Abstract
Bombyx batryticatus is a traditional Chinese medicine. To understand apoptotic effect of B. batryticatus ethanol extract (BBE), we investigated the role of BBE in inducing apoptosis of human gastric cancer cells SGC-7901. Cells treated with BBE and apoptosis was assessed by methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay, morphological changes, DNA fragmentation and flow cytometry assays. The expression of Bcl-2, Bax and P21 were evaluated by western blot analysis and real time polymerase chain reaction. MTT assay showed that the cytotoxicity of BBE extract on SGC-7901 cells was correlated with treatment time and concentration. After treatment with 6 mg/mL of BBE the microscopy showed that, the majority of SGC-7901 cells were obviously reduced, distorted and grew slowly. Annexin-V/propidium iodide double-staining assay emerge the early apoptosis and the late apoptosis after treatment with different times by laser confocal fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometer. Cell cycle analysis of SGC 79 cells showed that BBE induced cell cycle arrest in the G1 and G2 phases. DNA fragmentation indicated the trend of BBE inducing apoptosis on SGC-7901 cells. The qRT-PCR and western blot analysis indicated that the mRNA and protein expressions of Bax and P21 were significantly up-regulated whereas that of Bc1-2 was down-regulated after treatment with BBE for 24 h. Our results revealed a correlation between gene regulation and BBE-induced apoptosis, which might indicate the potential of BBE in cancer therapy.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31270691, 31170609).
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DW conceived and designed the experiments; JYW, AS HM and TL performed the experiments; YQZ, YLZ and TL analyzed the data; DW contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools; JYW, DW and AS wrote the paper.
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Wu, Jy., Sheikho, A., Ma, H. et al. Molecular mechanisms of Bombyx batryticatus ethanol extract inducing gastric cancer SGC-7901 cells apoptosis. Cytotechnology 69, 875–883 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10616-017-0102-7
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