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Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) frequently shows early invasion into blood vessels as well as intrahepatic metastasis. Innovations of novel small-molecule agents to block HCC invasion and subsequent metastasis are urgently needed. Moscatilin is a bibenzyl derivative extracted from the stems of a trad...

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Autores principales: Yu, Chen-Lin, Weng, Meng-Shih, Chen, Wei-Cheng, Chien, Kai-Ting, Chi, Chih-Wen, Chung, Ching-Hu, Huang, Chia-Wen, Wang, Po-Chuan, Chen, Chien-Chih, Tsai, An-Chi, Liu, Shih-Chia, Wang, Shih-Wei
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33805784
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22062930
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author Yu, Chen-Lin
Weng, Meng-Shih
Chen, Wei-Cheng
Chien, Kai-Ting
Chi, Chih-Wen
Chung, Ching-Hu
Huang, Chia-Wen
Wang, Po-Chuan
Chen, Chien-Chih
Tsai, An-Chi
Liu, Shih-Chia
Wang, Shih-Wei
author_facet Yu, Chen-Lin
Weng, Meng-Shih
Chen, Wei-Cheng
Chien, Kai-Ting
Chi, Chih-Wen
Chung, Ching-Hu
Huang, Chia-Wen
Wang, Po-Chuan
Chen, Chien-Chih
Tsai, An-Chi
Liu, Shih-Chia
Wang, Shih-Wei
author_sort Yu, Chen-Lin
collection PubMed
description Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) frequently shows early invasion into blood vessels as well as intrahepatic metastasis. Innovations of novel small-molecule agents to block HCC invasion and subsequent metastasis are urgently needed. Moscatilin is a bibenzyl derivative extracted from the stems of a traditional Chinese medicine, orchid Dendrobium loddigesii. Although moscatilin has been reported to suppress tumor angiogenesis and growth, the anti-metastatic property of moscatilin has not been elucidated. The present results revealed that moscatilin inhibited metastatic behavior of HCC cells without cytotoxic fashion in highly invasive human HCC cell lines. Furthermore, moscatilin significantly suppressed the activity of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), but not matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9. Interestingly, moscatilin-suppressed uPA activity was through down-regulation the protein level of uPA, and did not impair the uPA receptor and uPA inhibitory molecule (PAI-1) expressions. Meanwhile, the mRNA expression of uPA was inhibited via moscatilin in a concentration-dependent manner. In addition, the expression of phosphorylated Akt, rather than ERK1/2, was inhibited by moscatilin treatment. The expression of phosphor-IκBα, and -p65, as well as κB-luciferase activity were also repressed after moscatilin treatment. Transfection of constitutively active Akt (Myr-Akt) obviously restored the moscatilin-inhibited the activation of NF-κB and uPA, and cancer invasion in HCC cells. Taken together, these results suggest that moscatilin impedes HCC invasion and uPA expression through the Akt/NF-κB signaling pathway. Moscatilin might serve as a potential anti-metastatic agent against the disease progression of human HCC.
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spelling pubmed-80020832021-03-28 Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway Yu, Chen-Lin Weng, Meng-Shih Chen, Wei-Cheng Chien, Kai-Ting Chi, Chih-Wen Chung, Ching-Hu Huang, Chia-Wen Wang, Po-Chuan Chen, Chien-Chih Tsai, An-Chi Liu, Shih-Chia Wang, Shih-Wei Int J Mol Sci Article Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) frequently shows early invasion into blood vessels as well as intrahepatic metastasis. Innovations of novel small-molecule agents to block HCC invasion and subsequent metastasis are urgently needed. Moscatilin is a bibenzyl derivative extracted from the stems of a traditional Chinese medicine, orchid Dendrobium loddigesii. Although moscatilin has been reported to suppress tumor angiogenesis and growth, the anti-metastatic property of moscatilin has not been elucidated. The present results revealed that moscatilin inhibited metastatic behavior of HCC cells without cytotoxic fashion in highly invasive human HCC cell lines. Furthermore, moscatilin significantly suppressed the activity of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), but not matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9. Interestingly, moscatilin-suppressed uPA activity was through down-regulation the protein level of uPA, and did not impair the uPA receptor and uPA inhibitory molecule (PAI-1) expressions. Meanwhile, the mRNA expression of uPA was inhibited via moscatilin in a concentration-dependent manner. In addition, the expression of phosphorylated Akt, rather than ERK1/2, was inhibited by moscatilin treatment. The expression of phosphor-IκBα, and -p65, as well as κB-luciferase activity were also repressed after moscatilin treatment. Transfection of constitutively active Akt (Myr-Akt) obviously restored the moscatilin-inhibited the activation of NF-κB and uPA, and cancer invasion in HCC cells. Taken together, these results suggest that moscatilin impedes HCC invasion and uPA expression through the Akt/NF-κB signaling pathway. Moscatilin might serve as a potential anti-metastatic agent against the disease progression of human HCC. MDPI 2021-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8002083/ /pubmed/33805784 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22062930 Text en © 2021 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/).
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Yu, Chen-Lin
Weng, Meng-Shih
Chen, Wei-Cheng
Chien, Kai-Ting
Chi, Chih-Wen
Chung, Ching-Hu
Huang, Chia-Wen
Wang, Po-Chuan
Chen, Chien-Chih
Tsai, An-Chi
Liu, Shih-Chia
Wang, Shih-Wei
Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway
title Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway
title_full Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway
title_fullStr Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway
title_full_unstemmed Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway
title_short Moscatilin Inhibits Metastatic Behavior of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Crucial Role of uPA Suppression via Akt/NF-κB-Dependent Pathway
title_sort moscatilin inhibits metastatic behavior of human hepatocellular carcinoma cells: a crucial role of upa suppression via akt/nf-κb-dependent pathway
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33805784
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22062930
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