Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040
The nitric oxide donor, NCX4040 is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory-NO donor and has been shown to be extremely cytotoxic to a number of human tumors, including ovarian tumors cells. We have found that NCX4040 is cytotoxic against both OVCAR-8 and its adriamycin-selected OVCAR-8 variant (NCI/ADR-RE...
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| author | Birandra K. Sinha Erik J. Tokar Jianying Li Pierre R. Bushel |
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| description | The nitric oxide donor, NCX4040 is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory-NO donor and has been shown to be extremely cytotoxic to a number of human tumors, including ovarian tumors cells. We have found that NCX4040 is cytotoxic against both OVCAR-8 and its adriamycin-selected OVCAR-8 variant (NCI/ADR-RES) tumor cell lines. While the mechanism of action of NCX4040 is not entirely clear, we as well as others have shown that NCX4040 generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) and induces DNA damage in tumor cells. Recently, we have reported that NCX4040 treatment resulted in a significant depletion of cellular glutathione, and formation of both reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS), resulting in oxidative stress in these tumor cells. Furthermore, our results indicated that more ROS/RNS were generated in OVCAR-8 cells than in NCI/ADR-RES cells due to increased activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase and transferases expressed in NCI/ADR-RES cells. Further studies suggested that NCX4040-induced cell death may be mediated by peroxynitrite formed from NCX4040 in cells. In this study we used microarray analysis following NCX4040 treatment of both OVCAR-8 and its ADR-resistant variant to identify various molecular pathways involved in NCX4040-induced cell death. Here, we report that NCX4040 treatment resulted in the differential induction of oxidative stress genes, inflammatory response genes (<i>TNF</i>, <i>IL-1</i>, <i>IL-6</i> and <i>COX2</i>), DNA damage response and MAP kinase response genes. A mechanism of tumor cell death is proposed based on our findings where oxidative stress is induced by NCX4040 from simultaneous induction of <i>NOX4</i>, <i>TNF-α</i> and <i>CHAC1</i> in tumor cell death. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a3dd7c178e8a4315bbbaaeaa5fa205f12023-11-16T15:04:08ZengMDPI AGCancers2072-66942022-12-0115128510.3390/cancers15010285Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040Birandra K. Sinha0Erik J. Tokar1Jianying Li2Pierre R. Bushel3Laboratory of Mechanistic Toxicology, Division of Translational Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709, USALaboratory of Mechanistic Toxicology, Division of Translational Toxicology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709, USAIntegrative Bioinformatics Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709, USABiostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC 27709, USAThe nitric oxide donor, NCX4040 is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory-NO donor and has been shown to be extremely cytotoxic to a number of human tumors, including ovarian tumors cells. We have found that NCX4040 is cytotoxic against both OVCAR-8 and its adriamycin-selected OVCAR-8 variant (NCI/ADR-RES) tumor cell lines. While the mechanism of action of NCX4040 is not entirely clear, we as well as others have shown that NCX4040 generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) and induces DNA damage in tumor cells. Recently, we have reported that NCX4040 treatment resulted in a significant depletion of cellular glutathione, and formation of both reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS), resulting in oxidative stress in these tumor cells. Furthermore, our results indicated that more ROS/RNS were generated in OVCAR-8 cells than in NCI/ADR-RES cells due to increased activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase and transferases expressed in NCI/ADR-RES cells. Further studies suggested that NCX4040-induced cell death may be mediated by peroxynitrite formed from NCX4040 in cells. In this study we used microarray analysis following NCX4040 treatment of both OVCAR-8 and its ADR-resistant variant to identify various molecular pathways involved in NCX4040-induced cell death. Here, we report that NCX4040 treatment resulted in the differential induction of oxidative stress genes, inflammatory response genes (<i>TNF</i>, <i>IL-1</i>, <i>IL-6</i> and <i>COX2</i>), DNA damage response and MAP kinase response genes. A mechanism of tumor cell death is proposed based on our findings where oxidative stress is induced by NCX4040 from simultaneous induction of <i>NOX4</i>, <i>TNF-α</i> and <i>CHAC1</i> in tumor cell death.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/1/285microarraygene expressionnitric oxideTNFαNCX4040ROS |
| spellingShingle | Birandra K. Sinha Erik J. Tokar Jianying Li Pierre R. Bushel Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040 Cancers microarray gene expression nitric oxide TNFα NCX4040 ROS |
| title | Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040 |
| title_full | Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040 |
| title_fullStr | Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040 |
| title_short | Gene Expression Profiling Elucidates Cellular Responses to NCX4040 in Human Ovarian Tumor Cells: Implications in the Mechanisms of Action of NCX4040 |
| title_sort | gene expression profiling elucidates cellular responses to ncx4040 in human ovarian tumor cells implications in the mechanisms of action of ncx4040 |
| topic | microarray gene expression nitric oxide TNFα NCX4040 ROS |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/15/1/285 |
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