Anticancer Strategy Targeting Cell Death Regulators : Switching the Mechanism of Anticancer Floxuridine-Induced Cell Death from Necrosis to Apoptosis

Cell death can be broadly characterized as either necrosis or apoptosis, depending on the morphological and biochemical features of the cell itself. We have previously reported that the treatment of mouse mammary carcinoma FM3A cells with the anticancer drug floxuridine (FUdR) induces necrosis in the original clone F28-7 but apoptosis in the variant F28-7-A. We have identified regulators, including heat shock protein 90, lamin-B1, cytokeratin-19, and activating transcription factor 3, of cell death mechanisms by using comprehensive gene and protein expression analyses and a phenotype-screening approach. We also observed that the individual inhibition or knockdown of the identified regulators in F28-7 results in a shift from necrotic to apoptotic morphology. Furthermore, we investigated microRNA (miRNA, miR) expression profiles in sister cell strains F28-7 and F28-7-A using miRNA microarray analyses. We found that several unique miRNAs, miR-351-5p and miR-743a-3p, were expressed at higher levels in F28-7-A than in F28-7. Higher expression of these miRNAs in F28-7 induced by transfecting miR mimics resulted in a switch in the mode of cell death from necrosis to apoptosis. Our findings suggest that the identified cell death regulators may play key roles in the decision of cell death mechanism: necrosis or apoptosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

International journal of molecular sciences - 21(2020), 16 vom: 16. Aug.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sato, Akira [VerfasserIn]
Hiramoto, Akiko [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Hye-Sook [VerfasserIn]
Wataya, Yusuke [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

039LU44I5M
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Apoptosis
Cell death regulator
Floxuridine
Journal Article
MicroRNA
MicroRNAs
Necrosis
Proteome analysis
Review
Transcriptome analysis

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.02.2021

Date Revised 16.02.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms21165876

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313980055