Purkinje cell protein (PCP) 4/peptide (PEP) 19 is expressed in Purkinje cells where it has a calmodulin-binding, anti-apoptotic function. We recently demonstrated that PCP4/PEP19 is expressed and inhibit apoptosis in human breast cancer cell lines. In the present study we investigated the role of PCP4/PEP19 in cell morphology, adhesion, migration, and invasion in MCF-7 and T47D human breast can...

BACKGROUND The molecular mechanisms of genistein's proliferative effects on breast cancer cells are largely unknown. This study aimed to examine estrogen-receptor (ER)-related signaling molecules involved in genistein-associated cell proliferation and survival (ERK1/2, p90RSK, JNK, Akt and NFκB) and to correlate these results to cell proliferation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The effect of genistei...

Six square planar Ni(II) complexes of 3,3-dialkyl/aryl-1-benzoylthiourea derivatives have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses, and electronic, FT-IR and NMR spectroscopic techniques. A cis-O2S2 disposition in complexes 3, 4 and 5 was confirmed by single crystal X-ray crystallography. The cytotoxicity of the 3,3-dialkyl/aryl-1-benzoylthiourea molecules and their complexes wa...

The effects of immunosuppressants and inhibitors of specific calcium/calmodulin kinase (CaMK) of types II and IV on progestin/glucocorticosteroid-induced transcription were studied in two human stably transfected breast cancer T47D cell lines. The lines contain the chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) gene under control either of the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter (T47D-MMTV-CAT), or th...

Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is a master regulator of the transcriptional response to hypoxia. HIF-1α is one of the most compelling anticancer targets. Andrographolide (Andro) was newly identified to inhibit HIF-1 in T47D cells (a half maximal effective concentration [EC50] of 1.03×10(-7) mol/L), by a dual-luciferase reporter assay. It suppressed HIF-1α protein and gene accumulation, whic...

Chemokine C-X-C motif ligand 12 (CXCL12) is a potent chemotactic and angiogenic factor that has been proposed to play a role in organ-specific metastasis and angiogenic activity in several malignancies. In this study, we found that the overexpression of c-myb could elevate CXCL12 mRNA level and CXCL12 promoter activity in human T47D and MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Chromatin immunoprecipitation a...

multi drug resistance (mdr) is a serious obstacle in the management of breast cancer. therefore, overcoming mdr using novel anticancer agents is a top priority for medicinal chemists. it was found that dihydropyridines lacking calcium antagonistic activity (e.g acridinediones) possess mdr modifier potency. in this study, the capability of four novel acridine-1,8-diones derivatives 3a-d were eva...

Phytochemical study of the hexane fruits peel extract Lansium domesticum contributed to discovery onoceranoid-type triterpene, onoceradienedione 1. The structure isolated compound was done by advance spectroscopic techniques, comprising IR, UV, 1D, 2D NMR and HR-ESI-MS spectra data. Moreover, 1 were examined for their cytotoxic activity against HeLa, T47D, A549 cells. results revealed significa...