Modulatory role of BV6 and chloroquine on the regulation of apoptosis and autophagy in non-small cell lung cancer cells

Aims: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the aggressive tumors mostly diagnosed in the advanced stage. Therapeutic failure and drug resistance pose a major problem in NSCLC treatment primarily due to alterations in autophagy and loss of apoptosis. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the importance of the second mitochondria-derived activator of caspase mimetic BV6 and autophagy inhibitor chloroquine (CQ) on the regulation of apoptosis and autophagy, respectively.

Subjects and Methods: Study was conducted on NCI-H23 and NCI-H522 cell lines to evaluate the effect of BV6 and CQ on the transcription and translation level of LC3-II, caspase-3, and caspase-9 genes by quantitative real-time-polymerase chain reaction and western blotting techniques.

Results: In NCI-H23 cell line, BV6 and CQ treatments showed increased mRNA and protein expression of caspase-3, and caspase-9 compared to its untreated counterpart. BV6 and CQ treatments also caused downregulation of LC3-II protein expression compared to its counterpart. In NCI-H522 cell line, BV6 treatment showed a significantly increased expression of caspase-3 and caspase-9 mRNA and protein expression levels whereas BV6 treatment downregulated the expression level of LC3-II protein. A similar pattern was also observed in CQ treatment when compared with the respective controls. Both BV6 and CQ modulated in vitro expression of caspases and LC3-II which have critical regulatory roles in apoptosis and autophagy, respectively.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that BV6 and CQ could be promising candidates in NSCLC treatment and there is a need to explore them in vivo and in clinical applications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Journal of cancer research and therapeutics - 19(2023), Supplement vom: 28. Apr., Seite S0

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ali Beg, Mirza Masroor [VerfasserIn]
Saxena, Alpana [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Vijay Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Akhter, Juheb [VerfasserIn]
Habib, Haroon [VerfasserIn]
Raisuddin, Sheikh [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

886U3H6UFF
Apoptosis
Autophagy
BV6
Caspase 3
Caspase 9
Caspases
Chloroquine
EC 3.4.22.-
Journal Article
NCI-H23 and NCI-H522 cell lines
RNA, Messenger

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Date Completed 08.05.2023

Date Revised 08.05.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_816_21

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356511308