Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 50, Issue 10, Pages 1324-1335Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.01.024
Keywords
(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate; Polyphenol; Green tea; p68; Quinone; Cancer; Proteomics; Free radicals
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology of Japan [20780101, 21580148, 22780122]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22580129, 22780124, 22780122, 21580148, 20780101] Funding Source: KAKEN
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(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the most abundant and biologically active polyphenol in green tea, induces apoptosis and suppresses proliferation of cancer cells by modulating multiple signal transduction pathways. However, the fundamental mechanisms responsible for these cancer-preventive effects have not been clearly elucidated. Recently, we found that EGCG can covalently bind to cysteine residues in proteins through autoxidation and subsequently modulate protein function. In this study, we demonstrate the direct binding of EGCG to cellular proteins in AZ521 human gastric cancer cells by redox-cycle staining. We comprehensively explored the binding targets of EGCG from EGCG-treated A2521 cells by proteomics techniques combined with the boronate-affinity pull-down method. The DEAD-box RNA helicase p68, which is overexpressed in a variety of tumor cells and plays an important role in cancer development and progression, was identified as a novel EGCG-binding target. Exposure of AZ521 cells to EGCG lowered the p68 level dose dependently. The present findings show that EGCG inhibits AZ521 cell proliferation by preventing beta-catenin oncogenic signaling through proteasomal degradation of p68 and provide a new perspective on the molecular mechanism of EGCG action. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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