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Cucurbitacin-I inhibits Aurora kinase A, Aurora kinase B and survivin, induces
defects in cell cycle progression and promotes ABT-737-induced cell death in a
caspase-independent manner in malignant human glioma cells
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Premkumar DR
; Jane EP
; Pollack IF
Cancer Biol Ther
2015[]; 16
(2
): 233-43
PMID25482928
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Because STAT signaling is commonly activated in malignant gliomas as a result of
constitutive EGFR activation, strategies for inhibiting the EGFR/JAK/STAT cascade
are of significant interest. We, therefore, treated a panel of established glioma
cell lines, including EGFR overexpressors, and primary cultures derived from
patients diagnosed with glioblastoma with the JAK/STAT inhibitor cucurbitacin-I.
Treatment with cucurbitacin-I depleted p-STAT3, p-STAT5, p-JAK1 and p-JAK2
levels, inhibited cell proliferation, and induced G2/M accumulation, DNA
endoreduplication, and multipolar mitotic spindles. Longer exposure to
cucurbitacin-I significantly reduced the number of viable cells and this decrease
in viability was associated with cell death, as confirmed by an increase in the
subG1 fraction. Our data also demonstrated that cucurbitacin-I strikingly
downregulated Aurora kinase A, Aurora kinase B and survivin. We then searched for
agents that exhibited a synergistic effect on cell death in combination with
cucurbitacin-I. We found that cotreatment with cucurbitacin-I significantly
increased Bcl(-)2/Bcl(-)xL family member antagonist ABT-737-induced cell death
regardless of EGFR/PTEN/p53 status of malignant human glioma cell lines. Although
>50% of the cucurbitacin-I plus ABT-737 treated cells were annexin V and
propidium iodide positive, PARP cleavage or caspase activation was not observed.
Pretreatment of z-VAD-fmk, a pan caspase inhibitor did not inhibit cell death,
suggesting a caspase-independent mechanism of cell death. Genetic inhibition of
Aurora kinase A or Aurora kinase B or survivin by RNA interference also
sensitized glioma cells to ABT-737, suggesting a link between STAT activation and
Aurora kinases in malignant gliomas.