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N-acyl taurines are anti-proliferative in prostate cancer cells.
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- Prostate Cancer Patients-Negative Biopsy Controls Discrimination by Untargeted Metabolomics Analysis of Urine by LC-QTOF: Upstream Information on Other Omics.Scientific reports · 2016Trial
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- Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry-Based Lipidomics for Identification of Canine Mammary Pathology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Lipidome-based Targeting of STAT3-driven Breast Cancer Cells Using Poly-l-glutamic Acid-coated Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles.Molecular cancer therapeutics · 2021Article
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- Role of taurine, its haloamines and its lncRNA TUG1 in both inflammation and cancer progression. On the road to therapeutics? (Review).International journal of oncology · 2020Review
- Deep Metabolomics of a High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Triple-Knockout Mouse Model.Journal of proteome research · 2019Article
- Pre-diagnostic Serum Metabolomic Profiling of Prostate Cancer Survival.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2019Article
- N-Oleoyl-glycine reduces nicotine reward and withdrawal in mice.Neuropharmacology · 2019Article
- Mass spectrometry imaging of biomarker lipids for phagocytosis and signalling during focal cerebral ischaemia.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Endogenous N-acyl taurines regulate skin wound healing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
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Abstract
Endocannabinoids have been implicated in cancer development and cause heterogenous effects in tumor cells, by inducing apoptosis, reducing migration, causing anti-angiogenic activity and alterations in the cell cycle resulting in growth arrest. Recently, several novel amides of fatty acids that are structurally related to endocannabinoids have been isolated from mammalian sources, although the functions of these fatty amides are not well studied. One group of these novel fatty acid amides are the N-acyl taurines (fatty acids conjugated to the amino acid taurine). This study examined if N-acyl taurines, specifically N-arachidonoyl taurine and N-oleoyl taurine could function in a similar way to endocannabinoids and result in cell cycle alterations or growth arrest in the human prostate adenocarcinoma cell line PC-3. PC-3 cells were treated with various concentrations of N-arachidonoyl taurine and N-oleoyl taurine and cell proliferation and viability was measured using resazurin and colony formation assays. Effects of N-acyl taurines on the cell cycle was measured using FACS analysis. Treatment with N-arachidonoyl taurine and N-oleoyl taurine resulted in a significant reduction in proliferation of PC-3 cells, even at concentrations as low as 1 μM. Treatment with N-oleoyl taurine resulted in an increased number of cells in the subG1 population, suggesting apoptosis, and a lower number of cells in S-phase of the cell cycle. In summary, our results show that novel biologically active lipids, the N-acyl taurines, result in reduced proliferation in PC-3 cells.
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