Inhibition of melanoma cell motility by the snake venom disintegrin eristostatin.

Abstract

Eristostatin, an RGD-containing disintegrin isolated from the venom of Eristicophis macmahoni, inhibits lung or liver colonization of melanoma cells in a mouse model. In this study, transwell migration and in vitro wound closure assays were used to determine the effect of eristostatin on the migration of melanoma cells. Eristostatin significantly impaired the migration of five human melanoma cell lines. Furthermore, it specifically inhibited cell migration on fibronectin in a concentration-dependent manner, but not that on collagen IV or laminin. In contrast, eristostatin was found to have no effect on cell proliferation or angiogenesis. These results indicate that the interaction between eristostatin and melanoma cells may involve fibronectin-binding integrins that mediate cell migration. Mutations to alanine of seven residues within the RGD loop of eristostatin and four residues outside the RGD loop of eristostatin resulted in significantly less potency in both platelet aggregation and wound closure assays. For six of the mutations, however, decreased activity was found only in the latter assay. We conclude that a different mechanism and/or integrin is involved in these two cell activities.

• Authors: Jing Tian, Carrie Paquette-Straub, E Helene Sage, Sarah E Funk, Vivek Patel, Deni Galileo, Mary Ann McLane
• Journal: Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology (Toxicon) Vol. 49 Issue 7 Pg. 899-908 (Jun 01 2007) ISSN: 0041-0101 [Print] England
• PMID: 17316731 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)

Chemical References

• Antineoplastic Agents
• Peptides
• Viper Venoms
• eristostatin
• Alanine

Topics

• Alanine (genetics)
• Animals
• Antineoplastic Agents (chemistry, isolation & purification, pharmacology)
• Cell Line, Tumor
• Cell Movement (drug effects)
• Cell Proliferation (drug effects)
• Chorioallantoic Membrane (blood supply)
• Humans
• Melanoma (physiopathology)
• Mice
• Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
• Neovascularization, Physiologic (drug effects)
• Peptides (chemistry, isolation & purification, pharmacology)
• Quail (embryology)
• Viper Venoms (chemistry, isolation & purification, pharmacology)