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MOLECULAR CANCER THERAPEUTICS
Volume 7, Issue 10, Pages 3298-3305Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-08-0212
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [30472044]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China [BK2005096]
- Service Center for Pharmacodynamics Research and Evaluation of Jiangsu Province
- Florida International University
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Gambogic acid (GA) is a natural product with potent apoptotic activity. Here, we showed that GA broadly inhibited the growth of cancer cells that expressed wild-type p53 as determined by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazol-iumbromide assay, H-3-thymidine incorporation analysis, and an in vivo mouse xenograft model. GA induced massive cell apoptosis as judged by Annexin V and propidium iodide dual-staining experiments. Furthermore, we found that GA partially induced cancer cell growth inhibition in a p53-dependent manner because cell survival could be restored after endogenous p53 was attenuated by p53 transcriptional repressor pifithrin-alpha or p53 small interfering RNA. Interestingly, GA had no influence on p53 mRNA synthesis but dramatically enhanced its protein expression. This unique observation could be accounted for by the down-regulation of mdm2 at both mRNA and protein levels. It is concluded that GA enhances p53 protein level through inhibition of mdm2 expression and thereby hampers p53 harboring tumor growth. [Mol Cancer Ther 2008;7(10):3298-305]
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