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CARCINOGENESIS
Volume 34, Issue 8, Pages 1870-1880Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgt136
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- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- HKSAR Government
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Cardiac glycosides as inhibitors of the sodium/potassium adenosine triphosphatase (sodium pump) have been reported to block cancer growth by inducing G(2)/M phase arrest in many cancer cells. However, no detailed studies have been performed to distinguish between these two phases of cardiac glycoside-arrested cells. Furthermore, the underlying mechanisms involved in this cell cycle arrest process are still not known. Here, we report that bufalin and other cardiac glycosides potently induce mitotic arrest by the downregulation of polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) expression. Live-cell imaging results demonstrate that bufalin-treated cells exhibit a marked delay in entering prophase at an early stage and are then arrested at prometaphase or induced entry into apoptosis. This phenotypic change is attributed to the downregulation of Plk1. We also show that bufalin and the knockdown of sodium pump reduce Plk1, at least in part, through downregulation of the nuclear transcription factors, hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-B). These findings suggest that cardiac glycosides induce mitotic arrest and apoptosis through HIF-1- and NF-B-mediated downregulation of Plk1 expression, demonstrating that HIF-1 and NF-B are critical targets of cardiac glycosides in exerting their anticancer action.
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