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Resveratrol induces human K562 cell apoptosis, erythroid differentiation, and autophagy

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Resveratrol (Res) is a naturally occurring phytoalexin with apoptotic and inducing-glob effects in leukemic cells, but the potential induction of erythroid differentiation in cells is not fully understood. Here, we investigated the effects of Res on human erythro-megakaryoblastic leukemia cell line K562. Among the treated cells, proliferation was inhibited and the occurrence of cell apoptosis and cell death were detected. Erythroid differentiation assay was explored, and we found that Res could increase the expression of glycophorin A (GPA), HBA1, HBB, and γ-globin genes and enforced the expression of GPA, CD71, and Band3 proteins. Res also induced K562 cell autophagy when the concentration of Res was increased up to 50 or 100 μM. Our findings suggested that Res possesses the potency not only inducing apoptosis but also inducing erythroid differentiation and autophagy in K562 cells. These results provide that Res may be a therapeutic candidate for chronic myelogenous leukemia treatment.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos.81270576 and 81372538), New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-11-0518), Doctoral fund of the Ministry of Education of China (no. 20120162110054), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (no. 2011JQ015), Open Project of Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering (XJDX0201_2012_07 and XJDX_0201_2012_09), and the Innovation Experiment Program for Graduate Students of the Central South University (nos. YB13027, CY12363, and CY12364).

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    Hui-Wen Yan, Wei-Xin Hu, Jie-Ying Zhang, Ye Wang & Jing Liu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics of China, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, China

    Kun Xia

  3. Department of Cell Biology, School of Life Science, Central South University, Changsha, 410078, China

    Hui-Wen Yan

  4. Department of Hematology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, 410008, China

    Min-Yuan Peng

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Yan, HW., Hu, WX., Zhang, JY. et al. Resveratrol induces human K562 cell apoptosis, erythroid differentiation, and autophagy. Tumor Biol. 35, 5381–5388 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13277-014-1701-y

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