Ethyl Acetate Fraction from Hedyotis diffusa plus Scutellaria barbata Suppresses Migration of Bone-Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells via OPN-FAK/ERK/NF- κ B Axis

Ting Fang; Ying-Xuan Yan; Yue Yang; Ya-Xin Lv; Qing-Qi Chang; Dan-Dan Zhang

doi:10.1155/2020/3573240

Ethyl Acetate Fraction from Hedyotis diffusa plus Scutellaria barbata Suppresses Migration of Bone-Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells via OPN-FAK/ERK/NF- κ B Axis

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2020 Apr 10:2020:3573240. doi: 10.1155/2020/3573240. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ting Fang^{1

2}, Ying-Xuan Yan³, Yue Yang¹, Ya-Xin Lv¹, Qing-Qi Chang¹, Dan-Dan Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.
² School of Pharmacy, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fujian 350122, China.
³ School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.

Abstract

Hedyotis diffusa plus Scutellaria barbata is a couplet of medicinal that has been commonly used to treat inflammation-related diseases and various types of tumors. However, the effect of this couplet on tumor cell migration has not been elucidated. With the aid of MCF-7-BOM, a bone-metastatic subline of ER + breast cancer MCF-7, we showed that ethyl acetate fraction extracted at an equal weight ratio of Hedyotis diffusa plus Scutellaria barbata (EA11) inhibited cell migration of MCF-7-BOM in a concentration-dependent manner. To define the underlying molecular mechanism, we revealed that EA11 reduced the expression of osteopontin (OPN) and interfered with the FAK/ERK/NF-κB signaling pathways, which are both critical for breast cancer bone metastasis. This study strongly suggested EA11 may represent a potential therapeutic agent against bone metastasis of breast cancer.