Soleimani, M., Mirmohammmad Sadeghi, H., Jahanian-Najafabadi, A. (2019). A Bi-Functional Targeted P28-NRC Chimeric Protein with Enhanced Cytotoxic Effects on Breast Cancer Cell Lines. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 18(2), 735-744. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2019.2392
Meysam Soleimani; Hamid Mirmohammmad Sadeghi; Ali Jahanian-Najafabadi. "A Bi-Functional Targeted P28-NRC Chimeric Protein with Enhanced Cytotoxic Effects on Breast Cancer Cell Lines". Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 18, 2, 2019, 735-744. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2019.2392
Soleimani, M., Mirmohammmad Sadeghi, H., Jahanian-Najafabadi, A. (2019). 'A Bi-Functional Targeted P28-NRC Chimeric Protein with Enhanced Cytotoxic Effects on Breast Cancer Cell Lines', Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 18(2), pp. 735-744. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2019.2392
Soleimani, M., Mirmohammmad Sadeghi, H., Jahanian-Najafabadi, A. A Bi-Functional Targeted P28-NRC Chimeric Protein with Enhanced Cytotoxic Effects on Breast Cancer Cell Lines. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 2019; 18(2): 735-744. doi: 10.22037/ijpr.2019.2392
A Bi-Functional Targeted P28-NRC Chimeric Protein with Enhanced Cytotoxic Effects on Breast Cancer Cell Lines
1Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
2Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
3Isfahan Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Abstract
One of the emerging therapeutic strategies for targeted therapy of cancer is the use of chimeric proteins. The p28 peptide has the ability of selective entrance and activating apoptosis in breast cancer cells. The NRC antimicrobial peptide showed cytotoxic activity on various breast cancer including drug-resistant variants but also normal cell lines. Here we designed a chimeric protein consisted of these peptides to determine their targeted and enhance cytotoxic effects on breast cancer cells. The chimeric protein was cytotoxic to MDA-MB-231 and MCF7 breast cancer cell lines in a dose-dependent manner after 48 h of treatment. In addition, the cytotoxic effects of the p28 alone were significantly lower than the chimeric protein indicating the additive or enhanced effects of the two peptides. Flow cytometry analysis showed that the induced cell death is mediated via apoptosis. The designed chimeric protein had enhanced effects on breast cancer cell lines and exerts its anticancer effects on MCF7 breast cancer cells through mitochondrial caspase dependent and -independent apoptotic pathways. Taken together, the results of this study suggested the chimeric protein to be a reasonable anti-cancer agent which must be further evaluated by subsequent in-vitro and in-vivo preclinical studies.
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