Abstract |
Fatty acid synthase (FAS) is overexpressed in many human cancers including breast cancer and is considered to be a promising target for therapy. Sea buckthorn has long been used to treat a variety of maladies. Here, we investigated the inhibitory effect of sea buckthorn procyanidins (SBPs) isolated from the seeds of sea buckthorn on FAS and FAS overexpressed human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells. The FAS activity and FAS inhibition were measured by a spectrophotometer at 340 nm of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate ( NADPH) absorption. We found that SBP potently inhibited the activity of FAS with a half-inhibitory concentration (IC50) value of 0.087 μg/ml. 3-4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl-2,3-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay was used to test the cell viability. SBP reduced MDA-MB-231 cell viability with an IC50 value of 37.5 μg/ml. Hoechst 33258/ propidium iodide dual staining and flow cytometric analysis showed that SBP induced MDA-MB-231 cell apoptosis. SBP inhibited intracellular FAS activity with a dose-dependent manner. In addition, sodium palmitate could rescue the cell apoptosis induced by SBP. These results showed that SBP was a promising FAS inhibitor which could induce the apoptosis of MDA-MB-231 cells via inhibiting FAS. These findings suggested that SBP might be useful for preventing or treating breast cancer.
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Authors | Yi Wang, Fangyuan Nie, Jian Ouyang, Xiaoyan Wang, Xiaofeng Ma |
Journal | Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine
(Tumour Biol)
Vol. 35
Issue 10
Pg. 9563-9
(Oct 2014)
ISSN: 1423-0380 [Electronic] Netherlands |
PMID | 24957042
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Proanthocyanidins
- Fatty Acid Synthases
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Topics |
- Apoptosis
(drug effects)
- Breast Neoplasms
(enzymology)
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Proliferation
(drug effects)
- Fatty Acid Synthases
(antagonists & inhibitors, drug effects)
- Flow Cytometry
- Hippophae
(chemistry)
- Humans
- Phytotherapy
(methods)
- Proanthocyanidins
(pharmacology)
- Seeds
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