The interaction of butyrate with TNF-alpha during differentiation and apoptosis of colon epithelial cells: role of NF-kappaB activation.

Cytokine

Department of Cytokinetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic.

Published: October 2008

We demonstrated that TNF-alpha suppressed differentiation and potentiated cell death induced by butyrate (NaBt) in both adenocarcinoma HT-29 and fetal FHC human colon cells in vitro. Since TNF-alpha is a typical activator of NF-kappaB pathway, we studied the role of NF-kappaB activation in cell differentiation and death during the TNF-alpha and NaBt co-treatment. TNF-alpha induced rapid NF-kappaB activation in both HT-29 and FHC cell lines and this effect was differently modulated by NaBt in these two cell lines. In HT-29 cells, NaBt potentiated NF-kappaB activity induced by TNF-alpha after 4h treatment. However, this initial potentiation of NF-kappaB activity was not observed in FHC cells. During additional time of TNF-alpha and NaBt co-treatment, NaBt decreased the TNF-alpha-mediated NF-kappaB activity in both cell types. We also detected a different response of HT-29 and FHC cells after the pre-treatment with the NF-kappaB inhibitor parthenolide. Our results indicated that NaBt-mediated differentiation and apoptosis of colon epithelial cells can be modulated by TNF-alpha. Furthermore, we found significant differences in the mechanism of the NaBt and TNF-alpha co-treatment effects between cells of non-cancer and cancer origin, suggesting that the NF-kappaB pathway may be more effectively involved in these processes in cancer cells.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cyto.2008.06.003DOI Listing

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