Short chain fatty acids such as sodium butyrate are concentrated in the colonic lumen and may protect against colon carcinogenesis by maintaining colonocytic differentiation, but the mechanisms by which they act are not fully understood. It has recently been suggested that short chain fatty acids mo
Modulation of human Caco-2 intestinal epithelial cell phenotype by protein kinase C inhibitors
✍ Scribed by Marc D. Basson; Fu Hong
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 435 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1065-6995
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms are altered in colon tumors and upon exposure of intestinal mucosa to nutrients. We evaluated the effects of the PKC inhibitors staurosporine and calphostin C on human Caco‐2 intestinal epithelial proliferation, motility, and differentiation. Motility was quantitated by monolayer expansion and the brush border enzymes dipeptidyl dipeptidase (DPDD) and alkaline phosphatase (AP) by synthetic substrate digestion. Staurosporine (0.03‐1.0 ng/ml) and calphostin C (10^−12^M‐10^−4^ M) dose‐dependently inhibited monolayer expansion and AP but stimulated DPDD. Proliferation was also inhibited but the effects of each inhibitor on motility, AP, and DPDD were preserved after mitomycin C proliferative blockade, suggesting that these effects were proliferation‐independent. PKC inhibitors independently inhibit motility, AP and proliferation in human intestinal Caco‐2 epithelial cells, but selectively stimulate the small intestinal differentiation marker DPDD. PKC may regulate small intestinal epithelial differentiation.
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