Tamoxifen-Induced [Ca2+]iRises and Ca2+-Independent Cell Death in Human Oral Cancer Cells
JOURNAL OF RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION(2007)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of tamoxifen on cytosolic free Ca2+ concentrations ([Ca2+](i)) and cell viability in OC2 human oral cancer cells. [Ca2+](i) and cell viability were measured by using the fluorescent dyes fura-2 and WST-1, respectively. Tamoxifen at concentrations above 2 mu M increased [Ca2+](i) in a concentration-dependent manner. The Ca2+ signal was reduced partly by removing extracellular Ca2+. The tamoxifen-induced Ca2+ influx was sensitive to blockade of L-type Ca2+ channel blockers but insensitive to the estrogen receptor antagonist ICI 182,780 and protein kinase C modulators. In Ca2+-free medium, after pretreatment with 1 mu M thapsigargin (an endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pump inhibitor), tamoxifen-induced [Ca2+](i) rises were substantially inhibited; and conversely, tamoxifen pretreatment inhibited a part of thapsigargin-induced [Ca2+](i) rises. Inhibition of phospholipase C with 2 mu M U73122 did not change tamoxifen-induced [Ca2+](i) rises. At concentrations between 10 and 50 mu M tamoxifen killed cells in a concentration-dependent manner. The cytotoxic effect of 23 mu M tamoxifen was not reversed by prechelating cytosolic Ca2+ with BAPTA. Collectively, in OC2 cells, tamoxifen induced [Ca2+](i) rises, in a nongenomic manner, by causing Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum, and Ca2+ influx from L-type Ca2+ channels. Furthermore, tamoxifen-caused cytotoxicity was not via a preceding [Ca2+](i) rise.
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Key words
Ca2+,fura-2,oral cancer cells,tamoxifen,thapsigargin
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