Abstract:
Objective To explore the effects and mechanisms of polysaccharides of radix platycodonis on the proliferation and apoptosis of liver cancer cells.
Methods Liver cancer cells Huh-7 were treated with low, medium and high dose (20, 40, 60 μg/mL) polysaccharides of radix platycodonis respectively. DMSO-treated Huh-7 cells were served as control. In addition, pcDNA and pcDNA-LINC01554 were transfected into Huh-7 cells. si-NC and si-LINC01554 were transfected into Huh-7 cells respectively and then treated with polysaccharides of radix. Cell proliferation and clone formation ability were detected by MTT experiment and plate clone formation experiment. Apoptosis rate was detected by Flow cytometry. The expression of LINC01554 was detected by RT-qPCR. The comparison between the two groups of data was performed by t test, and the comparison of multiple groups was performed by one-way analysis of variance.
Results Compared with the control, the cell viability (1.26±0.09 vs 1.05±0.06, 0.77±0.05, 0.47± 0.03) and the number of colonies formed (117.00±4.55 vs 99.67±3.86, 71.67±2.87, 54.67±2.05) were decreased in low, medium and high dose polysaccharides of radix platycodonis treated cells in a dose-dependent manner, while the apoptosis rate [ (8.24±0.49) ﹪ vs (13.47±0.72) ﹪, (18.20±0.84) ﹪, 22.52±1.12) ﹪] and the expression level of LINC01554 (1.00±0.00 vs 1.35±0.05, 1.90±0.06, 3.38±0.09) were increased significantly in a dose-dependent manner (all P < 0.05) . Compared with the pcDNA, cell viability (1.24±0.08 vs 0.56±0.03) and the colony formation number (116.67±4.19 vs 64.33±2.49) were decreased in pcDNA-LINC01554 transfected cells, while the apoptosis rate was increased [ (8.13±0.60) ﹪vs (20.45±0.97) ﹪] (all P < 0.05) . Compared with the polysaccharides of radix platycodonis+si-NC, the cell viability (0.48±0.03 vs 1.12±0.06) and the number of colonies formed (55.00±2.16 vs 107.67±3.40) were increased in the polysaccharides of radix platycodonis+si-LINC01554 treated cells, while the apoptosis rate was decreased [ (22.51±1.10) ﹪vs 10.52±0.49) ﹪] ( all P < 0.05) .
Conclusion Polysaccharides of radix platycodonis could reduce the proliferation and cloning ability of liver cancer cells and induce apoptosis by up-regulating the expression of LINC01554.
Key words:
Polysaccharides of radix platycodonis,
Long noncoding RNA,
Liver cancer,
Proliferation,
Apoptosis
Yanwei Cai, Yijiong Yao. Mechanisms of polysaccharides of radix platycodonis in the proliferation and apoptosis of liver cancer cells via LINC01554[J]. Chinese Journal of Cell and Stem Cell(Electronic Edition), 2022, 12(01): 14-18.