Journal: Cells
Article Title: A New Synthesized Dicarboxylated Oxy-Heparin Efficiently Attenuates Tumor Growth and Metastasis
doi: 10.3390/cells13030211
Figure Lengend Snippet: Heparanase protein expression, uptake, and processing. ( A ) Compound XII attenuates heparanase levels in PDAC tumors. Nude mice (n = 6/group) s.c. inoculated with Mia PaCa-2 cells were treated with increasing amounts of compound XII (daily injections of 20, 40, or 80 mg/kg) or vehicle alone, as described in . On Day 25, the tumors were resected and the tumor tissue lysates were subjected to Western blotting, applying anti-heparanase (Proteintech 66226-1-ig, Rosemont, IL, USA) and anti-GAPDH polyclonal antibodies. The positive control (HPA 220408 = GS3-linker 58 kDa) was the purified recombinant protein used in the FRET activity assay. The detected endogenous heparanase was presumably the 50 kDa subunit. The molecular weight of standard protein (ladder) was indicated. Treatment with compound XII (20 mg/kg/day) resulted in a marked 50% decrease in the normalized (GAPDH) amount of heparanase. There were no statistical differences between the different doses of compound XII. ( B ) Compound XII inhibits cellular uptake and processing of exogenously added heparanase. Cervical carcinoma cells (SiHa) were left untreated (Con) or were incubated with latent 65 kDa heparanase (1 ug/mL) together with increasing concentrations (1, 5, 10 ug/mL) of compound XII. After 24 h, cultures were washed, and cell lysate samples were subjected to immunoblotting, applying anti-heparanase (upper panel = 50 kDa heparanase subunit) and anti-actin (lower panel) antibodies. The polyclonal anti-heparanase antibodies (ANT-155) were from ProSpec-Tany, TechnoGene Ltd., Ness-Ziona, Israel).
Article Snippet: Human (Mia PaCa-2, BxPC-3, AsPC-1) and mouse (Panc02) pancreatic cancer cell lines, human (MDA-MB-231) and mouse (4T1, Luc4T1) breast carcinoma cell lines, the human MSTO-211H mesothelioma cell line, the human SiHa cervical carcinoma cell line, and the mouse MPC-11 myeloma/plasmacytoma cell line were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection.
Techniques: Expressing, Western Blot, Positive Control, Purification, Recombinant, Activity Assay, Molecular Weight, Incubation