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Volume 10

Journal of Cancer Science & Therapy

Oncologists 2018

May 24-25, 2018

May 24-25, 2018 Osaka, Japan

Global Annual Oncologists Meeting

J Cancer Sci Ther 2018, Volume 10

DOI: 10.4172/1948-5956-C3-130

Delving KS-01 as a novel therapeutic strategy in treating breast cancer

Sourav Taru Saha and Mandeep Kaur

University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

ancer cells have an increased need for cholesterol, which is required for cell membrane integrity. Cholesterol accumulation

has been described in various malignancies including breast cancer. Cholesterol has also been known to be the precursor

of estrogen and vitamin D, both of which play a key role in the histology of breast cancer. Thus, depleting the cholesterol

levels in cancer cells is a proposed innovative strategy to treat cancer. Therefore, novel cholesterol depleting compounds are

currently being investigated. KS-01 is a cyclic amylose oligomer composed of glucose units. It solubilizes the cholesterol and

is proven to be toxicologically benign in humans. This led us to hypothesize that it might deplete cholesterol from cancer cells

and may prove to be a clinically useful compound. Our work provides preliminary experimental evidences to support this

hypothesis. We identified the potency of KS-01 in vitro against two breast cancer cell lines: MCF-7 (Estrogen positive, ER+),

MDA-MB-231(Estrogen negative, ER-) and compared the results against two normal cell lines: MRC-5 (normal human lung

fibroblasts) and HEK-293 (normal human embryonic kidney cells) using cytotoxic, apoptosis and cholesterol based assays. KS-

01 treatment reduced intracellular cholesterol resulting in significant breast cancer cell growth inhibition through apoptosis.

The results hold true for both ER+ and ER-. These data suggest that KS-01 can prevent cholesterol accumulation in breast

cancer cells and is a promising new anticancer agent.