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Anti-Tumor Effects of Sodium Meta-Arsenite in Glioblastoma Cells with Higher Akt Activities

Eun Jeong Lee et al. Int J Mol Sci. .
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Abstract

Glioblastoma is a type of aggressive brain tumor that grows very fast and evades surrounding normal brain, lead to treatment failure. Glioblastomas are associated with Akt activation due to somatic alterations in PI3 kinase/Akt pathway and/or PTEN tumor suppressor. Sodium meta-arsenite, KML001 is an orally bioavailable, water-soluble, and trivalent arsenical and it shows antitumoral effects in several solid tumor cells via inhibiting oncogenic signaling, including Akt and MAPK. Here, we evaluated the effect of sodium meta-arsenite, KML001, on the growth of human glioblastoma cell lines with different PTEN expression status and Akt activation, including PTEN-deficient cells (U87-MG and U251) and PTEN-positive cells (LN229). The growth-inhibitory effect of KML001 was stronger in U87-MG and U251 cells, which exhibited higher Akt activity than LN229 cells. KML001 deactivated Akt and decreased its protein levels via proteasomal degradation in U87-MG cells. KML001 upregulated mutant PTEN levels via inhibition of its proteasomal degradation. KML001 inhibited cell growth more effectively in active Akt-overexpressing LN229 cells than in mock-expressing LN229 cells. Consistent with these results, KML001 sensitized PTEN-deficient cells more strongly to growth inhibition than it did PTEN-positive cells in prostate and breast cancer cell lines. Finally, we illustrated in vivo anti-tumor effects of KML001 using an intracranial xenograft mouse model. These results suggest that KML001 could be an effective chemotherapeutic drug for the treatment of glioblastoma cancer patients with higher Akt activity and PTEN loss.

Keywords: Akt; PTEN; glioblastoma; sodium meta-arsenite.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Expression levels of PTEN and Akt and cell growth in human glioblastoma cell lines. ( A) Total RNA was extracted from glioma cell lines as indicated and subjected to RT-PCR to measure PTEN mRNA levels. ( B) Cells were lysed and 30 μg of total cellular proteins was analyzed by immunoblotting using anti-PTEN, -pAkt, -Akt, and β-actin antibodies. β-actin was used as a loading control. In the right panel, film was exposed a little longer for PTEN immunoblot. The levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to the loading control β-actin (lower panel). ( C) 1 × 10 5 cells were seeded and were grown in the culture media condition for 4 days. The cell numbers of each cell line were counted after trypan blue-staining at indicated times. Statistical analysis was conducted using parametric one-way ANOVA test and post hoc test (Bonferroni correction). Error bars represent standard deviations of the mean of three measurements (* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01). These experiments were performed three independent times with comparable results.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Effects of KML001 on cell growth in human glioblastoma cell lines. ( A, B) Cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 in the culture media without or with FBS for 24 h. Cell growth was measured by MTS assay as described in Section 4. ( C) Cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 in the culture media for 24 h and cells were collected, mix an equal volume of trypan blue dye and manually counted by countess TM automated cell counter. ( D) Cells were treated with 10 μM KML001 for 24 h and cell lysates were analyzed by immunoblotting using indicated antibodies. ( E) The levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to β-actin. Data are presented as mean ± SE of three independent experiments (* p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05). These experiments were performed three independent times with comparable results.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Induction of apoptosis with KML001 in U87-MG cells. ( A) U87-MG cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h and cell morphology was observed using an optical microscope. Scale bar, 100 μm. ( B) U87-MG cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h, stained with annexin V-FITC and PI, and subjected to flow cytometry analysis. Fluorescence dot blots of annexin V-positive (horizontal axis) and PI-positive (vertical axis) cells are shown. Cells that were positively stained by annexin V-FITC only (early apoptosis) and positive for both annexin V-FITC and PI (late apoptosis) were quantitated, and both subpopulations were considered as overall apoptotic cells. ( C) U87-MG cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h, and then ΔΨ m was measured using the JC-1 kit by flow cytometer. The loss of ΔΨ m was equated with decreased red fluorescence. ( D) U87-MG cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h and cell lysates were subjected to immunoblotting analysis using the indicated antibodies. The levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to β-actin (Supplementary Figure S2) Similar results were observed in three independent experiments.
Figure 4
Figure 4
KML001-induced Akt downregulation and PTEN upregulation in U87-MG cells. ( A) Cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h and cell lysates were subjected to immunoblotting analysis using indicated antibodies. The histogram shows the densitometric measuring of pAkt/Akt ratio relative to control. pAkt/Akt ratio = [(pAkt/β-actin)/(Akt/β-actin)] (right panel). Data are presented as mean ± SE of three independent experiments. ** p < 0.01 indicate significant difference from the control. ( B) U87-MG cells were treated with 0–20 μM KML001 for 24 h and total RNA was extracted and subjected to RT-PCR to assess Akt and PTEN mRNA levels. The levels of RNA were normalized with β-actin. ( CE) U87-MG cells were treated without or with 10 μM KML001 for 24 h and some KML001-treated cells were incubated with 5 μM or 10 μM MG132 ( C), chloroquine (Chlo) ( D), and 10 μM cycloheximide (CHX) ( E) for indicated times before harvest. Cell lysates were subjected to immunoblotting analysis using indicated antibodies. ( F) KML001-treated U87-MG cells were incubated with MG132 for 8 h and with 10 μM cycloheximide for 1 h before harvest. The levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to β-actin (Supplementary Figure S5) Cell lysates were subjected to immunoblotting analysis using indicated antibodies. These experiments were performed three independent times with comparable results.
Figure 5
Figure 5
KML001-induced cell growth inhibition is correlated with Akt activity in glioblastoma cell lines. ( A, B) U87-MG cells were transfected with lentivirus either control virus only (LacZ) or PTEN and cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h followed by immunoblotting analysis using indicated antibodies ( A), the levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to β-actin (Supplementary Figure S6) and MTS assay ( B). ( C) U87-MG cells were treated either with 0–30 μM KML001, 0–50 μM Akt inhibitor II, or 0–100 μM LY294002 (PI3K inhibitor) and cell growth was measured by MTS assay. ( D, E) LN229 cells were infected with lentivirus encoding either vector only (Mock), wild type Akt (WT-Akt), or constitutively-active Akt (Active-Akt) and stable cell lines were established as described in the “Materials and Methods”. Cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h followed by immunoblotting analysis using indicated antibodies ( D), the levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to β-actin (Supplementary Figure S6) and MTS assay ( E). Error bars represent standard deviations. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 versus KML001-treated Mock-LN229 cells. These experiments were performed three independent times with comparable results.
Figure 6
Figure 6
Association of KML001-induced cell growth inhibition with Akt activity and PTEN expression. ( A, B) PC-3 and Du145 cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h, followed by immunoblotting analysis using the indicated antibodies ( A), the levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to β-actin (Supplementary Figure S7) and LDH release assay for cytotoxicity ( B). ( C, D) MDA-MB231 and BT-549, human breast cancer cells were treated with 0–30 μM KML001 for 24 h. Cells were processed for immunoblotting analysis using the indicated antibodies ( C), The levels of proteins were quantified by a densitometry and normalized to β-actin (Supplementary Figure S7) or cell viability assay by counting of trypan blue-stained cells using countess TM automated cell counter ( D). Error bars represent standard deviations (* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01). Similar results were observed in three independent experiments.
Figure 7
Figure 7
Anti-tumor effects of KML001 in orthotropic xenograft models. ( A) Schematic procedure of in vivo experiments. On Day 1, U87-MG cells were injected into the mouse brain as described in the “Materials and Methods”. On day 7, the mice (n = 5/group) were treated with KML001 or with PBS (control) orally with 2-day intervals for two weeks and on day 21 the mice were sacrificed. On day 7 and day 21 MRI images of brains were captured. Similar results were observed in two independent experiments. ( B) Brain MRI images of mice were captures on day 21. Representative pictures indicate mouse brain regions of corpus clausum and its surrounding structures. ( C) Tumor volumes were measured as described in the “Materials and Methods”. Statistical analysis was conducted using one-way ANOVA test and post hoc test (Bonferroni correction), ** p < 0.01. ( D) Tumor tissues were fixed and stained with anti-pAkt antibodies. Scale bars = 100 μm. White arrows indicate tumors. ( E) The integrated optical density (IOD) was analyzed for pAkt quantification per histological field (×200 magnification). Error bars represent standard deviations (** p < 0.05 vs. control). Similar results were observed in three independent experiments.

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