Journal
CELL CYCLE
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 301-307Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/cc.10.2.14538
Keywords
3D-culture; apoptosis; APR-246; melanoma; p53
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- Swedish Cancer Society
- Swedish Research Council
- Karolinska Institutet
- Cancer Society of Stockholm
- EU
- Cancer and Allergy foundation
- Robert Lundberg Memorial Fund
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Disseminating malignant melanoma is a lethal disease highly resistant to radio- and chemotherapy. Therefore, the development of new treatment strategies is strongly needed. Tumor suppressor p53-mediated apoptosis is essential for the response to radio- and chemotherapy. Although p53 is not frequently mutated in melanoma, it is inactivated by integrin alpha v-mediated signaling, as we previously demonstrated in reference 1, which may account, at least partially, for increased apoptosis resistance of malignant melanoma. In this study we addressed the question whether functional restoration of p53 by APR-246 (PRIMA-1(Met)), which can reactivate mutant p53 and induce massive apoptosis in cancer cells, is able to restore the function of inactive p53 in melanoma. Using a three-dimensional collagen gel (3D-collagen) to culture melanoma cells carrying wild-type p53, we found that APR-246 treatment resulted in activation of p53, leading to increased expression of p53 pro-apoptotic targets Apaf1 and PUMA and activation of caspase -9 and -3. Moreover, APR-246 triggered melanoma cell apoptosis that was mediated by p53 and caspase 9. Importantly, APR-246 treatment also suppressed human melanoma xenograft tumors in vivo in a p53-dependent manner. Thus, wild-type p53 reactivation may provide a novel approach for malignant melanoma treatment, with APR-246 as a candidate drug for such a development.
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