The tumor suppressor p53 plays various functional roles in the cell by regulating multiple regulatory signals that ensure adequate temporal and spatial responses to cellular stress. p53 is usually kept inactive due to ubiquitination by a number of E3 ubiquitin ligases that target p53 for proteasomal degradation[3].CP-31398, a styrylquinazoline, emerges from a screen for therapeutic agents that restore the wild-type DNA-binding conformation of mutant p53 to suppress tumors in vivo.CC cells treated with CP-31398 or treated with sh-PAX2 inhibited proliferation, invasion, and migration but promoted apoptosis with decreased PAX2 expression. The EMT process in CC cells was also reversed after treatment with CP-31398 or sh-PAX2. Moreover, the tumor formation experiment in nude mice revealed the inhibitory activity of CP-31398 in CC tumor in nude mice by suppressing PAX2[4].CP-31398 induced growth retardation but the cytotoxic effects were irrelevant to p53 genotype. CP-31398 influenced expression of p53 and the downstream molecules in a cell-dependent manner, but constantly increased p21 expression at the transcriptional level with decreased YY1 expression[5].The EC cells treated with CP‑31398 or siRNA against MDM2 exhibited an increased apoptosis and a suppressed migration and invasion, corresponding to an increased expression of p53, p21, Bad, Bax, Cyt‑c and caspase‑3, as well as to a decreased expression of Bcl‑2, Cox‑2, MMP‑2 and MMP‑9[6].
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