Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 5, Pages 1891-1900Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2014.2643
Keywords
Codonolactone; invasion; migration; metastasis; Runx2; breast cancer
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30860375, 81160530, 81260656]
- Ministry of Education of China [211091]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province [2010GQY0147]
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Metastasis is the most insidious aspect of breast cancer, but effective strategies to control this malignant process are still lacking. In previous studies, we screened over 200 extracts from plants of genus Chloranthaceae by bioactivity-guided fractionation, and found that Codonolactone (CLT) exhibited potential antimetastatic properties in breast cancer cells. This sesquiterpene lactone was isolated from Chloranthus henryi Hemsl, and is also found in other medical herbs, such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala Koidz and others. Here, we report that CLT inhibited the ability of invasion and migration in metastatic breast cancer cells. Furthermore, CLT exhibited significant suppression on formation of lung metastatic foci of breast cancer in vivo. We next investigated the mechanism of CLT-induced metastasis inhibitory effects in breast cancer cells. A significant inhibition on activity and expression of MMP-9 and MMP-13 was observed. Moreover, data from western blotting, Runx2 transcription factor assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation assay showed that binding ability of Runx2 to sequences of the mmp-13 promoter was inhibited by CLT. Collectively, these findings suggested that the antimetastatic properties of CLT in breast cancer were due to the inhibition of MMPs, which might be associated with a downregulation of Runx2 transcriptional activity.
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