Inhibition of the PI3K/AKT-NF-<i>κ</i>B Pathway With Curcumin Enhanced Radiation-Induced Apoptosis in Human Burkitt’s Lymphoma

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  • Qiao Qiao
    Department of Radiotherapy, the First Hospital of China Medical University, China
  • Jiang Yuanjun
    Department of Urology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, China
  • Li Guang
    Department of Radiotherapy, the First Hospital of China Medical University, China

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  • Inhibition of the PI3K/AKT-NF-κB Pathway With Curcumin Enhanced Radiation-Induced Apoptosis in Human Burkitt’s Lymphoma

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The phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) / protein kinase B (AKT) signal transduction pathway is commonly misregulated in lymphoma and associated with tumorigenesis and enhanced resistance to radiotherapy. Curcumin has been shown to inhibit the PI3K/AKT signal transduction pathway in several tumor models. In this study, we found that curcumin inhibits constitutive and radiation-induced expression of the PI3K/AKT pathway and its downstream regulator nuclear factor kappaB (NF-κB) in human Burkitt’s lymphoma, a high-grade non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). We further demonstrated that the blockage of radiation-induced activation of the PI3K/AKT pathway and its downstream regulator NF-κB by either curcumin or specific PI3/AKT inhibitors (LY294002 for PI3K or SH-5 for AKT) enhance apoptosis in three human Burkitt’s lymphoma cell lines (Namalwa, Ramos, and Raji) that were treated with ionizing radiation. However, no synergic effect on radiation-induced apoptosis was found in the cells co-pretreated with curcumin combined with LY294002 or curcumin combined with SH-5. The results from this study suggest that curcumin might play an important role in radiotherapy of high-grade NHL through inhibition of the PI3K/AKT-dependent NF-κB pathway.

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