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Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling
Sanguisorba officinalis L. (SA) is a common herb for cancer treatment in the clinic, particularly during the consolidation phase to prevent occurrence or metastasis. Nevertheless, there are limited studies reporting the molecular mechanisms about its anti-metastatic function. It is well demonstrated...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33381039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.591400 |
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author | Wang, Neng Muhetaer, Gulizeba Zhang, Xiaotong Yang, Bowen Wang, Caiwei Zhang, Yu Wang, Xuan Zhang, Juping Wang, Shengqi Zheng, Yifeng Zhang, Fengxue Wang, Zhiyu |
author_facet | Wang, Neng Muhetaer, Gulizeba Zhang, Xiaotong Yang, Bowen Wang, Caiwei Zhang, Yu Wang, Xuan Zhang, Juping Wang, Shengqi Zheng, Yifeng Zhang, Fengxue Wang, Zhiyu |
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description | Sanguisorba officinalis L. (SA) is a common herb for cancer treatment in the clinic, particularly during the consolidation phase to prevent occurrence or metastasis. Nevertheless, there are limited studies reporting the molecular mechanisms about its anti-metastatic function. It is well demonstrated that autophagy is one of the critical mechanisms accounting for metastasis and anti-cancer pharmacological actions of Chinese herbs. On the threshold, the regulatory effects and molecular mechanisms of SA in suppressing autophagy-related breast cancer metastasis were investigated in this study. In vitro findings demonstrated that SA potently suppressed the proliferation, colony formations well as metastasis process in triple-negative breast cancer. Network and biological analyses predicted that SA mainly targeted caveolin-1 (Cav-1) to induce anti-metastatic effects, and one of the core mechanisms was via regulation of autophagy. Further experiments—including western blotting, transmission electron microscopy, GFP-mRFP-LC3 immunofluorescence, and lysosomal-activity detection—validated SA as a potent late-stage autophagic inhibitor by increasing microtubule-associated light chain 3-II (LC3-II) conversion, decreasing acidic vesicular-organelle formation, and inducing lysosomal dysfunction even under conditions of either starvation or hypoxia. Furthermore, the anti-autophagic and anti-metastatic activity of SA was Cav-1-dependent. Specifically, Cav-1 knockdown significantly facilitated SA-mediated inhibition of autophagy and metastasis. Furthermore, hypoxia inducible factor-1α (Hif-1α) overexpression attenuated the SA-induced inhibitory activities on Cav-1, autophagy, and metastasis, indicating that SA may have inhibited autophagy-related metastasis via Hif-1α/Cav-1 signaling. In both mouse breast cancer xenograft and zebrafish xenotransplantation models, SA inhibited breast cancer growth and inhibited late-phase autophagy in vivo, which was accompanied by suppression of Hif-1α/Cav-1 signaling and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Overall, our findings not only indicate that SA acts as a novel late-phase autophagic inhibitor with anti-metastatic activities in triple-negative breast cancer, but also highlight Cav-1 as a regulator in controlling late-phase autophagic activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-77680862020-12-29 Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling Wang, Neng Muhetaer, Gulizeba Zhang, Xiaotong Yang, Bowen Wang, Caiwei Zhang, Yu Wang, Xuan Zhang, Juping Wang, Shengqi Zheng, Yifeng Zhang, Fengxue Wang, Zhiyu Front Pharmacol Pharmacology Sanguisorba officinalis L. (SA) is a common herb for cancer treatment in the clinic, particularly during the consolidation phase to prevent occurrence or metastasis. Nevertheless, there are limited studies reporting the molecular mechanisms about its anti-metastatic function. It is well demonstrated that autophagy is one of the critical mechanisms accounting for metastasis and anti-cancer pharmacological actions of Chinese herbs. On the threshold, the regulatory effects and molecular mechanisms of SA in suppressing autophagy-related breast cancer metastasis were investigated in this study. In vitro findings demonstrated that SA potently suppressed the proliferation, colony formations well as metastasis process in triple-negative breast cancer. Network and biological analyses predicted that SA mainly targeted caveolin-1 (Cav-1) to induce anti-metastatic effects, and one of the core mechanisms was via regulation of autophagy. Further experiments—including western blotting, transmission electron microscopy, GFP-mRFP-LC3 immunofluorescence, and lysosomal-activity detection—validated SA as a potent late-stage autophagic inhibitor by increasing microtubule-associated light chain 3-II (LC3-II) conversion, decreasing acidic vesicular-organelle formation, and inducing lysosomal dysfunction even under conditions of either starvation or hypoxia. Furthermore, the anti-autophagic and anti-metastatic activity of SA was Cav-1-dependent. Specifically, Cav-1 knockdown significantly facilitated SA-mediated inhibition of autophagy and metastasis. Furthermore, hypoxia inducible factor-1α (Hif-1α) overexpression attenuated the SA-induced inhibitory activities on Cav-1, autophagy, and metastasis, indicating that SA may have inhibited autophagy-related metastasis via Hif-1α/Cav-1 signaling. In both mouse breast cancer xenograft and zebrafish xenotransplantation models, SA inhibited breast cancer growth and inhibited late-phase autophagy in vivo, which was accompanied by suppression of Hif-1α/Cav-1 signaling and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Overall, our findings not only indicate that SA acts as a novel late-phase autophagic inhibitor with anti-metastatic activities in triple-negative breast cancer, but also highlight Cav-1 as a regulator in controlling late-phase autophagic activity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7768086/ /pubmed/33381039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.591400 Text en Copyright © 2020 Wang, Muhetaer, Zhang, Yang, Wang, Zhang, Wang, Zhang, Wang, Zheng, Zhang and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Pharmacology Wang, Neng Muhetaer, Gulizeba Zhang, Xiaotong Yang, Bowen Wang, Caiwei Zhang, Yu Wang, Xuan Zhang, Juping Wang, Shengqi Zheng, Yifeng Zhang, Fengxue Wang, Zhiyu Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling |
title |
Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling |
title_full |
Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling |
title_fullStr |
Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling |
title_full_unstemmed |
Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling |
title_short |
Sanguisorba officinalis L. Suppresses Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Metastasis by Inhibiting Late-Phase Autophagy via Hif-1α/Caveolin-1 Signaling |
title_sort | sanguisorba officinalis l. suppresses triple-negative breast cancer metastasis by inhibiting late-phase autophagy via hif-1α/caveolin-1 signaling |
topic | Pharmacology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33381039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.591400 |
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