Fucoidan Induces G1 Phase Arrest and Apoptosis Through Caspases-dependent Pathway and ROS Induction in Human Breast Cancer MCF-7 Cells

Overview

Journal J Huazhong Univ Sci Technolog Med Sci

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2013 Oct 22

PMID 24142726

Citations 28

Authors

Amal M Banafa

Sadia Roshan

Yun-Yi Liu

Hui-Jie Chen

Ming-Jie Chen

Guang-Xiao Yang

Guang-Yuan He

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Abstract

Fucoidan is an active component of seaweed, which inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis of several tumor cells while the detailed mechanisms underlying this process are still not clear. In this study, the effect of Fucoidan on the proliferation and apoptosis of human breast cancer MCF-7 cells and the molecular mechanism of Fucoidan action were investigated. Viable cell number of MCF-7 cells was decreased by Fucoidan treatment in a dose-dependent manner as measured by MTT assay. Fucoidan treatment resulted in G1 phase arrest of MCF-7 cells as revealed by flow cytometry, which was associated with the decrease in the gene expression of cyclin D1 and CDK-4. Annexin V/PI staining results showed that the number of apoptotic cells was associated with regulation of cytochrome C, caspase-8, Bax and Bcl-2 at transcriptional and translational levels. Both morphologic observation and Hoechst 33258 assay results confirmed the pro-apoptotic effect of Fucoidan. Meanwhile, the ROS production was also increased by Fucoidan treatment, which suggested that Fucoidan induced oxidative damage in MCF-7 cells. The results of present study demonstrated that Fucoidan could induce G1 phase arrest and apoptosis in MCF-7 cells through regulating the cell cycle and apoptosis-related genes or proteins expression, and ROS generation is also involved in these processes.

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