scholarly journals Regulatory Action of all trans Retinoic Acid on Metastasis Induced lung Cell Metabolic Changes during Implantation of B16F10 Cancer Cells in C57BL6 Mice

Author(s):  
VM Berlin Grace ◽  
D David Wilson ◽  
S Saranya ◽  
Rohit Peardon

The changes that occur during metastasis lodging is under intense research now to develop preventive new drugs to fight against the deadly metastasis. The molecular drug, all trans Retinoic Acid (ATRA) has regulatory effects on signal mediated metabolism. In this study, we have analyzed the metastasis facilitating metabolic changes in mice lung when a highly metastatic melanoma cell line (B16F10) having potency to lodge in lung was implanted via tail vein injection into C57BL/6 mice (1×106 cells/ml in PBS). One group of implanted mice were treated with 0.60 mg of ATRA per Kg body weight daily for 21 days. The alteration of protein, enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants (SOD, Catalase, GPX, GSH) levels and the lipid profile with cholesterol level were evaluated in the lung tissues. The ATRA treatment caused 62.16% inhibition on metastatic nodule formation. Compared to normal mice, the cancer control mice showed an increased (p≤ 0.01**) total protein, LPO and NO and a decreased antioxidant. In ATRA treated group, all these levels were reverted to near normal levels with a high significance (p≤ 0.01**) difference from untreated cancer mice. The lipid profile and cholesterol level also were altered in cancer and were normalized in ATRA treated group with high significance (p≤ 0.01**). All these results implies that the metabolic changes induced in the lung tissue during metastatic lodging of melanoma cells were prevented and regularized by the ATRA treatment in vivo which give a scope of anti-metastatic therapy using ATRA.

Cancers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krysta Coyle ◽  
Cheryl Dean ◽  
Margaret Thomas ◽  
Dejan Vidovic ◽  
Carman Giacomantonio ◽  
...  

All-trans retinoic acid (atRA) regulates gene expression and is used to treat acute promyelocytic leukemia. Attempts to use atRA in breast cancer without a stratification strategy have resulted in limited overall effectiveness. To identify biomarkers for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) with atRA, we characterized the effects of atRA on the tumor growth of 13 TNBC cell lines. This resulted in a range of effects that was not predictable based on previously hypothesized predictors of response, such as the levels of atRA nuclear shuttling proteins fatty acid binding protein 5 (FABP5) and cellular retinoic acid binding protein 2 (CRABP2). Transcriptional profiling revealed that atRA induced distinct gene expression changes in the sensitive versus resistant cell lines that were mostly independent of the presence of retinoic acid response elements (RAREs) or peroxisome proliferator response elements (PPREs). Given the importance of DNA methylation in regulating gene expression, we hypothesized that differential DNA methylation could predict the response of TNBCs to atRA. We identified over 1400 sites that were differentially methylated between atRA resistant and sensitive cell lines. These CpG sites predicted the response of four TNBC patient-derived xenografts to atRA, and we utilized these xenografts to refine the profile and identified that as many as 17% of TNBC patients could benefit from atRA treatment. These data illustrate that differential methylation of specific CpGs may be useful biomarkers for predicting the response of patient tumors to atRA treatment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Thi Xoan Hoang ◽  
Jong Hyeok Jung ◽  
Jae Young Kim

All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), an active form of vitamin A, exerts immunomodulatory functions. In this study, we examined the immune potentiating effect of ATRA on bacterial flagellin-induced NF-κB activation and proinflammatory cytokine production in human monocytic cell line THP-1. ATRA treatment significantly enhanced the flagellin-induced NF-κB/AP-1 activity in THP-1 via the RAR/RXR pathway. Similarly, ATRA enhanced the expression and production of TNF-α and IL-1β in THP-1 cells upon flagellin challenge. The cell surface expression of toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5), which is the receptor for bacterial flagellin, was significantly reduced by ATRA in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. To determine the mechanisms underlying the ATRA-enhanced immune response against bacterial flagellin despite the reduced cell surface expression of TLR5 in ATRA-treated THP-1, we examined the cell surface expression of CD14, which has been proposed to be a TLR co-receptor that enhances the response to microbial components. The cell surface expression of CD14 was significantly enhanced by ATRA treatment, especially in the presence of flagellin. Anti-CD14 antibody treatment prior to ATRA and flagellin treatments completely abolished ATRA-enhanced TNF-α and IL-1β production. Our results suggest that ATRA enhances flagellin-stimulated proinflammatory responses in human monocyte THP-1 cells by upregulating CD14 in a RAR/RXR-dependent manner.


Blood ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (11) ◽  
pp. 4221-4221
Author(s):  
Shiro Jimi ◽  
Taichi Matsumoto ◽  
Junji Suzumiya ◽  
Shuji Hara ◽  
Yasushi Takamatsu ◽  
...  

Abstract The chemokine stromal cells derived factor-1 (SDF-1)/CXCL12 stimulates lymphocytes, hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) through the corresponding chemokine receptor CXCR4, which modulates homing, retention, and engraftment into the bone marrow. However, regulatory factors for CXCR4 excluding cytokines are totally unknown. Besides, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), a drug inducing cell differentiation and apoptosis, increases motility with unknown mechanisms. In the present study, we investigated the intracellular regulatory mechanisms of SDF-1α-induced migration of ATRA-treated cells. We initially surveyed cells exhibiting strongly membrane-associated CXCR4 (M-CXCR4), and found 3 out of 10 different cell lines (MOLT3, U266B1, and Raji). Of those, MOLT3 was identified as the only one enabled to respond to SDF-1α chemoattraction, accompanied by an increase in actin polymerization. When M-CXCR4 in MOLT3 was neutralized or antagonized by an antibody or the antagonist AMD3100, the migration activity to SDF-1α, analyzed using the Boyden chamber method, was totally abolished. ATRA pretreatment for 3 days induced growth inhibition of MOLT3, but apoptosis and differentiation did not occur. ATRA treatment alone had no effects on either CXCR4 gene expression or its total protein expression, and cell motility also did not increase; however, ATRA treatment dose dependently increased M-CXCR4 expression. When SDF-1α was added to the lower chamber, migration activity of cells pretreated by different doses of ATRA increased dose dependently and reached up to 5 times greater compared with cells lacking ATRA pretreatment. The increased migration activity was blocked by wortmannin, which inhibits phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K), AKT inhibitor, and cytochalasin D, which inhibits actin polymerization; U0126, an inhibitor of MEK1/2, did not block the effects of ATRA and SDF-1α. The results indicate that M-CXCR4 is quite important for cell migration, and the intracellular signaling for the M-CXCR4/SDF-1 axis primarily involves the PI3K/Akt pathway, which ATRA positively affected. This is the fist time to show that migration activity to SDF-1 was accelerated by ATRA. Clinical application of this phenomenon may help to augment HSC/HPC homing after transplantation.


Author(s):  
Maryam Habibi ◽  
Reza Manouchehri Ardekani ◽  
Hossein Motedayyen

Thrombocytosis, an uncommon side effect of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) treatment, occurs in some patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia. Our case showed thrombocytosis on day 26 to day 32 of ATRA and arsenic trioxide therapies and then started to decrease gradually without changing ATRA dosage. Thrombocytosis may associate with cytokine.


Blood ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 1916-1919 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Elliott ◽  
K Taylor ◽  
S White ◽  
R Rodwell ◽  
P Marlton ◽  
...  

Abstract Using X-linked clonal analysis, mechanism of action of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) was sought in a 16-year-old female with relapsed clonally evolved acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), who achieved complete remission. On ATRA, metamorphosis of peripheral blood leukemic promyelocytes to mature neutrophils was observed, despite the persistence of t(15;17) in 100% of bone marrow metaphases. DNA was extracted from fractionated serial blood specimens, collected at diagnosis, in first complete remission (CR), relapse, and during ATRA treatment. Using a phosphoglycerokinase (PGK) probe, the patient was heterozygous for both Bgl I and Bst XI PGK polymorphisms. Methylation analysis showed monoclonal leukemic promyelocytes with a polyclonal first CR achieved by standard chemotherapy. Subsequent examination, in relapse, of granulocytes appearing during ATRA treatment showed these to be monoclonal, proving these were derived from the neoplastic clone. The X-linked clonal analysis methodology has provided in vivo evidence of cellular differentiation as the mechanism of action of ATRA. Parallel studies of cytogenetic and clonal analysis showed a regression of the t(15;17) cytogenetic abnormality and return of a polyclonal PGK methylation pattern in 5 weeks, indicating a repopulation of marrow by normal stem cells. As standard cytogenetic techniques are inappropriate for nondividing cells, X-linked clonal analysis provides a marker system to allow insight into mechanism of drug action in malignant hematologic disease.


Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 3459-3459
Author(s):  
Min Lu ◽  
Lijuan Xia ◽  
Alan D. Friedman ◽  
Samuel Waxman ◽  
Yongkui Jing

Abstract All trans retinoic acid (ATRA) induces remission in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) by induction of granulocytic differentiation. Since CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) α, β and ε play important roles in normal granulocytic differentiation we compared their expression and regulation in ATRA differentiation inducible NB4 and HL-60 cells to their ATRA differentiation resistant subclones R4 and HL-60/Res cells. All four cell lines robustly express C/EBPα but have low or absent C/EBPβ and ε expression. ATRA treatment increases the levels of C/EBPβ and ε protein in NB4 and HL-60 cells but not in the R4 and HL-60/Res cells which is correlated with the degree of differentiation induction. Knockdown of C/EBPβ or ε using shRNA decreases ATRA differentiation induction of HL-60 cells. HL-60 cells with BCR-ABL stable transfection lose expression of C/EBPα, and ATRA-induced differentiation and expression of C/EBPβ and ε are no longer seen. K562 cells which express BCR-ABL do not have detectable or inducible C/EBPα, β and ε after ATRA treatment and are resistant to ATRA differentiation induction. Ectopic expression of C/EBPα-estrogen receptor (ER) or C/EBPβ-ER, but not C/EBPε-ER, induces granulocytic differentiation in K562 cells after addition of estradiol or tamoxifen which activates these fusion factors. C/EBPα-ER or C/EBPβ-ER infected K562 cells is followed by induction of C/EBPε expression and knockdown of C/EBPε in C/EBPα-ER or C/EBPβ-ER infected K562 cells decreases induction of differentiation. The induction of C/EBPα, β, and ε expression by ATRA is investigated in ten additional myeloid leukemia cell lines and it is found that the expression of C/EBPβ and ε, but not C/EBPα, are induced in THP-1 and ML-1 cells which are responsive to ATRA differentiation induction. These results indicate that induction of C/EBPβ is required and C/EBPε plays a collaborative role with C/EBPβ in ATRA-induced differentiation of myeloid leukemia cells.


Biologia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khwunjit Itsarasook ◽  
Kornkanok Ingkaninan ◽  
Jarupa Viyoch

AbstractIn previous studies, the Artocarpus incisus extract containing 45% w/w artocarpin showed activities of antioxidation, antimelanogenesis and restoration of wrinkled-skin fibroblasts. Here, extract containing 90% w/w artocarpin was tested for its antioxidant activity and in ultraviolet (UV) A-irradiated fibroblasts, its ability to restore type I collagen and inhibit matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) elevation. This extract was a less effective antioxidant of EC50 of 116.0 ± 5.1 μg/mL than L-ascorbic acid (9.7 ± 0.01 μg/mL). The extract (0.625–50 μg/mL) showed no cytotoxicity toward primary human skin fibroblasts. MMP-1 was markedly elevated at 72 h after UVA irradiation compared to non-irradiation cells (p < 0.01). This UVA-induced elevation was inhibited by 50 μg/mL extract or 50 ng/mL all-trans retinoic acid. In an aged and sun-exposed skin tissue culture model, the increase of epidermal thickness in the 250 μg/mL artocarpin-enriched extract or 75 μg/mL all-trans retinoic acid-treated group when compared to the non-treated group was markedly observed since day 1 of treatment. Moreover, the extract or all-trans retinoic acid-treated groups exhibited higher density of immunofluorescence staining of type I collagen than non-treated group. This coincides with significantly higher (p < 0.05) collagen content, as indicated by measuring hydroxyproline. Our results firstly revealed that the artocarpin-enriched extract reversed the activities of UVA-irradiated fibroblasts and improved the type I collagen deposition in aged/photoaged skin.


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