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Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress
Skin melanoma is one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat human malignancies, characterized by poor survival rates, thus requiring urgent novel therapeutic approaches. Although metabolic reprogramming has represented so far, a cancer hallmark, accumulating data indicate a high plasticity of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7140454/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells9030640 |
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author | Antunes, Fernanda Pereira, Gustavo J. S. Saito, Renata F. Buri, Marcus V. Gagliardi, Mara Bincoletto, Claudia Chammas, Roger Fimia, Gian Maria Piacentini, Mauro Corazzari, Marco Smaili, Soraya Soubhi |
author_facet | Antunes, Fernanda Pereira, Gustavo J. S. Saito, Renata F. Buri, Marcus V. Gagliardi, Mara Bincoletto, Claudia Chammas, Roger Fimia, Gian Maria Piacentini, Mauro Corazzari, Marco Smaili, Soraya Soubhi |
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description | Skin melanoma is one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat human malignancies, characterized by poor survival rates, thus requiring urgent novel therapeutic approaches. Although metabolic reprogramming has represented so far, a cancer hallmark, accumulating data indicate a high plasticity of cancer cells in modulating cellular metabolism to adapt to a heterogeneous and continuously changing microenvironment, suggesting a novel therapeutic approach for dietary manipulation in cancer therapy. To this aim, we exposed melanoma cells to combined nutrient-restriction/sorafenib. Results indicate that cell death was efficiently induced, with apoptosis representing the prominent feature. In contrast, autophagy was blocked in the final stage by this treatment, similarly to chloroquine, which also enhanced melanoma cell sensitization to combined treatment. Energy stress was evidenced by associated treatment with mitochondrial dysfunction and glycolysis impairment, suggesting metabolic stress determining melanoma cell death. A reduction of tumor growth after cycles of intermittent fasting together with sorafenib treatment was also observed in vivo, reinforcing that the nutrient shortage can potentiate anti-melanoma therapy. Our findings showed that the restriction of nutrients by intermittent fasting potentiates the effects of sorafenib due to the modulation of cellular metabolism, suggesting that it is possible to harness the energy of cancer cells for the treatment of melanoma. |
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spelling | pubmed-71404542020-04-13 Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress Antunes, Fernanda Pereira, Gustavo J. S. Saito, Renata F. Buri, Marcus V. Gagliardi, Mara Bincoletto, Claudia Chammas, Roger Fimia, Gian Maria Piacentini, Mauro Corazzari, Marco Smaili, Soraya Soubhi Cells Article Skin melanoma is one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat human malignancies, characterized by poor survival rates, thus requiring urgent novel therapeutic approaches. Although metabolic reprogramming has represented so far, a cancer hallmark, accumulating data indicate a high plasticity of cancer cells in modulating cellular metabolism to adapt to a heterogeneous and continuously changing microenvironment, suggesting a novel therapeutic approach for dietary manipulation in cancer therapy. To this aim, we exposed melanoma cells to combined nutrient-restriction/sorafenib. Results indicate that cell death was efficiently induced, with apoptosis representing the prominent feature. In contrast, autophagy was blocked in the final stage by this treatment, similarly to chloroquine, which also enhanced melanoma cell sensitization to combined treatment. Energy stress was evidenced by associated treatment with mitochondrial dysfunction and glycolysis impairment, suggesting metabolic stress determining melanoma cell death. A reduction of tumor growth after cycles of intermittent fasting together with sorafenib treatment was also observed in vivo, reinforcing that the nutrient shortage can potentiate anti-melanoma therapy. Our findings showed that the restriction of nutrients by intermittent fasting potentiates the effects of sorafenib due to the modulation of cellular metabolism, suggesting that it is possible to harness the energy of cancer cells for the treatment of melanoma. MDPI 2020-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7140454/ /pubmed/32155825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells9030640 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Antunes, Fernanda Pereira, Gustavo J. S. Saito, Renata F. Buri, Marcus V. Gagliardi, Mara Bincoletto, Claudia Chammas, Roger Fimia, Gian Maria Piacentini, Mauro Corazzari, Marco Smaili, Soraya Soubhi Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress |
title | Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress |
title_full | Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress |
title_fullStr | Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress |
title_full_unstemmed | Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress |
title_short | Effective Synergy of Sorafenib and Nutrient Shortage in Inducing Melanoma Cell Death through Energy Stress |
title_sort | effective synergy of sorafenib and nutrient shortage in inducing melanoma cell death through energy stress |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7140454/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32155825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells9030640 |
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