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| Title: | Treatment of melanoma cells with the synthetic retinoid CD437 induces apoptosis via activation of AP-1 in vitro, and causes growth inhibition in xenografts in vivo |
| Creators Name: | Schadendorf, D. and Kern, M.A. and Artuc, M. and Pahl, H.L. and Rosenbach, T. and Fichtner, I. and Nuernberg, W. and Stueting, S. and von Stebut, E. and Worm, M. and Makki, A. and Jurgovsky, K. and Kolde, G. and Henz, B.M. |
| Abstract: | Human malignant melanoma is notoriously resistant to pharmacological modulation. We describe here for the first time that the synthetic retinoid CD437 has a strong dose-dependent antiproliferative effect on human melanoma cells (IC50: 5 x 10(-6) M) via the induction of programmed cell death, as judged by analysis of cell morphology, electron microscopical features, and DNA fragmentation. Programmed cell death was preceded by a strong activation of the AP-1 complex in CD437-treated cells as demonstrated by gel retardation and chloramphenicol transferase (CAT) assays. Northern blot analysis showed a time-dependent increase in the expression of c-fos and c-jun encoding components of AP-1, whereas bcl-2 and p53 mRNA levels remained constant. CD437 also exhibited a strong growth inhibitory effect on MeWo melanoma cells in a xenograft model. In tissue sections of CD437-treated MeWo tumors from these animals, apoptotic melanoma cells and c-fos overexpressing cells were colocalized by TdT-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate-digoxigenin nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining and in situ hybridization. Taken together, this report identifies CD437 as a retinoid that activates and upregulates the transcription factor AP-1, leading eventually to programmed cell death of exposed human melanoma cells in vitro and in vivo. Further studies are needed to evaluate whether synthetic retinoids such as CD437 represent a new class of retinoids, which may open up new ways to a more effective therapy of malignant melanoma. |
| Keywords: | Apoptosis, Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase, Cultured Tumor Cells, DNA Fragmentation, Electron Microscopy, Growth Inhibitors, Heterologous Transplantation, Melanoma, Messenger RNA, Neoplasm Transplantation, Northern Blotting, Retinoids, Transcription Factor AP-1, Transfection, Animals, Mice |
| Source: | Journal of Cell Biology |
| ISSN: | 0021-9525 |
| Publisher: | Rockefeller University Press |
| Volume: | 135 |
| Number: | 6 Pt 2 |
| Page Range: | 1889-1898 |
| Date: | December 1996 |
| Additional Information: | Copyright (c) 1996 by The Rockefeller University Press |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.135.6.1889 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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