Modulation of Activator Protein-1 (AP-1) and MAPK Pathway by Flavonoids in Human Prostate Cancer PC3 Cells

Gopalakrishnan, Avanthika; Xu, Chang-Jiang; Nair, Sujit S.; Chen, Chi; Hebbar, Vidya; Kong, Ah-Ng Tony

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저자정보: Gopalakrishnan, Avanthika (Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Xu, Chang-Jiang (Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Nair, Sujit S. (Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Chen, Chi (Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Hebbar, Vidya (Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Kong, Ah-Ng Tony (Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

저널정보: 대한약학회 Archives of pharmacal research : a publication of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea Archives of pharmacal research : a publication of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea 제29권 제8호

발행연도: 2006.1

수록면: 633 - 644 (12page)

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In last couple of decades the use of natural compounds like flavonoids as chemopreventive agents has gained much attention. Our current study focuses on identifying chemopreventive flavonoids and their mechanism of action on human prostate cancer cells. Human prostate cancer cells (PC3), stably transfected with activator protein 1 (AP-1) luciferase reporter gene were treated with four main classes of flavonoids namely flavonols, flavones, flavonones, and isoflavones. The maximum AP-1 luciferase induction of about 3 fold over control was observed with $20\;{\mu}M$ concentrations of quercetin, chrysin and genistein and $50\;{\mu}M$ concentration of kaempferol. At higher concentrations, most of the flavonoids demonstrated inhibition of AP-1 activity. The MTS assay for cell viability at 24 h showed that even at a very high concentration $(500\;{\mu}M)$, cell death was minimal for most of the flavonoids. To determine the role of MAPK pathway in the induction of AP-1 by flavonoids, Western blot of phospho MAPK proteins was performed. Four out of the eight flavonoids namely kaempferol, apigenin, genistein and naringenin were used for the Western Blot analysis. Induction of phospho-JNK and phospho-ERK activity was observed after two hour incubation of PC3-AP1 cells with flavonoids. However no induction of phospho-p38 activity was observed. Furthermore, pretreating the cells with specific inhibitors of JNK reduced the AP-1 luciferase activity that was induced by genistein while pretreatment with MEK inhibitor reduced the AP-1 luciferase activity induced by kaempferol. The pharmacological inhibitors did not affect the AP-1 luciferase activity induced by apigenin and naringenin. These results suggest the possible involvement of JNK pathway in genistein induced AP-1 activity while the ERK pathway seems to play an important role in kaempferol induced AP-1 activity.

#Flavonoids #AP-1 #MAPK #JNK #ERK

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