Abstract:
:Tamoxifen (TAM), an anti-estrogen compound, is widely used for chemotherapy of breast cancer, although the molecular mechanisms underlying TAM cytotoxicity are obscure. Here, we show that TAM dramatically caused degradation of vimentin (VIM) in human skin fibroblasts, in a time and dose dependent manner. Addition of caspase-3 inhibitor, Z-DEVD-FMK, inhibited formation of some fragments of VIM, and caspase-3 was proteolytically activated by TAM treatment. Expression of functional estrogen receptors were negative in these cells, and neither transcription nor protein synthesis was required for TAM-induced degradation of VIM. Moreover, quinestrol, an ethinyl estradiol derivative, weakly degraded VIM, whereas neither estradiols nor estriol had any effects. Taken together, TAM may induce fragmentation of VIM associated with an activation of caspase-3, which may be attributed to non-genomic actions of TAM.
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Hashimoto M,Inoue S,Ogawa S,Conrad C,Muramatsu M,Shackelford D,Masliah Edoi
10.1006/bbrc.1998.8799subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-06-18 00:00:00pages
401-6issue
2eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(98)98799-Xjournal_volume
247pub_type
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