ArticlePloS one2012
Aspirin inhibits colon cancer cell and tumor growth and downregulates specificity protein (Sp) transcription factors.
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- Gemcitabine and Flurbiprofen Enhance Cytotoxic Effects on Cancer Cell Lines Mediated by Mesenchymal Stem Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
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- Aspirin in Cancer Therapy: Pharmacology and Nanotechnology Advances.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Review
- Specificity protein 1/3 regulate T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell proliferation and apoptosis through β-catenin by acting as targets of miR-495-3p.Annals of hematology · 2024Article
- Genistein-Aspirin Combination Exerts Cytotoxic and Anti-Migratory Effects in Human Colorectal Cancer Cells.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Differential expression of angiogenesis-related genes 'VEGF' and 'angiopoietin-1' in metastatic and EMAST-positive colorectal cancer patients.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- STEP: profiling cellular-specific targets and pathways of bioactive small molecules in tissuesChemical science · 2024Article
- Aspirin and nonaspirin nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use and occurrence of colorectal adenoma in Black American women.International journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Salicylate induces AMPK and inhibits c-MYC to activate a NRF2/ARE/miR-34a/b/c cascade resulting in suppression of colorectal cancer metastasis.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
- Synthesis and in vitro Activity of Eugenyl Benzoate Derivatives as BCL-2 Inhibitor in Colorectal Cancer with QSAR and Molecular Docking Approach.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023Article
- Quercetin's Dual Mode of Action to Counteract the Sp1-miR-27a Axis in Colorectal Cancer Cells.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- In Vitro Assessment of the Synergistic Effect of Aspirin and 5-Fluorouracil in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma Cells.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
- Specificity Proteins (Sp) and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Platelets and (Lymph)angiogenesis.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2023Review
- Seleno-aspirin compound AS-10 promotes histone acetylation ahead of suppressing androgen receptor transcription, G1 arrest, and apoptosis of prostate cancer cells.The Prostate · 2023Article
- Sodium salicylate and 5-aminosalicylic acid synergistically inhibit the growth of human colon cancer cells and mouse intestinal polyp-derived cells.Journal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) is highly effective for treating colon cancer patients postdiagnosis; however, the mechanisms of action of aspirin in colon cancer are not well defined. Aspirin and its major metabolite sodium salicylate induced apoptosis and decreased colon cancer cell growth and the sodium salt of aspirin also inhibited tumor growth in an athymic nude mouse xenograft model. Colon cancer cell growth inhibition was accompanied by downregulation of Sp1, Sp3 and Sp4 proteins and decreased expression of Sp-regulated gene products including bcl-2, survivin, VEGF, VEGFR1, cyclin D1, c-MET and p65 (NFκB). Moreover, we also showed by RNA interference that β-catenin, an important target of aspirin in some studies, is an Sp-regulated gene. Aspirin induced nuclear caspase-dependent cleavage of Sp1, Sp3 and Sp4 proteins and this response was related to sequestration of zinc ions since addition of zinc sulfate blocked aspirin-mediated apoptosis and repression of Sp proteins. The results demonstrate an important underlying mechanism of action of aspirin as an anticancer agent and, based on the rapid metabolism of aspirin to salicylate in humans and the high salicylate/aspirin ratios in serum, it is likely that the anticancer activity of aspirin is also due to the salicylate metabolite.
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