Abstract
4-Amino-2-Trifluoromethyl-Phenyl Retinate (ATPR) is one of the retinoid derivatives designed and synthesized in our team. In this paper, we explored the potential anti-tumor effects of ATPR in breast cancer. Here we found that ATPR showed remarkable anti-proliferative effects in a dose- and time-dependent manner, caused cell cycle arrest in the G0/G1 phase and significantly increased the expression of retinoid receptor-induced gene-1 (RRIG1). ATPR decreased the expression of phosphorylation-ERK (p-ERK) and increased the expression of estrogen receptor β (ERβ) and phosphorylation-p38 (p-p38). Following RRIG1 knockdown by RNAi interference, we found that the changes of ERβ, p-ERK and p-p38 induced by ATPR were both depressed. Our data suggest that ATPR could inhibit the proliferation and induce differentiation of MCF-7 cells via mediating the expression of RRIG1.
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