PMID- 28702823 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180522 LR - 20180618 IS - 1573-675X (Electronic) IS - 1360-8185 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 10 DP - 2017 Oct TI - Etoposide and doxorubicin enhance the sensitivity of triple negative breast cancers through modulation of TRAIL-DR5 axis. PG - 1205-1224 LID - 10.1007/s10495-017-1400-4 [doi] AB - Death receptor 5 (DR5) is an important target for development of anticancer agents against triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Recently, we reported the molecular level details for the modulation of TRAIL-DR5 axis by quinacrine (QC) in breast cancer cells. In this work, the DR5 mediated anticancer potential of topoisomerase inhibitor etoposide (ET) and doxorubicin (DOX) against TNBC has been evaluated. ET and DOX enhanced the DR5 expression in TNBC cells, whereas non-topoisomerase inhibitors pifithrin-alpha (PIF) and dexamethasone (DEX) failed to do so. In the TRAIL pre-treated cells, ET and DOX induced higher apoptosis, indicating their synergistic effect with TRAIL. The molecular docking and molecular dynamics studies showed their ability to stabilize the TRAIL-DR5 complex, whereas PIF and DEX failed to do so. The binding energy for TRAIL-DR5 complexation in the ternary complexes containing ET (-111.08 kcal/mol) and DOX (-76.35 kcal/mol) were higher than reported binding energy of binary complex (-53.70 kcal/mol). The in silico and in vitro mutational studies highlighted the importance of DR5 residue SerB68 in mediating the receptor-drug interaction. ET and DOX failed to enhance apoptosis in DR5 knockdown (DR5-KD) cells. On the other hand, TRAIL+ET exhibited induction of DR5 and subsequent apoptosis in WT-DR5 overexpressed DR5-KD cells, by modulating the mitochondrial intrinsic apoptosis cascade. An induction of apoptosis and DR5 expression was noticed in xenograft mice and in TNBC patient-derived metastatic cells after TRAIL+ET treatment. Thus, data suggests ET and DOX act as DR5 agonistic ligands and enhance the cellular apoptosis in TNBC. FAU - Das, Sarita AU - Das S AD - Cancer Biology Division, KIIT School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Campus-11, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751024, India. FAU - Tripathi, Neha AU - Tripathi N AD - National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, 160062, India. FAU - Siddharth, Sumit AU - Siddharth S AD - Cancer Biology Division, KIIT School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Campus-11, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751024, India. FAU - Nayak, Anmada AU - Nayak A AD - Cancer Biology Division, KIIT School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Campus-11, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751024, India. FAU - Nayak, Deepika AU - Nayak D AD - Cancer Biology Division, KIIT School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Campus-11, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751024, India. FAU - Sethy, Chinmayee AU - Sethy C AD - Cancer Biology Division, KIIT School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Campus-11, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751024, India. FAU - Bharatam, Prasad V AU - Bharatam PV AD - National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, 160062, India. FAU - Kundu, Chanakya Nath AU - Kundu CN AD - Cancer Biology Division, KIIT School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Campus-11, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751024, India. cnkundu@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Netherlands TA - Apoptosis JT - Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death JID - 9712129 RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) RN - 0 (Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand) RN - 0 (TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand) RN - 6PLQ3CP4P3 (Etoposide) RN - 80168379AG (Doxorubicin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology MH - Apoptosis/*drug effects MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Doxorubicin/*pharmacology MH - Etoposide/*pharmacology MH - Female MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects MH - Gene Knockdown Techniques MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Molecular Docking Simulation MH - Protein Binding/drug effects MH - Receptors, TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand/*genetics/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction/drug effects MH - TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand/*metabolism MH - Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms/*drug therapy/metabolism/pathology MH - Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays OTO - NOTNLM OT - Death receptor OT - Doxorubicin OT - Etoposide OT - Molecular docking OT - Molecular dynamics OT - TNBC OT - TRAIL EDAT- 2017/07/14 06:00 MHDA- 2018/05/23 06:00 CRDT- 2017/07/14 06:00 PHST- 2017/07/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/05/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/07/14 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s10495-017-1400-4 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s10495-017-1400-4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Apoptosis. 2017 Oct;22(10):1205-1224. doi: 10.1007/s10495-017-1400-4.