PUBLICATION

P-glycoprotein modulates oleanolic acid effects in hepatocytes cancer cells and zebrafish embryos

Authors
Kayouka, M., Hamade, A., Saliba, E., Najjar, F., Landy, D., Greige-Gerges, H.
ID
ZDB-PUB-191111-4
Date
2019
Source
Chemico-biological interactions   315: 108892 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Hamade, Aline
Keywords
Oleanolic acid, P-glycoprotein, Verapamil, Zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/metabolism*
  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
  • Breast Neoplasms/drug therapy
  • Breast Neoplasms/metabolism
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cell Survival/drug effects
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple/drug effects
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/drug effects
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/drug effects*
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
  • Female
  • Hep G2 Cells
  • Hepatocytes/drug effects*
  • Hepatocytes/metabolism
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms/drug therapy*
  • Liver Neoplasms/metabolism
  • Oleanolic Acid/pharmacology*
  • Verapamil/pharmacology
  • Zebrafish/metabolism*
PubMed
31704064 Full text @ Chem. Biol. Interact.
CTD
31704064
Abstract
Oleanolic acid (OA) is a triterpenoid, widely found in plants and possesses antitumor activity in many cancer lines. However, cancer cells develop multidrug resistance (mdr) hindering the effect of anticancer drugs. P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is a major cause of mdr. Therefore, the cytotoxic effect of OA was evaluated on human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 and human liver cancer HepG2 with absence and presence of P-gp, respectively. OA reduced MDA-MB-231 viability in a dose dependent manner, whereas no remarkable effect was observed on HepG2 in the same range of concentrations (1-60 μM). Moreover, cytotoxicity studies were conducted in the presence of verapamil (20 mg/L), a P-gp inhibitor. OA exhibited the same effect on MDA-MB-231 in the absence and presence of verapamil. However, the cytotoxicity was greatly enhanced for HepG2 cells in the presence of verapamil (cell viability dropped from 63.7% to 25% after 72 h at 60 μM). The results were then confirmed in vivo on zebrafish embryos. Increased mortality and malformations were observed in verapamil pretreated group between 5 and 15 μM of OA compared to control; also, all embryos died at 20 μΜ OA and above. These results demonstrate that inhibiting P-gp enhances the chemotherapeutic activity of OA.
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