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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 66, Issue 18, Pages 9260-9269Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-1586
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA 081064, CA 27502, CA 088961, CA 11536, CA 12-388] Funding Source: Medline
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Many beneficial properties have been attributed to (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), including chemopreventive, anticarcinogenic, and antioxidant actions. In this study, we investigated the effects of EGCG on the function of glucoseregulated protein 78 (GRP78), which is associated with the multidrug resistance phenotype of many types of cancer cells. Our investigation was directed at elucidating the mechanism of the EGCG and GRP78 interaction and providing evidence about whether EGCG modulates the activity of anticancer drugs through the inhibition of GRP78 function. We found that EGCG directly interacted with GRP78 at the ATP-binding site of protein and regulated its function by competing with ATP binding, resulting in the inhibition of ATPase activity. EGCG binding caused the conversion of GRP78 from its active monomer to the inactive dimer and oligomer forms. Further, we showed that EGCG interfered with the formation of the antiapoptotic GRP78-caspase-7 complex, which resulted in an increased etoposide-induced apoptosis in cancer cells. We also showed that EGCG significantly suppressed the transformed phenotype of breast cancer cells treated with etoposide. Overall, these results strongly suggested that EGCG could prevent the antiapoptotic effect of GHP78, which usually suppresses the caspase-mediated cell death pathways in drugtreated cancer cells, contributing to the development of drug resistance.
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