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GENES TO CELLS
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 457-465Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gtc.13026
Keywords
acetoxychavicol acetate derivative; apoptosis; ERK MAPK; nuclear ERK; pancreatic cancer
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The anti-cancer compound GT-7 stimulates ERK phosphorylation, leading to growth inhibition and apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells. GT-7 induces phosphorylated ERK accumulation in the nucleus, which precedes and underlies apoptosis induction in T3M4 cells.
The extracellular-signal-regulated-kinase (ERK) signaling pathway is essential for cell proliferation and is frequently deregulated in human tumors such as pancreatic cancers. ACAGT-007a (GT-7), an anti-cancer compound, stimulates ERK phosphorylation, thereby inducing growth inhibition and apoptosis in T3M4 pancreatic cancer cells. However, how GT-7 stimulates ERK phosphorylation and induces apoptosis in ERK-active T3M4 cells remains unclear. To look into the mechanism, we performed a spatiotemporal analysis of ERK phosphorylation mediated by GT-7 in T3M4 cells. The immunoblotting showed that GT-7 stimulates ERK phosphorylation within 1 h, which was more remarkable after 2 h. Importantly, apoptosis induction as evaluated by the cleaved Caspase-3 was observed only after 2-h incubation with GT-7. The immunofluorescence staining revealed the enrichment of phosphorylated ERK (phospho-ERK) in the nucleus upon 1-h incubation with GT-7. Fractionation experiments showed that GT-7 increases phospho-ERK levels in the cytoplasm within 1 h, whereas nuclear phospho-ERK accumulation is observed after 2-h incubation with GT-7. MEK inhibition by U0126 significantly diminishes nuclear phospho-ERK distribution and apoptosis induction stimulated by GT-7. Thus, GT-7 may initiate the induction of ERK phosphorylation in the cytoplasm, which leads to phospho-ERK enrichment in the nucleus. This nuclear phospho-ERK accumulation by GT-7 precedes and may underlie apoptosis induction in T3M4.
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