期刊
BIOMOLECULES
卷 11, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom11030348
关键词
p62/SQSTM1; Keap1; NRF2; cancer cells; p53; zinc compounds; drug sensitivity
资金
- AIRC [IG16742]
The study found that the zinc-curcumin compound can activate NRF2 and decrease the levels of Keap1, increasing cancer cell sensitivity to Zn(II)-curc-induced cell death. The crosstalk between p62/SQSTM1 and NRF2 could be therapeutically exploited to enhance cancer patient response to therapies.
The hyperactivation of nuclear factor erythroid 2 p45-related factor 2 (NRF2), frequently found in many tumor types, can be responsible for cancer resistance to therapies and poor patient prognosis. Curcumin has been shown to activate NRF2 that has cytotprotective or protumorigenic roles according to tumor stage. The present study aimed at investigating whether the zinc-curcumin Zn(II)-curc compound, which we previously showed to display anticancer effects through multiple mechanisms, could induce NRF2 activation and to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms. Biochemical studies showed that Zn(II)-curc treatment increased the NRF2 protein levels along with its targets, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) and p62/SQSTM1, while markedly reduced the levels of Keap1 (Kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1), the NRF2 inhibitor, in the cancer cell lines analyzed. The silencing of either NRF2 or p62/SQSTM1 with specific siRNA demonstrated the crosstalk between the two molecules and that the knockdown of either molecule increased the cancer cell sensitivity to Zn(II)-curc-induced cell death. This suggests that the crosstalk between p62/SQSTM1 and NRF2 could be therapeutically exploited to increase cancer patient response to therapies.
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