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(The FASEB Journal. 2001;15:403-415.)
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Induction of cancer cell apoptosis by {alpha}-tocopheryl succinate: molecular pathways and structural requirements

JIRÍ NEUZIL*1, TOBIAS WEBER*, ANDREAS SCHRÖDER*, MIN LU{dagger}, GEORG OSTERMANN*, NINA GELLERT*, GEORGE C. MAYNE{ddagger}, BEATA OLEJNICKA§, ANNE NÈGRE-SALVAYRE, MARTIN STÍCHA{dagger}{dagger}, ROBERT J. COFFEY{dagger} and CHRISTIAN WEBER*1

* Institute for Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Medical Policlinic, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany;
{dagger} Medical Center North, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
{ddagger} Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia;
§ Department of Pathology II, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden;
Biochemistry Department, INSERM, Toulouse, France; and
{dagger}{dagger} Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

1Correspondence: Institute for Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pettenkoferstrasse 9, 80336 Munich, Germany. E-mail: jneuzil{at}klp.med.uni-muenchen.de or cweber{at}klp.med.uni-muenchen.de

The vitamin E analog {alpha}-tocopheryl succinate ({alpha}-TOS) can induce apoptosis. We show that the proapoptotic activity of {alpha}-TOS in hematopoietic and cancer cell lines involves inhibition of protein kinase C (PKC), since phorbol myristyl acetate prevented {alpha}-TOS-triggered apoptosis. More selective effectors indicated that {alpha}-TOS reduced PKC{alpha} isotype activity by increasing protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activity. The role of PKC{alpha} inhibition in {alpha}-TOS-induced apoptosis was confirmed using antisense oligonucleotides or PKC{alpha} overexpression. Gain- or loss-of-function bcl-2 mutants implied modulation of bcl-2 activity by PKC/PP2A as a mitochondrial target of {alpha}-TOS-induced proapoptotic signals. Structural analogs revealed that {alpha}-tocopheryl and succinyl moieties are both required for maximizing these effects. In mice with colon cancer xenografts, {alpha}-TOS suppressed tumor growth by 80%. This epitomizes cancer cell killing by a pharmacologically relevant compound without known side effects.—Neuzil, J., Weber, T., Schröder, A., Lu, M., Ostermann, G., Gellert, N., Mayne, G. C., Olejnicka, B., Nègre-Salvayre, A., Stícha, M., Coffey, R. J., Weber, C. Induction of cancer cell apoptosis by {alpha}-tocopheryl succinate: molecular pathways and structural requirements.


Key Words: vitamin E succinate • protein kinase C • programmed cell death • colon cancer




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