ZHOU Wei,JIANG Zheng,ZHANG Bin,XIANG Ting-xiu,HUANG Ai-long,WANG Pi-long.RNA interference targeting hypoxia inducible factor-1α in BGC-823 cells inhibits cell proliferation and induces cell apoptosis[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2009,31(02):152-155.
ZHOU Wei,JIANG Zheng,ZHANG Bin,XIANG Ting-xiu,HUANG Ai-long,WANG Pi-long.RNA interference targeting hypoxia inducible factor-1α in BGC-823 cells inhibits cell proliferation and induces cell apoptosis[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2009,31(02):152-155.DOI:
RNA interference targeting hypoxia inducible factor-1α in BGC-823 cells inhibits cell proliferation and induces cell apoptosis
Objective To study the expression of hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) in BGC-823 cells after RNA interference and the proliferation and apoptosis of BGC-823 cells. Methods The recombinant plasmid pshRNA-HIF-1α was constructed and transfected into gastric cancer cells BGC-823 by Lipofectamine
TM
2000. Then the expressions of HIF-1α in BGC-823 cells were observed by RT-PCR and Western blotting
the cell
proliferation was examined by MTT assay and the cell apoptosis by TUNEL and flow cytometry. The transfected cells were transplanted to nude mice to observe the inhibitory effect of transfection. Results The restriction enzyme digestion and sequencing result showed that the recombinant plasmid of pshRNA-HIF-1α had been constructed successfully. After it was transfected into BGC-823 cells
the genetic transcription and protein expression of HIF-1α were inhibited significantily (inhibitory ratio: 93.4% and 55.7%)
compared with controls. The inhibitory ratio of cell proliferation in the pshRNA-HIF-1α transfected cells was higher than that of controls
and the cell ratio was increased in G
0
/G
1
phase
and decreased in S and G
2
/M phases. The apoptotic ratio of the cells transfected with pshRNA-HIF-1α was also higher than that of controls. Karyopycnosis
nuclear chromosomal condensation and segmentation were observed by TUNEL. In vivo
pshRNA-HIF-1α1 was proved to be able to inhibit the proliferation and induce the apoptosis of BGC-823 cells by restraining the expressions of HIF-1α
whose tumor inhibition rate was 41.75%. Conclusion Our results show that the recombinant plasmid pshRNA-HIF-1α can inhibit the genetic transcription and protein expression of HIF-1α
and suppress the proliferation and induce the apoptosis of gastric cancer cells BGC-823 in vivo and in vitro.