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Finally, the in vivo antitumor assessments of CS-6 on colorectal cancer was validated through an transplant colorectal cancer model.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>CS-6 treatment significantly inhibited CRC SW620 and DLD1 cell viability and colony formation <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>. Furthermore, CS-6 treatment-induced DNA damage and cell cycle arrest in SW620 and DLD1 cells. The western blot assay revealed that CS-6 treatment upregulated p62 expression. Knockdown of p62 in this study significantly alleviated CS-6-induced DNA damage and the downregulation of cyclin expression in SW620 and DLD1 cells. Additionally, the results indicated increased expression of microtubuleassociated protein I\/II light chain 3II (LC3II) and reduced binding between B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl2) and beclin-1, suggesting that CS-6 treatment activated early-stage autophagy in CRC cells. However, inhibition of latestage autophagy and autophagy-related protein 5 (ATG5) with chloroquine and si-ATG5, respectively, further indicated that CS-6-induced autophagy defects led to p62 accumulation, exacerbated cell proliferation inhibition, and aggravated DNA damage. Intraperitoneal injection with CS-6 inhibited tumor growth in nude mice with colorectal cancer, and promoted the protein expression of phosphorylated H2A histone family member X (\u03b3H2AX), p62, phosphorylated Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated kinase (p-ATM) and LC3 I\/II.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study suggests that CS-6 may exert its anti-tumor effects in CRC by inducing autophagy defects, resulting in p62 accumulation and DNA damage <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphar.2025.1568339","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,9]],"date-time":"2025-05-09T05:35:09Z","timestamp":1746768909000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["CS-6-induced p62 accumulation exacerbates DNA damage in colorectal cancer"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Yitong","family":"Gong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Menghan","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaofei","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Naiyu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xuehui","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liushuyue","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qi","family":"Qi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chiu-fai","family":"Kuok","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qingling","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sixue","family":"Bi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,5,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"230","DOI":"10.1038\/s41571-020-00445-1","article-title":"Rising incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer - a call to action","volume":"18","author":"Akimoto","year":"2021","journal-title":"Nat. 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