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The molecular mechanism of the anticancer effect of atorvastatin: DNA microarray and bioinformatic analyses

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    • Yan Gao
    • Xue-Chun Lu
    • Hong-Ying Yang
    • Xian-Feng Liu
    • Jian Cao
    • Li Fan
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    Affiliations: First Geriatric Cardiology Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, P.R. China, Department of Geriatric Hematology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, P.R. China, Department of Cardiology, The Fourth People's Hospital of Jinan, Jinan 250032, P.R. China
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    Published online on: July 4, 2012
       https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2012.1054
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The aim of this study was to identify the molecular mechanisms and biological pathways associated with the anticancer effects of atorvastatin. For this purpose, we conducted cell-based microarray and bioinformatic analyses to determine the effect of atorvastatin exposure on endothelial cell response. The results of bioinformatic analysis performed using the Connectivity Map (cMap) to examine the atorvastatin-induced changes in gene expression in the human umbilical vein endothelial cell line, EA.hy926, indicated that treatment with 10 µM of atorvastatin for 24 h upregulated the expression of 295 genes and downregulated the expression of 354 genes by 2-fold compared to the control treatment. The gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA), the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) pathway analysis, and Gene Ontology (GO) analysis of differentially expressed genes revealed that Kruppel-like factors (KLFs) and cell cycle-related genes were the genes most significantly affected by atorvastatin treatment. The upregulation of KLFs and the downregulation of the cell cycle-related genes, including cyclin (CCN)A2, CCNE2, CCNB1 and CCNB2, were validated by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). A comparison of the gene expression profile of atorvastatin-treated cells with that of the control cells and with that of 6,100 compounds in the cMap database revealed that the profile of atorvastatin-treated cells was highly similar to that of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor-treated cells. Therefore, these results suggest that atorvastatin acts as an HDAC, a G1/S (start) and a G2/M (mitosis) cell cycle inhibitor. These findings provide evidence of the feasibility of the use of atorvastatin as an anticancer drug.
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Gao, Y., Lu, X., Yang, H., Liu, X., Cao, J., & Fan, L. (2012). The molecular mechanism of the anticancer effect of atorvastatin: DNA microarray and bioinformatic analyses. International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 30, 765-774. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2012.1054
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Gao, Y., Lu, X., Yang, H., Liu, X., Cao, J., Fan, L."The molecular mechanism of the anticancer effect of atorvastatin: DNA microarray and bioinformatic analyses". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 30, no. 4 (2012): 765-774. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2012.1054
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Gao, Y., Lu, X., Yang, H., Liu, X., Cao, J., & Fan, L. (2012). The molecular mechanism of the anticancer effect of atorvastatin: DNA microarray and bioinformatic analyses. International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 30, 765-774. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2012.1054
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Gao, Y., Lu, X., Yang, H., Liu, X., Cao, J., Fan, L."The molecular mechanism of the anticancer effect of atorvastatin: DNA microarray and bioinformatic analyses". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 30.4 (2012): 765-774.
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Gao, Y., Lu, X., Yang, H., Liu, X., Cao, J., Fan, L."The molecular mechanism of the anticancer effect of atorvastatin: DNA microarray and bioinformatic analyses". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 30, no. 4 (2012): 765-774. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2012.1054
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