Purpose: We examined the antiproliferative effect of IFNCon1 and its mechanism on ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma in vitro and in vivo. Experimental Design: (a) The effects of IFNCon1 on growth, morphology, cell cycle, and type I IFNreceptor (IFNAR-2) expression were examined on two ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma cell lines (KOC-5C and KOC-7C) in vitro. (b) KOC-5C or KOC-7C cells were tran...

PURPOSE We examined the antiproliferative effect of IFN-alphaCon1 and its mechanism on ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma in vitro and in vivo. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (a) The effects of IFN-alphaCon1 on growth, morphology, cell cycle, and type I IFN-alpha receptor (IFNAR-2) expression were examined on two ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma cell lines (KOC-5C and KOC-7C) in vitro. (b) KOC-5C or KOC...

Pyridinyl imidazole inhibitors, particularly SB203580, have been widely used to elucidate the roles of p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase (p38/HOG/SAPKII) in a wide array of biological systems. Studies by this group and others have shown that SB203580 can have antiproliferative activity on cytokine-activated lymphocytes. However, we recently reported that the antiproliferative effects o...

The signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (Stat1) functions as a tumor suppressor via immune regulatory and cell-autonomous pathways. Herein, we report a previously unidentified cell-autonomous Stat1 function, which is its ability to exhibit both antiproliferative and prosurvival properties by facilitating translation of mRNAs encoding for the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27(...

Certain mammalian growth modulators, such as tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-1beta, and gamma-interferon, induce an antiproliferative response-terminal differentiation, apoptosis, or cell cycle arrest-through a novel signal transduction pathway mediated by the lipid ceramide as a second messenger. Both a ceramide-activated protein phosphatase and a ceramide-activated protein kinase hav...

Vitamin E is an important natural antioxidant, and its most common and biologically active form is alpha-tocopherol. In addition to this, specific regulatory effects of vitamin E have been revealing. The body exerts a certain effort to regulate its tissue levels with specific tocopherol transport proteins and membrane receptors. Antiproliferative and protein kinase C-suppressing effects of alph...

We and others previously showed that protein kinase D1 (PKD1) is downregulated in several cancers including prostate; interacts with E-cadherin, a major cell adhesion epithelial protein; and causes increased cell aggregation and decreased motility of prostate cancer cells. In this study, we show that PKD1 complexes with beta3-integrin, resulting in activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase...

Heparin's (HP's) antiproliferative effect on smooth muscle cells is potentially important in defining new approaches to treat pulmonary hypertension. The commercially available HP and heparan sulfate (HS) are structurally heterogenous polymers. In order to examine which sulfonate groups are required for endogenous antiproliferative activity, we prepared the following six chemically modified por...

The aim of our study is to evaluate the antiproliferative effect of tocopherols obtained from alimentary virgin argan oil extracted from the endemic argan tree of Morocco and of saponins extracted from argan press cake on three human prostatic cell lines (DU145, LNCaP, and PC3). The results were compared to 2-methoxyestradiol as antiproliferative drug candidates. Cytotoxicity and antiproliferat...

Objectives: This study assessed the antitumoral activity of MEK inhibitor trametinib (TMT212) and ERK1/2 SCH772984, alone in combination with CDK4/6 ribociclib (LEE011) human neuroendocrine tumor (NET) cell lines vitro. Methods: Human NET BON1, QGP-1, NCI-H727 were treated or ribociclib, to assess proliferation, cycle distribution, protein signaling using flow cytometry, Western blot assays, re...