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Inhibition of Stat3 Activation Suppresses Caspase-3 and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, Leading to Preservation of Muscle Mass in Cancer Cachexia
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Cachexia occurs in patients with advanced cancers. Despite the adverse clinical impact of cancer-induced muscle wasting, pathways causing cachexia are controversial, and clinically reliable therapies are not available. A trigger of muscle protein loss is the Jak/Stat pathway, and indeed, we found that conditioned medium from C26 colon carcinoma (C26) or Lewis lung carcinoma cells activates Stat3 (p-Stat3) in C2C12 myotubes. We identified two proteolytic pathways that are activated in muscle by p-Stat3; one is activation of caspase-3, and the other is p-Stat3 to myostatin, MAFbx/Atrogin-1, and MuRF-1 via CAAT/enhancer-binding protein δ (C/EBPδ). Using sequential deletions of the caspase-3 promoter and CHIP assays, we determined that Stat3 activation increases caspase-3 expression in C2C12 cells. Caspase-3 expression and proteolytic activity were stimulated by p-Stat3 in muscles of tumor-bearing mice. In mice with cachexia caused by Lewis lung carcinoma or C26 tumors, knock-out of p-Stat3 in muscle or with a small chemical inhibitor of p-Stat3 suppressed muscle mass losses, improved protein synthesis and degradation in muscle, and increased body weight and grip strength. Activation of p-Stat3 stimulates a pathway from C/EBPδ to myostatin and expression of MAFbx/Atrogin-1 and increases the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Indeed, C/EBPδ KO decreases the expression of MAFbx/Atrogin-1 and myostatin, while increasing muscle mass and grip strength. In conclusion, cancer stimulates p-Stat3 in muscle, activating protein loss by stimulating caspase-3, myostatin, and the ubiquitin-proteasome system. These results could lead to novel strategies for preventing cancer-induced muscle wasting.
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“Our data are in accordance with previous reports showing that gp130 via the JAK/STAT pathway mediates muscle atrophy in a cancer cachexia mouse model. 15 , 27 , 28”
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“Inhibition of STAT3 with TTI-101 reversed muscle loss in both cachexia models by suppressing the expression of MAFbx/Atrogin-1 and MuRF1 and reducing caspase-3 activity”
From Targeting Janus Kinases and Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 To Treat Inflammation, Fibrosis, and Cancer: Rationale, Progress, and Caution (2020) · cites this paper as Silva et al., 2015
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“The link between IL-6/STAT3 signaling and muscle and adipose tissue wasting is well established in mouse models of cachexia (White et al., 2011; Silva et al., 2015) and has been reinforced preliminarily in clinical studies.”
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“Levels of pY-STAT3 are increased in skeletal muscle in mouse models of cachexia, including models of chronic kidney disease (Zhang et al., 2013a) and cancer (Silva et al., 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Silva, K. A. S., Dong, J., Dong, Y., Dong, Y., Schor, N., Tweardy, D. J., Zhang, L., & Mitch, W. E.
- Affiliations
- Universidade Federal de São Paulo (BR)
- Sichuan University (CN)
- Capital Medical University (CN)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Zhang, Liping
- Venue
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-04
- Volume
- 290
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 11177-11187
- ISSN
- 0021-9258 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4409274
- OpenAlex
- W2011567765
- Cited by
- 229
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- 52
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- 7.67
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UNIFESP Institutional Repository (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (R37 DK37175, P50 CA058183, P50 CA097007, R21 CA149783)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Muscle Physiology and Disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Keywords
- cancer cachexia, STAT3 activation, caspase-3, ubiquitin-proteasome system, C/EBPδ, myostatin, atrogin-1/MAFbx, MuRF1, muscle protein degradation, muscle mass preservation, JAK/STAT signaling, Lewis lung carcinoma, C26 colon carcinoma, muscle protein synthesis
- MeSH terms
- Tripartite Motif Proteins, Animals, Cachexia, Colonic Neoplasms, Muscle Proteins, Mice, Knockout, Muscle, Skeletal, Carcinoma, Lewis Lung, Ubiquitin, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, SKP Cullin F-Box Protein Ligases, Cell Line, Tumor, Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex, STAT3 Transcription Factor, Mice, CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Protein-delta, Caspase 3, Myostatin, Proteolysis
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