ヨゴサワ　シンゴ   YOGOSAWA Shingo   与五沢　真吾    所属   埼玉医科大学  保健医療学部 臨床検査学科    職種   准教授
論文種別	学術雑誌(原著)
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Apigenin induces cell cycle arrest and p21/WAF1 expression in a p53-independent pathway
掲載誌名	正式名：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY ISSNコード：1019-6439/1791-2423
出版社	PROFESSOR D A SPANDIDOS
巻・号・頁	26(1),185-189頁
著者・共著者	N Takagaki,Y Sowa,T Oki,R Nakanishi,S Yogosawa,T Sakai
発行年月	2005/01
概要	Apigenin, a common dietary flavonoid, has been shown to induce cell growth-inhibition and cell cycle arrest in many cancer cell lines. One important effect of apigenin is to increase the stability of the tumor suppressor p53 in normal cells. Therefore, apigenin is expected to play a large role in cancer prevention by modifying the effects of p53 protein. However, the mechanisms of apigenin's effects on p53-mutant cancer cells have not been revealed yet. We assessed the influence of apigenin on cell growth and the cell cycle in p53-mutant cell lines. Treatment with apigenin resulted in growth-inhibition and G(2)/M phase arrest in two p53-mutant cancer cell lines, HT-29 and MG63. These effects were associated with a marked increase in the protein expression of p21/WAF1. We have shown that p21/WAF1 mRNA expression was also markedly increased by treatment with apigenin in a dose- and time-dependent manner. However, we could not detect p21/WAF1 promoter activity following treatment with apigenin. Similarly, promoter activity from pG13-Luc, a p53-responsive promoter plasmid, was not activated by treatment with apigenin with or without p53 protein expression. These results suggest that there is a p53-independent pathway for apigenin in p53-mutant cell lines, which induces p21/WAF1 expression and growth-inhibition. Apigenin may be a useful chemopreventive agent not only in wild-type p53 status, but also in cancer with mutant p53.
PMID	15586239