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Antitumor effect of luteolin proven by patient-derived organoids of gastric cancer

  • Phytother Res. 2023 Jul 19. doi: 10.1002/ptr.7963.
Xinyu Hao 1 2 Ming Zu 1 2 Jing Ning 1 2 Xin Zhou 3 Yueqing Gong 1 2 Xiurui Han 1 2 Qiao Meng 1 2 Dong Li 4 Shigang Ding 1 2
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Gastroenterology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
  • 2 Beijing Key Laboratory for Helicobacter Pylori Infection and Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases (BZ0371), Beijing, China.
  • 3 Department of General Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
  • 4 Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
Abstract

Luteolin (Lut) has been shown to inhibit gastric Cancer (GC); however, its efficacy compared to other clinical drugs has not been examined in human samples. This study aimed to elucidate the antitumor activity of Lut in GC patient-derived organoids (PDOs). PDOs were established from GC Cancer tissues, and the characterization of tissues and PDOs was performed using whole-exome Sequencing. Drug sensitivity tests were performed by treating PDOs with Lut, norcantharidin (NCTD), and carboplatin (CP). RNA Sequencing of PDOs was performed to elucidate the antitumor mechanism of Lut, which was further verified in three GC cell lines. Eleven PDOs were successfully constructed, and were highly consistent with the pathophysiology and genetic changes in the corresponding tumors. The IC50s of Lut, NCTD, and CP of PDOs were 27.19, 23.9, and 37.87 μM, respectively. Lut treatment upregulated FOXO3, DUSP1, and CDKN1A expression and downregulated IL1R1 and FGFR4 expression in GC cell lines, which was consistent with the results of PDOs. We demonstrate that Lut exerted stronger antitumor effects than CP, but a similar effect to that of NCTD, which was obtained in an in vitro PDO system. Additionally, Lut exerted varying degrees of antitumor effects against the PDOs, thereby indicating that PDO may be a useful preclinical drug screening tool for personalized treatment.

Keywords

antitumor; gastric cancer; luteolin (Lut); patient-derived organoids (PDOs).

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