Anti-proliferative effect of an analogue of the LL-37 peptide in the colon cancer derived cell line HCT116 p53+/+ and p53-/-

  • Authors:
    • Kengo Kuroda
    • Tomokazu Fukuda
    • Hiroshi Yoneyama
    • Masafumi Katayama
    • Hiroshi Isogai
    • Kazuhiko Okumura
    • Emiko Isogai
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  • Published online on: June 19, 2012     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2012.1876
  • Pages: 829-834
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Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides of the cathelicidin family are found in many mammalian species, and are focused on various effects other than antimicrobial action. In this study, we evaluated the anti-proliferative effect of an analogue peptide, FF/CAP18, derived from an endogenous cathelicidin family member against the colon cancer cell line HCT116. FF/CAP18 significantly decreased the proliferation of HCT116 cells in a dose-dependent fashion. Furthermore, the treatment of HCT116 with FF/CAP18 caused loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, and resulted in the immunoreactivity to the single-strand DNA antibody, suggesting the early stage of apoptosis. Interestingly, the anti-proliferative effect of FF/CAP18 was constant regardless of the genotype of p53 (wild-type and p53 mutant type HCT116 cells). Therefore, the signaling pathway of p53 is not involved in the growth suppression effect of the cathelicidin analogue peptide. These results indicate that the treatment of certain types of cancer cells with FF/CAP18 may increase the sensitivity of the chemotherapeutic reagents, which might relate to the reduction of the side effects.

Introduction

Antimicrobial peptides of cathelicidin family are found in many mammalian species, such as human being, bovine and swine (1). As the role of endogenous hCAP18/LL-37 (human cationic antimicrobial peptide of 18 kDa), the innate immunity of this peptide to prevent the infection was previously reported (2). The antimicrobial peptide, hCAP18/LL-37 is expressed in various types of organs, such as leucocytes (3), myelocytes (4), testis (5), skin (6), nasal mucosa (7), saliva (8), and the gastrointestinal tract (9). The protein expression and following secretion of the hCAP18/LL-37 result in the involvement of this peptide in the body fluids, such as serum, urine and sweat. The existence of hCAP18/LL-37 in these body fluids is expected to have a biological significance to prevent the bacterial proliferation, and following infection at the local tissues.

In addition to the anti-infectious effect, the anti-proliferative effect of analogue peptide of hCAP18/LL-37 was reported to induce apoptosis against the human squamous cell carcinoma cell line, SAS-H1 (10). Although the antimicrobial peptide is expected to induce the pore formation on the cellular membrane (11,12), the detailed mechanism is poorly understood as to how hCAP18/LL-37 induces the anti-proliferative effect to the malignant cancer cells. In a previous study, the analogue peptide of hCAP18/LL-37, which is removed 5 residues from each ends (hCAP18109–135) and has two amino acid substitutions from the original hCAP18/LL-37, was reported to have stronger anti-proliferative effect, compared with hCAP18109–135 (10). The anti-proliferative effect of hCAP18 and its analogue peptide against the squamous cell carcinoma cell line (SAS-H1) led us to form the hypothesis that these peptides might be effective in other types of cancer, such as colon cancer.

Colon cancer is classified as one of the major cancers in recent years. The 5-year relative survival rate is around 90%, when detected at early stage of carcinogenesis (stage I). In the late stage, such as metastatic stage, the average of median survival duration is 5–6 months, indicating the high lethality of colon cancer (13). The effectiveness of chemotherapeutic regents is very different among the multiple types of cancers (14,15). This situation guided us to evaluate whether hCAP18/LL-37 and its analogue peptides are effective in preventing cell proliferation, in the colon cancer derived cell line HCT116. The specific reason for selecting HCT116 as the material is the existence of its genetic mutant of p53 tumor suppressor gene.

The p53 gene product is known to have a central role for apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, tumor suppression and sensitivity to chemotherapy. Due to the huge impact of the p53 protein for the protection against carcinogenesis, p53 is called the ‘guardian of genome’ (16). Bunz et al established the p53 null mutant with the homologous recombination technique from the wild-type HCT116 (17). Although wild-type of HCT116 still keeps the role of the p53, the null mutant lost the function of the p53 (17). Therefore, we can address the association of the p53 gene to the specific phenomenon, when we compared the response of the p53 wild and null mutant (p53−/−) cells.

In this study, we exposed the hCAP18/LL-37 and its analogue peptides to HCT116 cells, and evaluated the efficacy to prevent proliferation. Moreover, we compared the effects of peptides among the p53 wild and p53−/− HCT116 cells. Our study would explore the effectiveness of the anti-microbial peptide, hCAP18/LL-37, in colon cancer, and addresses the role of p53 gene on its anti-proliferative effect.

Materials and methods

Cell culture and reagents

The human colon cancer derived cell line, HCT116, and the isogenic HCT116 p53−/− cells were kindly provided by Dr Bert Vogelstein (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA) (17). Cells were cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Nakarai Tesque, Inc., Kyoto, Japan) with 10% PBS (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), 1% antibiotic-antimycotic mixed stock solution (Nakarai Tesque, Inc., Kyoto, Japan) at 37°C in 5% CO2. All cells were kept under the exponential growth condition, and used as the experimental materials.

Peptides

Primary structure of the original hCAP18/LL-37 is represented as LLGDFFRKSKEKIGKEFKRIVQRIKDFL- RNLVPRTES (18). The hCAP18109–135 is the peptide of 27mer, which resulted from the removal of the first and last five amino acids from hCAP18/LL-37. To enhance the anti-microbial activity, FF/CAP18 was designed by replacement of glutamic acid and lysine residue with phenylalanine (FRKSKEKIGKFFKRIVQRIFDFLRNLV) of hCAP18109–135.

Cell growth assay

HCT116 and HCT116 p53−/− cells were seeded at 5.0×105 cells per 48-well plate (Falcon, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) with complete culture medium, and incubated at 37°C in 5% CO2. Twenty-four hours later, medium was changed with or without FF/CAP18 peptide (total concentration was 10 μg/ml or 40 μg/ml) in the 250 μl complete culture medium. The cells were stained with trypan blue (Invitrogen), and the cell concentration was counted by Countess Automatic Cell Counter (Invitogen) at 24, 48, 72 and 96 h after the exposure of the peptides.

MitoCapture™ assay

Disruption of mitochondrial transmembrane potential is one of the earliest intracellular events that occur following induction of apoptosis (19). This transmembrane change can be visualized using MitoCapture (Mitochondrial Apoptosis Detection kit, MBL, Nagoya, Japan), under the unfixed cell condition. Mitocapture™ assay was performed according to manufacturer’s instructions. The signal of the MitoCapture was detected by a fluorescence microscope (FSX100, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan).

Immunohistochemistry for single strand (ss) DNA

The genomic DNA causes fragmentation at the time of apoptosis due to the cleavage of the DNase I, which is activated by caspases. To detect the DNA fragmentation and following apoptosis, we conducted immunohistochemical staining of single strand DNA (ss-DNA) for peptide treated cells. The immunohistochemical study was performed on cells prepared by 4% paraformaldehyde solution in PBS after incubation in a 48-well plate with or without FF/CAP18. The fixed cells were washed with PBS, incubated with 0.5% Triton X-PBS solution for 30 min on ice for permeabilization. As the positive control for the DNA fragmentation, the cells were treated with the recombinant DNaseI (Takara Bio Inc., Shiga, Japan) at 37°C in 5% CO2 for 1 h. As the negative control, cells treated with the same volume of PBS was used. After PBS wash, the cells were treated with 2% normal goat serum in PBS as blocking buffer for 1 h at room temperature. Anti ss-DNA Rabbit IgG Affinity Purify (Immuno-Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., Gunma, Japan) was used as first antibody. The samples were exposed to 0.6 μg/ml of antibody at 4°C overnight. Cells were washed with PBS for 5 min 3 times, treated with Alexa Fluor 488 (Invitrogen) as second antibody for 2 h at room temperature under protection from light. The nuclei were visualized by staining with 1 μg/ml of the 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) (Dojindo Laboratories, Kumamoto, Japan). The staining feature was detected by a fluorescence microscope system (FSX100, Olympus).

Statistical test

In this study, all of the experiments were carried out with at least triplicated samples. Means and standard errors were calculated. The statistical significance was evaluated with the Student’s t-test. A P-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Results

Effect of LL-37 and FF/CAP18 on HCT116 growth

To investigate the effect of cathelicidin family anti-microbial peptides, we exposed LL-37 and the analogue FF/CAP18, to the colon cancer HCT116 cells. The effect to the cell growth was evaluated at 24, 48, 72 and 92 h at 40 μg/ml concentration of the peptide. As shown in Fig. 1A, a relatively slower cell growth (FF/CAP18 treated group) was observed at both 72 and 96 h. However, the effect of the LL-37 was relatively less when it is compared with that of FF/CAP18 (Fig. 1A). We considered that cathelicidin peptides have a potential to suppress the cell growth of the colon cancer cells.

As the next experiments, we detected the detailed anti-proliferative effect of FF/CAP18 to the HCT116 cell line, at the multiple dose and time points. We could not see any anti-proliferative effect of FF/CAP18 until 48 h (Fig. 1B). At 72 h cell number treated with 10 and 40 μg/ml FF/CAP18 was significantly low (P<0.05), when compared with that of non-treated cells (control). At 96 h, the cell number treated with 40 μg/ml of FF/CAP18 was significantly low (P<0.05). From these results, we concluded that FF/CAP18 has growth inhibition ability to the HCT116 from 10 μg/ml. Furthermore, the effect of the FF/CAP18 to HCT116 was dose-dependent to the peptide concentration. To estimate the cell condition, the cell morphology of the peptide treated cells was compared with that of the control cells (Fig. 1C). Although the growth suppression was obvious in the peptide treated cells, we did not see remarkable change on the morphology of the cells (Fig. 1C).

Loss of mitochondrial membrane potential

Loss of mitochondrial membrane potential is associated with early stage of apoptosis. In present study, MitoCapture™ is used for detection of this stage. MitoCapture™ is a cationic dye that enables the accumulation of red fluorescence aggregation in the corresponding area of the mitochondria, due to its transmembrane potential. In contrast, in the early stage of apoptosis, the disruption of the mitochondrial trans-membrane potential is one of the intracellular events, therefore, the aggregation of the red fluorescence does not occurs in the cells, which stay in the early stage of apoptosis. Furthermore, mitochondrial depolarization causes a regression in red fluorescence and an increase in green fluorescence due to the presence of the monomeric form of the dye in the cytoplasm.

To address the cell status of the HCT116 cells treated with the FF/CAP18, the MitoCapture™ was applied to the analysis. As shown in Fig. 2, the control HCT116 cells showed the intense red signals, which indicate that the mitochondria of control HCT116 cell is intact (Fig. 2A). In contrast, the cells treated with FF/CAP18 showed decreased signal intensity when compared with the control (Fig. 2B). Furthermore, although it signal was faint, certain cell population at high cell density showed green fluorescence, compared with the control (data not shown). These results showed that FF/CAP18 causes loss of mitochondrial membrane potential.

DNA fragmentation by FF/CAP18

As the next step from the mitochondrial disruption, the activation of DNase I and fragmentation of the genomic DNA occurs in the process of apoptosis. To detect the DNA fragmentation, we carried out the detection with the anti ss-DNA antibody. In a previous study, the detection of ss-antibody was more sensitive in detecting apoptotic cells, and with low background, and high specificity was indicated, when compared with the TUNEL method (20).

The immunostaining of anti ss-DNA antibody showed the intense positive staining on the nuclei in the positive control cells. For the positive control, we used the HCT116 cells treated with DNase I. The almost no signal in the nuclei in the non-treatment cells (Fig. 3A-C), and the intense staining in the positive control (Fig. 3D-F) facilitate that our detection of the single strand DNA in the nucleus is specific. HCT116 cells, treated with FF/CAP18, showed intense signals in a limited number of cells. The cells showed relatively condensed nuclear, and intense positive reactivity for the anti ss-DNA antibody (Fig. 3G-I, arrows). From these data, although based on a limited number of population, we concluded that FF/CAP18 treatment induces apoptotic cell death in HCT116 cells, which possibly explained the anti-proliferative effect.

The anti-proliferative effect of FF/CAP18 in the p53−/− HCT116 cells

The p53 is classified as the genomic guardian due to its nature as the tumor suppressor gene, and loss of function of p53 is commonly observed in around 50% in various types of cancers. The results in the previous section showed that the addition of 10 or 40 μg/ml of FF/CAP18 peptide suppresses the HCT116 cells. We expected that the cellular growth data in p53 mutant of HCT116 would reveal whether p53 tumor suppressor pathways is involved in the anti-proliferative effects of FF/CAP18.

As shown in Fig. 4, the exposure of 10 or 40 μg/ml of FF/CAP18 peptide significantly suppressed the cell growth of p53−/− HCT116, which is exactly same result as in p53 wild-type HCT116 cells. The growth of the p53−/− cells was suppressed at 72 and 96 h in the 10 or 40 μg/ml treated groups, in a dose-dependent fashion. Therefore, we could not detect any difference in the growth suppression effects of FF/CAP18 peptide among the p53−/− and p53 wild-type HCT116. We also evaluated the difference among wild-type and p53 mutant of HCT116, in the the MitoCapture assay, and immuno-histochemistry of anti ss-DNA antibody, but no differene was detected (data not shown).

Discussion

In this study, we showed that the hCAP18/LL-37 analogue peptide, FF/CAP18 has anti-proliferative effect on human colon cancer cell HCT116 via inducing depolarization of the partial mitochondrial membrane, which is the earlier stage of apoptosis. The further key finding in this study is that the anti-proliferative effect of this peptide is independent from the p53 signaling pathway.

The cationic antimicrobial peptides, such as BMAP-27, BMAP-28, and α-difensin, are known to induce apoptosis of tumor cells through mitochondrial damage (2123). The hCAP18/LL-37 belongs to the cathelicidine anti-microbial peptide family, which includes BMAP-27 and -28. The cytoplasmic membranes of bacteria contain many anionic phospholipids, causing a negative charge on the cell surface. The cationic antimicrobial peptides, such as hCAP18/LL-37, and BMAP-27 are expected to have a positive charge. The positive charge of the peptide and negative charge of the bacterial membrane is one of the possible explanations, how these peptides preferably bind to the bacteria. After the binding of these peptide to the bacteria, the peptides are expected to form the pore on the cell membrane (11,12) or induce the leaking out of the intracellular molecules, resulting in cell death (12,18). In general, there are several reports that the cancer cells have a high contents of anionic phospholipids in their cell membranes, when compared with that of normal cells (24,25). Based on this concept, the cathelicidine anti-microbial peptides might preferably bind to cancer cells, when compared with normal cells.

The genetic diversity of the malignant cancer is one of the important characteristics. Okumura et al reported that hCAP18109–135 (active domain of hCAP18 synthesized as C-terminal 27 amino acids) and its modified peptide, FF/CAP18 efficiently suppress cell growth of the squamous cell carcinoma SAS-H1 (10). In brief, Okamura et al reported that both hCAP18109–135 and FF/CAP18 are effective in suppressing the growth of the SAS-H1, but its effect was more obvious in FF/CAP18 (10). In this study, we observed the anti-proliferative effect of FF/CAP18, and almost no effect on cell growth in case of LL-37. FF/CAP18 has modified amino acids to enhance the negative charge of the peptide. The difference of the anti-proliferative effect among the LL-37 and FF/CAP18 might be explained by the grade of the negative charge of the peptide. Furthermore, the results of the current study showed that there is diversity among the multiple cancer cell lines for the anti-proliferative effect of FF/CAP18.

FF/CAP18 treated HCT116 cells showed the slower growth, and showed disruption of the mitochondrial membrane, which can be observed at early stage of apoptosis. Until this stage, squamous cell carcinoma cell line, SAS-H1 and colon cancer derived cell line HCT116, showed very similar results. However, in case of SAS-H1, the DNA fragmentation was detected after gel electrophoresis, indicating that SAS-H1 entered into the late stage of apoptosis. In contrast, in this study, we could not detect the massive fragmentation of the genomic DNA, which was detected by electrophoresis of the genomic DNA. These results suggest that the sensitivity to the peptide is different depending on the nature of each cancer cell line.

For the detection of the apoptotic cells in HCT116, we first tried the detection of the apoptosis cells with the standard TUNEL method. However, an obvious high background in FF/CAP18 treated cells were observed (data not shown) and specific detection with the TUNEL method was difficult. Although the detailed situation is unknown, the non-specific binding of the terminal transferase might occur due to the peptide treatment (data not shown). In contrast, fluorescence staining of anti ss-DNA antibody works well, due to the simple immunostaining. The staining of the ss-DNA antibody was previously reported as the effective method to detect apoptotic cells in cancer tissues (20).

The disruption of mitochondrial membrane in the process of apoptosis is largely affected by the function of the p53 gene. The p53 gene is activated after ultra violet and/or radiation exposure (26,27). Although numerous p53 functions have been studied on carcinogenesis, the induction of the cell cycle arrest at G1S and G2M phase of the cell cycle, is when the cell is exposed to damage (28,29). In this study, the wild-type and p53 mutant of HCT116 cells did not show any difference in response to the FF/CAP18 treatment. Our results are in good agreement with the previous published results in SAS-H1. In brief, Okumura et al reported that the cell death induced by the hCAP18109–135 or FF/CAP18 is independent of the activation of the caspase, which is the major downstream molecule of the p53 dependent apoptosis (10). Although the detailed molecular pathway of the cell death induced by the LL-37 or FF/CAP18 is not clear, we revealed that the anti-proliferative effect of LL-37 or FF/CAP18 is independent from p53 tumor suppressor pathway, with the genetic mutant of HCT116 colon cancer cell line.

In recent years, the anticancer effects of several natural compound-derived peptides or toxin have been reported, such as defensin peptide family from a beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma (30) or the toxin like peptide piericin from cabbage butterfly (31). The anticancer effect of these naturally-derived peptides or toxins is not as strong as the chemotherapeutic reagents, however, the anti-proliferative effect might increase the sensitivity of the chemotherapeutic reagents, which might relate to the reduction of the side effects.

Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the grant from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (AS231Z0188E). We are grateful for the support and encouragement of all members of the Laboratory of Animal Microbiology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, all through this study.

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Kuroda, K., Fukuda, T., Yoneyama, H., Katayama, M., Isogai, H., Okumura, K., & Isogai, E. (2012). Anti-proliferative effect of an analogue of the LL-37 peptide in the colon cancer derived cell line HCT116 p53+/+ and p53-/-. Oncology Reports, 28, 829-834. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2012.1876
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Kuroda, K., Fukuda, T., Yoneyama, H., Katayama, M., Isogai, H., Okumura, K., Isogai, E."Anti-proliferative effect of an analogue of the LL-37 peptide in the colon cancer derived cell line HCT116 p53+/+ and p53-/-". Oncology Reports 28, no. 3 (2012): 829-834. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2012.1876