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Effect of estrogen receptor β agonists on proliferation and gene expression of ovarian cancer cells

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Title
Effect of estrogen receptor β agonists on proliferation and gene expression of ovarian cancer cells
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BMC Cancer, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12885-017-3246-0
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Susanne Schüler-Toprak, Christoph Moehle, Maciej Skrzypczak, Olaf Ortmann, Oliver Treeck

Abstract

Estrogen receptor (ER) β has been suggested to affect ovarian carcinogenesis. We examined the effects of four ERβ agonists on proliferation and gene expression of two ovarian cancer cell lines. OVCAR-3 and OAW-42 ovarian cancer cells were treated with the ERβ agonists ERB-041, WAY200070, Liquiritigenin and 3β-Adiol and cell growth was measured by means of the Cell Titer Blue Assay (Promega). ERβ expression was knocked down by transfection with specific siRNA. Additionally, transcriptome analyses were performed by means of Affymetrix GeneChip arrays. To confirm the results of DNA microarray analysis, Western blot experiments were performed. All ERβ agonists tested significantly decreased proliferation of OVCAR-3 and OAW-42 cells at a concentration of 10 nM. Maximum antiproliferative effects were induced by flavonoid Liquiritigenin, which inhibited growth of OVCAR-3 cells by 31.2% after 5 days of treatment, and ERB-041 suppressing proliferation of the same cell line by 29.1%. In OAW-42 cells, maximum effects were observed after treatment with the ERβ agonist WAY200070, inhibiting cell growth by 26.8%, whereas ERB-041 decreased proliferation by 24.4%. In turn, knockdown of ERβ with specific siRNA increased cell growth of OAW-42 cells about 1.9-fold. Transcriptome analyses revealed a set of genes regulated by ERβ agonists including ND6, LCN1 and PTCH2, providing possible molecular mechanisms underlying the observed antiproliferative effects. In conclusion, the observed growth-inhibitory effects of all ERβ agonists on ovarian cancer cell lines in vitro encourage further studies to test their possible use in the clinical setting.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 31%
Student > Master 5 14%
Researcher 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Lecturer 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 10 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 23%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 11%
Neuroscience 2 6%
Decision Sciences 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 11 31%
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#17,892,691
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#5,005
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#69
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