Nat Prod Sci.  2020 Sep;26(3):191-199. 10.20307/nps.2020.26.3.191.

Fucoidan Induces Apoptosis in A2058 Cells through ROS-exposed Activation of MAPKs Signaling Pathway

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, Duksung Women’s University, Seoul 01369, Korea
  • 2Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine and Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Korea

Abstract

Fucoidan, a natural component of brown seaweed, has various biological activities such as anticancer activity, anti-oxidant, and anti-inflammatory against various cancer cells. However, the fucoidan has been implicated in melanoma cells via apoptosis signaling pathway. Therefore, we investigated apoptosis with fucoidan in A2058 human melanoma cells with dose- and time-dependent manners. In our results, A2058 cells viability decreased at relatively short-time and low-concentration through fucoidan. This effects of fucoidan on A2058 cells appeared to be mediated by the induction of apoptosis, as manifested by morphological changes through DNA-binding dye Hoechst 33342 staining. When a dose of 80 µg/mL fucoidan was treated, the cells were observed: crescent or ring-like structure, chromatin condensation, and nuclear fragmentation. With the increase at 100 µg/mL fucoidan, the cell membrane is intact throughout the total process, including membrane blebbing and loss of membrane integrity as well as increase of sub-G1 DNA. Furthermore, to understand the exact mechanism of fucoidan-treated in A2058 cells, western blotting was performed to detect apoptosis-related protein expression. In this study, Bcl-2 family proteins can be regulated by fucoidan, suggesting that fucoidaninduced apoptosis is modulated by intrinsic pathway. Therefore, expression of Bcl-2 and Bax may result in altered permeability, activating caspase-3 and caspase-9. And the cleaved form of poly ADP-ribose polymerase was detected in fucoidan-treated A2058 cells. These results suggest that A2058 cells are highly sensitive to growth inhibition by fucoidan via apoptosis, as evidenced by activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases/ p38/Bcl-2 family signaling, as well as alteration in caspase-9 and caspase-3.

Keyword

Fucoidan; apoptosis; ROS; MAPKs; A2058; melanoma cells
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