Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 22, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules22081272
Keywords
artesunate; fatty acid biosynthesis; HCT116; mitochondrial apoptosis; NF-kappa B pathway; proteomic analysis
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81630092, 8142109]
- National Key Research Project [2016YFC0902700, 2014CB744501]
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The artemisinin compounds, which are well-known for their potent therapeutic antimalarial activity, possess in vivo and in vitro antitumor effects. Although the anticancer effect of artemisinin compounds has been extensively reported, the precise mechanisms underlying its cytotoxicity remain under intensive study. In the present study, a high-throughput quantitative proteomics approach was applied to identify differentially expressed proteins of HCT116 colorectal cancer cell line with artesunate (ART) treatment. Through Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, we discovered that the top-ranked ART-regulated biological pathways are abrogation of fatty acid biosynthetic pathway and mitochondrial dysfunction. Subsequent assays showed that ART inhibits HCT116 cell proliferation through suppressing the fatty acid biosynthetic pathway and activating the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway. In addition, ART also regulates several proteins that are involved in NF-kappa B pathway, and our subsequent assays showed that ART suppresses the NF-kappa B pathway. These proteomic findings will contribute to improving our understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms of ART for its therapeutic cytotoxic effect towards cancer cells.
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