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ADVANCED BIOLOGY
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202300070
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Alzheimer disease; amyloid proteins; cancer cells; type II diabetes
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Neurodegenerative diseases and cancers are two families of diseases with opposite cell-death mechanisms. There seems to be an inverse correlation between them, but the pathological links between these two diseases, particularly from a protein-cell interaction perspective, have yet to be proven. A study investigates the effects of three amyloid proteins on pancreatic cancer cells, showing that amyloid proteins have inhibitory activity on cancer cell proliferation through ROS production and membrane disruption.
Neurodegenerative diseases and cancers are considered to be two families of diseases caused by completely opposite cell-death mechanisms: the former caused by premature cell death, with the latter due to the increased resistance to cell death. Growing epidemiologic evidence appear to suggest an inverse correlation between neurodegenerative diseases and cancers. However, pathological links, particularly from a protein-cell interaction perspective, between these two families of diseases remains to be proven. Here, a fundamental study investigates the effects of three amyloid proteins of A beta (associated with AD), hIAPP (associated with T2D), and hCT (associated with MTC) on pancreatic cancer (PANC-1) cells. Collective results demonstrate a general inhibitory activity of all of three amyloid proteins on cancer cell proliferation, but inhibition efficiencies are strongly dependent on amyloid sequence (A beta, hIAPP, hCT), concentration (IC25, IC50, IC75), and aggregation states (monomers, oligomers). Amyloid proteins exhibit two pathways against cancer cells: amyloid monomer-induced ROS production to inhibit cell growth and amyloid oligomer-induced membrane disruption to kill cells. Collectively, the results demonstrate a general inhibition function of amyloid proteins to induce cancer cell death by preventing cell proliferation, suppressing cell migration, promoting reactive oxygen species production, and disrupting cell membranes.
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