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Single-walled carbon nanohorn aggregates promotes mitochondrial dysfunction-induced apoptosis in hepatoblastoma cells by targeting SIRT3.
International Journal of Oncology 2018 September
Single-walled carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) can accumulate in a variety of cell types or tissues and exert biological effects, which have been demonstrated to induce apoptosis in hepatoblastoma cells. However, the role and molecular mechanisms of SWNHs remain unclear. The mitochondrion is an important subcellular structure and may contribute to apoptosis that is induced by SWNHs in hepatoblastoma cells. To address this question, the mitochondrial function of HepG2 or L02 cells that were treated with SWNHs was examined. The results indicated that SWNHs were able to decrease the mitochondrial membrane potential and suppress the activity of the Na+/K+-ATPase. Secondly, HepG2 cells and L02 cells were treated with SWNHs in vivo and in vitro. The expression of mitochondrial-associated proteins [acyl-CoA synthetase short chain family member 1, Bax, cytochrome C (CYT-C), sodium channel epithelial 1α subunit, sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) and voltage-dependent anion channel 1] was analyzed by western blotting and immunohistochemical staining. The results revealed that SWNH treatment was able to alter the expression of multiple mitochondrial apoptotic pathway-associated proteins in HepG2 cells. SWNH treatment was able upregulate the expression of SIRT3, CYT-C and VDAC1 and downregulate the expression of AceCS2, but it had a more stable effect on SIRT3. However, similar findings were not observed in L02 cells. Therefore, the data from the present study indicated that SWNHs might be used as a safe anticancer agent, where it is able to trigger mitochondrial dysfunction-induced apoptosis by upregulating SIRT3 expression in HepG2 cells.
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