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Nutrition and Cancer

Dietary Supplementation with High-Selenium Soy Protein Reduces Pulmonary Metastasis of Melanoma Cells in Mice^1,2

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 68178 and ^* Department of Agronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583

³To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lyan{at}solae.com.

The effect of high-selenium (Se) soy protein on pulmonary metastasis of murine B16BL6 melanoma cells was investigated in male C57BL6 mice. Isolated soy proteins (ISP) from soybeans grown with and without Se foliar application during seed development were compared. Five diets were studied, a basal AIN-93G diet or a basal diet containing 10% low-Se ISP, 5% low-Se + 5% high-Se ISP, 10% high-Se ISP, or 10% low-Se ISP supplemented with Se equivalent to that of the 10% high-Se ISP diet. The Se concentrations of the 5 diets were 0.13, 0.13, 1.9, 3.6, and 3.0 µg/g, respectively. Mice were fed the diet for 2 wk before and 2 wk after an i.v. injection of 5 x 10⁴ viable cells. At necropsy, the number and size of tumors that had developed in the lungs were determined. In the control group, 13/18 mice exhibited 50 tumors. The numbers of mice with 50 tumors were 8/18, 7/18, 3/18, and 6/17 in the ISP-fed groups, respectively. The differences between the 10% high-Se ISP group, the Se-supplemented 10% low-Se group, and the control were significant (P < 0.05). Dietary supplementation with 10% low-Se ISP significantly decreased the mean number of tumors per group and the tumor size compared with the control. A greater reduction in these variables occurred in mice fed the 10% high-Se ISP diet. The inhibition by the Se-supplemented 10% low-Se ISP diet was similar to that by the 10% high-Se ISP diet. The whole-blood Se concentration was inversely related to the tumor number (R = –0.87, P = 0.052), tumor cross-sectional area (R = –0.91, P < 0.05), and tumor volume (R = –0.93, P < 0.05). These findings suggest that Se is responsible for the greater antimetastatic effect of the high-Se ISP. We conclude that the high-Se soy protein has a greater inhibitory effect than the low-Se soy protein on pulmonary metastasis of melanoma cells in mice.

KEY WORDS: • selenium • soy protein • melanoma • metastasis • mice

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