Inhibition of COX2 enhances the chemosensitivity of dichloroacetate in cervical cancer cells

Dichloroacetate (DCA), a traditional mitochondria-targeting agent, has shown promising prospect as a sensitizer in fighting against malignancies including cervical cancer. But it is unclear about the effect of DCA alone on cervical tumor. Moreover, previous reports have demonstrated that the increased cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) expression is associated with chemoresistance and poor prognosis of cervical cancer. However, it is still unknown whether COX2 can affect the sensitivity of DCA in cervical cancer cells. In this study, we found that cervical cancer cells were insensitive to DCA. Furthermore, we for the first time revealed that DCA could upregulate COX2 which impeded the chemosensitivity of DCA in cervical cancer cells. Mechanistic study showed that DCA reduced the level of RNA binding protein quaking (QKI), leading to the decay suppression of COX2 mRNA and the subsequent elevation of COX2 protein. Inhibition of COX2 using celecoxib could sensitize DCA in repressing the growth of cervical cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo. These results indicate that COX2 is a novel resistance factor of DCA, and combination of celecoxib with DCA may be beneficial to the treatment of cervical cancer.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Oncotarget - 8(2017), 31 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 51748-51757

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xinzhe [VerfasserIn]
Xiong, Haojun [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Ni, Zhenhong [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Teng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Yijun [VerfasserIn]
He, Jintao [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Fan [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Nan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yuting [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Yingru [VerfasserIn]
He, Fengtian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COX2
Celecoxib
Cervical cancer
Dichloroacetate
Journal Article
QKI

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Date Completed 25.09.2017

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.18632/oncotarget.18518

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM275531376