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BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
Volume 100, Issue 4, Pages 739-750Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114508942161
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Arachidonic acid; Breast cancer cells; PPAR; Extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase; Apoptosis
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- University of Torino, Italy
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Epidemiological Studies Suggest that dietary PUFA may influence breast cancer progression. n-3 PUFA are generally known to exert antitumour effects. whereas reports relative to n-6 PUFA anti-carcinogen effects are controversial. Arachidonic acid (AA: 20:4n-6) and its metabolites have been shown to inhibit the growth of human breast cancer cell lines, even if the downstream mechanisms by which AA may influence carcinogenesis remain Unresolved. We explored the molecular basis for AA influence on proliferation, signal transduction and apoptosis in two human breast cancer cell lines. MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231. In both cell lines AA inhibited cell growth in a dose-dependent manner, even if MDA-MB-231 was somewhat more growth-inhibited than MCF-7. AA decreased extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase 1/2 phosphorylation level. and positively modulated PPAR gamma and PPAR alpha expression, with only a slight effect against PPAR beta/delta. In addition, AA increased Bak (an apoptosis-regulating protein) expression and reduced procaspase-3 and -9 levels only in MDA-MB-231 cells. thus indicating that the growth inhibitory, effect can be correlated with apoptosis induction. In both cell lines the use of a specific antagonist made it possible to establish a relationship between AA growth inhibitory effect and PPARa involvement. AA decreases cell proliferation most likely by inducing apoptosis it) MDA-MB-231 cells. while in the MCF-7 cell line the growth inhibitory activity can be attributed to the inhibition of the signal transduction pathway involved in cell proliferation. In both cases, the results here presented suggest PPAR(x as a possible contributor to the rmvth inhibitory effect of AA.
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