Javad Alizadeh, Amir A Zeki, Nima Mirzaei, Sandipan Tewary, Adel Rezaei Moghadam, Aleksandra Glogowska, Pandian Nagakannan, Eftekhar Eftekharpour, Emilia Wiechec, Joseph W Gordon, Fred Y Xu, Jared T Field, Ken Y Yoneda, Nicholas J Kenyon, Mohammad Hashemi, Grant M Hatch, Sabine Hombach-Klonisch, Thomas Klonisch, Saeid Ghavami
The mevalonate (MEV) cascade is responsible for cholesterol biosynthesis and the formation of the intermediate metabolites geranylgeranylpyrophosphate (GGPP) and farnesylpyrophosphate (FPP) used in the prenylation of proteins. Here we show that the MEV cascade inhibitor simvastatin induced significant cell death in a wide range of human tumor cell lines, including glioblastoma, astrocytoma, neuroblastoma, lung adenocarcinoma, and breast cancer. Simvastatin induced apoptotic cell death via the intrinsic apoptotic pathway...
March 27, 2017: Scientific Reports