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The effect of plant glycosides on tumor cell invasion was examined. Among the glycosides tested, ginsenoside Rg3 was found to be a potent inhibitor of invasion by rat ascites hepatoma cells (MM1), B16FE7 melanoma cells, human small cell lung carcinoma (OC10), and human pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PSN-1) cells, when examined in a cell monolayer invasion model. Structurally analogous ginsenosides, Rb2, 20(R)-ginsenoside Rg2 and 20(S)-ginsenoside Rg3 (a stereoisomer of Rg3), showed little inhibitory activity. Neither Rh1, Rh2, 20(R)-ginsenosides Rh1, Rb1, Rc nor Re had any effect. The effective ginsenoside, Rg3, tended to inhibit experimental pulmonary metastasis by highly metastatic mouse melanoma B16FE7 cells as well. Taking account of our previous finding that 1-oleoyl-lysophosphatidic add (LPA) induced invasion by MM1 cells in the monolayer invasion model, the effect of Rg3 on molecular events associated with the invasion induced by LPA was analyzed in order to understand the mechanism of the inhibition. Rg3, which suppressed the invasion induced by LPA, dose-dependently inhibited the LPA-triggered rise of intracellular Ca2+. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation triggered by LPA was not inhibited by Rg3.
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PMID:Inhibition of in vitro tumor cell invasion by ginsenoside Rg3. 864 66

Many cytotoxic compounds of therapeutic interest have been isolated from marine invertebrates, and some of them have been reported to be of microbial origin. Pyridoacridine alkaloids are the main compounds extracted from the ascidian Cystodytes dellechiajei. Here we describe the in vitro antiproliferative activity against different tumor cell lines of the ascidian extracts and provide some insights on the role of the microbial community associated with the tunicate in the production of these compounds. C. dellechiajei extracts showed remarkably high antiproliferative activity (IC50<or=5 microg/mL) in human lung carcinoma A-549, colon adenocarcinoma H-116, pancreatic adenocarcinoma PSN-1 and breast carcinoma SKBR3 cell lines. Moreover, we found that the maximum activity was located in the tunic tissue of the colony, which harbours a microbial community. In order to ascertain the involvement of this community in the synthesis of the bioactive compounds different approaches that included culture and culture independent methods were carried out. We undertook a screening for antiproliferative activities of the bacterial isolates from the ascidian, as well as a comparative analysis of the cytotoxic activities and the microbial communities from two color morphs of the ascidian, green and blue. In addition, the changes of the antiproliferative activities and the composition of the microbial communities were studied from ascidians kept in aquaria and treated with antibiotics for one month. Our data obtained from the different experiments did not point out to bacteria as the source of the cytotoxic compounds, suggesting thus an ascidian origin.
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PMID:Cytotoxicity of the ascidian Cystodytes dellechiajei against tumor cells and study of the involvement of associated microbiota in the production of cytotoxic compounds. 1846 20

n-ELAV (neuronal-Embryonic Lethal, Abnormal Vision)-like genes belong to a family codifying for onconeural RNA-binding proteins, also called Hu antigens. Anti-Hu-antibodies (anti-Hu-Ab) are typically associated with paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis/sensory neuropathy (PEM/PSN), and low titres of anti-Hu-Ab were found in neural/neuroendocrine neoplasms, especially small cell lung cancer (SCLC). To date, few studies have been published focused on the genetic causes of their involvement in the pathogenesis of neuroendocrine tumors (NE). Here we analyzed 20 primary human neuroendocrine lung tumor tissues for somatic mutations in the HuD gene. Two inactivating mutations (a frameshift and a stop codon mutation) and 11 nucleotide changes were detected in the coding sequence of HuD gene in 7 different lung tumors. Our results on SCLC and carcinoid tissues support the hypothesis that alterations of nELAV genes could be involved in the onset and/or progression of a subset of neuroendocrine lung tumors.
Lung Cancer 2010 Jan
PMID:Molecular analysis of the HuD gene in neuroendocrine lung cancers. 1941 Mar 29