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  Membrane-rigidifying effects of anti-cancer dietary factors
 
 
Title: Membrane-rigidifying effects of anti-cancer dietary factors
Author: Tsuchiya, Hironori
Nagayama, Motohiko
Tanaka, Toshiyuki
Furusawa, Miyuki
Kashimata, Masanori
Takeuchi, Hiroshi
Appeared in: BioFactors
Paging: Volume 16 (2003) nr. 3-4 pages 45-56
Year: 2003-10-01
Contents: Since several anti-cancer drugs interact with cell membrane lipids, the effects of anti-cancer dietary factors on liposomal membranes with different lipid composition were comparatively studied by measuring fluorescence polarization. Fluidity was imparted on both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions of lipid bilayers by decreasing cholesterol and increasing unsaturated phosphatidylcholine in membranes. At 0.625–10 µM, (–)-epigallocatechin gallate, genistein, apigenin, resveratrol and a reference anti-cancer drug, doxorubicin, rigidified the tumor cell model membranes consisting of 20 mol% cholesterol and 80 mol% phosphatidylcholine with the acyl chain 18:1/16:0 ratio of 1.0, but not daidzein. They were more effective on the membrane core than the membrane surface. Quercetin showed a biphasic effect on the hydrophobic regions of membrane lipid bilayers to rigidify above 5 µM and fluidize below 2.5 µM. In contrast, anti-cancer dietary factors and doxorubicin were not or much less effective in rigidifying the normal cell model membranes consisting of 40 mol% cholesterol and 60 mol% phosphatidylcholine with the acyl chain 18:1/16:0 ratio of 0.5. The membrane-rigidifying effects were greater depending on a decrease of the cholesterol/phosphatidylcholine ratio and an increase of the phosphatidylcholine unsaturation degree. Membrane-active dietary factors and doxorubicin inhibited the growth of mouse myeloma cells at 10–100 µM, while the growth inhibition by membrane-inactive daidzein was relatively weak. Anti-cancer dietary factors appear to act on more fluid membranes like tumor cells as well as doxorubicin to induce rigidification, especially in the hydrocarbon core of membrane lipids, which is determined by the composition of cholesterol and unsaturated phospholipids.
Publisher: IOS Press
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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