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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-11-25
pubmed:abstractText
Phosphatase of regenerating liver-3 (PRL-3) has been suggested as a potential target for anticancer drugs based on its involvement in tumor metastasis. However, little is known about a small-molecule inhibitor against PRL-3. In this study, we report that curcumin, the component of the spice turmeric, shows its antitumor effect by selectively down-regulating the expression of PRL-3 but not its family members PRL-1 and -2 in a p53-independent way. Curcumin inhibited the phosphorylation of Src and stat3 partly through PRL-3 down-regulation. Cells with PRL-3 stably knocked down show less sensitivity to curcumin treatment, which reveals that PRL-3 is the much further upstream target of curcumin. Curcumin treatment also remarkably prevented B16BL6 from invading the draining lymph nodes in the spontaneous metastatic tumor model, which is probably of relevance to PRL-3 down-regulation. Our results reveal a novel capacity of curcumin to down-regulate oncogene PRL-3, raising its possibility in therapeutic regimen against malignant tumor.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1521-0111
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
76
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1238-45
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Breast Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Curcumin, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Immediate-Early Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Melanoma, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Neoplasm Metastasis, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Neoplasms, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Prostatic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Proto-Oncogene Proteins pp60(c-src), pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-STAT3 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:19779032-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
An anticancer effect of curcumin mediated by down-regulating phosphatase of regenerating liver-3 expression on highly metastatic melanoma cells.
pubmed:affiliation
State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 22 Han Kou Road, Nanjing 210093, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't