PER1对人肝癌细胞BEL-7402辐射敏感性的影响

本文通过X射线照射SMMC-7721、BEL-7402和HepG2三种肝癌细胞后,以克隆形成试验检测其存活分数,结果显示在梯度剂量X射线0、2、4、6、8、10 Gy照射下SMMC-7721、BEL-7402、HepG2三种细胞克隆存活分数逐渐下降,其中SMMC-7721在三种肝癌细胞系中对辐射最敏感,BEL-7402辐射抗性在三种肝癌细胞系中最高。Western blot检测发现PER1在SMMC-7721中的表达水平明显显著高于BEL-7402和HepG2(P<0.05)。过表达PER1蛋白以后,BEL-7402接受5 Gy X射线照射后凋亡明显增多,同时,western blot和RT-qPCR试验结果发现,X射线照射过表达PER1的BEL-7402细胞,抗凋亡蛋白Bcl-2表达明显降低,凋亡执行蛋白Caspase-3断裂明显增多。研究结果表明PER1蛋白的高水平表达可以促进X射线诱导的凋亡,增强肝癌细胞的辐射敏感性。     

Synthesis and antitumor activities of novel dipeptide derivatives derived from dehydroabietic acid

A series of dipeptide derivatives from dehydroabietic acid were designed and synthesized as novel antitumor agents. The antitumor activities screening indicated that many compounds showed moderate to high levels of inhibition activities against NCI-H460, HepG2, SK-OV-3, BEL-7404, HeLa and HCT-116 cancer cell lines and that some displayed more potent inhibitory activities than commercial anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil. The mechanism of representative compound 7b was studied by AO/EB staining, Hoechst 33258 staining, JC-1 mitochondrial membrane potential staining, TUNEL assay, DNA ladder assay and flow cytometry, which exhibited that the compound could induce apoptosis in HeLa cells. Further investigation showed that compound 7b induced apoptosis of HeLa cells through a mitochondrial pathway.     

Synthesis and in vitro cytotoxic evaluation of new 1H-benzo[d]imidazole derivatives of dehydroabietic acid

A series of new 1H-benzo[d]imidazole derivatives of dehydroabietic acid were designed and synthesized as potent antitumor agents. Structures of the target molecules were characterized using MS, IR, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR and elemental analyses. In the in vitro cytotoxic assay, most compounds showed significant cytotoxic activities against two hepatocarcinoma cells (SMMC-7721 and HepG2) and reduced cytotoxicity against noncancerous human hepatocyte (LO2). Among them, compound 7b exhibited the best cytotoxicity against SMMC-7721 cells (IC₅₀: 0.36 ± 0.13 μM), while 7e was most potent to HepG2 cells (IC₅₀: 0.12 ± 0.03 μM). The cell cycle analysis indicated that compound 7b caused cell cycle arrest of SMMC-7721 cells at G2/M phase. Further, compound 7b also induced the apoptosis of SMMC-7721 cells in Annexin V-APC/7-AAD binding assay.     

Synthesis and antitumor activities of novel α-aminophosphonates dehydroabietic acid derivatives

A series of novel α-aminophosphonate derivatives containing DHA structure were designed and synthesized as antitumor agents. In vitro antitumor activities of these compounds against the NCI-H460 (human lung cancer cell), A549 (human lung adenocarcinoma cell), HepG2 (human liver cancer cell) and SKOV3 (human ovarian cancer cell) human cancer cell lines were evaluated and compared with commercial anticancer drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), employing standard MTT assay. The pharmacological screening results revealed that many compounds exhibited moderate to high levels of antitumor activities against the tested cancer cell lines and that most demonstrated more potent inhibitory activities compared with the commercial anticancer drug 5-FU. The action mechanism of representative compound 7c was preliminarily investigated by acridine orange/ethidium bromide staining, Hoechst 33258 staining, JC-1 mitochondrial membrane potential staining and flow cytometry, which indicated that the compound can induce cell apoptosis in NCI-H460 cells. Cell cycle analysis showed that compound 7c mainly arrested NCI-H460 cells in G1 stage.     

白花蛇舌草豆甾醇对肝癌细胞的体内外抑制作用及对其增殖周期、凋亡的影响

目的:研究白花蛇舌草豆甾醇(stigmasterol from Hedyotis diffusa willd.,SHD)对人肝癌细胞SMMC-7721、BEL-7402的体外抑制作用,对肝癌H22的体内抑制作用及对其增殖周期、凋亡的影响。方法:MTT法评价SHD对人肝癌细胞SMMC-7721、BEL-7402的抑制率变化规律。昆明雄性小鼠60只,随机取10只为正常对照组,余接种H22瘤株,随机分为模型对照组、5-FU阳性对照组(30mg/kg)和高中低剂量SHD给药组(剂量分别为15、30、60mg/kg),腹腔给药10 d后,比较各组瘤重抑制率、H22细胞周期分布、凋亡率。结果:SHD对SMMC-7721、BEL-7402细胞具有体外抑制作用;SHD显著抑制H22肿瘤,增加G0-G1期细胞比例,降低G2/M期细胞比例,促进肿瘤细胞凋亡。结论:SHD在体外、体内均具有抑制肝癌细胞的作用,此作用与阻滞肿瘤细胞增殖周期,促进肿瘤细胞凋亡有关。     

Synthesis,toxicity and antitumor activity of cobalt carbonyl complexes targeting hepatocellular carcinoma

Based on our previous research, a series of targeting hepatocellular carcinoma complexes, [R-Glycyrrhetinic acid-CH₂C₂H-[Co₂(CO)₆] (R = H, 1; R = NSAIDs-COOH, 2–4; R = Aromatic acid, 5–7; R = Amino acid, 8–10), were synthesized. The test showed they are slow CO releasers. Using HeLa, A549, HT-29, SMMC7721 and HepG2 cells as models, their activities against tumor cell proliferation were firstly evaluated. The resulting data show all the complexes displayed a good anti-proliferation activity against the HepG2 and SMMC-7721 liver cancer cells, and their IC₅₀ values were in the range of 10.07–66.06 µM; compared with cis-platin (DDP), their activities were comparable or even better under the same condition. Among them, complexes 3, 4, 6 and 9 exhibited higher anti-proliferation activities against HepG2 and SMMC-7721 cell lines than the other cell lines. To confirm further these complexes have selectivity to the liver cells, the uptakes of complexes 3, 4, 6 and 9 by HepG2, HT-29, A549 and SMMC7721 cell lines were studied. The results show the cell uptake rates of the complexes by HepG2 cells and SMMC7721 cells were much greater than by other cells under the same condition. In following tests, the tested complexes displayed higher activities in inhibiting NF-kB, COX-2 and iNOS; and they induced HepG2 cells apoptosis by mitochondrial pathway, which assessed by staining with different fluorescent reagent DAPI, PI, Mito-Tracker Green and DCFH-DA. Meanwhile, the tested complexes up-regulated the expression levels of caspase-3 and Bax, down-regulated the Bcl-2 expression. In addition, they had no effect on zebrafish embryo survival, embryo hatching, embryonic movement, zebrafish malformation and zebrafish movement at below 0.5 µM. This suggests the complexes are potential candidates to be used in clinic for liver cancers.     

Cytotoxic Terpenes from the Flowers of Inula japonica against Human Hepatocarcinoma Cells

Two new 1,10-seco-eudesmanolides ( 1 and 2 ) were isolated from the flowers of Inula japonica together with two eudesmanolide analogs ( 3 and 4 ) and two monoterpene derivatives ( 5 and 6 ). Their structures were established on the basis of detailed spectroscopic analyses and electronic circular dichroism data. All isolates were evaluated for their antiproliferative activities against human hepatocarcinoma HepG2 and SMMC-7721 cells. Japonipene B ( 3 ) exhibited the most potent effect with the IC₅₀ values of 14.60±1.62 and 22.06±1.34 μM against HepG2 and SMMC-7721 cells, respectively. Furthermore, japonipene B ( 3 ) showed significant efficacies of arresting the cell cycle at the S/G2-M stages, inducing mitochondria-mediated apoptosis, and inhibiting cell migration in HepG2 cells.     

蓖麻根提取物对HepG2,NCI-H460和SGC-7901细胞增殖及凋亡作用的影响

探讨蓖麻根不同提取物对肝癌HepG2细胞株、肺癌NCI-H460细胞株和胃癌SGC-7901细胞株增殖及其凋亡的影响.采用MTT法检测蓖麻根不同提取物处理48h、72h对HepG2细胞、NCI-H460细胞和SGC-7901细胞增殖的抑制率;Hoechst 33258荧光染料染色法观察HepG2细胞凋亡,流式细胞术检测...     

2′,4′-Dihydroxy-6′-methoxy-3′,5′-dimethylchalcone,from buds of Cleistocalyx operculatus,induces apoptosis in human hepatoma SMMC-7721 cells through a reactive oxygen species-dependent mechanism

Nowadays, much effort is being devoted to detect new substances that not only significantly induce the death of tumor cells, but also have little side effect on normal cells. Our previous study showed that 2′,4′-dihydroxy-6′-methoxy-3′,5′-dimethylchalcone (DMC) exhibited significant cytotoxic potential with an IC₅₀ value of 32.3 ± 1.13 μM against SMMC-7721 cells and could induce SMMC-7721 cells apoptosis. In the present study, we found that DMC was almost nontoxic to human normal liver L-02 and human normal fetal lung fibroblast HFL-1 cells as their IC₅₀ values (111.0 ± 4.57 and 152.0 ± 4.83 µM for L-02 and HFL-1 cells, respectively) were much higher. To further explore the apoptotic mechanism of DMC, we investigated the role of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the apoptosis induced by DMC in SMMC-7721 cells. Our results suggested that the cytotoxicity and the generation of intracellular ROS were inhibited by N-acetylcysteine (NAC). Reversal of apoptosis in NAC pretreated cells indicated the involvement of ROS in DMC-induced apoptosis. The loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) induced by DMC was significantly blocked by NAC. NAC also prevented the decrease of Caspase-3 and -9 activities, the increase of Bcl-2 protein expression and the decrease of p53 and PUMA protein expressions. Together, these results indicated that ROS played a key role in the apoptosis induced by DMC in human hepatoma SMMC-7721 cells.     

Chemical constituents from Abrus cantoniensis and their cytotoxic effects on cancer cells

Two new compounds named 4-(4-hydroxybenzyl)-isofraxidin (1) and 1''-methoxyl-bavacoumestan B (2), along with five known compounds (3–7) were isolated from the EtOAc-soluble extract of Abrus cantoniensis. Their structures were elucidated with spectroscopic and physico-chemical analyses. All isolates were evaluated for their cytotoxic activities against four cancer cell lines including HepG2, SMMC-7721, A549 and MCF-7. Among them, compounds 1 and 5 exhibited significant cytotoxic activity on the above four cell lines. In particular, 1 showed the potent cytotoxic activity on HepG2 and SMMC-7721 cells with IC₅₀ values of 4.31 ± 0.5 and 3.24 ± 0.9 μM, respectively.     

BIX-01294对肝癌细胞周期、凋亡及移植瘤的影响

目的:探究组蛋白甲基转移酶G9a抑制剂(BIX-01294)对肝癌细胞周期、凋亡及移植瘤的影响.方法:将SMMC-7721、BEL-7402、HL-7702原始细胞株传代培养后,分为空白对照组和不同浓度(1 μM、5 μM、10 μM、20 μM)BIX-01294处理组.应用Western-blot法检测G9a及肝癌...     

Nitric oxide-donating derivatives of hederacolchiside A1: Synthesis and biological evaluation in vitro and in vivo as potential anticancer agents

A series of nitric oxide (NO) donating derivatives of hederacolchiside A₁ bearing triterpenoid saponin motif were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their anticancer activity. All of the tested furoxan-based NO releasing compounds showed significant proliferation inhibitory activities. Especially compound 6a exhibited strong cytotoxicity (IC₅₀ = 1.6–6.5 μM) against four human tumor cell lines (SMMC-7721, NCI-H460, U251, HCT-116) in vitro and the highest level of NO releasing. Furthermore, compound 6a was revealed low acute toxicity to mice and weak haemolytic activity with potent tumor growth inhibition against mice H22 hepatocellular cells in vivo (51.5%).     

In vitro panning of a targeting peptide to hepatocarcinoma from a phage display peptide library

Phage display technology has been used as a powerful tool in the discovery of ligands specific to receptor(s) on the surface of a cancer cell and could also impact clinical issues including functional diagnosis and cell-specific drug delivery. After three rounds of in vitro panning and two rounds of reverse absorption, a group of phages capable of addressing BEL-7402 enormously were obtained for further analysis. Through a cell-based ELISA, immunofluorescence, FACS, and in vivo binding study, WP05 (sequence TACHQHVRMVRP) was demonstrated to be the most effective peptide in targeting four kinds of liver cancer cell lines (BEL-7402, BEL-7404, SMMC-7721, and HepG2), but not the normal liver cell line HL-7702. In conclusion, the peptide WP05 which was screened by in vitro phage display technology was proved to be a targeting peptide to several common hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines.     

盐霉素抑制人肝细胞癌转移与侵袭的体外与体内实验研究

目的：肝癌的转移与复发是肝癌治疗的一大难题,盐霉素是近年来新发现的具有抗肿瘤作用的抗生素,本文研究了盐霉素在体外及体内对人肝细胞癌转移与侵袭能力的作用及机制。方法：在体外对肝癌细胞株HepG2,SMMC-7721,BEL-7402给予盐霉素处理,体内建立裸鼠肝脏原位肿瘤模型,并给予腹腔注射盐霉素治疗。观察肿瘤细胞的转移侵袭能力以及肝内肿瘤转移灶的情况,进一步测定E．cadherin,Vimentin的表达,来研究盐霉素对肝癌转移及侵袭能力的影响及机制。结果：经盐霉素处理后,肝癌细胞株HepG2,SMMC．7721,BEL．7402的转移及侵袭能力明显下降,肝内转移灶的数目也减少。分子机制检测发现盐霉素处理后E．cadherin表达增高,Vimentin表达下降。结论：盐霉素在体内与体外都抑制了肝癌的转移与侵袭,其机制可能抑制了肿瘤细胞的上皮间质化（EMT）过程。这为控制肝癌的转移和复发提供了新的治疗思路。     

Design,synthesis and biological evaluation of matrine derivatives as potential anticancer agents

Using matrine (1) as the lead compound, a series of new 14-(N-substituted-2-pyrrolemethylene) matrine and 14-(N-substituted-indolemethylene) matrine derivatives was designed and synthesized for their potential application as anticancer agents. The structure of these compounds was characterized by ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR and ESI-MS spectral analyses. The target compounds were evaluated for their in vitro cytotoxicity against three human cancer cell lines (SMMC-7721, A549 and CNE2). The results revealed that compound A6 and B21 displayed the most significant anticancer activity against three cancer cell lines with IC₅₀ values in range of 3.42–8.05?μM, which showed better activity than the parent compound (Matrine) and positive control Cisplatin. Furthermore, the Annexin V-FITC/PI dual staining assay revealed that compound A6 and B21 could significantly induce the apoptosis of SMMC-7721 and CNE2 cells in a dose-dependent manner. The cell cycle analysis also revealed that compound A6 could cause cell cycle arrest of SMMC-7721 and CNE2 cells at G2/M phase.     

L-Carnitine Is an Endogenous HDAC Inhibitor Selectively Inhibiting Cancer Cell Growth In Vivo and In Vitro

L-carnitine (LC) is generally believed to transport long-chain acyl groups from fatty acids into the mitochondrial matrix for ATP generation via the citric acid cycle. Based on Warburg''s theory that most cancer cells mainly depend on glycolysis for ATP generation, we hypothesize that, LC treatment would lead to disturbance of cellular metabolism and cytotoxicity in cancer cells. In this study, Human hepatoma HepG2, SMMC-7721 cell lines, primary cultured thymocytes and mice bearing HepG2 tumor were used. ATP content was detected by HPLC assay. Cell cycle, cell death and cell viability were assayed by flow cytometry and MTS respectively. Gene, mRNA expression and protein level were detected by gene microarray, Real-time PCR and Western blot respectively. HDAC activities and histone acetylation were detected both in test tube and in cultured cells. A molecular docking study was carried out with CDOCKER protocol of Discovery Studio 2.0 to predict the molecular interaction between L-carnitine and HDAC. Here we found that (1) LC treatment selectively inhibited cancer cell growth in vivo and in vitro; (2) LC treatment selectively induces the expression of p21^cip1 gene, mRNA and protein in cancer cells but not p27^kip1; (4) LC increases histone acetylation and induces accumulation of acetylated histones both in normal thymocytes and cancer cells; (5) LC directly inhibits HDAC I/II activities via binding to the active sites of HDAC and induces histone acetylation and lysine-acetylation accumulation in vitro; (6) LC treatment induces accumulation of acetylated histones in chromatin associated with the p21^cip1 gene but not p27^kip1 detected by ChIP assay. These data support that LC, besides transporting acyl group, works as an endogenous HDAC inhibitor in the cell, which would be of physiological and pathological importance.     

Using a non-radioisotopic, quantitative TRAP-based method detecting telomerase activities in human hepatoma cells

INTRODUCTIONTelomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex that plays a critical role in telomeremaintenance and cellular immortality. Telomerase has been considered as tumordiagnostic marker and potential target for cancer therapyll, 2]. A sensitive, reliableand quantitative assay is of high interest in this field. The development of a very sensitive Telomeric Repeat Amplification Protocol (TRAP) for measuring telomerajseactivity in cell extracts has been proved to be an important tool for…     

Using a non—radioisotopic,quantitative TRAP—based method detecting telomerase activities in human hepatoma cellos

A non-radioisotopic,quantitative TRAP-based telomerase activity assay was established mainly by using SYBR Green-I staining instead of radioisotope.Comparing with conventional radioisotope based method,it was better in reproducibility and accuracy.Using this method,we found telomerase activities were absent in normal human liver cells,while detected in all of four human hepatoma cell lines (BEL-7404,SMMC-7721,QGY-07903 and HCCM) without significant differences.     

Heavy ion irradiation increases apoptosis and STAT-3 expression, led to the cells arrested at G2/M phase in human hepatoma SMMC-7721 cells

Background The impact of STAT-3 expression on the apoptosis of human hepatomas cell SMMC-7721 line induced by X-ray and carbon ion irradiations was investigated. Methods Human hepatoma SMMC-7721 cells were irradiated with a carbon ion beam and X-ray. Cell survival was determined by a standard colony-forming assay. STAT-3 protein expression was analysed by Western Immunoblots. Cell cycle and apoptosis were performed by flow cytometry. Results The viability of SMMC-7721 cells decreased with increasing dose of the carbon ion beam, and the high-LET carbon ion beam led to the cells getting arrested at G₂/M phase. Western Blot analyses show that STAT-3 expression increased with increasing radiation dose. The carbon ion irradiation induced cell apoptosis and significantly promoted the expression of STAT-3 gene compared with the X-ray irradiation. The apoptosis rate is correlated with the expression of STAT-3 in human hepatoma SMMC-7721 cells after exposure to different doses of X-ray and heavy ion beam. Conclusions Heavy ion irradiation increases the expression of STAT-3 gene, makes SMMC-7721 cells arrested at G₂/M phase and increases cell apoptosis in comparison with that induced by low-LET X-ray. The STAT-3 expression may be regarded as a protected reaction when the cancerous cells suffer a strong stimulus such as high-LET irradiation. The interaction of STAT-3 expression and other cytokines in human hepatoma and the relationship between STAT-3 and radiation-induced apoptosis remain to be clarified in the future.     

Five new triterpenoid saponins from the Roots of Camellia oleifera C. Abel with cytotoxic activities

Five new triterpenoid saponins, oleiferosides P–T (1–5) were isolated from the EtOH extract of the roots of Camellia oleifera C. Abel. The structures of saponins 1–5 were elucidated on the basis of integrated spectroscopic techniques. All the compounds were characterized to be oleanane-type saponins with sugar moieties linked to the C-3 of the aglycone. By using the MTT assay, an in vitro analysis of the cytotoxic activities of these saponins on the human tumor cell lines (lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells, hepatic carcinoma SMMC-7721 cells and breast cancer MCF-7 cells). Among them, compound 4 showed a certain cytotoxic activity against all the tested cell lines.