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Caspase-1 involvement in colorectal cancer cell death phenomenons

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Colon cancer is a major public health matter because it has reached the second rank of cancer mortality in 2013 in France. Surgery, radiotherapy and standard chemotherapies helped by targeted therapies are not often efficient enough, underlying the need of using new therapies.Against this background, we have studied the possibilities to use new therapies (Liver X Receptor (LXR) ligands) or to improve classical treatment conditions (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPC)) and the implication of caspase-1.We have first demonstrated that the nuclear receptor (LXR) agonists can induce pyroptotic cell death of colon cancer cell lines by inflammasome activation and subsequent caspase-1 cleavage. Moreover LXR agonists can act as a targeted therapy because we show that nuclear localization of LXRβ in normal colon cells turns into a cytoplasmic expression in colon tumor cells leading LXRβ ready to induce pyroptosis by its agonists.We also demonstrated that caspase-1 could have an implication in an in vitro model of HIPC when it associates oxaliplatin and hypotony. This surgery procedure used for patients suffering from peritoneal carcinomatosis involves a 42°C chemotherapy bath inside the abdominal cavity during 30 to 60 minutes. Although HIPC has increased global survival of patients with poor prognosis, the results of our study indicates that HIPC combining oxaliplatin and hypotony could significantly improve the procedure efficacy.