BUĽKOVÁ, Viktória, Jana VARGOVÁ, Marián BABINČÁK, Rastislav JENDŽELOVSKÝ, Zbyněk ZDRÁHAL, Pavel ROUDNICKÝ, Ján KOŠUTH and Peter FEDOROČKO. New findings on the action of hypericin in hypoxic cancer cells with a focus on the modulation of side population cells. Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy. Elsevier, 2023, vol. 163, July, p. 1-15. ISSN 0753-3322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2023.114829.
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Original name New findings on the action of hypericin in hypoxic cancer cells with a focus on the modulation of side population cells
Authors BUĽKOVÁ, Viktória (703 Slovakia), Jana VARGOVÁ (703 Slovakia), Marián BABINČÁK (703 Slovakia), Rastislav JENDŽELOVSKÝ (703 Slovakia), Zbyněk ZDRÁHAL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Pavel ROUDNICKÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ján KOŠUTH and Peter FEDOROČKO.
Edition Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, Elsevier, 2023, 0753-3322.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30104 Pharmacology and pharmacy
Country of publisher France
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 7.500 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14740/23:00131566
Organization unit Central European Institute of Technology
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2023.114829
UT WoS 000998460000001
Keywords in English Hypericin; Hypoxia; Breast cancer resistance protein; Side population; ECM reorganization; Proteomics
Tags CF PROT, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
The presence of key hypoxia regulators, namely, hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 alpha or HIF-2 alpha, in tumors is associated with poor patient prognosis. Hypoxia massively activates several genes, including the one encoding the BCRP transporter that proffers multidrug resistance to cancer cells through the xenobiotic efflux and is a determinant of the side population (SP) associated with cancer stem-like phenotypes. As natural medicine comes to the fore, it is instinctive to look for natural agents possessing powerful features against cancer resistance. Hypericin, a pleiotropic agent found in Hypericum plants, is a good example as it is a BCRP substrate and po-tential inhibitor, and an SP and HIF modulator. Here, we showed that hypericin efficiently accumulated in hypoxic cancer cells, degraded HIF-1/2 alpha, and decreased BCRP efflux together with hypoxia, thus diminishing the SP population. On the contrary, this seemingly favorable result was accompanied by the stimulated migration of this minor population that preserved the SP phenotype. Because hypoxia unexpectedly decreased the BCRP level and SP fraction, we compared the SP and non-SP proteomes and their changes under hypoxia in the A549 cell line. We identified differences among protein groups connected to the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, although major changes were related to hypoxia, as the upregulation of many proteins, including serpin E1, PLOD2 and LOXL2, that ultimately contribute to the initiation of the metastatic cascade was detected. Alto-gether, this study helps in clarifying the innate and hypoxia-triggered resistance of cancer cells and highlights the ambivalent role of natural agents in the biology of these cells.
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LM2023042, research and development projectName: Česká infrastruktura pro integrativní strukturní biologii
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, CIISB - Czech Infrastructure for Integrative Structural Biology
823839, interní kód MUName: European Proteomics Infrastructure Consortium providing Access (Acronym: EPIC-XS)
Investor: European Union, RI Research Infrastructures (Excellent Science)
90242, large research infrastructuresName: CIISB III
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