Project description:Cinobufagin, belonged to a kind of cardiotonic steroids (CSs), derived from the extracts of toad venom, which presented the significant anticancer properties as inhibitors of Na+/K+-ATPase (NKA) in many cancer cells. Nowadays, cinobufagin was usually used to apply for clinical treatments of patients in advanced stage of cancer, and improved their quality of life and prolonged their survival period. Unfortunately, long-term drug treatment had also led to multi-drug-resistance (MDR) likely other chemotherapy drugs. However, this detailed mechanism was not still clear. In the present study, we noticed that cinobufagin could trigger the protective autophagy to suppress cells apoptosis in liver cancer HepG2 and Huh-7 cells by inhibition of PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway using RNA-seq method. We also confirmed that cinobufagin could inhibit cells proliferation and induce cells apoptosis, and generated cells autophagy by up-regulation expression of LC3B-II, Beclin 1 and Atg12-atg5. More importantly, autophagy inhibitor (MRT68921) enhances the anti-proliferation and pro-apoptosis effects of cinobufagin in HCC cells. Therefore, we thought that a combination of cinobufagin and autophagy inhibitors may be a potential effective strategy in treatment of HCC.
Project description:Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitors are highly present in different ocular tissues, and upregulation of ROCK pathway has been shown related to the pathogenesis of multiple ocular disorders, including glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, the effect of ROCK inhibitor on AMD is still unknown. The protein profile changes in human retinal pigment epithelium (ARPE-19) cells after two days treatment with a ROCK inhibitor were studied using label-free Zeno SWATH acquisition. These results provided significant data of key protein candidates underlying the effect of ROCK inhibitor. Using the sensitive label-free mass spectrometry approach with data-independent acquisition (SWATH-MS), we established a comprehensive ARPE-19 proteome library. This project describes the use of Zeno SWATH MS to examine the underlying biological protein changes following ROCK inhibitor treatment of APRE-19 cells. This knowledge may allow more specific anti-AMD drugs to be developed
Project description:LDL or Ox-LDL 200ug/ml, which showed no loss of viability after a 48 hour exposure, induced a physiological and pathological transcriptional response, respectively. LDL induced a downregulation of genes associated with cholesterol biosynthesis while ox-LDL induced transcriptional alterations in genes related to inflammation, matrix expansion, lipid metabolism and processing, and apoptosis. Pentraxin-3 was secreted into the culture medium after RPE cells were stimulated with ox-LDL, and immunohistochemically evident in Bruchs membrane of human macular samples with age-related macular degeneration. ARPE-19 cells exposed to 200ug/ml ox-LDL had a 38% apoptosis rate compared to less than 1% when exposed to LDL or untreated controls (p<0.0001). While LDL induced a physiologic response by RPE cells, a pathological phenotypic response was seen after treatment with oxidatively modified LDL. The transcriptional, biochemical, and functional data provide initial support of a role for the hypothesis that modified LDLs are one trigger for initiating events that contribute to the development of age-related macular degeneration. Keywords: treatment with non-treatment control Human ARPE-19 cells were exposed to LDL or oxidatively modified LDL (ox-LDL) for 48 hours for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to determine whether retina, pigment epithelial cells develop a pathologic phenotype after exposure to low density lipoproteins (LDL) that are oxidatively modified.We have made two comparsions: LDL treatment versus non-treatment; ox-LDL treatment versus non-treatment.
Project description:LDL or Ox-LDL 200ug/ml, which showed no loss of viability after a 48 hour exposure, induced a physiological and pathological transcriptional response, respectively. LDL induced a downregulation of genes associated with cholesterol biosynthesis while ox-LDL induced transcriptional alterations in genes related to inflammation, matrix expansion, lipid metabolism and processing, and apoptosis. Pentraxin-3 was secreted into the culture medium after RPE cells were stimulated with ox-LDL, and immunohistochemically evident in Bruch’s membrane of human macular samples with age-related macular degeneration. ARPE-19 cells exposed to 200?g/ml ox-LDL had a 38% apoptosis rate compared to less than 1% when exposed to LDL or untreated controls (p<0.0001). While LDL induced a physiologic response by RPE cells, a pathological phenotypic response was seen after treatment with oxidatively modified LDL. The transcriptional, biochemical, and functional data provide initial support of a role for the hypothesis that modified LDLs are one trigger for initiating events that contribute to the development of age-related macular degeneration. Keywords: treatment with non-treatment control
Project description:To characterize the potential molecular pathway(s) affected by iron treatment and identify the one(s) responsible for C3 induction, we performed a whole genome microarray on untreated ARPE-19 cells and cells treated with 250 ?M FAC for 48h/2d. Gene expression was compared between untreated and FAC-treated ARPE-19 cells, with three biological replicates in each.
Project description:To characterize the potential molecular pathway(s) affected by iron treatment and identify the one(s) responsible for C3 induction, we performed a whole genome microarray on untreated ARPE-19 cells and cells treated with 250 μM FAC for 48h/2d.
Project description:The cultured cell line ARPE-19 is frequently employed in studies of rpe function. Here we have identified the microRNAs expressed in RPE cells in the presence and absence of PDTC (pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate), an antioxidant. Analysis used microrNA extracted from untreated cells as a control for cells treated with PDTC