Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2016, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (2): 111-114,120.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2016.02.006

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Overexpression of Notch3 enhance the efficacy of cisplatin to MDA-MB-231

WU Huatao1, SHEN Jiaxin2,3, LIU Jing2,3   

  1. 1. Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou 515041;
    2. Changjiang Scholar's Laboratory, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou 515041;
    3. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer, Shantou 515041, Guangdong, China
  • Received:2015-10-10 Revised:2015-12-21 Online:2016-03-31 Published:2016-03-31

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of stem cell-related factor, Notch3 on human triple negative breast cancer cell, MDA-MB-231 and its resistance to cisplatin, and explore if overexpressed Notch3 can enhance the sensitivity of resistance cells to cisplatin. METHODS: Lipofectamine 2000 was applied to transfect Notch3 plasmid into MDA-MB-231. These cells were divided into MDA-MB-231-PCLE group and MDA-MB-231-N3ICD group, according to the use of different plasmids. RT-PCR and Western blot methods were used to analyze the expression of Notch3 in different groups. The effects of cisplatin on cell proliferation were assessed by CCK8 assay and evaluated by GraphPad Prism 5. Lipofectamine 2000 was also applied to transfect the siNotch3 or scramble to cells and they were divided into T47D-NC and T47D-siNotch3 groups. The protein levels of apoptosis-related factor were detected using RT-PCR methods and Western blot. RESULTS: Then efficacy of cisplatin to triple negative breast cancer cells was enhanced by overexpression of Notch3. Apoptosis-related factor, caspase-3 was up-regulated by Notch3 overexpression. However, siNotch3 induced the downregulation of caspase-3 in T47D, in which the expression of Notch3 was high. CONCLUSION: Overexpression of Notch3 enhanced the sensitivity of MDA-MB-231 to cisplatin which suggests that this may improve the efficiency of chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer.

Key words: Notch3, cisplatin, breast cancer, chemotherapy

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