Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH
Volume 1833, Issue 12, Pages 3124-3133Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2013.08.023
Keywords
Apoptosis; Autophagy; BMP receptor; MAPK; Mechanical force; Smad1/5
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- National Science Council (Taiwan) [100-2325-B-400-011,100-2321-B-400-001, 101-2622-B-007-001-CC1]
- National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) [101N2051E1]
- Department of Health (Taiwan) [101-TD-C-111-004]
- National Health Research Institutes (Taiwan) [ME-100-PP-06, CA-101-PP22]
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Mechanical forces induced by interstitial fluid flow in and surrounding tissues and by blood/lymphatic flow in vessels may modulate cancer cell invasion and metastasis and anticancer drug delivery. Our previous study demonstrated that laminar flow-induced shear stress induces G(2)/M arrest in tumor cells. However, whether shear stress modulates final cell fate remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the role of flow-induced shear stress in modulating the survival of four human tumor cell lines, i.e., Hep3B hepatocarcinoma cells, MG63 osteosarcoma cells, SCC25 oral squamous carcinoma cells, and A549 carcinomic alveolar basal epithelial cells. Laminar shear stress (LSS) ranging from 0.5 to 12 dyn/cm(2) induced death of these four tumor cell lines. In contrast to LSS at 0.5 dyn/cm(2), oscillatory shear stress (OSS) at 05 +/- 4 dyn/cm(2) cannot induce cancer cell death. Both LSS and OSS had no effect on human normal hepatocyte, lung epithelial, and endothelial cells. Application of LSS to these four cell lines increased the percentage of cells stained positively for annexin V-FITC, with up-regulations of cleaved caspase-8, -9, and -3, and PAR. In addition, LSS also induced Hep3B cell autophagy, as detected by acidic vesicular organelle formation, LOB transformation, and p62/SQSTM1 degradation. By transfecting with small interfering RNA, we found that the shear-induced apoptosis and autophagy are mediated by bone morphogenetic protein receptor type (BMPR)-IB,BMPR-specific Smad1 and Smad5, and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in Hep3B cells. Our findings provide insights into the molecular mechanisms by which shear stress induces apoptosis and autophagy in tumor cells. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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