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A Sphingolipid Rich Lipid Fraction Isolated From Attenuated Leishmania donovani Promastigote Induces Apoptosis in Mouse and Human melanoma cells in vitro

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Title A Sphingolipid Rich Lipid Fraction Isolated From Attenuated Leishmania donovani Promastigote Induces Apoptosis in Mouse and Human
melanoma cells in vitro
 
Creator Ratha, Jagnyeswar
Majumdar, Kajal Nayan
Mandal, Sushil Kumar
Bera, Rabindranath
Sarkar, Chinmoy
Saha, Bidisha
Mandal, Chitra
Das Saha, Krishna
Bhadra, Ranjan
 
Subject Cell Biology & Physiology
Infectious Diseases and Immunology
 
Description Lipids, especially sphingolipids, are emerging as inducer of apoptosis in a wide range of immortal cells, potentiating their therapeutic application in cancer. In the present study, a sphingolipid rich lipid fraction (denoted here as ALL), isolated from an attenuated strain of Leishmania donovani promastigote, was tested for its tumoricidal activity taking melanoma, the dreaded form of skin cancer cells, as model. ALL was found to induce chromatin condensation, internucleosomal DNA fragmentation and phosphatidylserine externalization with enhanced cell population in sub-G1 region in both mouse and human melanoma systems, namely B16F10 and A375 respectively. These are the hallmarks of cells undergoing apoptosis.
Further analysis demonstrated that ALL treated melanoma cells showed significant increase in ROS generation, mitochondrial membrane potential depolarization, release of cytochrome c, and caspase-3 activation, which are the events closely involved in apoptosis. These findings indicate that one or more bioactive sphingolipid(s)/ceramide(s) present in ALL could be the causative agent(s) for the induction of apoptosis in melanoma cells. Further studies are thus necessary to identify these specific
bioactive sphingolipid(s)/ceramide(s) and to establish their mechanism of action, in order to explore their use as anticancer
agents. (Mol Cell Biochem 290: 113–123, 2006)
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/429/1/MOLECULAR_AND_CELLULAR_BIOCHEMISTRY%2C_290_(_1%2D2)%2C_113%2D123_[30].pdf
Ratha, Jagnyeswar and Majumdar, Kajal Nayan and Mandal, Sushil Kumar and Bera, Rabindranath and Sarkar, Chinmoy and Saha, Bidisha and Mandal, Chitra and Das Saha, Krishna and Bhadra, Ranjan (2006) A Sphingolipid Rich Lipid Fraction Isolated From Attenuated Leishmania donovani Promastigote Induces Apoptosis in Mouse and Human melanoma cells in vitro. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 290 (1-2). pp. 113-123.
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11010-006-9174-y
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/429/