Extracts of marine sponge Polymastia janeirensis induce oxidative cell death through a caspase-9 apoptotic pathway in human U138MG glioma cell line.

Abstract

We have studied the apoptotic pathway activated in response to marine sponge extracts of Polymastia janeirensis. The effect on intracellular ROS production was also examined. Exposure of U138MG glioma cell line to doses higher than 5 microg/mL has decreased glioma cell viability, with an IC(50) <15 microg/mL for both aqueous and organic extracts. However, extracts at higher doses (50 and 100 microg/mL) have stronger cytotoxic effects, decreasing more than 90% of glioma cell viability. The antioxidant Trolox (100 microM) reversed the cell death percentage induced by extracts at 10 and 25 microg/mL. The type of cell death induced by such high doses was predominantly necrosis, while a high percentage of apoptotic glioma cells was found at 10 microg/mL. Moreover, inhibition of caspase-8 with Z-IETD (a caspase-8 inhibitor) had no effect on the amount of apoptosis induced by 10 microg/mL, but inhibition of caspase-9 with Z-LEHD (a caspase-9 inhibitor) decreased apoptosis. We also observed a dose-dependent increase in ROS production, and similarly to effects observed on viability of glioma cells, and on cell death, higher doses also had more severe effects. Co-treatment with Trolox significantly reduced ROS production by extracts at doses lower than 50 microg/mL. This is a first report demonstrating that marine sponge extracts of P. janeirensis induce oxidative cell death through a caspase-9 apoptotic pathway.

• Authors: Mario Luiz Conte da Frota Jr, Elizandra Braganhol, Andrés Delgado Canedo, Fabio Klamt, Miriam Anders Apel, Beatriz Mothes, Cléa Lerner, Ana Maria Oliveira Battastini, Amélia Teresinha Henriques, José Cláudio Fonseca Moreira
• Journal: Investigational new drugs (Invest New Drugs) Vol. 27 Issue 5 Pg. 440-6 (Oct 2009) ISSN: 1573-0646 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 19002382 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Reactive Oxygen Species
• Tissue Extracts
• Caspase 9

Topics

• Animals
• Apoptosis (drug effects)
• Brain Neoplasms (drug therapy, pathology)
• Caspase 9 (metabolism)
• Flow Cytometry
• Glioma (drug therapy, pathology)
• Humans
• Porifera (chemistry)
• Reactive Oxygen Species (metabolism)
• Tissue Extracts (pharmacology)
• Tumor Cells, Cultured