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Xia W, Liu Y, Loor JJ, Bionaz M, Jiang M. Dynamic Profile of the Yak Mammary Transcriptome during the Lactation Cycle. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:ani13101710. [PMID: 37238139 DOI: 10.3390/ani13101710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Revised: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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The objective of this study was to assess the transcriptome of the mammary tissue of four yaks during the whole lactation cycle. For this purpose, biopsies of the mammary gland were performed at -30, -15, 1, 15, 30, 60, 120, 180, and 240 days relative to parturition (d). The transcriptome analysis was performed using a commercial bovine microarray platform and the results were analyzed using several bioinformatic tools. The statistical analysis using an overall false discovery rate ≤ 0.05 for the effect of whole lactation and p < 0.05 for each comparison identified >6000 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) throughout lactation, with a large number of DEGs observed at the onset (1 d vs. -15 d) and at the end of lactation (240 d vs. 180 d). Bioinformatics analysis revealed a major role of genes associated with BTA3, BTA4, BTA6, BTA9, BTA14, and BTA28 in lactation. Functional analysis of DEG underlined an overall induction of lipid metabolism, suggesting an increase in triglycerides synthesis, likely regulated by PPAR signaling. The same analysis revealed an induction of amino acid metabolism and secretion of protein, with a concomitant decrease in proteasome, indicating a major role of amino acid handling and reduced protein degradation in the synthesis and secretion of milk proteins. Glycan biosynthesis was induced for both N-glycan and O-glycan, suggesting increased glycan content in the milk. The cell cycle and immune response, especially antigen processing and presentation, were strongly inhibited during lactation, suggesting that morphological changes are minimized during lactation, while the mammary gland prevents immune hyper-response. Transcripts associated with response to radiation and low oxygen were enriched in the down-regulated DEG affected by the stage of lactation. Except for this last finding, the functions affected by the transcriptomic adaptation to lactation in mammary tissue of yak are very similar to those observed in dairy cows.
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- Wei Xia
- College of Animal and Veterinary Science, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
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- College of Animal and Veterinary Science, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, Oregon State University, 112 Withycombe Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- College of Animal and Veterinary Science, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China
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Goswami B, Ahuja D, Pastré D, Ray PS. p53 and HuR combinatorially control the biphasic dynamics of microRNA-125b in response to genotoxic stress. Commun Biol 2023; 6:110. [PMID: 36707647 PMCID: PMC9883498 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04507-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Post-transcriptional regulation of p53, by the microRNA miR-125b and the RNA-binding protein HuR, controls p53 expression under genotoxic stress. p53 mRNA translation is repressed by miR-125b, tightly regulating its basal level of expression. The repression is relieved upon DNA damage by a decrease in miR-125b level, contributing to pulsatile expression of p53. The pulse of p53, as also of HuR, in response to UV irradiation coincides with a time-dependent biphasic change in miR-125b level. We show that the cause for the decrease in miR-125b level immediately post DNA-damage is enhanced exosomal export mediated by HuR. The subsequent increase in miR-125b level is due to p53-mediated transcriptional upregulation and enhanced processing, demonstrating miR-125b as a transcriptional and processing target of p53. p53 activates the transcription of primary miR-125b RNA from a cryptic promoter in response to UV irradiation. Together, these regulatory processes constitute reciprocal feedback loops that determine the biphasic change in miR-125b level, ultimately contributing to the fine-tuned temporal regulation of p53 expression in response to genotoxic stress.
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- Binita Goswami
- grid.417960.d0000 0004 0614 7855Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741246 West Bengal India
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- grid.417960.d0000 0004 0614 7855Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741246 West Bengal India
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- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535SABNP, Univ Evry, INSERM U1204, Université Paris-Saclay, 91025 Evry, France
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- grid.417960.d0000 0004 0614 7855Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741246 West Bengal India
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Keller KE, Peters DM. Pathogenesis of glaucoma: Extracellular matrix dysfunction in the trabecular meshwork-A review. Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2022; 50:163-182. [PMID: 35037377 DOI: 10.1111/ceo.14027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The trabecular meshwork regulates aqueous humour outflow from the anterior chamber of the eye. It does this by establishing a tunable outflow resistance, defined by the interplay between cells and their extracellular matrix (ECM) milieu, and the molecular interactions between ECM proteins. During normal tissue homeostasis, the ECM is remodelled and trabecular cell behaviour is modified, permitting increased aqueous fluid outflow to maintain intraocular pressure (IOP) within a relatively narrow physiological pressure. Dysfunction in the normal homeostatic process leads to increased outflow resistance and elevated IOP, which is a primary risk factor for glaucoma. This review delineates some of the changes in the ECM that lead to gross as well as some more subtle changes in the structure and function of the ECM, and their impact on trabecular cell behaviour. These changes are discussed in the context of outflow resistance and glaucoma.
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- Kate E Keller
- Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health &Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Zhang W, Gong J, Yang H, Wan L, Peng Y, Wang X, Sun J, Li F, Geng Y, Li D, Liu N, Mei G, Cao Y, Yan Q, Li H, Zhang Y, He X, Zhang Q, Zhang R, Wu F, Zhong H, Wei C. The Mitochondrial Protein MAVS Stabilizes p53 to Suppress Tumorigenesis. Cell Rep 2021; 30:725-738.e4. [PMID: 31968249 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.12.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2018] [Revised: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 12/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Recent reports have shown the critical role of the mitochondrial antiviral signaling (MAVS) protein in virus-induced apoptosis, but the involvement of MAVS in tumorigenesis is still poorly understood. Herein, we report that MAVS is a key regulator of p53 activation and is critical for protecting against tumorigenesis. We find that MAVS promotes p53-dependent cell death in response to DNA damage. MAVS interacts with p53 and mediates p53 mitochondrial recruitment under genotoxic stress. Mechanistically, MAVS inhibits p53 ubiquitination by blocking the formation of the p53-murine double-minute 2 (MDM2) complex, leading to the stabilization of p53. Notably, compared with their wild-type littermates, MAVS knockout mice display decreased resistance to azoxymethane (AOM) or AOM/dextran sulfate sodium salt (DSS)-induced colon cancer. MAVS expression is significantly downregulated in human colon cancer tissues. These results unveil roles for MAVS in DNA damage response and tumor suppression.
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- Wanchuan Zhang
- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China; Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shenyang 110042, China
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- Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Wei Sai Te Biotechnology Company, Beijing, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The General Hospital of Jinan Military Region, Jinan, Shandong 250031, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China; Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China
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- Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shenyang 110042, China.
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China.
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China.
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- Department of Genetic Engineering, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100850, China.
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Kent IA, Zhang Q, Katiyar A, Li Y, Pathak S, Dickinson RB, Lele TP. Apical cell protrusions cause vertical deformation of the soft cancer nucleus. J Cell Physiol 2019; 234:20675-20684. [PMID: 31006858 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.28672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Breast cancer nuclei have highly irregular shapes, which are diagnostic and prognostic markers of breast cancer progression. The mechanisms by which irregular cancer nuclear shapes develop are not well understood. Here we report the existence of vertical, apical cell protrusions in cultured MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells. Once formed, these protrusions persist over time scales of hours and are associated with vertically upward nuclear deformations. They are absent in normal mammary epithelial cells (MCF-10A cells). Microtubule disruption enriched these protrusions preferentially in MDA-MB-231 cells compared with MCF-10A cells, whereas inhibition of nonmuscle myosin II (NMMII) abolished this enrichment. Dynamic confocal imaging of the vertical cell and nuclear shape revealed that the apical cell protrusions form first, and in response, the nucleus deforms and/or subsequently gets vertically extruded into the apical protrusion. Overexpression of lamin A/C in MDA-MB-231 cells reduced nuclear deformation in apical protrusions. These data highlight the role of mechanical stresses generated by moving boundaries, as well as abnormal nuclear mechanics in the development of abnormal nuclear shapes in breast cancer cells.
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- Ian A Kent
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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Mad1 destabilizes p53 by preventing PML from sequestering MDM2. Nat Commun 2019; 10:1540. [PMID: 30948704 PMCID: PMC6449396 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09471-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 03/12/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Mitotic arrest deficient 1 (Mad1) plays a well-characterized role in the mitotic checkpoint. However, interphase roles of Mad1 that do not impact mitotic checkpoint function remain largely uncharacterized. Here we show that upregulation of Mad1, which is common in human breast cancer, prevents stress-induced stabilization of the tumor suppressor p53 in multiple cell types. Upregulated Mad1 localizes to ProMyelocytic Leukemia (PML) nuclear bodies in breast cancer and cultured cells. The C-terminus of Mad1 directly interacts with PML, and this interaction is enhanced by sumoylation. PML stabilizes p53 by sequestering MDM2, an E3 ubiquitin ligase that targets p53 for degradation, to the nucleolus. Upregulated Mad1 displaces MDM2 from PML, freeing it to ubiquitinate p53. Upregulation of Mad1 accelerates growth of orthotopic mammary tumors, which show decreased levels of p53 and its downstream effector p21. These results demonstrate an unexpected interphase role for Mad1 in tumor promotion via p53 destabilization.
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The Wnt Signaling Landscape of Mammary Stem Cells and Breast Tumors. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2018; 153:271-298. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2017.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Yang L, Hou Y, Yuan J, Tang S, Zhang H, Zhu Q, Du YE, Zhou M, Wen S, Xu L, Tang X, Cui X, Liu M. Twist promotes reprogramming of glucose metabolism in breast cancer cells through PI3K/AKT and p53 signaling pathways. Oncotarget 2016; 6:25755-69. [PMID: 26342198 PMCID: PMC4694864 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2015] [Accepted: 07/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Twist, a key regulator of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), plays an important role in the development of a tumorigenic phenotype. Energy metabolism reprogramming (EMR), a newly discovered hallmark of cancer cells, potentiates cancer cell proliferation, survival, and invasion. Currently little is known about the effects of Twist on tumor EMR. In this study, we found that glucose consumption and lactate production were increased and mitochondrial mass was decreased in Twist-overexpressing MCF10A mammary epithelial cells compared with vector-expressing MCF10A cells. Moreover, these Twist-induced phenotypic changes were augmented by hypoxia. The expression of some glucose metabolism-related genes such as PKM2, LDHA, and G6PD was also found to be upregulated. Mechanistically, activated β1-integrin/FAK/PI3K/AKT/mTOR and suppressed P53 signaling were responsible for the observed EMR. Knockdown of Twist reversed the effects of Twist on EMR in Twist-overexpressing MCF10A cells and Twist-positive breast cancer cells. Furthermore, blockage of the β1-integrin/FAK/PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway by siRNA or specific chemical inhibitors, or rescue of p53 activation can partially reverse the switch of glucose metabolism and inhibit the migration of Twist-overexpressing MCF10A cells and Twist-positive breast cancer cells. Thus, our data suggest that Twist promotes reprogramming of glucose metabolism in MCF10A-Twist cells and Twist-positive breast cancer cells via activation of the β1-integrin/FAK/PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and inhibition of the p53 pathway. Our study provides new insight into EMR.
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- Li Yang
- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Experimental Teaching Center of Basic Medicine Science, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Department of Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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Grinman DY, Romorini L, Presman DM, Rocha-Viegas L, Coso OA, Davio C, Pecci A. Role of 3'-5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate on the epidermal growth factor dependent survival in mammary epithelial cells. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2016; 419:259-67. [PMID: 26522133 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2015.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2015] [Revised: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Epidermal growth factor (EGF) has been suggested to play a key role in the maintenance of epithelial cell survival during lactation. Previously, we demonstrated that EGF dependent activation of PI3K pathway prevents apoptosis in confluent murine HC11 cells cultured under low nutrient conditions. The EGF protective effect is associated with increased levels of the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-XL. Here, we identify the EGF-dependent mechanism involved in cell survival that converges in the regulation of bcl-X expression by activated CREB. EGF induces Bcl-XL expression through activation of a unique bcl-X promoter, the P1; being not only the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway but also the increase in cAMP levels and the concomitant PKA/CREB activation necessary for both bcl-XL upregulation and apoptosis avoidance. Results presented in this work suggest the existence of a novel connection between the EGF receptor and the adenylate cyclase that would have an impact in preventing apoptosis under low nutrient conditions.
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- Diego Y Grinman
- Departamento de Química Biológica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; IFIBYNE (UBA-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- LIAN-CONICET, Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas de la Infancia, Ruta 9, Km. 52,5, Escobar, B1625XAF, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Building 41, B602, 41 Library Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; IFIBYNE (UBA-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; IFIBYNE (UBA-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Cátedra de Química Medicinal, Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas, ININFA-UBA-CONICET, Junin 954, C1113AAD, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química Biológica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; IFIBYNE (UBA-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Rashidian J, Luo K. Three-dimensional Mammary Epithelial Cell Morphogenesis Model for Analysis of TGFß Signaling. Methods Mol Biol 2016; 1344:121-35. [PMID: 26520121 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2966-5_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Culturing mammary epithelial cells in laminin-rich extracellular matrices (three dimensional or 3D culture) offers significant advantages over that in the conventional two-dimensional (2D) tissue culture system in that it takes into considetation the impact of extracellular matrix (ECM) microenvironment on the proliferation, survival, and differentiation of mammary epithelial cells. When grown in the 3D culture, untransformed mammary epithelial cells undergo morphogenesis to form a multicellular and polarized acini-like structure that functionally mimics the differentiated alveoli in the pregnancy mammary gland. This process is subjected to regulation by many growth factors and cytokines. The transforming growth factor-ß (TGFß) is a multipotent cytokine that regulates multiple aspects of development and tumorigenesis. In addition to its effects on epithelial cell proliferation, survival, and differentiation, it is also a potent regulator of the cell-matrix interaction. Thus, the 3D culture model may recapitulate the complex in vivo epithelial cell microenvironment and allow us to fully evaluate the role of TGFß signaling in multiple aspects of normal and cancerous cell behavior. In this chapter we provide detailed protocols for growing mammary epithelial cells in the 3D Matrigel for analysis of signaling pathways.
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- Juliet Rashidian
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB), University of California, 16 Barker Hall # 3204, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3204, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB), University of California, 16 Barker Hall # 3204, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3204, USA.
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Humphrey S, Kirby R, Rudloff E. Magnesium physiology and clinical therapy in veterinary critical care. J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio) 2014; 25:210-25. [PMID: 25427407 DOI: 10.1111/vec.12253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2012] [Accepted: 09/30/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To review magnesium physiology including absorption, excretion, and function within the body, causes of magnesium abnormalities, and the current applications of magnesium monitoring and therapy in people and animals. ETIOLOGY Magnesium plays a pivotal role in energy production and specific functions in every cell in the body. Disorders of magnesium can be correlated with severity of disease, length of hospital stay, and recovery of the septic patient. Hypermagnesemia is seen infrequently in people and animals with significant consequences reported. Hypomagnesemia is more common in critically ill people and animals, and can be associated with platelet, immune system, neurological, and cardiovascular dysfunction as well as alterations in insulin responsiveness and electrolyte imbalance. DIAGNOSIS Measurement of serum ionized magnesium in critically or chronically ill veterinary patients is practical and provides information necessary for stabilization and treatment. Tissue magnesium concentrations may be assessed using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as well as through the application of fluorescent dye techniques. THERAPY Magnesium infusions may play a therapeutic role in reperfusion injury, myocardial ischemia, cerebral infarcts, systemic inflammatory response syndromes, tetanus, digitalis toxicity, bronchospasms, hypercoagulable states, and as an adjunct to specific anesthetic or analgesic protocols. Further veterinary studies are needed to establish the frequency and importance of magnesium disorders in animals and the potential benefit of magnesium infusions as a therapeutic adjunct to specific diseases. PROGNOSIS The prognosis for most patients with magnesium disorders is variable and largely dependent on the underlying cause of the disorder.
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- Sarah Humphrey
- From the Animal Emergency Center and Specialty Services, Glendale, WI 52309
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Magee TR, Ross MG, Wedekind L, Desai M, Kjos S, Belkacemi L. Gestational diabetes mellitus alters apoptotic and inflammatory gene expression of trophobasts from human term placenta. J Diabetes Complications 2014; 28:448-59. [PMID: 24768206 PMCID: PMC4166519 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdiacomp.2014.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2013] [Revised: 03/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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AIM Increased placental growth secondary to reduced apoptosis may contribute to the development of macrosomia in GDM pregnancies. We hypothesize that reduced apoptosis in GDM placentas is caused by dysregulation of apoptosis related genes from death receptors or mitochondrial pathway or both to enhance placental growth in GDM pregnancies. METHODS Newborn and placental weights from women with no pregnancy complications (controls; N=5), or with GDM (N=5) were recorded. Placental villi from both groups were either fixed for TUNEL assay, or snap frozen for gene expression analysis by apoptosis PCR microarrays and qPCR. RESULTS Maternal, placental and newborn weights were significantly higher in the GDM group vs. Controls. Apoptotic index of placentas from the GDM group was markedly lower than the Controls. At a significant threshold of 1.5, seven genes (BCL10, BIRC6, BIRC7, CASP5, CASP8P2, CFLAR, and FAS) were down regulated, and 13 genes (BCL2, BCL2L1, BCL2L11, CASP4, DAPK1, IκBκE, MCL1, NFκBIZ, NOD1, PEA15, TNF, TNFRSF25, and XIAP) were unregulated in the GDM placentas. qPCR confirmed the consistency of the PCR microarray. Using Western blotting we found significantly decreased placental pro-apoptotic FAS receptor and FAS ligand (FASL), and increased mitochondrial anti-apoptotic BCL2 post GDM insult. Notably, caspase-3, which plays a central role in the execution-phase of apoptosis, and its substrate poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) were significantly down regulated in GDM placentas, as compared to non-diabetic Control placentas. CONCLUSION Maternal GDM results in heavier placentas with aberrant placental apoptotic and inflammatory gene expression that may account, at least partially, for macrosomia in newborns.
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- Thomas R Magee
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatal Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA; Department of Health and Life Sciences at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatal Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatal Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatal Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perinatal Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, CA, USA.
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Zhu J, Clark RAF. Fibronectin at select sites binds multiple growth factors and enhances their activity: expansion of the collaborative ECM-GF paradigm. J Invest Dermatol 2014; 134:895-901. [PMID: 24335899 PMCID: PMC3961531 DOI: 10.1038/jid.2013.484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2013] [Revised: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Intensive research has demonstrated that extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules and growth factors (GF) collaborate at many different levels. The ability of ECM to modulate GF signals has important implications in tissue formation and homeostasis as well as novel therapies for acute and chronic wounds. Recently, a number of GF-binding sites was identified in fibronectin (FN) and was shown to provide another layer of regulation on GF signaling. Here, we review these new findings on FN interaction with GF in the context of general ways ECM molecules regulate GF signaling.
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- Jia Zhu
- Department of Biochemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; Department of Dermatology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
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Jafari Anarkooli I, Barzegar Ganji H, Pourheidar M. The protective effects of insulin and natural honey against hippocampal cell death in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. J Diabetes Res 2014; 2014:491571. [PMID: 24745031 PMCID: PMC3976855 DOI: 10.1155/2014/491571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2013] [Revised: 02/05/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We investigated the effects of insulin and honey as antioxidants to prevent the hippocampal cell death in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. We selected sixty Wister rats (5 groups of 12 animals each), including the control group (C), and four diabetic groups (control (D) and 3 groups treated with insulin (I), honey (H), and insulin plus honey (I + H)). Diabetes was induced by streptozotocin injection (IP, 60 mg/kg). Six weeks after the induction of diabetes, the group I received insulin (3-4 U/kg/day, SC), group H received honey (5 mg/kg/day, IP), and group I + H received a combination of the above at the same dose. Groups C and D received normal saline. Two weeks after treatment, rats were sacrificed and the hippocampus was extracted. Neuronal cell death in the hippocampal region was examined using trypan blue assay, "H & E" staining, and TUNEL assay. Cell viability assessment showed significantly lower number of living cells in group D than in group C. Besides, the mean number of living cells was significantly higher in group I, H, and I + H compared to group D. Therefore, it can be concluded that the treatment of the diabetic rats with insulin, honey, and a combination of insulin and honey can prevent neuronal cell death in different hippocampal areas of the studied samples.
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- Iraj Jafari Anarkooli
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan 4513956111, Iran
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan 4513956111, Iran
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- Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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KLF5 activates microRNA 200 transcription to maintain epithelial characteristics and prevent induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in epithelial cells. Mol Cell Biol 2013; 33:4919-35. [PMID: 24126055 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00787-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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KLF5 is an essential basic transcriptional factor that regulates a number of physiopathological processes. In this study, we tested whether and how KLF5 modulates the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Using transforming growth factor β (TGF-β)- and epidermal growth factor (EGF)-treated epithelial cells as an established model of EMT, we found that KLF5 was downregulated during EMT and that knockdown of KLF5 induced EMT even in the absence of TGF-β and EGF treatment, as indicated by phenotypic and molecular EMT properties. Array-based screening suggested and biochemical analyses confirmed that the microRNA 200 (miR-200) microRNAs, a group of well-established EMT repressors, were transcriptionally activated by KLF5 via its direct binding to the GC boxes in miR-200 gene promoters. Functionally, overexpression of miR-200 prevented the EMT induced by KLF5 knockdown or by TGF-β and EGF treatment, and ectopic expression of KLF5 attenuated TGF-β- and EGF-induced EMT by rescuing the expression of miR-200. In mouse prostates, knockout of Klf5 downregulated the miR-200 family and induced molecular changes indicative of EMT. These findings indicate that KLF5 maintains epithelial characteristics and prevents EMT by transcriptionally activating the miR-200 family in epithelial cells.
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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is necessary for the epithelial-mesenchymal transition in mammary epithelial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:E2977-86. [PMID: 23882083 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301021110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which functions in antibody diversification, is also expressed in a variety of germ and somatic cells. Evidence that AID promotes DNA demethylation in epigenetic reprogramming phenomena, and that it is induced by inflammatory signals, led us to investigate its role in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a critical process in normal morphogenesis and tumor metastasis. We find that expression of AID is induced by inflammatory signals that induce the EMT in nontransformed mammary epithelial cells and in ZR75.1 breast cancer cells. shRNA-mediated knockdown of AID blocks induction of the EMT and prevents cells from acquiring invasive properties. Knockdown of AID suppresses expression of several key EMT transcriptional regulators and is associated with increased methylation of CpG islands proximal to the promoters of these genes; furthermore, the DNA demethylating agent 5 aza-2'deoxycytidine (5-Aza-dC) antagonizes the effects of AID knockdown on the expression of EMT factors. We conclude that AID is necessary for the EMT in this breast cancer cell model and in nontransformed mammary epithelial cells. Our results suggest that AID may act near the apex of a hierarchy of regulatory steps that drive the EMT, and are consistent with this effect being mediated by cytosine demethylation. This evidence links our findings to other reports of a role for AID in epigenetic reprogramming and control of gene expression.
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Minatoya M, Kutomi G, Asakura S, Otokozawa S, Sugiyama Y, Nagata Y, Mori M, Hirata K. Equol, Adiponectin, Insulin Levels and Risk of Breast Cancer. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2013; 14:2191-9. [DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2013.14.4.2191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Rose DP, Vona-Davis L. The cellular and molecular mechanisms by which insulin influences breast cancer risk and progression. Endocr Relat Cancer 2012; 19:R225-41. [PMID: 22936542 DOI: 10.1530/erc-12-0203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Epidemiological studies have related hyperinsulinemia and type 2 diabetes to an increased breast cancer risk, an aggressive and metastatic phenotype, and a poor prognosis. Furthermore, diabetic retinopathy arises from pathological angiogenesis, which is also essential for breast cancer growth and metastasis. Insulin stimulates the proliferation of some human breast cancer cell lines in vitro by mechanisms that use both the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase and the mitogen-activated protein kinase/Akt signaling pathways; it is also a cell survival (anti-apoptotic) agent and enhances tumor cell migration and invasive capacity. Hyperinsulinemia affects breast cancer cells via the endocrine system, but experimental studies suggest the importance of paracrine mechanisms operating by the effects of insulin on the secretion of adipokines from tumor-associated adipose tissue. In such a system, one adipokine, leptin, has stimulatory paracrine effects on breast cancer cell proliferation and survival, while a second, adiponectin, is inhibitory. Leptin, vascular endothelial growth factor, another insulin-regulated adipokine, and insulin itself also stimulate angiogenesis. Insulin has complex interactions with estrogens: it induces adipose stromal cell aromatase and tumor cell sex steroid hormone receptor expression and suppresses sex hormone-binding globulin, which may enhance estrogen synthesis and bioactivity with consequent promotion of estrogen-dependent breast cancer. All these actions influence the later steps in breast cancer development but genetic studies are also revealing connections between gene abnormalities related to type 2 diabetes and the initiation stage of breast carcinogenesis. Understanding the various mechanisms by which insulin participates in breast cancer cell biology provides opportunities for novel approaches to treatment.
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- David P Rose
- Department of Surgery, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 26506, USA
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Estrogen receptor beta growth-inhibitory effects are repressed through activation of MAPK and PI3K signalling in mammary epithelial and breast cancer cells. Oncogene 2012; 32:2390-402. [PMID: 22751110 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2012.261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Two thirds of breast cancers express estrogen receptors (ER). ER alpha (ERα) mediates breast cancer cell proliferation, and expression of ERα is the standard choice to indicate adjuvant endocrine therapy. ERbeta (ERβ) inhibits growth in vitro; its effects in vivo have been incompletely investigated and its role in breast cancer and potential as alternative target in endocrine therapy needs further study. In this work, mammary epithelial (EpH4 and HC11) and breast cancer (MC4-L2) cells with endogenous ERα and ERβ expression and T47-D human breast cancer cells with recombinant ERβ (T47-DERβ) were used to explore effects exerted in vitro and in vivo by the ERβ agonists 2,3-bis (4-hydroxy-phenyl)-propionitrile (DPN) and 7-bromo-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3-benzoxazol-5-ol (WAY). In vivo, ERβ agonists induced mammary gland hyperplasia and MC4-L2 tumour growth to a similar extent as the ERα agonist 4,4',4''-(4-propyl-(1H)-pyrazole-1,3,5-triyl) trisphenol (PPT) or 17β-estradiol (E2) and correlated with higher number of mitotic and lower number of apoptotic features. In vitro, in MC4-L2, EpH4 or HC11 cells incubated under basal conditions, ERβ agonists induced apoptosis measured as upregulation of p53 and apoptosis-inducible factor protein levels and increased caspase 3 activity, whereas PPT and E2 stimulated proliferation. However, when extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 and 2 (ERK ½) were activated by co-incubation with basement membrane extract or epidermal growth factor, induction of apoptosis by ERβ agonists was repressed and DPN induced proliferation in a similar way as E2 or PPT. In a context of active ERK ½, phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase (PI3K)/RAC-alpha serine/threonine-protein kinase (AKT) signalling was necessary to allow proliferation stimulated by ER agonists. Inhibition of MEK ½ with UO126 completely restored ERβ growth-inhibitory effects, whereas inhibition of PI3K by LY294002 inhibited ERβ-induced proliferation. These results show that the cellular context modulates ERβ growth-inhibitory effects and should be taken into consideration upon assessment of ERβ as target for endocrine treatment.
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Hoijman E, Rocha-Viegas L, Kalko SG, Rubinstein N, Morales-Ruiz M, Joffé EBDK, Kordon EC, Pecci A. Glucocorticoid alternative effects on proliferating and differentiated mammary epithelium are associated to opposite regulation of cell-cycle inhibitor expression. J Cell Physiol 2012; 227:1721-30. [PMID: 21688264 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Glucocorticoids influence post-natal mammary gland development by sequentially controlling cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. In the mammary gland, it has been demonstrated that glucocorticoid treatment inhibits epithelial apoptosis in post-lactating glands. In this study, our first goal was to identify new glucocorticoid target genes that could be involved in generating this effect. Expression profiling, by microarray analysis, revealed that expression of several cell-cycle control genes was altered by dexamethasone (DEX) treatment after lactation. Importantly, it was determined that not only the exogenous synthetic hormone, but also the endogenous glucocorticoids regulated the expression of these genes. Particularly, we found that the expression of cell cycle inhibitors p21CIP1, p18INK4c, and Atm was differentially regulated by glucocorticoids through the successive stages of mammary gland development. In undifferentiated cells, DEX treatment induced their expression and reduced cell proliferation, while in differentiated cells this hormone repressed expression of those cell cycle inhibitors and promoted survival. Therefore, differentiation status determined the effect of glucocorticoids on mammary cell fate. Particularly, we have determined that p21CIP1 inhibition would mediate the activity of these hormones in differentiated mammary cells because over-expression of this protein blocked DEX-induced apoptosis protection. Together, our data suggest that the multiple roles played by glucocorticoids in mammary gland development and function might be at least partially due to the alternative roles that these hormones play on the expression of cell cycle regulators.
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Das AB, Loying P, Bose B. Human recombinant Cripto-1 increases doubling time and reduces proliferation of HeLa cells independent of pro-proliferation pathways. Cancer Lett 2011; 318:189-98. [PMID: 22182448 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2011.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2011] [Revised: 10/26/2011] [Accepted: 12/07/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Human oncofetal protein Cripto-1 (CR-1) is overexpressed in many types of cancers. CR-1 binds to cell surface Glypican-1 to activate Erk1/2 MAPK and Akt pathways leading to cell proliferation. However, we show that treatment with recombinant CR-1 reduces proliferation of HeLa cells by increasing the doubling time without triggering cell death or cell cycle arrest. Using a comparative study with U-87 MG cells, we show that the pro-proliferative pathway of CR-1 is not effective in HeLa cells due to lower expression of Glypican-1. Further we show that treatment with recombinant CR-1 increases PTEN in HeLa cells leading to downregulation of PI3K/Akt pathway. The anti-proliferative effect gets potentiated when the pro-proliferative pathway is blocked.
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- Asim Bikas Das
- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
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Zhang Y, Yan W, Chen X. Mutant p53 disrupts MCF-10A cell polarity in three-dimensional culture via epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:16218-28. [PMID: 21454711 PMCID: PMC3091229 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.214585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2010] [Revised: 03/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mutant p53 is not only deficient in tumor suppression but also acquires additional activity, called gain of function. Mutant p53 gain of function is recapitulated in knock-in mice that carry one null allele and one mutant allele of the p53 gene. These knock-in mice develop aggressive tumors compared with p53-null mice. Recently, we and others showed that tumor cells carrying a mutant p53 are addicted to the mutant for cell survival and resistance to DNA damage. To further define mutant p53 gain of function, we used the MCF-10A three-dimensional model of mammary morphogenesis. MCF-10A cells in three-dimensional culture undergo a series of morphological changes and form polarized and growth-arrested spheroids with hollow lumen, which resembles normal glandular architectures in vivo. Here, we found that endogenous wild-type p53 in MCF-10A cells was not required for acinus formation, but knockdown of endogenous wild-type p53 (p53-KD) led to partial clearance of cells in the lumen due to decreased apoptosis. Consistent with this, p53-KD altered expression patterns of the cell adhesion molecule E-cadherin, the cytoskeletal marker β-catenin, and the extracellular matrix protein laminin V. We also found that ectopic expression of the mutant G245S led to a phenotype similar to p53-KD, whereas a combination of ectopic expression of siRNA-resistant G245S with p53-KD led to a less cleared lumen. In contrast, ectopic expression of mutant R248W, R175H, and R273H disrupted normal acinus architectures with filled lumen and led to formation of irregular and multiacinus structures regardless of p53-KD. In addition, these mutants altered normal expression patterns and/or levels of E-cadherin, β-catenin, laminin V, and tight junction marker ZO-1. Furthermore, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions (EMT) markers, Snail, Slug, and Twist, were highly induced by mutant p53 and/or p53-KD. Together, we postulate that EMT represents a mutant p53 gain of function and mutant p53 alters cell polarity via EMT.
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- Yanhong Zhang
- From the Comparative Oncology Laboratory, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- From the Comparative Oncology Laboratory, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- From the Comparative Oncology Laboratory, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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Kastrati I, Edirisinghe PD, Wijewickrama GT, Thatcher GRJ. Estrogen-induced apoptosis of breast epithelial cells is blocked by NO/cGMP and mediated by extranuclear estrogen receptors. Endocrinology 2010; 151:5602-16. [PMID: 20943808 PMCID: PMC2999489 DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Estrogen action, via both nuclear and extranuclear estrogen receptors (ERs), induces a variety of cellular signals that are prosurvival or proliferative, whereas nitric oxide (NO) can inhibit apoptosis via caspase S-nitrosylation and via activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase to produce cGMP. The action of 17β-estradiol (E(2)) at ER is known to elicit NO signaling via activation of NO synthase (NOS) in many tissues. The MCF-10A nontumorigenic, mammary epithelial cell line is genetically stable and insensitive to estrogenic proliferation. In this cell line, estrogens or NOS inhibitors alone had no significant effect, whereas in combination, apoptosis was induced rapidly in the absence of serum; the presence of inducible NOS was confirmed by proteomic analysis. The application of pharmacological agents determined that apoptosis was dependent upon NO/cGMP signaling via cyclic GMP (cGMP)-dependent protein kinase and could be replicated by inhibition of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase/serine-threonine kinase pathway prior to addition of E(2). Apoptosis was confirmed by nuclear staining and increased caspase-3 activity in E(2) + NOS inhibitor-treated cells. Apoptosis was partially inhibited by a pure ER antagonist and replicated by agonists selective for extranuclear ER. Cells were rescued from E(2)-induced apoptosis after NOS blockade, by NO-donors and cGMP pathway agonists; preincubation with NO donors was required. The NOS and ER status of breast cancer tissues is significant in etiology, prognosis, and therapy. In this study, apoptosis of preneoplastic mammary epithelial cells was triggered by estrogens via a rapid, extranuclear ER-mediated response, after removal of an antiapoptotic NO/cGMP/cGMP-dependent protein kinase signal.
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- Irida Kastrati
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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Cohet N, Stewart KM, Mudhasani R, Asirvatham AJ, Mallappa C, Imbalzano KM, Weaver VM, Imbalzano AN, Nickerson JA. SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling enzyme ATPases promote cell proliferation in normal mammary epithelial cells. J Cell Physiol 2010; 223:667-78. [PMID: 20333683 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The ATPase subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling enzymes, Brahma (BRM) and Brahma-related gene 1 (BRG1), can induce cell cycle arrest in BRM and BRG1 deficient tumor cell lines, and mice heterozygous for Brg1 are pre-disposed to breast tumors, implicating loss of BRG1 as a mechanism for unregulated cell proliferation. To test the hypothesis that loss of BRG1 can contribute to breast cancer, we utilized RNA interference to reduce the amounts of BRM or BRG1 protein in the nonmalignant mammary epithelial cell line, MCF-10A. When grown in reconstituted basement membrane (rBM), these cells develop into acini that resemble the lobes of normal breast tissue. Contrary to expectations, knockdown of either BRM or BRG1 resulted in an inhibition of cell proliferation in monolayer cultures. This inhibition was strikingly enhanced in three-dimensional rBM culture, although some BRM-depleted cells were later able to resume proliferation. Cells did not arrest in any specific stage of the cell cycle; instead, the cell cycle length increased by approximately 50%. Thus, SWI/SNF ATPases promote cell cycle progression in nonmalignant mammary epithelial cells.
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- Nathalie Cohet
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA
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Arulanandam R, Vultur A, Cao J, Carefoot E, Elliott BE, Truesdell PF, Larue L, Feracci H, Raptis L. Cadherin-cadherin engagement promotes cell survival via Rac1/Cdc42 and signal transducer and activator of transcription-3. Mol Cancer Res 2009; 7:1310-27. [PMID: 19671682 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-08-0469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (Stat3) is activated by a number of receptor and nonreceptor tyrosine kinases, whereas a constitutively active form of Stat3 alone is sufficient to induce neoplastic transformation. In the present report, we show that Stat3 can also be activated through homophilic interactions by the epithelial (E)-cadherin. Indeed, by plating cells onto surfaces coated with fragments encompassing the two outermost domains of this cadherin, we clearly show that cadherin engagement can activate Stat3, even in the absence of direct cell-to-cell contact. Most importantly, our results also reveal for the first time an unexpected and dramatic surge in total Rac1 and Cdc42 protein levels triggered by cadherin engagement and an increase in Rac1 and Cdc42 activity, which is responsible for the Stat3 stimulation observed. Inhibition of cadherin interactions using a peptide, a soluble cadherin fragment, or genetic ablation induced apoptosis, points to a significant role of this pathway in cell survival signaling, a finding that could also have important therapeutic implications. (Mol Cancer Res 2009;7(8):1310-27).
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- Rozanne Arulanandam
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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Imbalzano KM, Tatarkova I, Imbalzano AN, Nickerson JA. Increasingly transformed MCF-10A cells have a progressively tumor-like phenotype in three-dimensional basement membrane culture. Cancer Cell Int 2009; 9:7. [PMID: 19291318 PMCID: PMC2666639 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2867-9-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2009] [Accepted: 03/16/2009] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background MCF-10A cells are near diploid and normal human mammary epithelial cells. In three-dimensional reconstituted basement membrane culture, they undergo a well-defined program of proliferation, differentiation, and growth arrest, forming acinar structures that recapitulate many aspects of mammary architecture in vivo. The pre-malignant MCF-10AT cells and malignant MCF-10CA1a lines were sequentially derived from the MCF-10A parental cell line first by expression of a constitutively active T24 H-Ras generating the MCF-10AT cell line. This was followed by repeated selection for increasingly aggressive tumor formation from cells recovered from xenograft tumors in immuno-compromised mice, generating the MCF-10CA1a cell line. When inoculated subcutaneously into the flanks of immuno-compromised mice, MCF-10AT cells occasionally form tumors, whereas MCF-10CA1a cells invariably form tumors with a shorter latency than MCF-10AT derived tumors. Results MCF-10AT cells grown in three-dimensional basement membrane culture form complex multi-acinar structures that produce a basement membrane but undergo delayed cell cycle arrest and have incomplete luminal development. MCF-10CA1a cells grown in three-dimensional basement membrane culture form large, hyper-proliferative masses, that retain few characteristics of MCF10A acini and more closely resemble tumors. Conclusion Here we report on the growth and differentiation properties of these three matched cell lines in three-dimensional basement membrane culture. Features of tissue morphogenesis were assessed, including proliferation, basement membrane formation, polarization of alpha-6 beta-4 integrin to the basement membrane, formation of cell:cell junctions, and apoptosis for luminal clearance. The matched series of normal MCF-10A, pre-malignant MCF-10AT, and malignant MCF-10CA1a cells offers a unique opportunity to study the mechanisms of malignant progression both in a three-dimensional microenvironment and in the same cell background.
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- Karen M Imbalzano
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.
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Romorini L, Coso OA, Pecci A. Bcl-XL mediates epidermal growth factor dependent cell survival in HC11 mammary epithelial cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2009; 1793:496-505. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2008.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2008] [Revised: 11/18/2008] [Accepted: 12/02/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Perotti C, Liu R, Parusel CT, Böcher N, Schultz J, Bork P, Pfitzner E, Groner B, Shemanko CS. Heat shock protein-90-alpha, a prolactin-STAT5 target gene identified in breast cancer cells, is involved in apoptosis regulation. Breast Cancer Res 2008; 10:R94. [PMID: 19014541 PMCID: PMC2656886 DOI: 10.1186/bcr2193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Revised: 09/21/2008] [Accepted: 11/13/2008] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION The prolactin-Janus-kinase-2-signal transducer and activator of transcription-5 (JAK2-STAT5) pathway is essential for the development and functional differentiation of the mammary gland. The pathway also has important roles in mammary tumourigenesis. Prolactin regulated target genes are not yet well defined in tumour cells, and we undertook, to the best of our knowledge, the first large genetic screen of breast cancer cells treated with or without exogenous prolactin. We hypothesise that the identification of these genes should yield insights into the mechanisms by which prolactin participates in cancer formation or progression, and possibly how it regulates normal mammary gland development. METHODS We used subtractive hybridisation to identify a number of prolactin-regulated genes in the human mammary carcinoma cell line SKBR3. Northern blotting analysis and luciferase assays identified the gene encoding heat shock protein 90-alpha (HSP90A) as a prolactin-JAK2-STAT5 target gene, whose function was characterised using apoptosis assays. RESULTS We identified a number of new prolactin-regulated genes in breast cancer cells. Focusing on HSP90A, we determined that prolactin increased HSP90A mRNA in cancerous human breast SKBR3 cells and that STAT5B preferentially activated the HSP90A promoter in reporter gene assays. Both prolactin and its downstream protein effector, HSP90alpha, promote survival, as shown by apoptosis assays and by the addition of the HSP90 inhibitor, 17-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-AAG), in both untransformed HC11 mammary epithelial cells and SKBR3 breast cancer cells. The constitutive expression of HSP90A, however, sensitised differentiated HC11 cells to starvation-induced wild-type p53-independent apoptosis. Interestingly, in SKBR3 breast cancer cells, HSP90alpha promoted survival in the presence of serum but appeared to have little effect during starvation. CONCLUSIONS In addition to identifying new prolactin-regulated genes in breast cancer cells, we found that prolactin-JAK2-STAT5 induces expression of the HSP90A gene, which encodes the master chaperone of cancer. This identifies one mechanism by which prolactin contributes to breast cancer. Increased expression of HSP90A in breast cancer is correlated with increased cell survival and poor prognosis and HSP90alpha inhibitors are being tested in clinical trials as a breast cancer treatment. Our results also indicate that HSP90alpha promotes survival depending on the cellular conditions and state of cellular transformation.
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- Christian Perotti
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
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Kho Y, Kim S, Yoon BS, Moon JH, Kwak S, Park G, Woo J, Oh S, Hong K, Kim S, Kim H, You S, Choi Y. WDNM1 is associated with differentiation and apoptosis of mammary epithelial cells. Anim Biotechnol 2008; 19:89-103. [PMID: 18432400 DOI: 10.1080/10495390801887361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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In this study, we show that expression of the Westmead DMBA8 nonmetastatic cDNA 1 (WDNM1) gene was increased upon SFM and/or TNFalpha treatment, with a corresponding increase in apoptotic cells, and gradually decreased following re-stimulation with serum in HC11 mammary epithelial cells. TNFalpha induced WDNM1 expression showed the NFkappaB-dependent mechanism since it's expression was abrogated in IkappaBalphaM (super-repressor of NFkappaB)-transfected cells, but not those transfected with control vector. Furthermore, overexpression of WDNM1 suppressed growth and differentiation, and accelerated apoptosis of HC11 cells. Thus, our results demonstrate that WDNM1 gene expression, regulated by the TNFalpha-NFkappaB signal pathway, is associated with HC11 cell apoptosis.
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- Yoonjung Kho
- School of Agricultural and Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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Mello MLS, Vidal BC, Russo J, Planding W, Schenck U. Image analysis of the AgNOR response in ras-transformed human breast epithelial cells. Acta Histochem 2007; 110:210-6. [PMID: 18160100 DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2007.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2007] [Revised: 10/15/2007] [Accepted: 10/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The argyrophylic staining of the nucleolar organizer regions (AgNOR positive response) in interphase nuclei is often related directly to the cellular demand for ribosome biogenesis and is considered of relevance in studies of tumor pathology. Transformation of human breast epithelial MCF-10A cells by the c-Ha-ras oncogene results in altered growth, invasiveness and tumorigenicity in nude mice. Since ras transformation may be associated with a more intense nucleolar activity, we examined the influence of transfection by the Ha-ras oncogene on AgNOR staining response in MCF-10A cells. Following assessment of the AgNOR response with video image analysis, the AgNOR-positive areas and the AgNOR area/nuclear area ratio, but not the number of AgNOR aggregates or dots per nucleus, were found to be much higher after ras transformation. A role of the Ha-ras transformation on the nucleolar activity of the MCF-10A is thus suggested as assessed by the AgNOR staining. Based on data in the literature, it is also hypothesized that a decreased wild-type p53 level, possibly promoted by the ras transformation, may be associated with the increased AgNOR response.
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- Maria Luiza S Mello
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-863 Campinas, Brazil.
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The hamster model of sequential oral oncogenesis. Oral Oncol 2007; 44:315-24. [PMID: 18061531 DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2007] [Revised: 06/26/2007] [Accepted: 08/15/2007] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a common cancer characterised by low survival rate and poor prognosis. The multistep process of oral carcinogenesis is affected by multiple genetic events such as alterations of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes. The use of appropriate experimental animal models that accurately represent the cellular and molecular changes which are associated with the initiation and progression of human oral cancer is of crucial importance. The Syrian golden hamster cheek pouch oral carcinogenesis model is the best known animal system that closely correlates events involved in the development of premalignant and malignant human oral cancers. Therefore, we established an experimental system of chemically induced oral carcinogenesis in hamsters, in order to study different stages of tumour formation: normal mucosa, hyperkeratosis, hyperplasia, dysplasia, early invasion, well differentiated OSCC and moderately differentiated OSCC. We investigated the expression of oncogenes EGFR, erbB2, erbB3, FGFR-2, FGFR-3, c-myc, N-ras, ets-1, H-ras, c-fos and c-jun, apoptosis markers Bax and Bcl-2, tumour suppressor genes p53 and p16, and cell proliferation marker Ki-67 in the sequential stages of hamster oral oncogenesis. Here, we describe the findings of the experimental model in regard to the involvement of signal transduction pathways in every stage of cancer development. Increased apoptosis and cell proliferation were observed in early stages of oral oncogenesis. Furthermore, the increased expression of transmembrane receptors (EGFR, erbB2, FGFR-2 and FGFR-3) as well as the increased expression of nuclear transcriptional factors in early stages of oral cancer indicates that these molecules may be used as early prognostic factors for the progression of OSCC. Since the expression of both H-ras and N-ras do not seem to affect signal transduction during oral oncogenesis, it can be assumed that a different signalling pathway, such as the PI3K and/or PLCgamma pathway, may be implicated in the pathogenesis of OSCC.
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Choi MS, Lee WH, Kwon EY, Kang MA, Lee MK, Park YB, Jeon SM. Effects of soy pinitol on the pro-inflammatory cytokines and scavenger receptors in oxidized low-density lipoprotein-treated THP-1 macrophages. J Med Food 2007; 10:594-601. [PMID: 18158828 DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2006.220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Pinitol, a methylated form of D-chiro-inositol, acts as a insulin mediator. We investigated the effects of soy pinitol on the factors involved in foam cell formation using differentiated THP-1 macrophages. Pinitol slightly inhibited the lipid-laden foam cell formation by oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) in a dose-dependent manner. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 releases were significantly reduced by pinitol treatment (0.05-0.5 mM), whereas interleukin-1beta and interleukin-8 secretions were significantly reduced in low-dose pinitol (0.05 or 0.1 mM) and 0.5 mM pinitol-treated cells, respectively, compared to no pinitol-treated cells. Gene expressions of CD36 and CD68 were significantly down-regulated by 0.05-0.5 mM pinitol compared to the oxLDL-treated control cells. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 gene expression was significantly decreased in 0.05-0.5 mM pinitol-treated cells compared to the no pinitol-treated macrophages. We conclude that pinitol has some inhibitory effects on foam cell formation by reducing lipid accumulation, secretion, and expression of some cytokines and macrophage scavenger receptor expression via its insulin-like action.
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- Myung-Sook Choi
- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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Leffler M, Hrach T, Stuerzl M, Horch RE, Herndon DN, Jeschke MG. Insulin attenuates apoptosis and exerts anti-inflammatory effects in endotoxemic human macrophages. J Surg Res 2007; 143:398-406. [PMID: 17583747 DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.01.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2006] [Revised: 01/16/2007] [Accepted: 01/25/2007] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Insulin decreases the incidence of sepsis and improves mortality of critically ill patients. In endotoxemic as well as in thermally injured rats, insulin attenuates the systemic inflammatory response by decreasing the proinflammatory and increasing the antiinflammatory cascade. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of insulin on cell survival, cell activity, apoptosis, and proinflammatory response in a human macrophage-like cell line (THP-1 cells) stressed with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). MATERIALS AND METHODS Human macrophages were stressed with LPS and received either saline or insulin. Cell viability was analyzed by MTS, apoptosis was detected using JC-1 and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated nick end labeling-staining, and to elucidate on the signaling pathway, we used wortmannin as a phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase inhibitor. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) were measured to determine the effect of insulin on proinflammatory cytokine expression. RESULTS Insulin caused a significant increase in cell viability and significantly reduced apoptosis in LPS-stimulated human macrophages in a dose-dependent manner. The antiapoptotic effect of insulin could be completely blocked with the addition of wortmannin. Insulin significantly decreased TNF and IL-1beta in endotoxemic human macrophages. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that insulin exerts antiapoptotic effects and reduces the expression of proinflammatory cytokines in endotoxemic human macrophages. The antiapoptotic effects are mediated via the phospatidylinositol-3-kinase-pathway.
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- Mareike Leffler
- Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Platonova N, Scotti M, Babich P, Bertoli G, Mento E, Meneghini V, Egeo A, Zucchi I, Merlo GR. TBX3, the gene mutated in ulnar-mammary syndrome, promotes growth of mammary epithelial cells via repression of p19ARF, independently of p53. Cell Tissue Res 2007; 328:301-16. [PMID: 17265068 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-006-0364-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2006] [Accepted: 11/27/2006] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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TBX3, the gene mutated in ulnar-mammary syndrome (UMS), is involved in the production of a transcription factor of the T-box family, known to inhibit transcription from the p14ARF (p19ARF in mouse) promoter in fibroblasts and to contribute to cell immortalization. One of the main features of the UMS phenotype is the severe hypoplasia of the breast, associated with haploinsufficiency of the TBX3 gene product. In mice homozygous for the targeted disruption of Tbx3, the mammary glands (MGs) are nearly absent from early stages of embryogenesis, whereas in heterozygous adults, the MGs show reduced ductal branching. All these data strongly suggest a specific role of TBX3 in promoting the growth of mammary epithelial cells (MECs), although direct evidence of this is lacking. Here, we provide data showing the growth-promoting function of Tbx3 in several models of MECs, in association with its ability to repress the ARF promoter. However, no effect of Tbx3 on cell differentiation or apoptosis has been observed. The growth promoting function also entails the down-regulation of p21 ( CIP1/WAF ) and an increase in cyclin D1 but is independent of p53 and Mdm2 cell-cycle regulatory proteins, as p53-null MECs show similar growth responses associated with the up- or down-regulation of Tbx3. This is the first direct evidence that the level of Tbx3 expression positively controls the proliferation of MECs via pathways alternative to Mdm2-p53.
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- Natalia Platonova
- Dulbecco Telethon Institute/CNR-ITB, Via F lli Cervi 93 Segrate, Milano, Italy
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Reginato MJ, Muthuswamy SK. Illuminating the center: mechanisms regulating lumen formation and maintenance in mammary morphogenesis. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia 2006; 11:205-11. [PMID: 17115263 DOI: 10.1007/s10911-006-9030-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The lumens present in ductal structures are required for transport of fluids and air. Studies in model organisms and cells in culture suggest that lumens can be generated by multiple mechanisms including apoptosis of centrally located cells, and re-modeling of epithelia. Several studies point to a role for apoptosis during lumen formation in the mammary ducts. However, a role for other mechanisms during lumen formation in the mammary ducts is largely unexplored. Understanding how lumens are formed and maintained free of cells is of clinical importance because filling of the luminal space is associated with cancer and inflammation. Thus, further investigation can lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities.
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- Mauricio J Reginato
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Drexel University, 245 N. 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA.
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Premkumar DR, Arnold B, Pollack IF. Cooperative inhibitory effect of ZD1839 (Iressa) in combination with 17-AAG on glioma cell growth. Mol Carcinog 2006; 45:288-301. [PMID: 16550610 DOI: 10.1002/mc.20141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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ZD1839 ("Iressa") is an orally active, selective epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor. We evaluated the antitumor activity of ZD1839 in combination with HSP90 antagonist, 17-AAG in malignant human glioma cell lines. ZD1839 independently produced a dose-dependent inhibition of cellular proliferation in glioma cells grown in culture with time- and dose-dependent accumulation of cells in G(1) phase of the cell cycle on flow cytometric analysis, although the concentrations required for optimal efficacy were at or above the limits of clinically achievable levels. Because the heat shock protein (HSP) is involved in the conformational maturation of a number of signaling proteins critical to the proliferation of malignant glioma cells, we hypothesized that the HSP90 inhibitor 17-AAG would potentiate ZD 1839-mediated glioma cytotoxicity by decreasing the activation status of EGF receptor, as well as down regulating the levels of other relevant signaling effectors. We, therefore, examined the effects of ZD1839 and 17-AAG, alone and in combination, on signal transduction and apoptosis in a series of malignant glioma cell lines. Simultaneous exposure to these inhibitors significantly induced cell death and quantitative analysis revealed that interaction between ZD1839 and 17-AAG-induced cytotoxicity was synergistic, leading to a pronounced increase in active caspase-3 and PARP cleavage. No significant growth inhibition or caspase activation was seen in control cells. The enhanced cytotoxicity of this combination was associated with diminished Akt activation and a significant downregulation of EGFR receptor, Raf-1 and mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK). Cells exposed to 17-AAG and ZD1839 displayed a significant reduction in cell cycle regulatory proteins, such as CDK4 and CDK6. Taken together, these findings suggest that ZD1839, an EGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, plays a critical role in regulating the apoptotic response to 17-AAG and that multi-site targeting of growth signaling and cell survival pathways could provide a potent strategy to treat patients with malignant gliomas.
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- Daniel R Premkumar
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Brain Tumor Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Ogawa T, Ishida-Kitagawa N, Tanaka A, Matsumoto T, Hirouchi T, Akimaru M, Tanihara M, Yogo K, Takeya T. A novel role of L-serine (L-Ser) for the expression of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)2 in receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL)-induced osteoclastogenesis in vitro. J Bone Miner Metab 2006; 24:373-9. [PMID: 16937269 DOI: 10.1007/s00774-006-0705-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2006] [Accepted: 05/16/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Multinucleated cell formation is crucial for osteoclastogenesis, and the expression of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)2 (NFATc1) is essential for this process. We previously found, using mouse RAW264 cells, that culture at high cell density blocked progression to the multinucleated cell stage induced by stimulation with receptor activator of nuclear factor kappaB ligand (RANKL). Here, we have confirmed this finding in a bone marrow cell system and extended the analysis further. A high cell density appeared to cause a change in the composition of the culture medium accompanying downregulation of NFAT2 expression, and we identified L-serine (LSer) as essential for the expression of NFAT2 induced by RANKL. Namely, culture at high cell density caused a depletion of LSer in the medium. Consequently, L-Ser appeared to exert its effect at an early stage under the regular conditions used for inducing the expression of c-Fos, an upstream regulator of NFAT2. D-Ser, an enantiomer of L-Ser, showed no NFAT2-inducing activity. The expression of NFAT2, using a retrovirus vector, could compensate for the depletion of L-Ser and resume the progression to the multinucleated cell stage. These results demonstrate a novel role for L-Ser in RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis in vitro.
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- Takuya Ogawa
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0101, Japan
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Brew CT, Aronchik I, Hsu JC, Sheen JH, Dickson RB, Bjeldanes LF, Firestone GL. Indole-3-carbinol activates the ATM signaling pathway independent of DNA damage to stabilize p53 and induce G1 arrest of human mammary epithelial cells. Int J Cancer 2005; 118:857-68. [PMID: 16152627 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The phytochemical indole-3-carbinol (I3C), from cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, has been shown to elicit a potent anti-proliferative response in human breast cancer cell lines. Treatment of the immortalized human mammary epithelial cell line MCF10A with I3C induced a G1 cell cycle arrest, elevated p53 tumor suppressor protein levels and stimulated expression of downstream transcriptional target, p21. I3C treatment also elevated p53 levels in several breast cancer cell lines that express mutant p53. I3C did not arrest MCF10A cells stably transfected with dominant-negative p53, establishing a functional requirement for p53. Cell fractionation and immunolocalization studies revealed a large fraction of stabilized p53 protein in the nucleus of I3C-treated MCF10A cells. With I3C treatment, phosphatidyl-inositol-3-kinase family member ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM) was phosphorylated, as were its substrates p53, CHK2 and BRCA1. Phosphorylation of p53 at the N-terminus has previously been shown to disrupt the interaction between p53 and its ubiquitin ligase, MDM2, and therefore stabilizing p53. Coimmunoprecipitation analysis revealed that I3C reduced by 4-fold the level of MDM2 protein that associated with p53. The p53-MDM2 interaction and absence of p21 production were restored in cells treated with I3C and the ATM inhibitor wortmannin. Significantly, I3C does not increase the number of 53BP1 foci or H2AX phosphorylation, indicating that ATM is activated independent of DNA double-strand breaks. Taken together, our results demonstrate that I3C activates ATM signaling through a novel pathway to stimulate p53 phosphorylation and disruption of the p53-MDM2 interaction, which releases p53 to induce the p21 CDK inhibitor and a G1 cell cycle arrest.
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- Christine T Brew
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and The Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA
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St-Pierre B, Cooper M, Jiang Z, Zacksenhaus E, Egan SE. Dynamic regulation of the Stra13/Sharp/Dec bHLH repressors in mammary epithelium. Dev Dyn 2004; 230:124-30. [PMID: 15108316 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Mammary gland development is a dynamic process involving cyclical proliferation, cellular differentiation, and cell death. In this study, we have determined that expression of the Stra13/Sharp/Dec basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family is dynamically regulated in mammary epithelium. In cultured HC11 cells, epidermal growth factor (EGF) treatment rapidly induces Stra13 protein accumulation, which is blocked by the synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone. Neither the induction of Stra13 by EGF nor its repression by dexamethasone correlates with changes in Stra13 mRNA levels. During mouse mammary gland development in vivo, Stra13 is highly expressed in epithelial ducts during puberty, and strongly induced in both ducts and alveoli during early involution, while the related Sharp-1 gene is highly expressed only during late stages of involution. Together, these data indicate that Stra13/Dec/Sharp-family bHLH repressors are dynamically regulated during mammary gland development and may function to regulate apoptosis in this tissue.
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- Benoit St-Pierre
- Programs in Cancer Research and Developmental Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Beckley JR, Pauli BU, Elble RC. Re-expression of detachment-inducible chloride channel mCLCA5 suppresses growth of metastatic breast cancer cells. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:41634-41. [PMID: 15292178 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m408334200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The calcium-activated chloride channel hCLCA2 has been identified as a candidate tumor suppressor in human breast cancer. It is greatly down-regulated in breast cancer, and its re-expression suppresses tumorigenesis by an unknown mechanism. To establish a mouse model, we identified the mouse ortholog of hCLCA2, termed mCLCA5, and investigated its behavior in mammary epithelial cell lines and tissues. Expression in the immortalized cell line HC11 correlated with slow or arrested growth. Although rapidly dividing, sparsely plated cells had low levels of expression, mCLCA5 was induced by 10-fold when cells became confluent and 30-fold when cells were deprived of growth factors or anchorage. The apoptosis effector Bax was induced in parallel. Like hCLCA2, mCLCA5 was down-regulated in metastatic mammary tumor cell lines such as 4T1 and CSML-100. Ectopic re-expression in 4T1 cells caused a 20-fold reduction in colony survival relative to vector control. High mCLCA5 expression in stable clones inhibited proliferation and enhanced sensitivity to detachment. Moreover, mCLCA5 was induced in lactating and involuting mammary gland, correlating with differentiation and onset of apoptosis. Together, these results establish mCLCA5 as the mouse ortholog of hCLCA2, demonstrate that mCLCA5 is a detachment-sensitive growth inhibitor, and suggest a mechanism whereby these channels may antagonize mammary tumor progression.
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- Janel R Beckley
- Cornell University, Cancer Biology Program, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Fischer-Posovszky P, Tornqvist H, Debatin KM, Wabitsch M. Inhibition of death-receptor mediated apoptosis in human adipocytes by the insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I)/IGF-I receptor autocrine circuit. Endocrinology 2004; 145:1849-59. [PMID: 14691011 DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Adipose tissue mass is reflected by the volume and the number of adipocytes and is subject to homeostatic regulation involving cell death mechanisms. In this study we have investigated the mechanisms of apoptosis in human preadipocytes and adipocytes that may play a role in the regulation of adipose tissue mass. We found that death receptors (CD95, TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand receptors 1 and 2, and TNF receptor 1) are expressed in human fat cells and that apoptosis can be induced by specific ligands. Sensitivity to apoptosis could be stimulated by an inhibitor of biosynthesis. In addition, inhibition of auto-/paracrine action of IGF-I dramatically sensitizes human adipocytes for death ligand-induced apoptosis. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase and, to a weaker extent, p38 MAPK are involved in IGF-I-mediated survival. IGF-I protects human fat cells from apoptosis by maintaining the expression of antiapoptotic proteins, Bcl-x(L) and Fas-associated death domain-like IL-1-converting enzyme inhibitory protein. In conclusion, we identified mechanisms of apoptosis induction in human fat cells. We furthermore demonstrate that human fat cells protect themselves from apoptosis by IGF-I in an auto-/paracrine manner.
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Kluger HM, Kluger Y, Gilmore-Hebert M, DiVito K, Chang JT, Rodov S, Mironenko O, Kacinski BM, Perkins AS, Sapi E. cDNA microarray analysis of invasive and tumorigenic phenotypes in a breast cancer model. J Transl Med 2004; 84:320-31. [PMID: 14767486 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The fms oncogene encodes the macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (CSF1R), a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor, which is abnormally expressed in breast cancer. Transfection of wild-type CSF1R into HC11 mammary epithelial cells (HC11-CSF1R) renders the transfectants capable of in vitro local invasion and in vivo tumorigenesis. Transfection with CSF1R mutated to express phe at the tyr-721 autophosphorylation site (HC11-CSF1R-721) creates a phenotype that lacks metastastic competence but maintains local invasiveness. Conversely, HC11 cells transfected with CSF1R mutated at tyr-807 (HC11-CSF1R-807) retain their metastatic competence, but are not locally invasive. Our aims were to determine which genes were differentially expressed with transfection of HC11 with wild-type CSF1R, and to determine the effect of mutation at the autophosphorylation sites on gene expression, using 4.6 K cDNA microarrays. Complementary DNA from HC11, HC11-CSF1R-721 and HC11-CSF1R-807 were each hybridized together with HC11-CSF1R on individual arrays. A principal component spectral method combined with prenormalization procedures was used for sample clustering. Differentially expressed genes were identified by the analysis of variance. Confirmation by Northern blotting was performed for MAP kinase phosphatase-1, WDNM1 (extracellular proteinase inhibitor), Trop 2 (tumor-associated calcium signal transducer-2), procollagen type IV alpha, secretory leukoprotease inhibitor, prenylated snare protein Ykt6, ceruloplasmin and chaperonin 10. Many of these genes have not previously been associated with tumor invasion and metastasis. We have successfully identified genes that can be linked to the invasive phenotypes or to tumorigenesis. These genes provide a basis for further studies of metastatic progression and local invasiveness, and can be evaluated as therapeutic targets.
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- Harriet M Kluger
- Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Takeuchi K, Ito F. Suppression of adriamycin-induced apoptosis by sustained activation of the phosphatidylinositol-3'-OH kinase-Akt pathway. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:892-900. [PMID: 14570904 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m306615200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The mechanisms by which growth factors trigger signal transduction pathways leading to protection against apoptosis are of great interest. In this study, we investigated the effect of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF/SF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) on adriamycin (ADR)-induced apoptosis. Treatment of human epithelial MKN74 cells with ADR, a DNA topoisomerase IIalpha inhibitor, caused apoptosis. However, cells pretreated with HGF/SF, but not those pretreated with EGF, were resistant to this apoptosis. The protective effect of HGF/SF against the ADR-induced apoptosis was abolished in the presence of either LY294002, an inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol-3'-OH kinase (PI3-K) or 1L-6-hydroxymethyl-chiro-inositol 2-(R)-2-O-methyl-3-O-octadecylcarbonate, an inhibitor of Akt, thus implicating the activation of PI3-K-Akt signaling in the antiapoptotic action of HGF/SF. Immunoblotting analysis revealed that HGF/SF stimulated the sustained phosphorylation of Akt for several hours but that EGF stimulated the phosphorylation only transiently. Furthermore, ADR-induced activation of caspase-9, a downstream molecule of Akt, was inhibited for at least 24 h after HGF/SF stimulation, but it was not affected by EGF stimulation. Cell-surface biotin-labeling analysis showed that the HGF/SF receptor remained on the cell surface until at least 30 min after HGF/SF addition but that the EGF receptor level on the cell surface was attenuated at an earlier time after EGF addition. These results indicate that HGF/SF, but not EGF, transmitted protective signals against ADR-induced apoptosis by causing sustained activation of the PI3-K-Akt signaling pathway. Furthermore, the difference in antiapoptotic capacity between HGF/SF and EGF is explained, at least in part, by the delayed down-regulation of the HGF/SF receptor.
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- Kenji Takeuchi
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Setsunan University, Hirakata, Osaka 573-0101, Japan
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Debnath J, Muthuswamy SK, Brugge JS. Morphogenesis and oncogenesis of MCF-10A mammary epithelial acini grown in three-dimensional basement membrane cultures. Methods 2003; 30:256-68. [PMID: 12798140 DOI: 10.1016/s1046-2023(03)00032-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1569] [Impact Index Per Article: 74.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The three-dimensional culture of MCF-10A mammary epithelial cells on a reconstituted basement membrane results in formation of polarized, growth-arrested acini-like spheroids that recapitulate several aspects of glandular architecture in vivo. Oncogenes introduced into MCF-10A cells disrupt this morphogenetic process, and elicit distinct morphological phenotypes. Recent studies analyzing the mechanistic basis for phenotypic heterogeneity observed among different oncogenes (e.g., ErbB2, cyclin D1) have illustrated the utility of this three-dimensional culture system in modeling the biological activities of cancer genes, particularly with regard to their ability to disrupt epithelial architecture during the early aspects of carcinoma formation. Here we provide a collection of protocols to culture MCF-10A cells, to establish stable pools expressing a gene of interest via retroviral infection, as well as to grow and analyze MCF-10A cells in three-dimensional basement membrane culture.
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- Jayanta Debnath
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Hurbin A, Dubrez L, Coll JL, Favrot MC. Inhibition of apoptosis by amphiregulin via an insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor-dependent pathway in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:49127-33. [PMID: 12356750 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m207584200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Several abnormalities in the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1) and erbB receptors pathways stimulate the growth and survival of lung cancer cells, but their mechanisms of action and cooperation are poorly understood. In this report, we have identified a new mechanism of apoptosis inhibition by amphiregulin through an IGF1-dependent survival pathway in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells: amphiregulin activates the IGF1 receptor that in turn induces the secretion of amphiregulin and IGF1. In the absence of serum, the NSCLC cell line H358 resists apoptosis and secretes factors protecting the NSCLC cell line H322 from serum deprivation apoptosis. IGF1 receptor inhibitor AG1024 as well as epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors AG556 and ZD1839 restore apoptosis in H322 cells cultured in H358-conditioned medium. Accordingly, the anti-apoptotic activity of H358-conditioned medium is completely abolished after incubation with anti-amphiregulin neutralizing antibody and only partially with anti-IGF1 neutralizing antibody. H358-conditioned medium and amphiregulin induce IGF1 receptor phosphorylation in H322 cells, which is prevented by anti-amphiregulin neutralizing antibody but not by AG556 or ZD1839. H358 cells secrete a high level of amphiregulin that, in combination with IGF1, prevents serum deprivation apoptosis. Finally, IGF1 receptor inhibitor blocks amphiregulin and IGF1 release by H358 cells.
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- Amandine Hurbin
- Groupe de Recherche sur le Cancer du Poumon, INSERM-EMI 9924, Institut Albert Bonniot, La Tronche 38706 Cedex, France
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Hadsell DL, Abdel-Fattah G. Regulation of cell apoptosis by insulin-like growth factor I. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2002; 501:79-85. [PMID: 11787734 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1371-1_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Correct temporal and spatial regulation of apoptosis is critical for normal mammary gland development and lactation. Previous work with a strain of transgenic mice that overexpress des(1-3)hIGF-I during pregnancy and lactation suggested that this growth factor inhibits apoptosis. The hypothesis tested within these studies is that overexpression of des(1-3)hIGF-I within the mammary gland inhibits apoptosis and the expression of apoptosis-associated genes that are known to be activated by the transcription factor AP-1. This inhibition of apoptosis was further posited to predispose the tissue to carcinogenesis. TUNEL analysis of mammary tissue from transgenic mice that overexpress des(1-3)hIGF-I under control of the rat whey acidic protein promoter showed only 25% (P < 0.05) of the number of apoptotic cells found in nontransgenic mice at the same stage of lactation. Northern analysis of RNA from these animals showed a 75% (P = 0.08) reduction in c-Jun mRNA abundance. Histological analysis of mammary tissue from nonlactating multiparous WAP-DES mice ranging in age from 13 to 25 months showed a variety of hyperplastic lesions. These lesions aberrantly expressed the transgene. At 23 months of age 50% of the transgenic mice within this study developed adenocarcinomas. These results support the conclusion that inhibition of apoptosis within the mammary gland by IGF-I involves decreased activity of AP-1 and predisposes the tissue to tumors.
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- D L Hadsell
- USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Miranti CK, Brugge JS. Sensing the environment: a historical perspective on integrin signal transduction. Nat Cell Biol 2002; 4:E83-90. [PMID: 11944041 DOI: 10.1038/ncb0402-e83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 599] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Cell adhesion mediated by integrin receptors has a critical function in organizing cells in tissues and in guiding haematopoietic cells to their sites of action. However, integrin adhesion receptors have broader functions in regulating cell behaviour through their ability to transduce bi-directional signals into and out of the cell and to engage in reciprocal interactions with other cellular receptors. This historical perspective traces the key findings that have led to our current understanding of these important functions of integrins.
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Iida KT, Suzuki H, Sone H, Shimano H, Toyoshima H, Yatoh S, Asano T, Okuda Y, Yamada N. Insulin inhibits apoptosis of macrophage cell line, THP-1 cells, via phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-dependent pathway. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2002; 22:380-6. [PMID: 11884278 DOI: 10.1161/hq0302.105272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Hyperinsulinemia has recently been reported as a risk factor for atherosclerotic diseases such as coronary heart disease; however, its precise mechanism is not well understood. To elucidate the role of insulin in the development of atherogenesis, we have investigated the effect of insulin on cell survival in macrophages, which are known to be important in the atherosclerotic process. Apoptosis was induced in macrophage cell lines derived from human monocytes or murine macrophages by serum starvation. Insulin administration retarded macrophage apoptosis by means of DNA laddering, dimethylthiazol diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay, and annexin V binding assay. Insulin also enhanced mRNA expression and protein production of the antiapoptotic Bcl-XL gene in a dose-dependent manner within the range of physiological concentrations. In the exploration of the signaling pathway involved in these antiapoptotic effects of insulin, pretreatment of cells with a specific inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase significantly suppressed insulin-mediated cell survival and insulin-induced Bcl-XL expression in macrophages. These data indicate that the survival effect of insulin on the apoptosis of macrophages is associated with the upregulation of Bcl-XL expression, and it may be mediated through the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase signaling pathway. These mechanisms could be involved in the possible role of insulin in the development of atherosclerosis.
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- Kaoruko Tada Iida
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Study of the mechanism(s) of genomic instability induced by the c-myc proto-oncogene has the potential to shed new light on its well-known oncogenic activity. However, an underlying mechanism(s) for this phenotype is largely unknown. In the present study, we investigated the effects of c-Myc overexpression on the DNA damage-induced G(1)/S checkpoint, in order to obtain mechanistic insights into how deregulated c-Myc destabilizes the cellular genome. The DNA damage-induced checkpoints are among the primary safeguard mechanisms for genomic stability, and alterations of cell cycle checkpoints are known to be crucial for certain types of genomic instability, such as gene amplification. The effects of c-Myc overexpression were studied in human mammary epithelial cells (HMEC) as one approach to understanding the c-Myc-induced genomic instability in the context of mammary tumorigenesis. Initially, flow-cytometric analyses were used with two c-Myc-overexpressing, nontransformed immortal lines (184A1N4 and MCF10A) to determine whether c-Myc overexpression leads to alteration of cell cycle arrest following ionizing radiation (IR). Inappropriate entry into S phase was then confirmed with a bromodeoxyuridine incorporation assay measuring de novo DNA synthesis following IR. Direct involvement of c-Myc overexpression in alteration of the G(1)/S checkpoint was then confirmed by utilizing the MycER construct, a regulatable c-Myc. A transient excess of c-Myc activity, provided by the activated MycER, was similarly able to induce the inappropriate de novo DNA synthesis following IR. Significantly, the transient expression of full-length c-Myc in normal mortal HMECs also facilitated entry into S phase and the inappropriate de novo DNA synthesis following IR. Furthermore, irradiated, c-Myc-infected, normal HMECs developed a sub-G(1) population and a >4N population of cells. The c-Myc-induced alteration of the G(1)/S checkpoint was also compared to the effects of expression of MycS (N-terminally truncated c-Myc) and p53DD (a dominant negative p53) in the HMECs. We observed inappropriate hyperphosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein and then the reappearance of cyclin A, following IR, selectively in full-length c-Myc- and p53DD-overexpressing MCF10A cells. Based on these results, we propose that c-Myc attenuates a safeguard mechanism for genomic stability; this property may contribute to c-Myc-induced genomic instability and to the potent oncogenic activity of c-Myc.
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- Joon-Ho Sheen
- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3970 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, D.C. 20007
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Normanno N, Campiglio M, De LA, Somenzi G, Maiello M, Ciardiello F, Gianni L, Salomon DS, Menard S. Cooperative inhibitory effect of ZD1839 (Iressa) in combination with trastuzumab (Herceptin) on human breast cancer cell growth. Ann Oncol 2002; 13:65-72. [PMID: 11863114 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdf020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Co-expression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and of ErbB-2 is found in a subset of primary human breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The antiproliferative effects of anti-EGFR and anti-ErbB-2 agents were evaluated using a monolayer assay. The effects of these agents on the activation of EGFR, ErbB-2, AKT and p42/p44 MAP kinases (MAPK) were investigated by western blot analysis. RESULTS We found that both ZD1839 (Iressa), a specific EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and trastuzumab (Herceptin) (TRA), a humanized anti-ErbB-2 monoclonal antibody, were able to inhibit the growth of SK-Br-3 and BT-474 breast carcinoma cells, which express both EGFR and ErbB-2. Treatment of breast carcinoma cells with a combination of ZD1839 and TRA resulted in a synergistic inhibitory effect. Treatment of SK-Br-3 cells with ZD1839 produced a significant, dose-dependent reduction of the tyrosine phosphorylation of both EGFR and ErbB-2. Phosphorylation of MAPK and AKT were significantly reduced in SK-Br-3 cells following treatment with ZD1839, whereas treatment with TRA produced a reduction of AKT but not MAPK phosphorylation. Finally, treatment with ZD1839, but not with TRA, produced a significant increase in fragmented DNA in breast carcinoma cells. However, a more pronounced increase in the levels of fragmented DNA was observed following combined treatment with ZD1839 and TRA. CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that combined treatment with drugs that target EGFR and ErbB-2 might result in an efficient inhibition of tumor growth in those breast carcinoma patients whose tumors co-express both receptors.
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- N Normanno
- Oncologia Sperimentale D, Istituto Tumori Milano, Milan, Italy.
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