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  3. Anthracycline chemicals with anthracyclinone structure exert antitumor effects by inhibiting angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in a xenografted gastric tumor model

Anthracycline chemicals with anthracyclinone structure exert antitumor effects by inhibiting angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis in a xenografted gastric tumor model

  • Gastric Cancer. 2023 Jun 21. doi: 10.1007/s10120-023-01412-2.
Huiying Li 1,  Cuicui Jia 1,  Chaonan Li 1,  Yang Wang 2,  Weimin Du 1,  Hongpeng Jiang 3
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Food Processing and Safety in Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
  • 3 Department of General Surgery, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Research and National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China. jhp@mail.ccmu.edu.cn.
PMID: 37344705 DOI: 10.1007/s10120-023-01412-2
Abstract

Background: It is vital to screen or develop alternative therapeutic drugs with higher curative characteristics and fewer side effects for the clinical treatment of gastric Cancer.

Methods: Gastric Cancer cells were exposed to different auramycin G doses while determining the impact on cell viability, migration, and invasion. Then the antitumor effects of auramycin G, 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu) and their combination were evaluated. Furthermore, the molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis regulated by auramycin G and its analogs were investigated.

Results: Auramycin G inhibited cell viability in a dose-dependent manner, with a 50% inhibitory concentration of 23.72 ± 6.36 mg/L and 32.54 ± 5.91 mg/L for AGS and MGC803 cells, respectively. The migration and invasion of gastric Cancer cells were significantly inhibited by 10 mg/L auramycin G, which was consistent with the down-regulation of the VEGFR2-VEGFA-pPI3K-pAkt-pErk1 and VEGFR3-VEGFC-pPI3K-pAkt-pmTOR proteins. Notably, the average tumor weights were significantly reduced in both the auramycin G (2.21 ± 0.45 g) of 50 mg/kg body weight and auramycin G + 5-fluorouracil (5-Fu) groups (1.33 ± 0.28 g), compared with the control (3.73 ± 0.56 g). Considering that auramycin G decreased the growth of blood and lymphatic vessels while reducing the degree of tumor malignancy, it effectively suppressed tumors by regulating the angiogenic and lymphangiogenic pathways.

Conclusion: The present study confirmed that auramycin G displayed a prominent antitumor activity in gastric tumor models, both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, it was confirmed that auramycin G played a specific role in certain gastric Cancer cell types, while the mechanism was validated to be associated with angiogenesis- and lymphangiogenesis-related pathway suppression.

Keywords

Angiogenesis; Auramycin G; Gastric cancer; Lymphangiogenesis; Tumor xenograft model.

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