Journal: Frontiers in Pharmacology
Article Title: Low-dose statins restore innate immune response in breast cancer cells via suppression of mutant p53
doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1492305
Figure Lengend Snippet: Low-dose statins boost IRF3 nuclear translocation and ISGs in mutant p53 breast cancer. MDA-MB-231 (p53R280K) cells were treated with indicated concentrations of fluvastatin (0, 0.12, 0.25, 0.5 μM) for 120 h, followed by nuclear-cytoplasmic fractionation experiments and western blot analysis to assess IRF3 protein expression (A) . 4T1 (p53 null ) cells transfected with empty vector plasmid shC002 and mutant p53-transfected 4T1 (p53 R280K ) cells were treated with indicated concentrations of fluvastatin (0, 0.5 μM) for 120 h, then subjected to nuclear-cytoplasmic fractionation experiments and western blot analysis to evaluate IRF3 protein expression (B) . MDA-MB-231 (p53 R280K ) cells were treated with 0.5 μM fluvastatin and 0.5 μM lovastatin for 120 h, respectively, followed by cell sample collection for RT-PCR detection of CXCL10 and ISG15 mRNA. N = 3, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 (C) . Mutant p53-transfected 4T1 (p53 R280K ) cells were treated with 0.5 μM fluvastatin and 0.5 μM lovastatin for 120 h, respectively, and cell samples were collected for RT-PCR analysis of IFNB1 mRNA. N = 3, **p < 0.01 (D) .
Article Snippet: Human breast cancer cell lines MDA-MB-231 (p53 R280K ), Sk-Br-3 (p53 R175H ), BT-549 (p53 R249S ), MDA-MB-468 (p53 R273H ), and MCF7 (wild-type p53) and mouse breast cancer cell line 4T1 were procured from ATCC and cultured accordingly in DMEM or RPMI-1640 with 10% FBS and 1% antibiotics.
Techniques: Translocation Assay, Mutagenesis, Fractionation, Western Blot, Expressing, Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction