Game-changing restraint of Ros-damaged phenylalanine, upon tumor metastasis

An abrupt increase in metastatic growth as a consequence of the removal of primary tumors suggests that the concomitant resistance (CR) phenomenon might occur in human cancer. CR occurs in murine tumors and ROS-damaged phenylalanine, meta-tyrosine (m-Tyr), was proposed as the serum anti-tumor factor primarily responsible for CR. Herein, we demonstrate for the first time that CR happens in different experimental human solid tumors (prostate, lung anaplastic, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma). Moreover, m-Tyr was detected in the serum of mice bearing prostate cancer (PCa) xenografts. Primary tumor growth was inhibited in animals injected with m-Tyr. Further, the CR phenomenon was reversed when secondary implants were injected into mice with phenylalanine (Phe), a protective amino acid highly present in primary tumors. PCa cells exposed to m-Tyr in vitro showed reduced cell viability, downregulated NFκB/STAT3/Notch axis, and induced autophagy; effects reversed by Phe. Strikingly, m-Tyr administration also impaired both, spontaneous metastasis derived from murine mammary carcinomas (4T1, C7HI, and LMM3) and PCa experimental metastases. Altogether, our findings propose m-Tyr delivery as a novel approach to boost the therapeutic efficacy of the current treatment for metastasis preventing the escape from tumor dormancy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Cell death & disease - 9(2018), 2 vom: 02. Feb., Seite 140

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gueron, Geraldine [VerfasserIn]
Anselmino, Nicolás [VerfasserIn]
Chiarella, Paula [VerfasserIn]
Ortiz, Emiliano G [VerfasserIn]
Lage Vickers, Sofia [VerfasserIn]
Paez, Alejandra V [VerfasserIn]
Giudice, Jimena [VerfasserIn]
Contin, Mario D [VerfasserIn]
Leonardi, Daiana [VerfasserIn]
Jaworski, Felipe [VerfasserIn]
Manzano, Verónica [VerfasserIn]
Strazza, Ariel [VerfasserIn]
Montagna, Daniela R [VerfasserIn]
Labanca, Estefania [VerfasserIn]
Cotignola, Javier [VerfasserIn]
D Accorso, Norma [VerfasserIn]
Woloszynska-Read, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Navone, Nora [VerfasserIn]
Meiss, Roberto P [VerfasserIn]
Ruggiero, Raúl [VerfasserIn]
Vazquez, Elba [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3-tyrosine
42HK56048U
47E5O17Y3R
D5YF57V4QW
Journal Article
Phenylalanine
Reactive Oxygen Species
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tyrosine

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Date Completed 02.08.2019

Date Revised 02.08.2019

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41419-017-0147-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM280563388