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Neoplasma Vol.62, No.1, p.34-40, 2015

Title: Knockdown of NF-κB p65 subunit expression suppresses growth of nude mouse lung tumor cell xenografts by activation of Bax apoptotic pathway
Author: Y. QU, X. ZHANG, R. WU

Abstract:

Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) is an important transcriptional factor and regulates a variety of pathophysiologic process involved in cell survival and death. The present study assesses the effects of NF-κB p65 subunit knockdown in suppression of nude mouse lung tumor cell xenografts and understands the underlying molecular events.
A nude mouse Lewis lung carcinoma cell xenograft model was established and the mice were intraperitoneally injected with NF-κB p65 siRNA and sacrificed after two weeks of tumor cell injection. Tumor xenografts were harvested for TUNEL, Western blot, and qRT-PCR analyses.
Compared to the PBS-treated or the negative control (NC) siRNA-treated mice, tumor xenograft weight and volume was significantly decreased in the NF-κB p65 siRNA-treated mice.

The TUNEL positive (apoptosis) cells in xenograft sections were 45 ± 5 in PBS and 38 ± 3 in NC siRNA, but increased to 271 ± 11 in p65 siRNA-treated mice.

Compared to the PBS or the NC mice, levels of Bax mRNA and protein in tumor xenografts were significantly upregulated in p65 siRNA-treated mice.
Knockdown of NF-κB p65 subunit expression significantly inhibited the growth of nude mouse Lewis tumor cell xenografts by induction of tumor cell apoptosis and significantly up-regulation of pro-apoptotic protein Bax expression. Future study will confirm the current data and targeting NF-κB p65 subunit expression as a potential therapeutic strategy in treating human lung cancer.



Keywords: NF-κB, lung cancer, apoptosis, small interfering RNA, xenografts
Published online: 17-Oct-2014
Year: 2015, Volume: 62, Issue: 1 Page From: 34, Page To: 40
doi:10.4149/neo_2015_005


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