The pro- and antineoplastic effects of deoxycholic acid in pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell models

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BACKGROUND: Commensal bacteria secrete metabolites that reach distant cancer cells through the circulation and influence cancer behavior. Deoxycholic acid (DCA), a hormone-like metabolite, is a secondary bile acid specifically synthesized by intestinal microbes. DCA may have both pro- and antineoplastic effects in cancers.

METHODS AND RESULTS: The pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines, Capan-2 and BxPC-3, were treated with 0.7 µM DCA, which corresponds to the reference concentration of DCA in human serum. DCA influenced the expression of epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related genes, significantly decreased the expression level of the mesenchymal markers, transcription factor 7- like 2 (TCF7L2), snail family transcriptional repressor 2 (SLUG), CLAUDIN-1, and increased the expression of the epithelial genes, zona occludens 1 (ZO-1) and E-CADHERIN, as shown by real-time PCR and Western blotting. Consequently, DCA reduced the invasion capacity of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells in Boyden chamber experiments. DCA induced the protein expression of oxidative/nitrosative stress markers. Moreover, DCA reduced aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) activity in an Aldefluor assay and ALDH1 protein level, suggesting that DCA reduced stemness in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In Seahorse experiments, DCA induced all fractions of mitochondrial respiration and glycolytic flux. The ratio of mitochondrial oxidation and glycolysis did not change after DCA treatment, suggesting that cells became hypermetabolic.

CONCLUSION: DCA induced antineoplastic effects in pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells by inhibiting EMT, reducing cancer stemness, and inducing oxidative/nitrosative stress and procarcinogenic effects such as hypermetabolic bioenergetics.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Molecular biology reports - 50(2023), 6 vom: 01. Juni, Seite 5273-5282

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schwarcz, Szandra [VerfasserIn]
Kovács, Patrik [VerfasserIn]
Kovács, Tünde [VerfasserIn]
Ujlaki, Gyula [VerfasserIn]
Nyerges, Petra [VerfasserIn]
Uray, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Bai, Péter [VerfasserIn]
Mikó, Edit [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Antineoplastic Agents
Cell metabolism
DCA
Deoxycholic Acid
EMT
Journal Article
Oxidative/nitrosative stress
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Stemness

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Date Completed 26.05.2023

Date Revised 13.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11033-023-08453-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35648419X