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Induction of Fas clustering and apoptosis by coral prostanoid in human hormone-resistant prostate cancer cells

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 542, 期 1-3, 页码 22-30

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2006.05.030

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Fas clustering; Mcl-1 cleavage; prostanoid; prostate cancer

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Cyclopentenone prostaglandins (PGs) such as PGA(1), PGA(2) and Delta(12)-PGJ(2) have been shown to suppress tumor cell growth and to induce apoptosis in prostate cancer cells. Bromovialone 111, which is isolated from the soft coral Clavularia viridis, is a cyclopentenone prostanoid. In this study, the anti-tumor activity as well as action mechanism of bromovulone III was identified in prostate cancer cells. Bromovulone III displayed anti-tumor activity of 30 to 100 times more effective than PGA(1), PGA(2), and Delta(12)-PGJ(2) in PC-3 cells. Several targets of caspases and Bcl-2 family of proteins were detected and the data demonstrated that bromovulone III induced the activation of caspase-8, -9 and -3, and Bid cleavage in which the caspas-8 activation occurred the first. Bromovulone III did not modify the protein levels of death receptors and ligands. Of note, the Fas clustering in PC-3 cells responsive to bromovulone III was observed by confocal immunofluorescence microscopy suggesting the involvement of Fas-mediated pathway. Bromovulone III also induced the cleavage of Mcl-1 in this study. The cleavage fragments (24, 19 and 17 kDa) may partly share the apoptotic insult. Although it has been suggested that Fas-mediated signaling may contribute to the caspase-8 activation induced by DNA-damaging agents; however, bromovulone III did not induce any DNA breakage, suggesting that bromovulone III-induced Fas/caspase-8-dependent signaling is not through the direct target on DNA damage. In summary, the data suggest that bromovulone III causes a rapid redistribution and clustering of Fas in PC-3 cells. Subsequently, the Fas event causes the activation and interaction of caspase-8/Bid/caspase-9 signaling cascades, and the activation of executor caspase-3. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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