期刊
CHINESE JOURNAL OF NATURAL MEDICINES
卷 19, 期 11, 页码 815-824出版社
CHINESE JOURNAL NATURAL MEDICINES
DOI: 10.1016/S1875-5364(21)60106-1
关键词
Cervical cancer; Chemotherapy; Aloperine; Epithelial-mesenchymal transition; IL-6-JAK1-STAT3 feedback loop
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82001850]
- Shanxi Basic Application Research [201901D211491]
- Scientific Research Project of Shanxi Health Commission [2019038]
- Doctoral Research Project of Shanxi Medical University [XD1901]
- Doctoral Research Project of Shanxi Province [SD1901]
Aloperine effectively inhibits the proliferation, migration, and invasion of HeLa cells by inducing cell cycle arrest, promoting apoptosis, and suppressing epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. These anticancer properties are associated with the suppression of the IL-6-JAK1-STAT3 feedback loop.
Cervical cancer (CC) is recognized as the most common neoplasm in the female reproductive system worldwide. The lack of chemotherapeutic agents with outstanding effectiveness and safety severely compromises the anti-cipated prognosis of patients. Aloperine (ALO) is a natural quinolizidine alkaloid with marked anti-cancer effects on multiple malignancies as well as favorable activity in relieving inflammation, allergies and infection. However, its therapeutic efficacy and underlying mechanism in CC are still unclear. In the current study, MTT assay was employed to evaluate the viability of HeLa cells exposed to ALO to preliminarily estim-ate the effectiveness of ALO in CC. Then, the effects of ALO on the proliferation and apoptosis of HeLa cells were further investig-ated by plate colony formation and flow cytometry, respectively, while the migration and invasion of ALO-treated HeLa cells were evaluated using Transwell assay. Moreover, nude mice were subcutaneously inoculated with HeLa cells to demonstrate the anti-CC properties of ALO in vivo. The molecular mechanisms underlying these effects of ALO were evaluated by Western blot and immuno-histochemical analysis. This study experimentally demonstrated that ALO inhibited the proliferation of HeLa cells via G2 phase cell cycle arrest. Simultaneously, ALO promoted an increase in the percentage of apoptotic HeLa cells by increasing the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio. Additionally, the migration and invasion of HeLa cells were attenuated by ALO treatment, which was considered to result from inhibi-tion of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. For molecular mechanisms, the expression and activation of the IL-6-JAK1-STAT3 feed-back loop were markedly suppressed by ALO treatment. This study indicated that ALO markedly suppresses the proliferation, migra-tion and invasion and enhances the apoptosis of HeLa cells. In addition, these prominent anti-CC properties of ALO are associated with repression of the IL-6-JAK1-STAT3 feedback loop.
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