scholarly journals The Anti-Proliferative Activity of Secondary Metabolite from the Marine Streptomyces sp. against Prostate Cancer Cells

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1414
Author(s):  
Hung-Yu Lin ◽  
Yong-Shiou Lin ◽  
Shou-Ping Shih ◽  
Sung-Bau Lee ◽  
Mohamed El-Shazly ◽  
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Many active substances from marine organisms are produced by symbiotic microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and algae. Secondary metabolites from marine actinomycetes exhibited several biological activities and provided interesting drug leads. This study reported the isolation of Lu01-M, a secondary metabolite from the marine actinomycetes Streptomyces sp., with potent anti-proliferative activity against prostate cancers. Lu01-M blocked cell proliferation with IC50 values of 1.03 ± 0.31, 2.12 ± 0.38, 1.27 ± 0.25 μg/mL in human prostate cancer PC3, DU145, and LNCaP cells, respectively. Lu01-M induced cytotoxic activity through multiple mechanisms including cell apoptosis, necroptosis, autophagy, ER stress, and inhibiting colony formation and cell migration. Lu01-M induced cell cycle arrest at the G2/M phase and DNA damage. However, the activity of autophagy induced survival response in cancer cells. Our findings suggested that Lu01-M holds the potential to be developed as an anti-cancer agent against prostate cancers.

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 2388-2401 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Masiello ◽  
Shao-Yong Chen ◽  
Youyuan Xu ◽  
Manon C. Verhoeven ◽  
Eunis Choi ◽  
...  

Abstract Prostate cancers respond to treatments that suppress androgen receptor (AR) function, with bicalutamide, flutamide, and cyproterone acetate (CPA) being AR antagonists in clinical use. As CPA has substantial agonist activity, it was examined to identify AR coactivator/corepressor interactions that may mediate androgen-stimulated prostate cancer growth. The CPA-liganded AR was coactivated by steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) but did not mediate N-C terminal interactions or recruit β-catenin, indicating a nonagonist conformation. Nonetheless, CPA did not enhance AR interaction with nuclear receptor corepressor, whereas the AR antagonist RU486 (mifepristone) strongly stimulated AR-nuclear receptor corepressor binding. The role of coactivators was further assessed with a T877A AR mutation, found in LNCaP prostate cancer cells, which converts hydroxyflutamide (HF, the active flutamide metabolite) into an agonist that stimulates LNCaP cell growth. The HF and CPA-liganded T877A ARs were coactivated by SRC-1, but only the HF-liganded T877A AR was coactivated by β-catenin. L-39, a novel AR antagonist that transcriptionally activates the T877A AR, but still inhibits LNCaP growth, similarly mediated recruitment of SRC-1 and not β-catenin. In contrast, β-catenin coactivated a bicalutamide-responsive mutant AR (W741C) isolated from a bicalutamide-stimulated LNCaP subline, further implicating β-catenin recruitment in AR-stimulated growth. Androgen-stimulated prostate-specific antigen gene expression in LNCaP cells could be modulated by β-catenin, and endogenous c-myc expression was repressed by dihydrotestosterone, but not CPA. These results indicate that interactions between AR and β-catenin contribute to prostate cell growth in vivo, although specific growth promoting genes positively regulated by AR recruitment of β-catenin remain to be identified.


2012 ◽  
Vol 181 (5) ◽  
pp. 1836-1846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Jones ◽  
Honghe Wang ◽  
Jianjun Zhou ◽  
Shana Hardy ◽  
Timothy Turner ◽  
...  

Marine Drugs ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin-Ying Qu ◽  
Jin-Wei Ren ◽  
Ai-Hong Peng ◽  
Shi-Qi Lin ◽  
Dan-Dan Lu ◽  
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Four angucycline glycosides were previously characterized from marine-derived Streptomyces sp. OC1610.4. Further investigation of this strain cultured on different fermentation media from that used previously resulted in the isolation of two new angucycline glycosides, vineomycins E and F (1–2), and five known homologues, grincamycin L (3), vineomycinone B2 (4), fridamycin D (5), moromycin B (7), and saquayamycin B1 (8). Vineomycin F (2) contains an unusual ring-cleavage deoxy sugar. All the angucycline glycosides isolated from Streptomyces sp. OC1610.4 were evaluated for their cytotoxic activity against breast cancer cells MCF-7, MDA-MB-231, and BT-474. Moromycin B (7), saquayamycin B1 (8), and saquayamycin B (9) displayed potent anti-proliferation against the tested cell lines, with IC50 values ranging from 0.16 to 0.67 μM. Saquayamycin B (9) inhibited the migration and invasion of MDA-MB-231 cells in a dose-dependent manner, as detected by Transwell and wound-healing assays.


2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (7_suppl) ◽  
pp. 17-17
Author(s):  
Z. Liao ◽  
L. Gu ◽  
F. Shen ◽  
A. Dagvadorj ◽  
S. Gupta ◽  
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17 Background: There are no effective treatments for metastatic or castration resistant prostate cancer. We have shown that transcription factor Stat5a/b is constitutively active in high-grade prostate cancer, but not in normal human prostate epithelium. Stat5a/b is active in 95% of clinical castration resistant prostate cancers, and the expression of active Stat5a/b in primary prostate cancer predicts early disease recurrence. Stat5a/b is critical for the viability of prostate cancer cells in vitro and for growth of prostate xenograft tumors in nude mice. Stat5a/b synergizes with androgen receptor (AR) and Stat5a/b promotes metastatic behavior of human prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. Here, we hypothesize that Stat5a/b is a molecular target for rational drug design for prostate cancer. Methods: We identified a small- molecule inhibitor of Stat5a/b dimerization by structure-based virtual screen from a database of 30 million chemical structures. The efficacy of the Stat5a/b inhibitor was determined by reporter gene assays, dimerization by co-immunoprecipitations, nuclear translocation by cytochemistry and binding to DNA by EMSA. Cell viability was analyzed by MTT assay. Results: The novel Stat5a/b inhibitor IST5-002 inhibited transcriptional activity of Stat5a/b at IC50 of 1.5 μ M for Stat5a and 3.5 μ M for Stat5b, but not of Stat3 in prostate cancer cells. IST5-002 inhibited dimerization, nuclear translocation, and binding of Stat5a/b to the Stat5 DNA consensus sequence. Furthermore, IST5-002 inhibited expression of Stat5a/b target gene cyclin D1, and induced massive apoptosis of DU145, CWR22Rv1 and LNCaP human prostate cancer cells. IST5-002 blocked prostate cancer xenograft tumor growth in nude mice and induced death in clinical prostate cancers ex vivo in 3D organ cultures. Conclusions: We have identified a small molecule Stat5a/b inhibitor IST5-002 for therapy development for prostate cancer. Future work will focus on chemical modifications of IST5-002 to achieve IC50 below 1 μ M and oral administration. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


2002 ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
X-k Zhang

Apoptosis represents an effective way to eliminate cancer cells. Unfortunately, advanced prostate tumors eventually progress to androgen-independent tumors, which are resistant to current therapeutic approaches that act by triggering apoptosis. Vitamin A and its natural and synthetic analogs (retinoids) induce apoptosis in prostate cancer cells in vitro and in animal models, mainly through induction of retinoic acid receptor-beta (RARbeta). Expression levels of RARbeta, however, are significantly reduced in hormone-independent prostate cancer cells. Recently, a new class of synthetic retinoids related to 6-[3-(1-adamantyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]-2-naphthalene carboxylic acid (AHPN) (also called CD437) that effectively induces apoptosis of both hormone-dependent and -independent prostate cancer cells in a retinoid receptor-independent manner was identified and has drawn a lot of attention in the field. The apoptotic effect of AHPN requires expression of orphan receptor TR3 (also called nur77 or NGFI-B). Paradoxically, TR3 expression is also induced by androgen and other mitogenic agents in prostate cancer cells to confer their proliferation. The recent finding that TR3 migrates from the nucleus to mitochondria to trigger apoptosis in response to AHPN suggests that the opposing biological activities of TR3 are regulated by its subcellular localization. Thus, agents that induce translocalization of TR3 from the nucleus to mitochondria will have improved efficacy against prostate cancer. TR3, therefore, represents an unexplored molecule that may be an ideal target for developing new agents for prostate cancer therapy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Mologni ◽  
Vera Magistroni ◽  
Francesco Casuscelli ◽  
Marisa Montemartini ◽  
Carlo Gambacorti-Passerini

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Ning ◽  
Zhifa Zhang ◽  
Lihui Yu ◽  
Peiyu Han ◽  
xiaofeng Dai

Abstract BackgroundAndrogen receptor-independent prostate cancers do not respond to androgen blockage therapies and suffer from high recurrence rate. We aim to contribute to the establishment of novel therapeutic approaches against such malignancies.Methods We examined whether and how cold atmospheric plasma delivers selectivity against AR-independent prostate cancers using human normal epithelial prostatic cells PNT1A and AR-negative DU145 prostate cancer cells.ResultsWe show that cold atmospheric plasma could selectively halt cell proliferation and migration in androgen receptor-independent cells as a result of induced cell apoptosis and G0/G1 stage cell cycle arrest, and such outcomes were achieved through modulations on the MAPK and NF-kB pathways in response to physical plasma induced intracellular redox level. ConclusionOur study reports cold atmospheric plasma induced reduction on the proliferation and migration of androgen receptor-independent prostate cancer cells that offers novel therapeutic insights on the treatment of such cancers, and provides the first evidence on physical plasma induced cell cycle G0/G1 stage arrest that warrants the exploration on the synergistic use of cold atmospheric plasma and drugs such as chemotherapies in eradicating such cancer cells.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (6_suppl) ◽  
pp. 247-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroji Uemura ◽  
Noriaki Arakawa ◽  
Yusuke Itoh ◽  
Takashi Kawahara ◽  
Yasuhide Miyoshi ◽  
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247 Background: It is well known that prostate specific antigen (PSA) level has no reliable correlation with pathological malignancy of prostate cancer and is not a predictor for the development of castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). The aim of this study is to explore novel biomarkers to predict the development of CRPC by using proteomics from secreted proteins from human prostate cancer cells. Methods: The proteins secreted from 6 prostate cancers in culture medium were analyzed and compared with 8 other cancer cells including renal and urothelial cancers using LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer. With the focus on high tissue specificity, the candidate biomarker proteins were then identified through analysis of gene expressions in proteins common to human prostate cancers by real time qPCR. Next, a system to measure the identified mouse monoclonal antibodies against the focused proteins was established. Finally, serum levels of these proteins from 33 patients with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), 31 with untreated prostate cancer (PCa) and 35 with CRPC, were measured. Results: The proteome analysis identified 12 candidates of secreted cell membrane proteins as new biomarkers. The proteome analysis indicated that not only matured GDF15, but pro-peptide as well as fragments (GDDP) are released from prostate cancer cells. Patients’ serum was analyzed for matured and pro-peptide GDF15 using ELISA and immunoprecipitation-MRM mass spectrometry. The results showed that the serum level of GDDP-1, one of the processing forms of GDDP, was significantly higher in CRPC than those in BPH and untreated PCa (P < 0.01). ROC analysis also showed that the AUC of GDDP-1(0.86) was higher than that of matured GDF15 (0.76). When the cutoff value of GDDP-1 was set at 4.0 ng/mL, there was a significant difference of overall survival (OS) in CRPC patients between those with more than 4.0 ng/mL compared to less than 4.0 ng/mL of GDDP-1, whereas there was no significant difference of OS measurable by PSA in CRPC patients. These data suggest that GDDP-1 may be a novel biomarker for CRPC. Conclusions: GDDP-1 shows potential as a novel biomarker for CRPC.


Author(s):  
Lucas F. Gomes ◽  
Pâmela J.H. Longhi ◽  
Larissa Machado ◽  
Ivana B. Mânica da Cruz ◽  
Marco A.E. Montano ◽  
...  

Background: Prostate cancer is the most common visceral neoplasia in men and frequently present chemotherapy resistance. In this context, lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus (D.C.) Stapf) has been studied, since it presents many important biological activities, such as anticancer. Objective: We investigated the antitumor effect of lemongrass and in chemotherapy activity using prostate cancer cells line (DU-145). Methods: DU-145 cells were exposed to different concentrations of aqueous extract of lemongrass (30; 100; 300; 500 and 1000 μg/mL), isolated and in combination with docetaxel, during 24 and 72 hours. After, cell viability and proliferation, oxidative metabolism, colony formation and cell cycle analyses were performed. Also, we exposed African green monkey kidney cell line (VERO) to the same lemongrass concentrations to investigate a possible toxicity of this extract. Results: Our findings suggested that lemongrass presented an antitumor effect and improved docetaxel chemotherapy activity by decreasing cell viability and proliferation as well as colony formation. Moreover, we found an oxidative stress increased and cell cycle arresting in G0/G1 phase. In addition, this extract presented selectivity action for cancer cells, since it did not cause cytotoxicity in normal cells, ensuring non-toxic therapeutic concentrations. Conclusion: Lemongrass is a promising medicinal plant that could be used during chemotherapeutic treatment, in order to potentiate the antitumor response and decrease the resistance of prostate cancer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Gusti Md Gde Surya C. Trapika ◽  
Xin Tracy Liu ◽  
Long Hoa Chung ◽  
Felcia Lai ◽  
Chanlu Xie ◽  
...  

Prostate cancer is the second most prevalent malignancy worldwide. In the early stages, the development of prostate cancer is dependent on androgens. Over time with androgen deprivation therapy, 20% of prostate cancers progress to a castration-resistant form. Novel treatments for prostate cancers are still urgently needed. Erianin is a plant-derived bibenzyl compound. We report herein that erianin exhibits anti-tumor effects in androgen-sensitive and castration-resistant prostate cancer cells through different mechanisms. Erianin induces endoplasmic reticulum stress-associated apoptosis in androgen-sensitive prostate cancer cells. It also triggers pro-survival autophagic responses, as inhibition of autophagy predisposes to apoptosis. In contrast, erianin fails to induce apoptosis in castration-resistant prostate cancer cells. Instead, it results in cell cycle arrest at the M phase. Mechanistically, C16 ceramide dictates differential responses of androgen-sensitive and castration-resistant prostate cancer cells to erianin. Erianin elevates C16 ceramide level in androgen-sensitive but not castration-resistant prostate cancer cells. Overexpression of ceramide synthase 5 that specifically produces C16 ceramide enables erianin to induce apoptosis in castration-resistant prostate cancer cells. Our study provides both experimental evidence and mechanistic data showing that erianin is a potential treatment option for prostate cancers.


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