Cordyceptin induces apoptosis through repressing hTERT expression and inducing extranuclear export of hTERT
- Authors
- Jang, Kyung-Jun; Kwon, Gi-Sun; Jeong, Jin-Woo; Kim, Cheol-Hong; Yoon, Hyun-Min; Kim, Gi-Young; Shim, Jung-Hyun; Moon, Sung-Kwon; Kim, Wun-Jae; Choi, Yung Hyun
- Issue Date
- Mar-2015
- Publisher
- SOC BIOSCIENCE BIOENGINEERING JAPAN
- Keywords
- Cordycepin; Apoptosis; Telomerase; Human telomerase reverse transcriptase; Phosphoinositide-3-kinase/Akt
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING, v.119, no.3, pp 351 - 357
- Pages
- 7
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING
- Volume
- 119
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 351
- End Page
- 357
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/9824
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2014.08.008
- ISSN
- 1389-1723
1347-4421
- Abstract
- Cordycepin is an adenosine analog originally extracted from Cordyceps militaris that possesses many pharmacological effects including immune activation and antioxidant and antitumor effects. However, the underlying relationship between apoptosis and telomerase activity in response to cordycepin exposure has not been investigated. In this study, we found that cordycepin-induced apoptosis of human leukemia cells (H937 and THP-1 cells) was associated with inactivation of telomerase and downregulation of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) as well as the transcription factors c-Myc and Sp1, which are required for basal transcription from the hTERT gene promoter. Cordycepin also attenuated the activation of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling, thereby reducing phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of hTERT. We further showed that the PI3K inhibitor LY29004 significantly decreased telomerase activity in cordycepin-treated cells and increased cordycepin-induced cell death. These findings demonstrate that cordycepin is cytotoxic to human leukemia cells and suppresses telomerase activity through transcriptional and post-translational suppression of hTERT by inactivating the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. (C) 2014, The Society for Biotechnology, Japan. All rights reserved.
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