サトウ　タクミ   佐藤　拓己    所属   応用生物学部 応用生物学科    職種   教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2020/01
形態種別	学術論文
査読	査読あり
標題	Physiological Concentrations of Ascorbic Acid Potentiate Cell Death by Hydrogen Peroxide and Nitric Oxide of Non-Attached Cancer Cell Lines for the Possible Clearance of Cancer Cells from the Microcirculation
執筆形態	共著
掲載誌名	Reactive Oxygen Species
掲載区分	国外
出版社・発行元	Cell Med Press
巻・号・頁	9(25)
著者・共著者	Yoshimi Murayama,　Ryoko Kashiyagura, Misaki Sakai, Ibuki Sasaki, Yuki Yoshida, Chuya Kanai, Ren Hiruma, and Takumi Satoh
概要	Vitamin C (ascorbic acid, AA) exerts pro-oxidative actions and inhibits cancer metastasis, although AA is most famous for its antioxidant status. In this context, the physiological significance of the effect of AA at physiological concentrations (< 100 µM) on cancer cells is largely unknown. Here, we found that such concentrations of AA significantly potentiated the death of non-attached cancer cells caused by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) or a nitric oxide (NO) donor. In order to examine the involvement of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) in this effect, we used an ROS- and RNS-sensitive fluorescent indicator, respectively. Even such low concentrations of AA negated the increase in ROS or RNS levels induced by H2O2 or the NO donor. In contrast, the oxidized form of AA, i.e., dehydroascorbic acid (DHA), did not affect the cell death. These results suggest that the reductive power of AA (“endiol”) was closely linked with the AA-induced potentiation of cell death. Because the production of H2O2 and NO by endothelial cells is activated by the attachment of malignant cancer cells to these cells, these oxidants can clear cancer cells under coordination with the physiological concentrations of AA. This clearance may be the defense mechanism against cancer metastasis to distal organs used by AA and H2O2/NO at the first attachment of cancer cells to the vascular endothelium. As far as we know, this is the first report to demonstrate that physiological concentrations of AA are essential for clearance of malignant cancer cells in the presence of H2O2 and/or NO.
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