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CELL DEATH & DISEASE
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41419-018-0383-6
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- National Science Centre [UMO-2015/17/B/NZ3/03531]
Besides cell death, autophagy and cell senescence are the main outcomes of anticancer treatment. We demonstrate that tacrine-melatonin heterodimer C10, a potent anti-Alzheimer's disease drug, has an antiproliferative effect on MCF7 breast cancer cells. The main cell response to a 24 h-treatment with C10 was autophagy enhancement accompanied by inhibition of mTOR and AKT pathways. Significantly increased autophagy markers, such as LC3B-and ATG16L-positive vesicles, confirmed autophagy induction by C10. However, analysis of autophagic flux using mCherry-GFPLC3B construct revealed inhibition of autophagy by C10 at the late-stage. Moreover, electron microscopy and analysis of colocalization of LC3B and LAMP-1 proteins provided evidence of autophagosome-lysosome fusion with concomitant inhibition of autolysosomal degradation function. After transient treatment with IC50 dose of C10 followed by cell culture without the drug, 20% of MCF-7 cells displayed markers of senescence. On the other hand, permanent cell treatment with C10 resulted in massive cell death on the 5th or 6th day. Recently, an approach whereby autophagy is induced by one compound and simultaneously blocked by the use of another one has been proposed as a novel anticancer strategy. We demonstrate that the same effect may be achieved using a single agent, C10. Our findings offer a new, promising strategy for anticancer treatment.
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