Involvement of matrix metalloproteinase 2 and 9 in gambogic acid induced suppression of MDA-MB-435 human breast carcinoma cell lung metastasis
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- 作者：Qi Qi ; Hongyan Gu ; Yong Yang ; Na Lu ; Jie Zhao ; Wei Liu ; Hua Ling ; Qi-dong You ; Xiaotang Wang and Qinglong Guo
- 关键词：Gambogic acid ; Matrix metalloproteinase ; Invasion ; Metastasis ; Anticancer agent
- 刊名：Journal of Molecular Medicine
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：December, 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：86
- 期：12
- 页码：1367-1377
- 全文大小：419.3 KB
文摘
Cancer cell invasion is one of the crucial events in local spreading, growth, and metastasis of tumors. The present study investigated the antiinvasive and antimetastatic action of gambogic acid (GA) in MDA-MB-435 human breast carcinoma cells. GA caused a concentration-dependent suppression of cell invasion through Matrigel and significantly inhibited lung metastases of the cells transplanted in vivo. The potent effects of GA have been attributed to its ability to reduce the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) 2 and 9 in vitro and in vivo both at the protein and mRNA levels, which were associated with protein kinase C (PKC) signaling pathway as supported by the diminished antiinvasive effect of GA in the presence of specific activator of the pathway. Collectively, our data demonstrated that GA exhibited antiinvasion properties on highly invasive cancer cells via PKC mediated MMP-2/9 expression inhibition. This indicated that GA can be served as a potential novel therapeutic candidate for the treatment of cancer metastasis.