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Peer-reviewed International journal
Apr 17, 2019

Novel screening system revealed that intracellular cholesterol trafficking can be a good target for colon cancer prevention.

Scientific reports
  • Shingo Miyamoto
  • ,
  • Takumi Narita
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  • Masami Komiya
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  • Gen Fujii
  • ,
  • Takahiro Hamoya
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  • Ruri Nakanishi
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  • Shuya Tamura
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  • Yurie Kurokawa
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  • Maiko Takahashi
  • ,
  • Michihiro Mutoh

Volume
9
Number
1
First page
6192
Last page
6192
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1038/s41598-019-42363-y

In conventional research methods for cancer prevention, cell proliferation and apoptosis have been intensively targeted rather than the protection of normal or benign tumor cells from malignant transformation. In this study, we aimed to identify candidate colon cancer chemopreventive drugs based on the transcriptional activities of TCF/LEF, NF-κB and NRF2, that play important roles in the process of malignant transformation. We screened a "validated library" consisting of 1280 approved drugs to identify hit compounds that decreased TCF/LEF and NF-κB transcriptional activity and increased NRF2 transcriptional activity. Based on the evaluation of these 3 transcriptional activities, 8 compounds were identified as candidate chemopreventive drugs for colorectal cancer. One of those, itraconazole, is a clinically used anti-fungal drug and was examined in the Min mouse model of familial adenomatous polyposis. Treatment with itraconazole significantly suppressed intestinal polyp formation and the effects of itraconazole on transcriptional activities may be exerted partly through inhibition of intracellular cholesterol trafficking. This screen represents one of the first attempts to identify chemopreventive agents using integrated criteria consisting of the inhibition of TCF/LEF, NF-κB and induction of NRF2 transcriptional activity.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42363-y
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30996256
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6470178
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  • DOI : 10.1038/s41598-019-42363-y
  • Pubmed ID : 30996256
  • Pubmed Central ID : PMC6470178

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