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A more recent version of this article appeared on February 1, 2004
Papers In Press, published online ahead of print October 16, 2003
J. Lipid Res., doi:10.1194/jlr.M300396-JLR200
Submitted on September 16, 2003
Revised on October 14, 2003
Accepted on October 14, 2003
Dietary -linolenic acid reduces COX-2 expression and induces apoptosis of hepatoma cells
A. Vecchini, V. Ceccarelli, F. Susta, P. Caligiana, P. Orvietani, L. Binaglia, G. Nocentini, C. Riccardi, G. Calviello, P. Paolozza, N. Maggiano, and P. Di Nardo
Internal Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia 06126
Corresponding Author: binaglia{at}unipg.it
Fatty acid synthetase is overexpressed in various tumor tissues and its inhibition and/or malonyl-CoA accumulation have been correlated to apoptosis of tumor cells. It is widely recognized that both omega-3 and omega-6 PUFA depress fatty acid synthetase expression in liver although epidemiological and experimental reports attribute antitumor properties only to omega-3 PUFA. Therefore, we investigated to evaluate whether lipogenic gene expression in tumor cells is differently regulated by omega-6 and omega-3 PUFA. Morris hepatoma 3924A cells were implanted subcutaneously in the hind legs of ACI/T rats pre-conditioned with high lipid diets enriched with linoleic acid or alpha-linolenic acid. Both high lipid diets depressed the expression of fatty acid synthetase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase in tumor tissue, this effect correlating with a decrease in the mRNA level of their common SREBP-1 transcription factor. Hepatoma cells grown in rats on either diets did not accumulate malonyl-CoA. Apoptosis of hepatoma cells was induced by the alpha-linolenic acid-enriched diet but not by the linoleic acid-enriched diet. Therefore, in this experimental model, apoptosis is apparently independent of inhibition of fatty acid synthesis and of malonyl-CoA cytotoxicity. Conversely, it was observed that apoptosis induced by the alpha-linolenic acid-enriched diet correlated with a decrease in arachidonate content in hepatoma cells and a decreased cyclooxygenase-2 expression

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