EGFR反义脱氧寡核苷酸及其硫代修饰片段抑制人肝癌细胞系BEL-7404细胞生长

AN EGFR ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES AND ITS PHOSPHOROTHIOATE ANALOGUE INHIBIT THE GROWTH OF HUMAN HEPATOCARCINOMA BEL-7404 CELLS

本文旨在研究针对ＥＧＦＲ ｍＲＮＡ的反义寡核苷酸片段对ＢＥＬ－７４０４细胞ＥＧＦＲ基因表达及其对细胞生长的影响。合成了互补于ＥＧＦＲ基因５’起始编码区的２１聚脱氧寡核苷酸（ＯＤＮｓ）。实验结果显示，３．２ｕｍｏｌ／Ｌ ＯＤＮｓ明显抑制ＢＥＬ－７４０４细胞生长，「３Ｈ」Ｔｄｒ掺入抑制试验显示其对细胞ＤＮＡ合成的抑制作用表现剂量依赖性；密度扫描分析显示ＯＤＮｓ处理６、２４ｈ后，肝癌细胞ＥＧＦＲ

We have previously reported that the malignant phenotype of human liver carcinoma cell line BEL-7404 was reversed by antisense EGFR RNA. The aim of this paper is to explore the effects of an oli-gomer targeted to mRNA for EGFR and growth of BEL-7404 cells. A 21-mer oli-godeoxynucleotides (ODNs) complementary to the 5' initiation region of mRNA for EGFR was synthesized and added to medium. The results showed that the growth of BEL-7404 cells was inhibited by ODNs at concentration of 3.2μmol/L. Inhibition of DNA synthesis of BEL-7404 cells was dose-dependent and reached to 62.1% at 3.2μmol/L as measured by 3H-thymidi-ne incorporation test. The inhibition of EGFR gene transcription of the cells was up to 10.5% and 14.3% respectively after incubation with ODNs by 5 and 24 hours as measured by densitometric scanning of dot (RNA) blots of EGFR. The EGFR protein (P 170) expression was also found to be blocked by 4 days' antisenseoligomer treatment up to 37.4% as measured by densitometric scanning of specific band of Western blot. The oligonucleotide phosphorothioate (S-ODNs) complementary to the same region of the gene was also synthesized and its growth inhibition effects on BEL-7404 cells were compared with those of unmodified oligomers. ODNs attained their highest effect within 30 hours. The proliferation inhibition rate of the cells didn't increase when cells were cultured in serum free medium. In contrast, the S-ODNs induced inhibition reached comparable level after 96 hours treatment as measured by 3H-thymidine uptake and the effect lasted longer, 1μmol/L S-ODNs showed a little effect on BEL-7404 cells' proliferation. We concluded that the anti-sense oligomers directed to mRNA for EGFR could inhibit the BEL-7404 cells growth by blocking the EGFR gene expression in some degree and the phosphorothioate analogues were more stable than the unmodified ODNs in vitro.