Treatment of lung cancer cells with cytotoxic levels of sodium selenite: effects on the thioredoxin system

Biochemical Pharmacology
Markus SeleniusAnna-Klara Rundlöf

Abstract

Selenium at subtoxic doses has been shown to have tumor specific cytotoxic effects. In this work, viability measurements in different lung cancer cell lines showed that selenite was more effective compared to three different conventional cytotoxic drugs. In addition, the cell line most sensitive to selenite toxicity comprised the highest level of thioredoxin reductase 1 (TrxR1). The human selenoenzyme TrxR1 is a central enzyme for cell growth, differentiation, and the protection against oxidative stress. TrxR1, which in several studies has been shown to be up-regulated in various tumor cells, is also a target for many anticancer drugs. In this study, inhibition of TrxR resulted in enhanced selenite cytotoxicity, clearly connecting the thioredoxin system to the toxic effects mediated by selenite. The complex regulation of TrxR1, involving the expression of many different transcript forms of mRNA, was investigated by real-time qPCR in lung cancer cell lines following treatment with toxic doses (2.5-10 microM) of sodium selenite. Selenium treatment resulted in increased expression of almost all TrxR1 mRNA variants with increasing concentrations of selenite. On the contrary, the TrxR protein level and activity, increased at low to ...Continue Reading

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