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ONCOTARGET
卷 8, 期 60, 页码 101461-101474出版社
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.21464
关键词
methylxanthine; caffeine; theophylline; SRSF3; p53
资金
- National Defense Medical Bureau [MAB-104-49, MAB-104-46]
- Ministry of Science and Technology [NSC 102-2320-B-016-015-MY3, MOST 106-2314-B-016-032-MY2]
- National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, ROC [NHRI-EX-106-10631SI]
Caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine are the most well-known members of methylxanthines. Caffeine-induced serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 2, SRSF2, and SRSF3 are required for the alternative splicing of a subset of cancer-associated genes. However, it remains to be investigated whether and how theophylline and theobromine as well as caffeine exert their antitumor effects through mediating the alternative splicing process. Here, we reveal that theophylline down-regulated SRSF3 expression and switched p53 from alpha into a beta isoform as caffeine did in HeLa and MCF-7 cells via the reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and Western blot analysis. Further functional studies show that theophylline induced cellular apoptosis, senescence, and decreased colony formation. Interestingly, theophylline had a suppressive effect on cellular proliferation, whereas caffeine enhanced cellular proliferation rates via the 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine analysis. Theophylline and caffeine had no effect on MCF-10A cells, which is a normal breast cell line. Our results provide an insight that theophylline as well as caffeine could be repurposed as antitumor leading compounds via the downregulation of splicing factor SRSF3 and its target genes.
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