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- Title
Selective Inhibition of Liver Cancer Cells Using Venom Peptide.
- Authors
Anand, Prachi; Filipenko, Petr; Huaman, Jeannette; Lyudmer, Michael; Hossain, Marouf; Santamaria, Carolina; Huang, Kelly; Ogunwobi, Olorunseun O.; Holford, Mandë
- Abstract
Increasingly cancer is being viewed as a channelopathy because the passage of ions via ion channels and transporters mediate the regulation of tumor cell survival, death, and motility. As a result, a potential targeted therapy for cancer is to use venom peptides that are selective for ion channels and transporters overexpressed in tumor cells. Here we describe the selectivity and mechanism of action of terebrid snail venom peptide, Tv1, for treating the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Tv1 inhibited the proliferation of murine HCC cells and significantly reduced tumor size in Tv1-treated syngeneic tumor-bearing mice. Tv1's mechanism of action involves binding to overexpressed transient receptor potential (TRP) channels leading to calcium dependent apoptosis resulting from down-regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). Our findings demonstrate the importance of modulating ion channels and the unique potential of venom peptides as tumor specific ligands in the quest for targeted cancer therapies.
- Subjects
LIVER cancer; LIVER cells; VENOM; CALCIUM channels; CANCER cells; ION channels
- Publication
Marine Drugs, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 10, p587
- ISSN
1660-3397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/md17100587