Enhanced anticancer effect of the combination of cisplatin and TRAIL in triple-negative breast tumor cells.
Enhanced anticancer effect of the combination of cisplatin and TRAIL in triple-negative breast tumor cells.
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DOI:
10.1158/1535-7163.mct-10-0571
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发表时间:
2011-03
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
Reddy KB
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作者:
Xu L;Yin S;Banerjee S;Sarkar F;Reddy KB
Women with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) have a worse prognosis compared with other breast cancer subtypes. Hormonal or Herceptin-based therapies were found to be ineffective because of the loss of target receptors such as ER, PR and HER-2 amplification. Conventional chemo- and/ or radiation therapy also seems to have limited efficacy in TNBC patients. We studied the effects of cisplatin plus TRAIL on one normal and two TNBC cells in vitro. The in vitro studies indicate that cisplatin plus TRAIL significantly enhanced cell death in TNBC cell lines CRL2335 and MDA-MB-468 by ~60–70% compared to ~ 10–15% in CRL8799 normal breast cell line. Treatment with cisplatin/TRAIL also inhibited the expression of EGFR, p63, survivin, Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL in TNBC cells. Specific inhibition of EGFR and/or p63 protein in TNBC cells by siRNA does not increase TRAIL-induced apoptosis. However, inhibition of survivin by siRNA enhances TRAIL-induced apoptosis. These observations suggested the possibility that Survivin played an important role in cisplatin plus TRAIL-induced apoptosis in TNBC cells. In vivo experiments, treatment of mice with cisplatin plus TRAIL resulted in a significant inhibition of CRL2335 xenograft tumors compared to untreated control tumors. Taken together the data suggests that cisplatin plus TRAIL treatment have the potential of providing a new strategy for improving the therapeutic outcome in TNBC patients.