TY - JOUR
T1 - Steroid Receptor Coactivator-3 (SRC-3/AIB1) as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Triple Negative Breast Cancer and Its Inhibition with a Phospho-Bufalin Prodrug
AU - Song, Xianzhou
AU - Zhang, Chengwei
AU - Zhao, Mingkun
AU - Chen, Hui
AU - Liu, Xing
AU - Chen, Jianwei
AU - Lonard, David M.
AU - Qin, Li
AU - Xu, Jianming
AU - Wang, Xiaosong
AU - Li, Feng
AU - O'Malley, Bert W.
AU - Wang, Jin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2015 Song et al.
PY - 2015/10/2
Y1 - 2015/10/2
N2 - Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) has the poorest prognosis of all types of breast cancer and currently lacks efficient targeted therapy. Chemotherapy is the traditional standardof- care for TNBC, but is frequently accompanied by severe side effects. Despite the fact that high expression of steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-3) is correlated with poor survival in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients, its role in TNBC has not been extensively investigated. Here, we show that high expression of SRC-3 correlates with both poor overall survival and post progression survival in TNBC patients, suggesting that SRC-3 can serve as a prognostic marker for TNBC. Furthermore, we demonstrated that bufalin, a SRC-3 small molecule inhibitor, when introduced even at nM concentrations, can significantly reduce TNBC cell viability and motility. However, because bufalin has minimal water solubility, its in vivo application is limited. Therefore, we developed a water soluble prodrug, 3-phospho-bufalin, to facilitate its in vivo administration. In addition, we demonstrated that 3-phospho-bufalin can effectively inhibit tumor growth in an orthotopic TNBC mouse model, suggesting its potential application as a targeted therapy for TNBC treatment.
AB - Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) has the poorest prognosis of all types of breast cancer and currently lacks efficient targeted therapy. Chemotherapy is the traditional standardof- care for TNBC, but is frequently accompanied by severe side effects. Despite the fact that high expression of steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-3) is correlated with poor survival in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients, its role in TNBC has not been extensively investigated. Here, we show that high expression of SRC-3 correlates with both poor overall survival and post progression survival in TNBC patients, suggesting that SRC-3 can serve as a prognostic marker for TNBC. Furthermore, we demonstrated that bufalin, a SRC-3 small molecule inhibitor, when introduced even at nM concentrations, can significantly reduce TNBC cell viability and motility. However, because bufalin has minimal water solubility, its in vivo application is limited. Therefore, we developed a water soluble prodrug, 3-phospho-bufalin, to facilitate its in vivo administration. In addition, we demonstrated that 3-phospho-bufalin can effectively inhibit tumor growth in an orthotopic TNBC mouse model, suggesting its potential application as a targeted therapy for TNBC treatment.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0140011
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0140011
M3 - Article
C2 - 26431029
AN - SCOPUS:84947258067
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 10
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 10
M1 - e0140011
ER -