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Regulation of tNOX expression through the ROS-p53-POU3F2 axis contributes to cellular responses against oxaliplatin in human colon cancer cells.

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BACKGROUND:Oxaliplatin belongs to the platinum-based drug family and has shown promise in treating cancer by binding to DNA to induce cytotoxicity. However, individual patients show diverse therapeutic responses toward oxaliplatin due to yet-unknown underlying mechanisms. We recently established that oxaliplatin also exert its anti-cancer activity in gastric cancer cell lines by targeting tumor-associated NADH oxidase (tNOX), attenuate NAD+ generation and reduce NAD+-dependent sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) deacetylase activity, which in turn enhances p53 acetylation and apoptosis. METHODS:In this study, differential cellular outcomes in response to oxaliplatin exposure of p53-wild-type versus p53-null HCT116 human colon cancer cells were examined. Cell growth profile was determined by cell impedance measurements and apoptosis was analyzed by flow cytometry. The engagement between oxaliplatin and tNOX protein was studied by cellular thermal shift assay. Furthermore, western blot analysis revealed that p53 was important in regulating tNOX expression in these cell lines. RESULTS:In p53-wild-type cells, we found that oxaliplatin inhibited cell growth by inducing apoptosis and concurrently down-regulating tNOX at both the transcriptional and translational levels. In p53-null cells, in contrast, oxaliplatin moderately up-regulated tNOX expression and yielded no apoptosis and much less cytotoxicity. Further experiments revealed that in p53-wild-type cells, oxaliplatin enhanced ROS generation and p53 transcriptional activation, leading to down-regulation of the transcriptional factor, POU3F2, which enhances the expression of tNOX. Moreover, the addition of a ROS scavenger reversed the p53 activation, POU3F2 down-regulation, and apoptosis induced by oxaliplatin in p53-wild-type cells. In the p53-null line, on the other hand, oxaliplatin treatment triggered less ROS generation and no p53 protein, such that POU3F2 and tNOX were not down-regulated and oxaliplatin-mediated cytotoxicity was attenuated. CONCLUSION:Our results show that oxaliplatin mediates differential cellular responses in colon cancer cells depending on their p53 status, and demonstrate that the ROS-p53 axis is important for regulating POU3F2 and its downstream target, tNOX. Notably, the depletion of tNOX sensitizes p53-null cells to both spontaneous and oxaliplatin-induced apoptosis. Our work thus clearly shows a scenario in which targeting of tNOX may be a potential strategy for cancer therapy in a p53-inactivated system.

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J Exp Clin Cancer Res

journal_title

Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR

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Chen HY,Islam A,Yuan TM,Chen SW,Liu PF,Chueh PJ

doi

10.1186/s13046-018-0837-9

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Has Abstract

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2018-07-20 00:00:00

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161

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0392-9078

issn

1756-9966

pii

10.1186/s13046-018-0837-9

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Regulation of tNOX expression through the ROS-p53-POU3F2 axis contributes to cellular responses against oxaliplatin in human colon cancer cells.