期刊
BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY
卷 75, 期 12, 页码 2345-2355出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2008.03.013
关键词
quercetin; apoptosis; caspase; PI3K/Akt pathway; cytochrome c; Bax; Bad; Bcl-xL
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA140554-01A1, R03 CA121395-02, CA95191, CA96989, R03 CA121395, R01 CA095191, CA121395, R01 CA140554, R01 CA140554-02, R01 CA096989] Funding Source: Medline
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of quercetin, a flavonoid, on the apoptotic pathway in a human prostate cell line (LNCaP). We observed that treatment of cells for 24 h with quercetin-induced cell death in a dose-dependent manner. A sustained inhibition of the major survival signal, Akt, occurred in quercetin-treated cells. Treatment of LNCaP cells with an apoptosis inducing concentration of quercetin (100 mu M) resulted in a rapid decrease in the inhibitory Ser((473)) phosphorylation of Akt leading to inhibition of its kinase activity. Quercetin treatment (100 mu M) also caused a decrease in Ser((136)) phosphorylation of Bad, which is a downstream target of Akt. Protein interaction assay revealed that during treatment with quercetin, Bcl-xL dissociated from Bax and then associated with Bad. Our results also show that cluercetin decreases the Bcl-xL:Bax ratio and increases translocation and multimerization of Bax to the mitochondrial membrane. The translocation is accompanied by cytochrome c release, and procaspases-3, -8 and -9 cleavage and increased poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) cleavage. Similar results were observed in human colon cancer HCT116Bax(+/+) cell line, but not HCT116Bax(-/-) cell line. Interestingly, at similar concentrations (100 mu M), quercetin treatment did not affect the viability or rate of apoptosis in normal human prostate epithelial cell line (PrEC) and rat prostate epithelial cell line (YPEN-1). Our results indicate that the apoptotic processes caused by quercetin are mediated by the dissociation of Bax from Bcl-xL and the activation of caspase families in human prostate cancer cells. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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