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Title: Peroxiporin Expression Is an Important Factor for Cancer Cell Susceptibility to Therapeutic H2O2: Implications for Pharmacological Ascorbate Therapy.

Authors: Erudaitius, Dieanira; Huang, Andrew; Kazmi, Sarah; Buettner, Garry R; Rodgers, Victor G J

Published In PLoS One, (2017)

Abstract: Cancer cell toxicity to therapeutic H2O2 varies widely depending on cell type. Interestingly, it has been observed that different cancer cell types have varying peroxiporin expression. We hypothesize that variation in peroxiporin expression can alter cell susceptibility to therapeutic H2O2 concentrations. Here, we silence peroxiporin aquaporin-3 (AQP3) on the pancreatic cancer cell line MIA PaCa-2 and compare clonogenic survival response to the wild-type. The results showed a significantly higher surviving fraction in the clonogenic response for siAQP3 MIA PaCa-2 cells at therapeutic H2O2 doses (P < 0.05). These results suggest that peroxiporin expression is significant in modulating the susceptibility of cancer cells to ascorbate therapy.

PubMed ID: 28107421 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Aquaporin 3/genetics; Aquaporin 3/metabolism*; Ascorbic Acid/pharmacology*; Cell Line, Tumor; Cell Survival; Gene Silencing; Humans; Hydrogen Peroxide/pharmacology*; Immunohistochemistry; Neoplasms/pathology*

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