Ursolic acid induces doxorubicin-resistant HepG2 cell death via the release of apoptosis-inducing factor

Cancer Letters
Lu YangShihua Wu

Abstract

Ursolic acid (UA), a triterpenoid compound isolated previously from Oldenlandia diffusa, which is a Traditional Chinese Medicine used to treat cancer, was found to inhibit the proliferation of doxorubicin-resistant human hepatoma cell line (R-HepG2) through apoptosis as shown by externalization of phosphatidyl serine, morphological changes and loss of mitochondrial membrane potential. UA could activate Bak but not Bax, which implied that Bak may play an important role in UA-induced apoptosis. Furthermore, the death of R-HepG2 cells induced by UA was found to be mainly through the caspase-independent apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) signaling pathway which was evidenced by: (a) the pan-caspase inhibitor and the specific caspase inhibitor had only modest protective effect against UA; (b) UA treatment caused the nuclear translocation of AIF, which is retained in the mitochondria in untreated R-HepG2 cells; (c) cells that had been treated with human AIF-specific siRNA could resist cell death induced by UA. In addition, a further animal study showed that UA was effective against R-HepG2 cells in vivo with negligible body weight loss and damage towards the liver, heart and spleen. Most importantly, immunohistochemical staining in anim...Continue Reading

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