title: Lunasin promotes apoptosis in human colon cancer cells by mitochondrial pathway activation and induction of nuclear clusterin expression.
abstract: Lunasin is a naturally occurring peptide with arginine-glycine-aspartic acid motif associated to its reported biological activity. We aimed to determine the potential of lunasin from soybean to stimulate apoptosis in HT-29 colon cancer cells. Lunasin caused cytotoxicity to HT-29 cells and induced G2/M cell cycle arrest with simultaneous increased in p21 expression. Lunasin-induced apoptosis as evidenced by a twofold increase in the percentage of cells undergoing apoptosis, decreased Bcl-2:Bax ratio from 8.5 to 0.4, increased caspase-3 activity by 77% and increased expression of pro-apoptotic nuclear clusterin by five fold when compared to untreated cells. In conclusion, lunasin stimulated apoptosis in HT-29 cells by activating apoptotic mitochondrial pathways and inducing expression of the pro-apoptotic nuclear clusterin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Vermont P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Dia
authors.forename: Elvira Gonzalez de
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Mejia
mesh_terms: D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects*; D053148:Caspase 3 / Q000378:metabolism; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism*; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000187:drug effects; D051152:Clusterin / Q000378:metabolism*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D016195:G2 Phase / Q000187:drug effects; D019073:HT29 Cells; D006801:Humans; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / Q000378:metabolism; D030262:Soybean Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D051152:Clusterin; C120514:GM2S-1 protein, soybean; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D030262:Soybean Proteins; D053148:Caspase 3