Abstract:
Effect of Inhibitory Action of LY294002 in the PI3K/AKT Signaling Pathway on GastricAdenocarcinoma SGC-7901 CellsJing HAN1, Qingyu ZHANG1, Chunsheng KANG2, Jiabei XIE1, Yanchao FU1, Jing ZHANG1, Feifei MA2, TaoWANG1Correspondence to: Qingyu ZHANG, E-mail: zhangqy@tijmu.edu.cn; Chunsheng KANG, email: kangchunsheng@sohu.com1Department of Gastroenterology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China2Department of Neurosurgery and Tumor Section of Neurology Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China3Tianjin Medical College, Tianjin 300222, ChinaAbstract Objective: To observe the effects of phosphatidyl creatine 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor LY294002 on the PI3K/SerineThreonine Kinases ( AKT ) signal pathway, cell growth, cell invasion and apoptosis in human gastric adenocarcinoma SGC-7901 cells.Methods: Human gastric carcinoma SGC-7901 cells were treated with LY294002, and Western blot was used to detect the expression ofproteins in the PI3K pathway including P-AKT, matrix metalloproteinase-2 ( MMP-2 ), matrix metalloproteinase-9 ( MMP-9 ), B-celllymphoma/leukemia ( Bcl-2 ) and Cyclin D1. Proliferation, invasion and apoptosis were detected by MTT, Transwell assay and flow cy-tometry. Results: Compared with SGC-7901 cells in the control group and DMSO group, LY294002 significantly downregulated the ex-pression of P-AKT, MMP-2, MMP-9, Bcl-2 and CylinD1. Proliferative activity was suppressed in the cells treated with LY294002 startingon the second day, with an obvious decrease in viability ( P < 0.05 ). The results of the Transwell assay showed that the number of cellstravelling through the matrigel was 81.0±2.65 in the control group, 81.3 ±1.52 in the DMSO group, and 44.6±2.52 in the LY294002 group.There were statistical differences among the three groups ( F = 255.1, P = 0.000 ). The flow cytometry results showed that there was G0/G1arrest in the LY294002 group ( χ2= 18.729, P = 0.016 ). The percentage of apoptotic cells was increased when SGC-7901 cells were treatedwith LY294002 ( F = 149.66, P = 0.000 ). Conclusion: LY294002 inhibits the PI3K/AKT signal transduction pathway. LY294002 caneffectively downregulate downstream protein expression, inhibit proliferation and invasion of SGC-7901 cells and increase apoptosis.Keywords LY294002; SGC-7901 cell; PI3K/AKT signal pathway