathway. Rapid production of cytokines by bladder cells will facilitate early clearance of bacteria. Additionally, possession of multiple signaling pathways by bladder cells for producing cytokines is advantageous because bacteria that infect the urinary tract have the capability to suppress certain signaling events that lead to cytokine production by bladder cells.
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- Jeongmin Song
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Al-Wadei HAN, Schuller HM. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate-dependent cell type-specific modulation of mitogenic signaling by retinoids in normal and neoplastic lung cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 30:403-11. [PMID: 17067750 PMCID: PMC1761122 DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2006.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/29/2006] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. A diet rich in fruit and vegetables has been shown to reduce the lung cancer risk. However, clinical trials with beta-carotene and retinoids have disappointed, resulted in increased mortality from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease. METHODS We have investigated the effects of the two major retinol metabolites, 9-cis-retinoic acid (9-Cis-RA), and 13-cis-retinoic acid (13-Cis-RA), on cell proliferation (MTT assays), intracellular cAMP (cAMP immunoassays), PKA activation (non-radioactive PKA activation assays), and ERK1/2 phosphorylation (Western blots) in immortalized human small airway epithelial cells, HPL1D, a human lung adenocarcinoma cell line, NCI-H322, immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells, BEAS-2B, and in the human small cell lung carcinoma cell line, NCI-H69. RESULTS Both retinoids increased intracellular cAMP and PKA activation in all cell lines. In BEAS-2B and NCI-H69 cells, the stimulation of cAMP/PKA reduced the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and inhibited cell proliferation whereas phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and cell proliferation were increased in HPL1D and NCI-H322 cells. CONCLUSIONS Our data have identified a novel mechanism of action of 9-Cis-RA and 13-Cis-RA: activation of PKA in response to increased cAMP. The observed stimulation of cAMP/PKA may inhibit the development of small cell lung carcinoma and other tumors derived from large airway epithelia whereas it may selectively promote the development of lung tumors derived from small airway epithelial cells, such as adenocarcinoma.
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- Corresponding Author: Hildegard M. Schuller. DVM PhD,
Experimental Oncology Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, College of
Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 2407 River Drive, Knoxville, TN
37996, USA., e-mail: , Phone: 865-974-8217
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Calabrese EJ. Cancer biology and hormesis: human tumor cell lines commonly display hormetic (biphasic) dose responses. Crit Rev Toxicol 2006; 35:463-582. [PMID: 16422392 DOI: 10.1080/10408440591034502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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This article assesses the nature of the dose-response relationship of human tumor cell lines with a wide range of agents including antineoplastics, toxic substances (i.e., environmental pollutants), nonneoplastic drugs, endogenous agonists, and phyto-compounds. Hormetic-like biphasic dose responses were commonly reported and demonstrated in 136 tumor cell lines from over 30 tissue types for over 120 different agents. Quantitative features of these hormetic dose responses were similar, regardless of tumor cell line or agent tested. That is, the magnitude of the responses was generally modest, with maximum stimulatory responses typically not greater than twice the control, while the width of the stimulatory concentration range was usually less than 100-fold. Particular attention was directed to possible molecular mechanisms of the biphasic nature of the dose response, as well as clinical implications in which a low concentration of chemotherapeutic agent may stimulate tumor cell proliferation. Finally, these findings further support the conclusion that hormetic dose responses are broadly generalizable, being independent of biological model, endpoint measured, and stressor agent, and represent a basic feature of biological responsiveness to chemical and physical stressors.
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- Edward J Calabrese
- Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA.
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Kumada T, Lakshmana MK, Komuro H. Reversal of neuronal migration in a mouse model of fetal alcohol syndrome by controlling second-messenger signalings. J Neurosci 2006; 26:742-56. [PMID: 16421294 PMCID: PMC6675380 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4478-05.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The brains of fetal alcohol syndrome patients exhibit impaired neuronal migration, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying this abnormality. Here we show that Ca2+ signaling and cyclic nucleotide signaling are the central targets of alcohol action in neuronal cell migration. Acute administration of ethanol reduced the frequency of transient Ca2+ elevations in migrating neurons and cGMP levels and increased cAMP levels. Experimental manipulations of these second-messenger pathways, through stimulating Ca2+ and cGMP signaling or inhibiting cAMP signaling, completely reversed the action of ethanol on neuronal migration in vitro as well as in vivo. Each second messenger has multiple but distinct downstream targets, including Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, calcineurin, protein phosphatase 1, Rho GTPase, mitogen-activated protein kinase, and phosphoinositide 3-kinase. These results demonstrate that the aberrant migration of immature neurons in the fetal brain caused by maternal alcohol consumption may be corrected by controlling the activity of these second-messenger pathways.
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- Tatsuro Kumada
- Department of Neurosciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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Föcking M, Schmiegelt D, Trapp T. Caffeine-mediated enhancement of glucocorticoid receptor activity in human osteoblastic cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 337:435-9. [PMID: 16212938 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.09.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2005] [Accepted: 09/11/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Caffeine-containing beverage consumption has been reported to be associated with an increased risk for osteoporosis. Since the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a major factor in the induction of osteoporosis we analyzed whether caffeine may act via altering GR function. Applying a reporter gene assay we provide evidence that caffeine drastically amplifies GR transcriptional activity in human osteoblastic cells. Substances that increase the intracellular cyclic AMP-concentration also strengthen the transactivity of the GR and coincubation with caffeine further reinforces this potentiation, indicating that caffeine-mediated enhancement of GR transcriptional function is due to the inhibitory activity of caffeine on the cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase. Our data suggest evidence for a hitherto unrecognized crosstalk between caffeine-modulated signalling and GR-initiated gene expression in human osteoblastic cells and could provide the molecular basis for the role of caffeine in osteoporosis.
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- Melanie Föcking
- Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany
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Salceda R, Aguirre-Ramirez M. Characterization of strychnine-sensitive glycine receptor in the intact frog retina: modulation by protein kinases. Neurochem Res 2005; 30:411-6. [PMID: 16018586 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-005-2616-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We studied 3H-glycine and 3H-strychnine specific binding to glycine receptor (GlyR) in intact isolated frog retinas. To avoid glycine binding to glycine uptake sites, experiments were performed at low ligand concentrations in a sodium-free medium. The binding of both radiolabeled ligands was saturated. Scatchard analysis of bound glycine and strychnine revealed a KD of 2.5 and 2.0 microM, respectively. Specific binding of glycine was displaced by beta-alanine, sarcosine, and strychnine. Strychnine binding was displaced 50% by glycine, and sarcosine. Properties of the strychnine-binding site in the GlyR were modified by sarcosine. Binding of both radioligands was considerably reduced by compounds that inhibit or activate adenylate cyclase and increased cAMP levels. A phorbol ester activator of PKC remarkably decreased glycine and strychnine binding. These results suggest modulation of GlyR in response to endogenous activation of protein kinases A and C, as well as protein phosphorylation modulating GlyR function in retina.
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- Rocío Salceda
- Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico Apdo. Postal 70-253, 04510 México, DF México.
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Schuller HM, Cekanova M. NNK-induced hamster lung adenocarcinomas over-express β2-adrenergic and EGFR signaling pathways. Lung Cancer 2005; 49:35-45. [PMID: 15949588 DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2004.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2004] [Revised: 12/06/2004] [Accepted: 12/13/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Pulmonary adenocarcinoma (PAC) is the most common type of human lung cancer. A diagnosis of PAC, history of non-smoking and presence of mutations in the EGFR are predictive factors for responsiveness of lung cancer to EGFR-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Unfortunately, less than 50% of PAC cases demonstrate this mutation-based responsiveness. Our immunohistochemical analysis of NNK-induced PAC in hamsters demonstrates the simultaneous over-expression of a beta2-adrenergic receptor pathway, including PKA, cAMP, CREB and phosphorylated CREB and of an EGFR pathway, including over-expression of EGFR-specific phosphorylated tyrosine kinase, Raf-1 and ERK1/2 and their phosphorylated forms. These findings implicate, for the first time, PKA/CREB-mediated signaling in the development and regulation of any type of lung cancer. In light of reports that NNK acts as a beta-adrenergic agonist and that beta-blockers inhibit the growth of PAC of Clara cell lineage in the NNK hamster model and in human cancer cell lines from smokers, our current data suggest transactivation of the EGFR pathway via beta-adrenergic signaling as a novel regulatory mechanism in a subpopulation of PACs in smokers. Taken together, these data point to PKA/CREB as novel targets for the development of cancer therapeutics for PAC patients non-responsive to EGFR-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
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- Hildegard M Schuller
- Experimental Oncology Laboratory, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 2407 River Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
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Yang H, Rouse J, Lukes L, Lancaster M, Veenstra T, Zhou M, Shi Y, Park YG, Hunter K. Caffeine suppresses metastasis in a transgenic mouse model: a prototype molecule for prophylaxis of metastasis. Clin Exp Metastasis 2005; 21:719-35. [PMID: 16035617 DOI: 10.1007/s10585-004-8251-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A significant fraction of cancer patients have occult disseminated tumors at the time of primary diagnosis, which usually progress to become clinically relevant lesions. Since the majority of cancer mortality is associated with metastatic disease, the ability to inhibit the growth of the secondary tumors would significantly reduce cancer-related morbidity and mortality. We have investigated whether caffeine, which has been shown to suppress tumor cell invasiveness and experimental metastasis, can suppress metastasis in a spontaneous transgene-induced mammary tumor model. Chronic exposure to caffeine prior to the appearance of palpable mammary tumors significantly reduced both tumor burden and metastatic colonization. However, when caffeine exposure began after the appearance of frank tumors, caffeine suppressed metastasis without changing primary tumor burden. The means by which caffeine suppressed metastatic activity may be associated with inhibition of malignant transformation of mammary epithelial cells, inhibition of conversion of dormant tumor cells to micrometastases, micrometastases to macrometastases, or inhibition of tumor cell adhesion and motility. Gene and protein expression patterns resulting from caffeine treatment showed that metastasis suppression may be associated with up-regulation the mRNA expression of multiple extracellular matrix genes, including Fbln1, Bgn, Sparc, Fbn1, Loxl1, Colla1, Col3a1, Col5a1, ColS5a2, ColSa3, Col6a1, Col6a2, and Col6a3. These data suggested that caffeine or other methyl xanthine derivatives may improve the clinical outcome in patients prior to and following the diagnosis of metastatic disease, and could potentially reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with disseminated tumors.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/genetics
- Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism
- Caffeine/therapeutic use
- Central Nervous System Stimulants/therapeutic use
- Disease Models, Animal
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- Female
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms/drug therapy
- Lung Neoplasms/prevention & control
- Lung Neoplasms/secondary
- Male
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/drug therapy
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Tumor Burden
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- Haiyan Yang
- Laboratory of Population Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Schuller HM, Porter B, Riechert A, Walker K, Schmoyer R. Neuroendocrine lung carcinogenesis in hamsters is inhibited by green tea or theophylline while the development of adenocarcinomas is promoted: implications for chemoprevention in smokers. Lung Cancer 2004; 45:11-8. [PMID: 15196729 DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2003.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2003] [Revised: 12/10/2003] [Accepted: 12/15/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer death in developed countries. With smoking the major etiological factor for lung cancer, there is a great need for the development of chemopreventive treatments that inhibit the progression of initiated cells and premalignant lesions into overt lung cancer in smokers who quit. Although the major focus of chemoprevention research has been on agents that inhibit the metabolic activation of genotoxic chemicals contained in tobacco products, some of these agents may additionally modulate growth-regulating signal transduction. In turn, the function of such signaling pathways is highly cell type-specific, with a given pathway inhibiting the growth of one cell type while stimulating the growth of others. The current experiment has tested the hypothesis that green tea and the methylxanthine theophylline contained in tea inhibit the progression of neuroendocrine lung carcinogenesis in hamsters with hyperoxic lung injury and initiated with the tobacco carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) while promoting the development of Clara cell-derived pulmonary adenocarcinomas initiated by NNK in healthy hamsters. This hypothesis is based on published evidence that human small cell lung cancer as well as the neuroendocrine hamster tumors are regulated via autocrine signaling pathways that activate Raf-1 and the mitogen-activated (MAP) kinase pathway whereas human pulmonary adenocarcinomas of Clara cell lineage and the hamster model of this cancer type are regulated by a beta-adrenergic pathway involving the activation of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) and the arachidonic acid (AA) cascade. In turn, it was hypothesized that theophylline would inhibit Raf-1-dependent tumor progression while promoting cAMP-dependent tumor progression due to its documented ability to inhibit the enzyme cAMP-phophodiesterase. The experimental design simulated chemoprevention in former smokers in that treatments with tea or theophylline started after completion of a 10-week tumor induction period with NNK. Our data show that green tea as well as theophylline significantly inhibited lung tumor multiplicity in the neuroendocrine cancer model whereas identical chemopreventive treatments significantly promoted the lung tumor multiplicity in the adenocarcinoma model. These findings indicate that green tea and theophylline as well as other chemopreventive agents that modulate signal transduction may have opposite effects on cancers of different histolopathology and cell lineage. At the current state of knowledge such chemopreventive treatments should only be used as adjuvant to cancer therapy of cancers that have been fully characterized at the pathology and molecular level.
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- Hildegard M Schuller
- Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, 2407 River Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
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Hirsh L, Dantes A, Suh BS, Yoshida Y, Hosokawa K, Tajima K, Kotsuji F, Merimsky O, Amsterdam A. Phosphodiesterase inhibitors as anti-cancer drugs. Biochem Pharmacol 2004; 68:981-8. [PMID: 15313391 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2004.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2004] [Accepted: 05/24/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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It is well known that high intracellular levels of cAMP can effectively kill cancer cells in vitro. Unfortunately substances elevating cAMP such as forskolin, 8-bromo-cAMP, 8-chloro-cAMP, monobutiryl or dibutiryl cAMP are not recommended to be used as anti-cancer drugs because of their high cytotoxicity. In contrast blockers of phosphodieterases such as theophylline and aminophylline, which could elevate intracellular cAMP, are commonly used as anti-asthma drugs reaching concentrations in the blood of 10-20 microg/ml. We tested the effectiveness of theophylline and aminophylline to induce cell death alone or in combination with common anti-cancer drugs such as cisplatin and gemcitabine (gemzar). We examined such drug combinations in the induction of cell death in a variety of carcinoma cell lines derived from human ovarian, prostate and lung cancer and in granulosa cell line transformed by SV40 and Ras oncogene. While theophylline could induce moderate cell death alone, at 20-25 microg/ml concentrations, aminophylline was ineffective at this concentration. Theophylline (at 15-25 ng/ml) was found in all four representative cell lines to synergize with gemcitabine or cisplatin to induce programmed cell death, which permits a reduction in the effective doses of cisplatin and gemcitabine by 2-3-fold. The effect of theophylline in induction of apoptosis involved reduction of intracellular levels of Bcl2. Such a reduction was proportional to the extent of apoptosis induced by theophylline as well as by the combined drug treatments. Therefore, we propose that theophylline should be considered as a potential anti-cancer drug in combination with other chemotherapeutic drugs. Screening of other phosphodiesterase blockers, which are not severely toxic, could open a possibility to improved chemotherapeutic cancer treatments with reduced undesired side-effects. A clinical trial, using theophylline as an anti-cancer drug, is currently being conducted in lung cancer patients.
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- Liron Hirsh
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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This article represents the first comprehensive assessment of hormetic effects of chemotherapeutic agents. Hormetic dose-response relationships were reported for a wide range of chemotherapeutics, including antibiotics, antiviral, and antitumor agents as well as substances that affect hair growth, prostate function, cognitive performance, and numerous other endpoints. Particular attention was given to assessing the quantitative features of the dose response, the underlying mechanistic features of the biphasic nature of the dose response, and the clinical implications of hormetic responses. Recognition of the hormetic-like biphasic nature of the dose response is expected to have an important impact on the design of experiments to assess chemotherapeutics and how such agents may be employed more successfully in clinical applications.
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- Edward J Calabrese
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
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Rivers DB, Rocco MM, Frayha AR. Venom from the ectoparasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis increases Na+ influx and activates phospholipase C and phospholipase A2 dependent signal transduction pathways in cultured insect cells. Toxicon 2002; 40:9-21. [PMID: 11602274 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-0101(01)00132-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The mode of action of venom from the ectoparasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis in eliciting cell death was examined using an in vitro approach with BTI-TN-5B1-4 cells, and the cell responses were compared to those evoked by the extensively studied wasp toxin mastoparan. Wasp venom increased plasma membrane permeability to Na+, resulting in cellular swelling and death due to oncosis. When ouabain was used to disable Na+, K+-ATPases, the effects of venom were enhanced. Measurements of intracellular calcium using fluo-4 AM revealed a rearrangement and an increase in cytosolic [Ca+2]i within 30 min after exposure of BTI-TN-5B1-4 cells to venom. This venom-mediated increase in Ca+2 was apparently due to mobilization of intracellular stores since the changes occurred in the absence of extracellular Ca+2. Phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitors, neomycin and U-73122, blocked the venom-induced death temporarily (<3h), but by 24h, all venom-treated cells swelled and lysed. Pre-treatment of cells with caffeine or theophylline but not ryanodine attenuated the induction of oncosis by wasp venom. Anti-inflammatory peptide 1 (antiflammin 1) but not bromophenacyl bromide, agents that block phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activity, abolished the responsiveness of BTI-TN-5B1-4 cells to venom. These results suggest that venom initiates cell death by inducing Ca+2 release from intracellular stores probably via phospholipase C and IP3. A possible mode of action for venom from N. vitripennis requiring dual activation of PLC and PLA2 is discussed and compared to the pathways known to be activated by mastoparan.
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- David B Rivers
- Department of Biology, Loyola College in Maryland, 4501 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA.
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Preclinical and clinical studies of phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors have shown that these agents may find utility in a wide range of inflammatory disorders, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atopic dermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and various neurological disorders. The future of this class of drugs will depend upon the ability to demonstrate a reasonable safety margin against emesis and other typical phosphodieserase (PDE4) side effects, as well as in identification of the inflammatory disorder(s) most relevant to PDE4 inhibition.
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- A M Doherty
- Institut de Recherche Jouveinal/Parke-Davis, 3-9 Rue de la Loge, BP 100, 94265, FRESNES CEDEX, France.
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