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General Physiology and Biophysics Vol.38, No.2, p.135–144, 2019

Title: Novel insights into the combined effect of triorganotin compounds and all-trans retinoic acid on expression of selected proteins associated with tumor progression in breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231: Proteomic approach
Author: D. Strouhalova, L. Toporova, M. Lastovickova, D. Macejova, J. Bobalova, J. Brtko

Abstract: Trialkyltins and triaryltins function as nuclear retinoid X receptors (RXR) agonists due to their affinity to the ligand-binding domain of RXR subtypes and function as transcriptional activators. We present the data on combined effects of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), retinoic acid receptor (RAR) ligand and tributyltin chloride or triphenyltin chloride (RXR ligands) on protein pattern in MDA-MB-231 cells. Proteomic strategies based on bottom-up method were applied in this study. The total cell proteins were extracted, separated on 2D SDS-PAGE and their characterization was achieved by MALDI-TOF/TOF MS/MS. By employing PDQuest™ software, we identified more than 30 proteins differently affected by the above compounds. For further studies, we selected specific proteins associated either with metabolic pathway (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase) or to cellular processes as apoptosis, regulation of gene transcription or epithelial–mesenchymal transition (annexin 5, nucleoside diphosphate kinase B and vimentin). We have found that treatment of MDA-MB-231 cells with triorganotins reduced the expression of studied proteins. Moreover, the treatment of MDA-MB-231 cells with triorganotin compounds together with ATRA resulted in an additional reduction of annexin 5, vimentin and nucleoside diphosphate kinase B. These results demonstrate that RXR/RAR heterodimer may act under this experimental design as permissive heterodimer allowing activation of RXR by triorganotins.

Keywords: Breast cancer, Triorganotin compounds, Retinoids, Proteomics
Published online: 25-Mar-2019
Year: 2019, Volume: 38, Issue: 2 Page From: 135, Page To: 144
doi:10.4149/gpb_2018042


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