Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2013
Abstract
Site-specific histone modifications are important epigenetic regulators of gene expression. As deregulation of genes often results in complex disorders, corrective modulation of site-specific histone marks could be a powerful therapeutic or disease-preventive strategy. However, such modulation by dietary compounds and the resulting impact on disease risk remain relatively unexplored. Here we examined phenethylisothiocyanate (PEITC), a common dietary compound derived from cruciferous vegetables with known chemopreventive properties under experimental conditions, as a possible modulator of histone modifications in human colon cancer cells. The present study reports novel, dynamic, site-specific chemical changes to histone H3 in a gene-promoter-specific manner, associated with PEITC exposure in human colon tumor-derived SW480 epithelial cells. In addition, PEITC attenuated cell proliferation in a concentration- and timedependent manner, likely mediated by caspase-dependent apoptotic signalling. The effects of PEITC on histone modifications and gene expression changes were achieved at low, non-cytotoxic concentrations, in contrast to the higher concentrations necessary to halt cancer cell proliferation. Increased understanding of specific epigenetic alterations by dietary compounds may provide improved chemopreventive strategies for reducing the healthcare burden of cancer and other human diseases.
Publication Title
PLOS One
Volume
8
Issue
5
First Page
e64535
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
DOI of Published Version
10.1371/journal.pone.0064535
Publisher
PLOS One
Rights
Copyright: © 2013 Liu et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Yi; Chakravarty, Suvobrata; and Dey, Moul, "Phenethylisothiocyanate Alters Site- and Promoter-Specific Histone Tail Modifications in Cancer Cells" (2013). Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications. 20.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/chem_pubs/20
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