Hasan Mahmud, Browne Erin, Guarinoni Laura, Darveau Travis, Hilton Katherine, Witt-Enderby Paula A
Division of Pharmaceutical, Administrative and Social Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Breast Cancer (Auckl). 2020 Jun 24;14:1178223420924634. doi: 10.1177/1178223420924634. eCollection 2020.
A novel melatonin, estrogen, and progesterone hormone therapy was developed as a safe bio-identical alternative hormone therapy for menopausal women based on the Women's Health Initiative findings that PremPro™ increased breast cancer risk and mortality of all types of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. For HER2 breast cancer, melatonin, estrogen, and progesterone delayed tumor onset and reduced tumor incidence in female mice. For other breast cancers, its actions are unknown. In this study, melatonin, estrogen, and progesterone hormone therapy were assessed in human ER+ (MCF-7) and triple negative breast cancer (MDA-MB-231) cells, and found to decrease proliferation and migration of both breast cancer lines. Inhibition of MEK1/2 and 5 using PD98059 and BIX02189, respectively, inhibited proliferation and migration in MDA-MB-231 cells and proliferation in MCF-7 cells; however, when combined with melatonin, estrogen, and progesterone, BIX02189 blocked melatonin, estrogen, and progesterone-mediated inhibition of migration in MCF-7 cells and induced Elf-5. For MDA-MB-231 cells, BIX02189 combined with melatonin, estrogen, and progesterone inhibited proliferation and increased pERK1/2 and β1-INTEGRIN; levels of pERK5 remained low/nearly absent in both breast cancer lines. These findings demonstrate novel anti-cancer actions of melatonin, estrogen, and progesterone in ER+ and triple negative breast cancer cells through intricate MEK1/2- and MEK5-associated signaling cascades that favor anti-proliferation and anti-migration.
基于女性健康倡议的研究结果,即PremPro™增加了绝经后女性患乳腺癌的风险以及所有类型乳腺癌的死亡率,一种新型的褪黑素、雌激素和孕激素激素疗法被开发出来,作为一种安全的生物同源替代激素疗法用于绝经后女性。对于HER2乳腺癌,褪黑素、雌激素和孕激素可延迟雌性小鼠的肿瘤发病并降低肿瘤发生率。对于其他乳腺癌,其作用尚不清楚。在本研究中,对人雌激素受体阳性(MCF-7)和三阴性乳腺癌(MDA-MB-231)细胞进行了褪黑素、雌激素和孕激素激素疗法评估,发现其可降低两种乳腺癌细胞系的增殖和迁移。分别使用PD98059和BIX02189抑制MEK1/2和MEK5,可抑制MDA-MB-231细胞的增殖和迁移以及MCF-7细胞的增殖;然而,当与褪黑素、雌激素和孕激素联合使用时,BIX02189阻断了褪黑素、雌激素和孕激素介导的MCF-7细胞迁移抑制作用并诱导了Elf-5。对于MDA-MB-231细胞,BIX02189与褪黑素、雌激素和孕激素联合使用可抑制增殖并增加pERK1/2和β1-整合素;两种乳腺癌细胞系中pERK5水平均保持较低/几乎不存在。这些发现表明,褪黑素、雌激素和孕激素在雌激素受体阳性和三阴性乳腺癌细胞中通过复杂的MEK1/2和MEK5相关信号级联发挥新的抗癌作用,这些信号级联有利于抗增殖和抗迁移。