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Neurotensin receptor1 antagonist SR48692 reduces proliferation by inducing apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in melanoma cells

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Malignant melanoma is highly aggressive, and always resistant to conventional chemo-radiotherapy, which results in poor prognosis. As a specific antagonist of neurotensin receptor 1 (NTSR1), emerging evidences confirmed that SR48692 can reverse the pro-growth effect of neurotensin (NTS) by interrupting the interaction between NTS and NTSR1. A375 melanoma cell line was used in this experiment, and SR48692 was employed as the inhibitor of NTS/NTSR1 pathway. We detected the expression of NTSR1 by NTSR1 immunofluorescence and Western blot. After SR48692 treatment, cell proliferation was determined by cell counting, MTT assay and BrdU incorporation study, the cell cycle and apoptosis were performed by flow cytometry. At last Soft Agar Clonogenic assay and xenograft cancer mice model in vivo were used to confirm our result. In this study, we showed that NTSR1 is commonly high expressed in melanoma cells, but low expressed in normal immortalized human keratinocyte line HaCaT. SR48692 not only reduced cell proliferation and self-renewal potential in vitro, but also inhibited the tumor growth derived from A375 cells in NOD/SCID mice in vivo. Further, we originally reported that SR48692 inhibited cell proliferation through cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. Considering the favorable toxicity profile in vitro and in vivo though targeting NTS/NTSR1, SR48692 is worthy of further study and exploitation in melanoma treatment.

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Abbreviations

MM:

Malignant melanoma

NTS:

Neurotensin

NTSR1:

Neurotensin receptor 1

FBS:

Fetal bovine serum

BrdU:

5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine

PI:

Propidium iodide

PBS:

Phosphate-buffered saline

MTT:

3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide

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This study was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012cb114603), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31271462, 31172268, 81201551).

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  1. Department of Dermatology, the Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, 139 Ziqiang Rd, Shijiazhuang, 050000, Hebei, China

    Yanli Zhang & Yaling Liu

  2. Department of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

    Shunqin Zhu

  3. Neurosurgery Department, Daping Hospital, the Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

    Liang Yi

  4. State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China

    Hongjuan Cui

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Zhang, Y., Zhu, S., Yi, L. et al. Neurotensin receptor1 antagonist SR48692 reduces proliferation by inducing apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in melanoma cells. Mol Cell Biochem 389, 1–8 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11010-013-1920-3

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