title: Ethanol acts as a potent agent sensitizing colon cancer cells to the TRAIL-induced apoptosis.
abstract: Identification of mechanisms of modulation of the TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)-induced apoptosis is important for its potential use in anticancer therapy. Ethanol can induce cell death in vitro and in vivo by different signalling pathways. Its effect in combination with death ligands is unknown. We investigated how ethanol modulates the effects of TRAIL in colon cancer cells. After combined TRAIL and ethanol treatment, a potentiation of caspase-8, -9, -3 activation, a proapoptotic Bid protein cleavage, a decrease of mitochondrial membrane potential, a complete poly(ADP)ribose polymerase cleavage, and disappearance of antiapoptotic Mcl-1 protein were demonstrated. Ethanol acts as a potent agent sensitizing colon cancer cells to TRAIL-induced apoptosis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cytokinetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, 612 65 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Alena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vaculová
authors.forename: Jirina
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hofmanová
authors.forename: Karel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Soucek
authors.forename: Ladislav
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Andera
authors.forename: Alois
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kozubík
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins; D051023:BH3 Interacting Domain Death Agonist Protein; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D020169:Caspases / Q000378:metabolism; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019073:HT29 Cells; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000502:physiology*; D064549:Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / Q000378:metabolism; D053221:TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D051017:Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins; D051023:BH3 Interacting Domain Death Agonist Protein; C494814:BID protein, human; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D064549:Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D053221:TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand; C505653:TNFSF10 protein, human; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D000431:Ethanol; D020169:Caspases