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LUNG CANCER
Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 47-56Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.09.021
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heme oxygenase-1; Nrf2; MAPK; apoptosis; A549
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Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is highly expressed in various tumor tissues and plays an important rote in tumor cell growth through anti-oxidative and anti-apoptotic effects. Herein, we demonstrate that A549 cells express high levels of HO-1, Nrf`2, and NF-kappa B compared to other lung cancer cell lines, including H23, H157, and H460. Ectopic expression of HO-1 small interfering RNA (siRNA) increased both apoptosis and degradation of procaspase-3. Transfection studies with siRNA specific for Nrf2 and NF-kappa B revealed that HO-1 expression in A549 cells is mediated by transcriptional activation of Nrf2, but not NF-kappa B. A549 cells are less susceptible to cisplatin cytotoxicity than other lung cancer cell lines, concomitant with increases in HO-1 expression and MAPK phosphorylation in a time-dependent fashion. Furthermore, inhibition of HO-1 by siRNA and a specific HO-1 inhibitor ZnPP augments cisplatin cytotoxicity toward A549 cells. Pharmacologic suppression of HO-1 activity resulted in a marked increase in the ROS generation in cisplatin-treated cells. In addition, pharmacologic inhibitors of MAPK suppressed the induction of HO-1 and Nrf2 expression by cisplatin. These findings suggest that HO-1 may modulate the chemosensitivity of lung cancer A549 cells to cisplatin through the MAPK-Nrf2 pathway. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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