Amygdalin delays cell cycle progression and blocks growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro

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• 作者：Jasmina Makarević^a ; ¹ ; Igor Tsaur^a ; ¹ ; ^{igor.tsaur@kgu.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Eva Juengel^a ; Hendrik Borgmann^a ; Karen Nelson^b ; Christian Thomas^a ; Georg Bartsch^a ; Axel Haferkamp^a ; ² ; Roman A. Blaheta^a ; ²
• 关键词：Amygdalin ; Prostate cancer ; Complementary and alternative medicine ; Natural compounds ; Growth inhibition
• 刊名：Life Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：15 February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：147
• 期：Complete
• 页码：137-142
• 全文大小：699 K

文摘

Despite impressive survival benefits from new agents to treat metastasized prostate cancer (PCa), progressive drug resistance hinders long-term response and restricts the efficacy of subsequent therapy. Due to reported antitumor activity of amygdalin and growing popularity for complementary and alternative medicine the potential of this natural, widely used substance to exert antineoplastic effects on prostate cancer cells has been assessed.

Main methods

LNCaP (castration-sensitive), DU-145 and PC3 cells (castration-resistant) were exposed to different concentrations of amygdalin for 24 h or 2 weeks. Cell growth was measured by the MTT test, clonal formation by the clonogenic assay. Flow cytometry served to investigate apoptosis and cell cycle phases. Cell cycle regulating proteins and the mTOR–akt signaling axis were analyzed by western blotting.

Key findings

Amygdalin dose-dependently diminished tumor cell growth with maximum effects at 10 mg/ml. Apoptosis of PC3 and LNCaP but not of DU-145 cells was reduced, whereas colony formation was suppressed in all cell lines. A decrease in the number of G2/M- and S-phase cells along with an elevated number of G0/G1-phase cells was recorded. The cell cycle proteins cdk 1, cdk 2 and cdk 4 as well as cyclin A, cyclin B and cyclin D3 were modulated by amygdalin after both 24 h and 2 weeks. Distinct effects on p19 and p27 expression and on Akt, Rictor and Raptor activation became evident only after 2 weeks.

Significance

Amygdalin exhibits significant antitumor activity in both castration-sensitive and castration-resistant PCa cell lines and merits further evaluation for therapeutic purposes.