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CANCER RESEARCH
卷 65, 期 14, 页码 6312-6320出版社
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-4193
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Cholangiocarcinomas are intrahepatic bile duct carcinomas that are known to have a poor prognosis. Sesquiterpene lactone parthenolide, which is the principal active component in medicinal plants, has been used to treat tumors. Parthenolide effectively induced apoptosis in all four cholangio-carcinoma cell lines in a dose-dependent manner. However, the sarcomatous SCK cells were more sensitive to parthenolide than the other adenomatous cholangiocarcinoma cells. Therefore, this study investigated whether or not the expression of p53, the Fas/Fas ligand (FasL), Bcl-2/Bcl-X-L determines the enhanced drug susceptibility of SCK cells. The results showed that Bcl-2 family molecules, such as Bid, Bak, and Bax, are involved in the parthenolide-induced apoptosis and that the defective expression of Bcl-X-L might contribute to the higher parthenolide sensitivity in the SCK cells than in the other adenomatous cholangiocarcinoma cells. SCK cells, which stably express Bcl-X-L, were resistant to parthenolide, whereas Bcl-X-L-positive Choi-CK cells transfected with the antisense Bcl-X-L showed a higher parthenolide sensitivity than the vector control cells. Molecular dissection revealed that Bcl-X-L inhibited the translocation of Bax to the mitochondria, decreased the generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species, reduced the mitochondrial transmembrane potential (Delta Psi(m)), decreased the release of cytochrome c, decreased the cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, and eventually inhibited apoptotic cell death. These results suggest that parthenolide effectively induces oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis, and that the susceptibility to parthenolide in cholangiocarcinoma cells might be modulated by Bcl-X-L expression in association with Bax translocation to the mitochondria.
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