Induction of G1 arrest and selective growth inhibition by lactacystin in human umbilical vein endothelial cells.

Abstract

In search for angiogenesis inhibitors, we tested protease and proteasome inhibitors for the induction of G1 arrest and selective inhibition of growth of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Serine protease-, cysteine protease-, aspartate protease-, and aminopeptidase-inhibitors did not inhibit bFGF/FBS-induced S-phase induction in HUVECs, but a proteasome inhibitor, lactacystin did inhibit it reversibly. Lactacystin increased the cellular level of p53 and cdk2-associated p21WAF1/CIP1 leading to cdk2 inactivation. In addition to the angiogenesis inhibitor TNP-470, lactacystin also inhibited the growth of HUVECs selectively at about a 20 times lower concentration than that of other human cell lines, including normal fibroblasts and carcinoma cells. Lactacystin induced p53-dependent p21WAF1/CIP1 expression at lower concentrations in HUVECs than in other cells. These cellular effects were also observed with a tripeptide-type proteasome inhibitor, N-Ac-Leu-Leu-norleucinal.

• Authors: S I Kumeda, A Deguchi, M Toi, S Omura, K Umezawa
• Journal: Anticancer research (Anticancer Res) 1999 Sep-Oct Vol. 19 Issue 5B Pg. 3961-8 ISSN: 0250-7005 [Print] Greece
• PMID: 10628338 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• CDKN1A protein, human
• Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21
• Cyclins
• Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors
• Leupeptins
• Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
• acetylleucyl-leucyl-norleucinal
• lactacystin
• Fibroblast Growth Factors
• Cycloheximide
• Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
• CDC2-CDC28 Kinases
• CDK2 protein, human
• Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2
• Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
• Acetylcysteine

Topics

• Acetylcysteine (analogs & derivatives, pharmacology)
• Blotting, Western
• Breast Neoplasms (metabolism)
• CDC2-CDC28 Kinases
• Cell Division (drug effects)
• Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2
• Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21
• Cyclin-Dependent Kinases (metabolism)
• Cyclins (metabolism)
• Cycloheximide (pharmacology)
• Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors (pharmacology)
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Endothelium, Vascular (drug effects)
• Fibroblast Growth Factors (pharmacology)
• Fibroblasts (metabolism)
• G1 Phase (drug effects)
• Humans
• Leupeptins (pharmacology)
• Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases (metabolism)
• Time Factors
• Tumor Cells, Cultured
• Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 (metabolism)
• Umbilical Veins (drug effects)