Ester bond-containing tea polyphenols potently inhibit proteasome activity in vitro and in vivo
Ester bond-containing tea polyphenols potently inhibit proteasome activity in vitro and in vivo
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DOI:
10.1074/jbc.m004209200
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发表时间:
2001-04-20
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Dou, QP
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作者:
Nam, S;Smith, DM;Dou, QP
It has been discovered that proteasome inhibitors are able to induce tumor growth arrest or cell death and that tea consumption is correlated with cancer prevention. Here, we show that ester bond-containing tea polyphenols, such as (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), potently and specifically inhibit the chymotrypsin-like activity of the proteasome in vitro (IC50 = 86-194 nM) and in vivo (1-10 muM) at the concentrations found in the serum of green tea drinkers. Atomic orbital energy analyses and high performance liquid chromatography suggest that the carbon of the polyphenol ester bond is essential for targeting, thereby inhibiting the proteasome in cancer cells. This inhibition of the proteasome by EGCG in several tumor and transformed cell lines results in the accumulation of two natural proteasome substrates, p27(Kip1) and I kappaB-alpha, an inhibitor of transcription factor NF-kappaB, followed by growth arrest in the G, phase of the cell cycle. Furthermore, compared with their simian virus-transformed counterpart, the parental normal human fibroblasts were much more resistant to EGCG-induced p27(Kip1) protein accumulation and G(1) arrest. Our study suggests that the proteasome is a cancer-related molecular target of tea polyphenols and that inhibition of the proteasome activity by ester bond containing polyphenols may contribute to the cancer-preventative effect of tea.