Honokiol inhibits migration of renal cell carcinoma through activation of RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling pathway

  • Authors:
    • Shujie Cheng
    • Victor Castillo
    • Matt Welty
    • Isaac Eliaz
    • Daniel Sliva
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  • Published online on: August 19, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3663
  • Pages: 1525-1530
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Abstract

Honokiol, a biologically active compound isolated from Magnolia bark, has been shown to possess promising anticancer effect through induction of apoptosis. However, there is a relative lack of information regarding its anti‑metastatic activity. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common malignancy of the adult kidney and is known for high risk of metastasis. Clinically, therapeutic methods for metastatic RCC cases are limited and efforts to exploit new treatments are still ongoing. The results of our current investigation first revealed that honokiol suppressed the proliferation of different human RCCs without affecting cell viability. In addition, honokiol inhibited migration of highly metastatic RCC 786‑0 cells and stimulated the activity of small GTPase, RhoA. Furthermore, phosphorylated myosin light chain (MLC) and excessive formation of actin stress fibers were identified in 786‑0 cells treated with honokiol. Interestingly, the pharmacological Rho‑associated protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitor Y‑27632 attenuated contraction of actin stress fibers induced by honokiol and abrogated honokiol‑mediated inhibition of cell migration. Together these important findings suggest that honokiol suppresses the migration of highly metastatic RCC through activation of RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling and warrants attention in the treatment of RCC metastasis as a novel therapeutic approach.

Introduction

Magnolia bark is obtained from Magnolia officinalis or other species of the Magnoliaceae, which has long been used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicines for treatment of anxiety, depression and allergic disease (1). Growing experimental evidence suggests that individual biologically active compounds isolated from Magnolia bark, such as honokiol, magnolol and obovatol, have anticancer effects against various cancer types in vitro and in vivo (13). Most of their promising anticancer effects are the induction of apoptosis through multiple signaling (47), however, there is a relative lack of information regarding their anti-metastatic activity, which is considered responsible for >90% of cancer-related deaths (811).

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common malignancy of the adult kidney and is known to have high risk of metastasis. Clinically, therapeutic methods for metastatic RCC cases are limited and efforts to exploit new treatments are still ongoing (12). RhoA, one of the most extensively characterized members of the Rho family small GTPases, shuttles between inactive and active GTP-bound states (13). In post-translational level, the phosphorylation of RhoA at site Ser188 negatively regulates its activity (14). Activated RhoA interacts with its major downstream effector Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) that induces the contraction of actin fibers by directly phosphorylating the myosin light chain (MLC) and indirectly inactivate MLC phosphatase (15). A previous study demonstrated that excessive formation of actin stress fibers associated with inhibited migration of RCC in vitro (16). In addition, Pu et al showed the downregulated expression of RhoA in human conventional RCC tissues in vivo (17), indicating that RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling pathway might be a suitable target for the metastatic RCC treatment.

Our results indicated that honokiol suppressed invasion and colony formation of RCC by targeting KISS1/KISS1R signaling (18). In this study, we first demonstrate that honokiol suppresses proliferation of human RCC A-498 and 786-0 cells without affecting cell viability. In addition, honokiol inhibits migration of highly metastatic RCC 786-0 (19,20) and stimulates RhoA activity. Furthermore, phosphorylated MLC and excessive formation of actin stress fibers were identified in 786-0 cells treated with honokiol. Interestingly, the pharmacological ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 attenuated contraction of actin stress fibers induced by honokiol and abrogated honokiol-mediated inhibition of cell migration. Together these important findings suggest that honokiol suppresses the migration of RCC through activation of RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling and warrants attention in the treatment of RCC metastasis as a novel therapeutic approach.

Materials and methods

Cell culture and reagents

Human RCC 786-0 cells were obtained from ATCC (Manassas, VA, USA) and maintained in RPMI-1640 medium containing penicillin (50 U/ml), streptomycin (50 U/ml) and 10% FBS according to the ATCC procedures. Media came from ATCC. Supplements and FBS were obtained from Gibco (Grand Island, NY, USA). Honokiol 98% (HonoPure®) was provided by EcoNugenics, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA, USA) and dissolved in DMSO at a concentration of 80 mM then stored at −20°C. Rho-kinase inhibitor Y-27632 was purchased from Calbiochem (Darmstadt, Germany). Rhodamine phalloidin was purchased from Molecular Probes (Grand Island, NY, USA). Methanol-free formaldehyde solution 16% was purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (Waltham, MA, USA). DMSO and other reagents were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA). Anti-RhoA, anti-phospho-RhoA and anti-β-actin antibodies were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Anti-MLC2 and anti-phospho-MLC2 antibodies were obtained from Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. (Beverly, MA, USA).

Cell proliferation and viability assays

Human RCC A-498 and 786-0 cells were treated with indicated concentrations of honokiol for 24 h and cell proliferation was determined as described (21). Cell viability was determined after incubation with honokiol for 24 h by staining with trypan blue as described (22). Data are the mean ± SD from three independent experiments.

Cell migration assay

Cell migration of 786-0 cells treated with honokiol (0–40 μM) or honokiol (20 μM) + Y-27632 (10 μM) or Y-27632 (10 μM) was performed in Transwell chambers according to established method (23). Briefly, 786-0 cells (0.2×106) suspended in serum-free medium were added to the upper chamber of an insert, and the insert was placed in a 24-well plate containing medium with 10% FBS. Migration assays were carried out for 3 h. Data points represent the mean ± SD of three individual filters within one representative experiment repeated at least twice.

Rho activation assay

The Rho Activation Assay Kit (EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA) was used to determine whether honokiol could modulate RhoA activity in 786-0 cells according to the manufacturer’s instructions. In brief, cells were exposed to vehicle or honokiol (20 μM) for 30 min, rinsed in ice-cold TBS and lysed in the lysis buffer provided. For Rho pull-down assay, cell lysates were incubated with glutathione-agarose beads bounding to a GST-tagged Rho binding domain of Rhotekin. The precipitated GTP-bound forms of proteins were analyzed by western blot analysis with antibody specific for RhoA. Activated RhoA was normalized to the total RhoA. 786-0 cell extract loaded with GTPγS was used as a positive control.

Western blot analysis

786-0 cells were treated with vehicle or honokiol (20 μM) for 30, 60 or 120 min, respectively. Protein extracts isolated from cells were prepared and western blot analysis with anti-phospho-RhoA, anti-RhoA, anti-phospho-MLC2, anti-MLC2 or anti-β-actin antibodies was performed as previously described (21). Western blots were quantified with HP-Scanjet 550c and analyzed by UN-SCAN-IT software (Silk Scientific, Inc., Orem, UT, USA).

Visualization of actin stress fibers

786-0 cells (6.0×104) were plated on the Millicell EZ Slide 4-well glass slide (EMD Millipore, Darmstadt, Germany) and incubated for 24 h. After exposure to honokiol (20 μM) or honokiol (20 μM) + Y-27632 (10 μM) or Y-27632 (10 μM) for 1 h, cells were washed in PBS and fixed with 4% formaldehyde for 15 min. The cells were then permeabilized with PBS containing 0.1% Triton X-100 for 5 min and stained with rhodamine phalloidin for 20 min. Nucleus was stained with DAPI for 2 min and further washed with PBS. Detection of actin stress fibers was achieved using an inverted microscope (Leica DMR type 020-525-024 fluorescence microscope; Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany) and a confocal microscope (Bio-Rad Radiance 2100 laser scanning system; Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA).

Statistical analysis

All statistical analysis was performed using SigmaPlot 11.2.0 (Systat Software, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA). Data are presented as the mean ± SD. Statistical comparisons were carried out using ANOVA with the significance level adjusted using the repeated t-tests with Bonferroni correction. P<0.05 was considered to be significant.

Results

Effect of honokiol on the proliferation and viability of RCC

As honokiol exhibits anticancer effects in different cancer types (6,2428), its effect on the growth of human RCC was evaluated in this study. A-498 and 786-0 cells were treated with honokiol (0–80 μM) for 24 h and proliferation was determined as described in ‘Materials and methods’. We found that honokiol suppressed the proliferation of A-498 (IC50, 37.17 μM) and 786-0 cells (IC50, 51.28 μM) dose-dependently (Fig. 1). Moreover, honokiol does not affect the viability of A-498 and 786-0 cells after treatment of 24 h (Fig. 1), suggesting cytostatic effect of honokiol on human RCC.

Honokiol inhibits migration of 786-0 cells

Comparing with A-498, the 786-0 cells exhibit higher expression of LIM and SH3 protein 1 (LASP-1), which correlated with aggressive phenotype and poor prognosis in RCC (20). Thus, the more aggressive cell line 786-0 was selected to investigate whether honokiol inhibits cell migration under the incubation time (3 h) and concentrations (0–40 μM) that do not affect viability of 786-0 cells. As shown in Fig. 2, honokiol significantly inhibits cell migration in a dose-dependent manner. Taken together, our data indicate that honokiol not only inhibits proliferation of human RCC but also suppresses migration, an initial important step in cancer metastasis (29).

Honokiol-mediated activation of RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling in 786-0 cells

To investigate the effect of honokiol and its possible mechanisms of action with regard to human RCC, we focused on the Rho GTPases, which play key roles in coordinating the cellular responses required for cell migration (30). Rho pull-down assay showed that exposure of 786-0 cells to honokiol (20 μM) resulted in a strong activation of RhoA (Fig. 3A). GTPγS, a hydrolysis-resistant GTP analog, was used as positive control (Fig. 3A). Because activity of RhoA can also be negatively regulated by its phosphorylation at Ser188 (14), the phosphorylation status of RhoA with honokiol treatment was determined in our study. Honokiol (20 μM) suppressed the phosphorylation level of RhoA after 60 min without changing the level of total RhoA (Fig. 3B). Moreover, GTPase activation coincided with phosphorylation of MLC2, detected by western blot analysis with antibodies specific for phosphorylated Thr18 and Ser19 (Fig. 4). Thus, we considered that RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling was activated by honokiol in 786-0 cells.

ROCK inhibitor attenuates contraction of actin stress fibers induced by honokiol

Stress fibers, which look like bundles of actin filaments, are an actin-myosin-based contractile system regulated by the RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling (31). Excessive formation of actin stress fibers (rhodamine phalloidin-positive staining of actin fibers) was identified in 786-0 cells treated with honokiol (20 μM) compared with vehicle control (Fig. 5A, B, E and F). Interestingly, this phenomenon disappeared when cells were treated with the ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 (10 μM) and honokiol (Fig. 5C and G). This inhibition can also be identified in 786-0 cells treated with Y-27632 only (Fig. 5D and H).

ROCK inhibitor abrogates honokiol-mediated inhibition of cell migration

To determine whether the inhibition of cell migration by honokiol is mediated by the activation of RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling in 786-0 cells, we pre-treated 786-0 cells with Y-27632 for 60 min and then determined cell migration with honokiol as described in ‘Materials and methods’. In accordance with the change in actin stress fibers, the effect of honokiol on migration of 786-0 cells was significantly abrogated by Y-27632 (Fig. 6A). These results further proved our hypothesis that Honokiol-induced RhoA/ROCK/MLC activation plays an integral role in honokiol-mediated inhibition of migration potential in RCC (Fig. 6B).

Discussion

Cell migration is a key component of the tumor metastatic process (32). Based on a number of studies, upregulated RhoA is associated with tumor progression in different types of cancer (3335) and RhoA activation promotes the migration of cervical, colon and hepatocellular carcinoma (3638). However, significantly downregulated expression of RhoA was demonstrated in human conventional RCC compared to that in normal kidney tissues (17) and activated RhoA has specifically been shown to inhibit the migration of breast and prostate cancer (39,40). Here, we indicated that activation of RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling by honokiol suppresses the migration of RCC (Fig. 6B). These conflicting results reflected that the effects of altered expression of RhoA involved in cell migration were often cell type-specific (17).

Members of Rho-family GTPases, RhoA, Rac and Cdc42, control cell migration by regulating the organization of actin cytoskeleton (41). Another striking finding presented in this study is that pharmacological ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 not only rescued the effect of honokiol on migration of 786-0 cells but also tended to enhance migration. Therefore, the RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling pathway negative regulates the migration of 786-0 cells, which is in accordance with our hypothesis. As ROCK-related signaling antagonizes the activity of Rac in osteoblasts, fibroblasts and rat basophilic leukemia cells (4244), the involved mechanism might be through activation of Rac. Activated Rac induces the formation of actin-based sheet-like membrane projections from the cell periphery named lamellipodia (45), which plays a key role in the stimulation of cell migration (46). In accordance with this concept, Y-27632 increases lamellipodia formation in 786-0 cells (Fig. 5C and D) and further investigation is necessary to confirm the Rac stimulation.

In conclusion, this study demonstrated a novel mechanism by which honokiol inhibits migration of highly metastatic RCC, involving the activation of RhoA/ROCK/MLC signaling in vitro. Therefore, honokiol is a biologically active component with potential utility as an effective anti-migration agent in treating metastatic RCC.

Acknowledgements

We thank Mr. Kevin A. Harvey (Indiana University Health), for his technical assistance with the confocal microscope. EcoNugenics, Inc., supported this study. One of the authors, Dr I. Eliaz, acknowledges his interest as the formulator and owner of EcoNugenics, Inc.

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