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Thioridazine enhances sensitivity to carboplatin in human head and neck cancer cells through downregulation of c-FLIP and Mcl-1 expression

Overview of attention for article published in Cell Death & Disease, February 2017
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Title
Thioridazine enhances sensitivity to carboplatin in human head and neck cancer cells through downregulation of c-FLIP and Mcl-1 expression
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Cell Death & Disease, February 2017
DOI 10.1038/cddis.2017.8
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Seung Un Seo, Hyuk Ki Cho, Kyoung-jin Min, Seon Min Woo, Shin Kim, Jong-Wook Park, Sang Hyun Kim, Yung Hyun Choi, Young Sam Keum, Jin Won Hyun, Hyun Ho Park, Sang-Han Lee, Dong Eun Kim, Taeg Kyu Kwon

Abstract

Carboplatin is a less toxic analog of cisplatin, but carboplatin also has side effects, including bone marrow suppression. Therefore, to improve the capacity of the anticancer activity of carboplatin, we investigated whether combined treatment with carboplatin and thioridazine, which has antipsychotic and anticancer activities, has a synergistic effect on apoptosis. Combined treatment with carboplatin and thioridazine markedly induced caspase-mediated apoptosis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (AMC-HN4) cells. Combined treatment with carboplatin and thioridazine induced downregulation of Mcl-1 and c-FLIP expression. Ectopic expression of Mcl-1 and c-FLIP inhibited carboplatin plus thioridazine-induced apoptosis. We found that augmentation of proteasome activity had a critical role in downregulation of Mcl-1 and c-FLIP expression at the post-translational level in carboplatin plus thioridazine-treated cells. Furthermore, carboplatin plus thioridazine induced upregulation of the expression of proteasome subunit alpha 5 (PSMA5) through mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) activation. In addition, combined treatment with carboplatin and thioridazine markedly induced apoptosis in human breast carcinoma (MDA-MB231) and glioma (U87MG) cells, but not in human normal mesangial cells and normal human umbilical vein cells (EA.hy926). Collectively, our study demonstrates that combined treatment with carboplatin and thioridazine induces apoptosis through proteasomal degradation of Mcl-1 and c-FLIP by upregulation of Nrf2-dependent PSMA5 expression.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 12%
Researcher 3 9%
Other 2 6%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 10 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 15%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 6%
Psychology 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 11 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 February 2017.
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#4,207,320
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Outputs from Cell Death & Disease
#1,327
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#86,981
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Outputs of similar age from Cell Death & Disease
#28
of 114 outputs
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