Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbt.23192
Keywords
CDDO-Me; cellular bioenergetics; N-linked glycosylation; PDAC
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- National Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund Project of China [81902803]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LQ21H160043, LY21H160057]
- Science and Technology Bureau of Wenzhou [Y20190069, Y2020208]
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This study investigates the potential antitumor activity of synthetic triterpenoid CDDO-Me in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and reveals the mechanism behind the inhibition of PDAC growth by CDDO-Me through excessive ROS and cellular bioenergetics disruption. Our findings suggest that CDDO-Me could be a potential compound for PDAC therapy, and SLC1A5 could serve as a novel biomarker for PDAC patients.
To investigate the potential antitumor activity of synthetic triterpenoid, methyl-2-cyano-3,12-dioxooleana-1,9(11)-dien-28-oate (CDDO-Me) in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), MTT cytotoxicity assay, and xenograft nude mice assay were performed to evaluate tumor growth in vitro and in vivo. Seahorse XFe96 bioenergetics analyzer was applied to determine aerobic glycolysis and mitochondrial respiration. Western blot and quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reactions are used to detect protein and messenger RNA transcripts of SLC1A5 and metabolic enzymes. We confirmed the strong antitumor activity of CDDO-Me in suppressing PDAC growth. Mechanistically, we demonstrated CDDO-Me induced mitochondrial respiration and aerobic glycolysis dysfunction. We also verified CDDO-Me downregulated glutamine transporter SLC1A5, resulting in excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels that suppressed tumor growth. Moreover, we confirmed that SLC1A5 depletion reduced the ratio of glutathione/oxidized glutathione. We also found CDDO-Me could inhibit N-linked glycosylation of SLC1A5, which promotes protease-mediated degradation. Finally, we confirmed SLC1A5 was significantly overexpressed in PDAC and closely correlated with the poor prognosis of PDAC patients. Our work uncovers CDDO-Me is effective at suppressing PDAC cell growth in vitro and in vivo and illuminates CDDO-Me caused excessive ROS and cellular bioenergetics disruption which contributed to CDDO-Me inhibited PDAC growth. Our data highlights CDDO-Me could be considered a potential compound for PDAC therapy, and SLC1A5 could be a novel biomarker for PDAC patients.
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