2014/11/09

Apigenin induced ATF3 to decrease ER stress-induced chemokine expression by epigenetically supression of EGR1 expression

colon cancer and apigenin
New research published in the “Journal of Biological Chemistry”, showed in intestinal cancer cells, apigenin induced ATF3 upregulation and this effect diminished endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response via epigenetically supression of EGR1 expression.



The abstract of the recent research paper dedicated to investigate the relationship between apigenin and ER stress induced cancer chemokine expression was given below. You can check the article, written by  Dr. Park and colleagues, using the link provided below of this post.



Activating Transcription Factor 3-mediated Chemo-intervention with Cancer Chemokines in a Noncanonical Pathway under Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress


The cell-protective features of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response are chronically activated in vigorously growing malignant tumor cells, which provide cellular growth advantages over the adverse microenvironment including chemotherapy. As an intervention with ER stress responses in the intestinal cancer cells, preventive exposure to flavone apigenin potentiated superinduction of a regulatory transcription factor, activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3), which is also known to be an integral player coordinating ER stress response-related gene expression.

Results

ATF3 superinduction was due to increased turnover of ATF3 transcript via stabilization with HuR protein in the cancer cells under ER stress. Moreover, enhanced ATF3 caused inhibitory action against ER stress-induced cancer chemokines that are potent mediators determining the survival and metastatic potential of epithelial cancer cells. Although enhanced ATF3 was a negative regulator of the well known proinflammatory transcription factor NF-kB, blocking of NF-?B signaling did not affect ER stress-induced chemokine expression. Instead, immediately expressed transcription factor early growth response protein 1 (EGR-1) was positively involved in cancer chemokine induction by ER stressors. ER stress-induced EGR-1 and subsequent chemokine production were repressed by ATF3. Mechanistically, ATF3 directly interacted with and recruited HDAC1 protein, which led to epigenetic suppression of EGR-1 expression and subsequent chemokine production.

Conclusion

Conclusively, superinduced ATF3 attenuated ER stress-induced cancer chemokine expression by epigenetically interfering with induction of EGR-1, a transcriptional modulator crucial to cancer chemokine production. Thus, these results suggest a potent therapeutic intervention of ER stress response-related cancer-favoring events by ATF3.

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Reference

Park SH, Kim J, Do KH, Park J, Oh CG, Choi HJ, Song BG, Lee SJ, Kim YS, Moon Y. Activating Transcription Factor 3-mediated Chemo-intervention with Cancer Chemokines in a Noncanonical Pathway under Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress. J Biol Chem. 2014 Sep 26;289(39):27118-33. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M114.568717.

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