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The metal-nonoate Ni(SalPipNONO) inhibits in vitro tumor growth, invasiveness and angiogenesis

Valerio Ciccone _, Martina Monti, Enrico Monzani, Luigi Casella and Lucia Morbidelli

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Oncotarget. 2018; 9:13353-13365. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.24350

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Abstract

Valerio Ciccone1,*, Martina Monti2,3,*, Enrico Monzani3,4, Luigi Casella3,4 and Lucia Morbidelli1,3

1Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

2Department of Molecular Medicine and Development, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

3Noxamet Ltd, Milan, Italy

4Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

*These authors contributed equally to these work

Correspondence to:

Lucia Morbidelli, email: [email protected]

Keywords: nitric oxide donor; lung cancer cells; apoptosis; angiogenesis; vascular endothelial growth factor

Received: October 18, 2017     Accepted: January 25, 2018     Published: January 30, 2018

ABSTRACT

Nitric oxide (NO) exerts conflicting effect on tumor growth and progression, depending on its concentration. We aimed to characterize the anti-cancer activity of a new NO donor, Ni(SalPipNONO) belonging to the class of metal-nonoates, in epithelial derived tumor cells, finally exploring its antiangiogenic properties. Tumor epithelial cells were screened to evaluate the cytotoxic effect of Ni(SalPipNONO), which was able to inhibit cell proliferation in a dose dependent manner, being more effective than the commercial DETA/NO. The human lung carcinoma cells A549 were chosen as model to study the anti-cancer mechanisms exerted by the compound. In these cells, Ni(SalPipNONO) inhibited clonogenicity and cell invasion, while promoting apoptosis. The antitumor activity was partly due to NO-cGMP dependent pathway, contributing to reduced cell number and apoptosis, and partly to the salicylaldehyde moiety and reactive oxygen species (ROS) activated ERK1/2 signaling converging on p53 dependent caspase-3 cleavage. An additional contribution by downstream cycloxygenase-2 (COX-2) derived cyclopentenones may explain the tumor inhibitory activities. As NO has been described to affect tumor angiogenesis, we checked this activity both on tumor and endothelial cell co-cultures and in Matrigel in vivo assay. Our data document that Ni(SalPipNONO) was able to both reduce angiogenic factor expression by tumor cells acting on hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1 α) level, and endothelial cell functions related to angiogenesis. Collectively, these data confirm the potential use of NO donors and in particular Ni(SalPipNONO) acting through multiple mechanisms, as an agent to be further developed to be used alone or in combination with conventional therapy.


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