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Lupinacci S, Perri A, Toteda G, Vizza D, Lofaro D, Pontrelli P, Stallone G, Divella C, Tessari G, La Russa A, Zaza G, Bonofiglio R. Rapamycin promotes autophagy cell death of Kaposi's sarcoma cells through P75NTR activation. Exp Dermatol 2021; 31:143-153. [PMID: 34331820 DOI: 10.1111/exd.14438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2021] [Revised: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
The mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitor (mTOR-I) Rapamycin, a drug widely used in kidney transplantation, exerts important anti-cancer effects, particularly in Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS), through several biological interactions. In this in vivo and in vitro study, we explored whether the activation of the autophagic pathway through the low-affinity receptor for nerve growth factor, p75NTR , may have a pivotal role in the anti-cancer effect exerted by Rapamycin in S. Our Kimmunohistochemistry results revealed a significant hyper-activation of the autophagic pathway in KS lesions. In vitro experiments on KS cell lines showed that Rapamycin exposure reduced cell viability by increasing the autophagic process, in the absence of apoptosis, through the transcriptional activation of p75NTR via EGR1. Interestingly, p75NTR gene silencing prevented the increase of the autophagic process and the reduction of cell viability. Moreover, p75NTR activation promoted the upregulation of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), a tumour suppressor that modulates the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway. In conclusion, our in vitro data demonstrated, for the first time, that in Kaposi's sarcoma, autophagy triggered by Rapamycin through p75NTR represented a major mechanism by which mTOR inhibitors may induce tumour regression. Additionally, it suggested that p75NTR protein analysis could be proposed as a new potential biomarker to predict response to Rapamycin in kidney transplant recipients affected by Kaposi's sarcoma.
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- Simona Lupinacci
- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, "Kidney and Transplantation" Research Centre, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, "Kidney and Transplantation" Research Centre, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, "Kidney and Transplantation" Research Centre, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, "Kidney and Transplantation" Research Centre, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, "Kidney and Transplantation" Research Centre, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy
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- Nephrology Unit, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
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- Nephrology Unit, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Section of Dermatology and Venereology, University-Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, "Kidney and Transplantation" Research Centre, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy
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- Renal Unit, Department of Medicine, University-Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, "Kidney and Transplantation" Research Centre, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy
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Tripodi AAP, Ranđelović I, Biri-Kovács B, Szeder B, Mező G, Tóvári J. In Vivo Tumor Growth Inhibition and Antiangiogenic Effect of Cyclic NGR Peptide-Daunorubicin Conjugates Developed for Targeted Drug Delivery. Pathol Oncol Res 2019; 26:1879-1892. [PMID: 31820302 PMCID: PMC7297862 DOI: 10.1007/s12253-019-00773-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Among various homing devices, peptides containing the NGR tripeptide sequence represent a promising approach to selectively recognize CD13 receptor isoforms on the surface of tumor cells. They have been successfully used for the delivery of various chemotherapeutic drugs to tumor vessels. Here, we report on the murine plasma stability, in vitro and in vivo antitumor activity of our recently described bioconjugates containing daunorubicin as payload. Furthermore, CD13 expression of KS Kaposi’s Sarcoma cell line and HT-29 human colon carcinoma cell line was investigated. Flow cytometry studies confirm the fast cellular uptake resulting in the rapid delivery of the active metabolite Dau = Aoa-Gly-OH to tumor cells. The increased in vitro antitumor effect might be explained by the faster rearrangement from NGR to isoDGR in case of conjugate 2 (Dau = Aoa-GFLGK(c[NleNGRE]-GG)-NH2) in comparison with conjugate 1 (Dau = Aoa-GFLGK(c[KNGRE]-GG)-NH2). Nevertheless, results indicated that both conjugates showed significant effect on inhibition of proliferation in the primary tumor and also on blood vessel formation making them a potential candidate for targeting angiogenesis processes in tumors where CD13 and integrins are involved.
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- Andrea Angelo Pierluigi Tripodi
- MTA-ELTE Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.,Faculty of Science, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Experimental Pharmacology, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.,Faculty of Science, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Research Group of Peptide Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.,Faculty of Science, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Experimental Pharmacology, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary.
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Tumor-induced angiogenesis is a key event for neoplastic progression. In vitro assays are important for identification of potential angiogenic agents and rapid sceening for pharmacological inhibitors. The increased interest in this field of study has generated several in vitro assays that recapitulate the steps of endothelial cell activation and differentiation. In this short report we emphasize the utility of Matrigel, a reconstituted basement membrane, to define two different steps in the angiogenic process: invasion in response to growth factors and organization of microvessels into a network with branching morphology on a Matrigel substrate.
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- R Benelli
- Molecular Oncology Service, Advanced Biotechnologies Center, Genova, Italy
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Pfeffer U, Ferrari N, Morini M, Benelli R, Noonan DM, Albini A. Antiangiogenic Activity of Chemopreventive Drugs. Int J Biol Markers 2018; 18:70-4. [PMID: 12699068 DOI: 10.1177/172460080301800113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Tumors growing within the host form dynamic aberrant tissue that consists of host components, including the stroma, an expanding vasculature and often chronic inflammation, in addition to the tumor cells themselves. These host components can contribute to, rather than limit, tumor expansion, whereas deprivation of vessel formation has the potential to confine tumors in small, clinically silent foci. Therapeutic inhibition of vessel formation could be best suited to preventive strategies aimed at the suppression of angiogenesis in primary tumors in subjects at risk, or of micrometastases after surgical removal of a primary tumor. Our analysis of potential cancer chemopreventive molecules including N-acetylcysteine, green tea flavonoids and 4-hydroxyphenyl-retinamide has identified antiangiogenic activities that could account -at least in part - for the tumor prevention effects observed with these compounds. These drugs appear to target common mechanisms of tumor angiogenesis that may permit identification of critical targets for antiangiogenic therapy and antiangiogenic chemoprevention.
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- U Pfeffer
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy.
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Dinsart C, Pervolaraki K, Stroh-Dege A, Lavie M, Ronsse I, Rommelaere J, Van Damme J, Van Raemdonck K, Struyf S. Recombinant Parvoviruses Armed to Deliver CXCL4L1 and CXCL10 Are Impaired in Their Antiangiogenic and Antitumoral Effects in a Kaposi Sarcoma Tumor Model Due To the Chemokines' Interference with the Virus Cycle. Hum Gene Ther 2016; 28:295-306. [PMID: 28042949 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2016.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Application of oncolytic viruses is a valuable option to broaden the armament of anticancer therapies, as these combine specific cytotoxic effects and immune-stimulating properties. The self-replicating H-1 parvovirus (H-1PV) is a prototypical oncolytic virus that, besides targeting tumor cells, also infects endothelial cells, thus combining oncolytic and angiostatic traits. To increase its therapeutic value, H-1PV can be armed with cytokines or chemokines to enhance the immunological response. Some chemokines-more specifically, the CXCR3 ligands CXCL4L1 and CXCL10-combine immune-stimulating properties with angiostatic activity. This study explores the therapeutic value of recombinant parvoviruses carrying CXCL4L1 or CXCL10 transgenes (Chi-H1/CXCL4L1 or Chi-H1/CXCL10, respectively) to inhibit the growth of the human Kaposi sarcoma cell line KS-IMM. KS-IMM cells infected by Chi-H1/CXCL4L1 or Chi-H1/CXCL10 released the corresponding chemokine and showed reduced migratory capacity. Therefore, the antitumoral capacity of Chi-H1/CXCL4L1 or Chi-H1/CXCL10 was tested in mice. Either in vitro infected KS-IMM cells were injected or subcutaneously growing KS-IMM xenografts were treated by peritumoral injections of the different viruses. Surprisingly, the transgenes did not increase the antitumoral effect of natural H-1PV. Further experiments indicated that CXCL4L1 and CXCL10 interfered with the expression of the viral NS1 protein in KS-IMM cells. These results indicate that the outcome of parvovirus-based delivery of CXCR3 ligands might be tumor cell type dependent, and hence its application must be considered carefully.
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- Christiane Dinsart
- 1 Division of Tumor Virology, German Cancer Research Center , Heidelberg, Germany
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- 1 Division of Tumor Virology, German Cancer Research Center , Heidelberg, Germany.,2 Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research , Leuven, Belgium
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- 1 Division of Tumor Virology, German Cancer Research Center , Heidelberg, Germany
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- 1 Division of Tumor Virology, German Cancer Research Center , Heidelberg, Germany
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- 2 Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research , Leuven, Belgium
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- 1 Division of Tumor Virology, German Cancer Research Center , Heidelberg, Germany
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- 2 Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research , Leuven, Belgium
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- 2 Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research , Leuven, Belgium
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- 2 Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research , Leuven, Belgium
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Savino B, Caronni N, Anselmo A, Pasqualini F, Borroni EM, Basso G, Celesti G, Laghi L, Tourlaki A, Boneschi V, Brambilla L, Nebuloni M, Vago G, Mantovani A, Locati M, Bonecchi R. ERK-dependent downregulation of the atypical chemokine receptor D6 drives tumor aggressiveness in Kaposi sarcoma. Cancer Immunol Res 2014; 2:679-89. [PMID: 24844911 DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-13-0202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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D6 is an atypical chemokine receptor acting as a decoy and scavenger for inflammatory CC chemokines expressed in lymphatic endothelial cells. Here, we report that D6 is expressed in Kaposi sarcoma (KS), a tumor ontogenetically related to the lymphatic endothelium. Both in human tumors and in an experimental model, D6 expression levels were inversely correlated with tumor aggressiveness and increased infiltration of proangiogenic macrophages. Inhibition of monocyte recruitment reduced the growth of tumors, while adoptive transfer of wild-type, but not CCR2(-/-) macrophages, increased the growth rate of D6-competent neoplasms. In the KS model with the B-Raf V600E-activating mutation, inhibition of B-Raf or the downstream ERK pathway induced D6 expression; in progressing human KS tumors, the activation of ERK correlates with reduced levels of D6 expression. These results indicate that activation of the K-Ras-B-Raf-ERK pathway during KS progression downregulates D6 expression, which unleashes chemokine-mediated macrophage recruitment and their acquisition of an M2-like phenotype supporting angiogenesis and tumor growth. Combined targeting of CCR2 and the ERK pathway should be considered as a therapeutic option for patients with KS.
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- Benedetta Savino
- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center; Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center; Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center; Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center
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- UO Dermatologia, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
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- UO Dermatologia, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
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- UO Dermatologia, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences "Luigi Sacco," Università degli Studi di Milano; and
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- Department of Clinical Sciences "Luigi Sacco," Università degli Studi di Milano; and
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center; Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center; Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano
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- Authors' Affiliations: Humanitas Clinical and Research Center; Department of Medical Biotechnologies and Translational Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Rozzano;
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Wen VW, MacKenzie KL. Modeling human endothelial cell transformation in vascular neoplasias. Dis Model Mech 2014; 6:1066-79. [PMID: 24046386 PMCID: PMC3759327 DOI: 10.1242/dmm.012674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Endothelial cell (EC)-derived neoplasias range from benign hemangioma to aggressive metastatic angiosarcoma, which responds poorly to current treatments and has a very high mortality rate. The development of treatments that are more effective for these disorders will be expedited by insight into the processes that promote abnormal proliferation and malignant transformation of human ECs. The study of primary endothelial malignancy has been limited by the rarity of the disease; however, there is potential for carefully characterized EC lines and animal models to play a central role in the discovery, development and testing of molecular targeted therapies for vascular neoplasias. This review describes molecular alterations that have been identified in EC-derived neoplasias, as well as the processes that underpin the immortalization and tumorigenic conversion of ECs. Human EC lines, established through the introduction of defined genetic elements or by culture of primary tumor tissue, are catalogued and discussed in relation to their relevance as models of vascular neoplasia.
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- Victoria W Wen
- Cancer Cell Development Group, Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia
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Lavie M, Struyf S, Stroh-Dege A, Rommelaere J, Van Damme J, Dinsart C. Capacity of wild-type and chemokine-armed parvovirus H-1PV for inhibiting neo-angiogenesis. Virology 2013; 447:221-32. [PMID: 24210118 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2013] [Revised: 07/30/2013] [Accepted: 09/20/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Anti-angiogenic therapy has been recognized as a powerful potential strategy for impeding the growth of various tumors. However no major therapeutic effects have been observed to date, mainly because of the emergence of several resistance mechanisms. Among novel strategies to target tumor vasculature, some oncolytic viruses open up new prospects. In this context, we addressed the question whether the rodent parvovirus H-1PV can target endothelial cells. We show that cultures of human normal (HUVEC) and immortalized (KS-IMM) endothelial cells sustain an abortive viral cycle upon infection with H-1PV and are sensitive to H-1PV cytotoxicity. H-1PV significantly inhibits infected KS-IMM tumor growth. This effect may be traced back by the virus ability to both kill proliferating endothelial cells and inhibit VEGF production Recombinant H-1PV vectors can also transduce tumor cells with chemokines endowed with anti-angiogenesis properties, and warrant further validation for the treatment of highly vascularized tumors.
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- Muriel Lavie
- Tumor Virology Division, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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Roy D, Sin SH, Lucas A, Venkataramanan R, Wang L, Eason A, Chavakula V, Hilton IB, Tamburro KM, Damania B, Dittmer DP. mTOR inhibitors block Kaposi sarcoma growth by inhibiting essential autocrine growth factors and tumor angiogenesis. Cancer Res 2013; 73:2235-46. [PMID: 23382046 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-12-1851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Kaposi sarcoma originates from endothelial cells and it is one of the most overt angiogenic tumors. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV and the Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) are endemic, Kaposi sarcoma is the most common cancer overall, but model systems for disease study are insufficient. Here, we report the development of a novel mouse model of Kaposi sarcoma, where KSHV is retained stably and tumors are elicited rapidly. Tumor growth was sensitive to specific allosteric inhibitors (rapamycin, CCI-779, and RAD001) of the pivotal cell growth regulator mTOR. Inhibition of tumor growth was durable up to 130 days and reversible. mTOR blockade reduced VEGF secretion and formation of tumor vasculature. Together, the results show that mTOR inhibitors exert a direct anti-Kaposi sarcoma effect by inhibiting angiogenesis and paracrine effectors, suggesting their application as a new treatment modality for Kaposi sarcoma and other cancers of endothelial origin.
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- Debasmita Roy
- Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Brunet-Possenti F, Pages C, Rouzier R, Dupin N, Bagot M, Lebbé C. Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pregnancy: Case Report and Literature Review. Dermatology 2013; 226:311-4. [DOI: 10.1159/000349987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 02/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Stürzl M, Gaus D, Dirks WG, Ganem D, Jochmann R. Kaposi's sarcoma-derived cell line SLK is not of endothelial origin, but is a contaminant from a known renal carcinoma cell line. Int J Cancer 2012; 132:1954-8. [PMID: 22987579 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2012] [Accepted: 09/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an endothelial cell-derived tumor. Investigations of the molecular mechanisms of KS pathogenesis and the identification of drugs for treatment of KS depend critically on valid cell-culture models. Two major immortalized cell lines are available for KS research. Recently, the KS cell line KS Y-1 has been shown to be cross-contaminated with the T24 urinary bladder cancer cell line (ATCC HTB-4). Here, we show by short tandem repeat profiling that the second KS cell line, SLK, is indistinguishable from the clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma cell line Caki-1. Immunocytochemical detection of cytokeratin expression confirmed the epithelial-cell origin of SLK cells. Our findings indicate that SLK cells are not of endothelial origin and should not be used in future studies as a model for KS-derived endothelial tumor cells. We suggest that in the future, more attention needs to be paid to the authenticity of cells in lines derived from human tissues.
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- Michael Stürzl
- Division of Molecular and Experimental Surgery, Clinical Center Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
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Hahn AS, Kaufmann JK, Wies E, Naschberger E, Panteleev-Ivlev J, Schmidt K, Holzer A, Schmidt M, Chen J, König S, Ensser A, Myoung J, Brockmeyer NH, Stürzl M, Fleckenstein B, Neipel F. The ephrin receptor tyrosine kinase A2 is a cellular receptor for Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus. Nat Med 2012; 18:961-6. [PMID: 22635007 DOI: 10.1038/nm.2805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2011] [Accepted: 04/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is the causative agent of Kaposi's sarcoma(1), a highly vascularized tumor originating from lymphatic endothelial cells, and of at least two different B cell malignancies(2,3). A dimeric complex formed by the envelope glycoproteins H and L (gH-gL) is required for entry of herpesviruses into host cells(4). We show that the ephrin receptor tyrosine kinase A2 (EphA2) is a cellular receptor for KSHV gH-gL. EphA2 co-precipitated with both gH-gL and KSHV virions. Infection of human epithelial cells with a GFP-expressing recombinant KSHV strain, as measured by FACS analysis, was increased upon overexpression of EphA2. Antibodies against EphA(2) and siRNAs directed against EphA2 inhibited infection of endothelial cells. Pretreatment of KSHV with soluble EphA2 resulted in inhibition of KSHV infection by up to 90%. This marked reduction of KSHV infection was seen with all the different epithelial and endothelial cells used in this study. Similarly, pretreating epithelial or endothelial cells with the soluble EphA2 ligand ephrinA4 impaired KSHV infection. Deletion of the gene encoding EphA2 essentially abolished KSHV infection of mouse endothelial cells. Binding of gH-gL to EphA2 triggered EphA2 phosphorylation and endocytosis, a major pathway of KSHV entry(5,6). Quantitative RT-PCR and in situ histochemistry revealed a close correlation between KSHV infection and EphA2 expression both in cultured cells derived from human Kaposi's sarcoma lesions or unaffected human lymphatic endothelium, and in situ in Kaposi's sarcoma specimens, respectively. Taken together, our results identify EphA2, a tyrosine kinase with known functions in neovascularization and oncogenesis, as an entry receptor for KSHV.
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- Alexander S Hahn
- Virologisches Institut, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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Roy D, Dittmer DP. Phosphatase and tensin homolog on chromosome 10 is phosphorylated in primary effusion lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2011; 179:2108-19. [PMID: 21819957 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2010] [Revised: 06/18/2011] [Accepted: 06/28/2011] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is a non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma driven by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. It is uniquely sensitive to mTOR, PI3K, and Akt inhibitors; however, the basis of this requirement for the mTOR pathway remains to be elucidated. The phosphatase and tensin homolog gene (PTEN) on chromosome 10 controls the first step in the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K)-Akt-mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway and is genetically inactivated in many solid tumors. We find an absence of PTEN deletions, mutations, or protein mislocalization in PEL. However, we find consistent hyperphosphorylation at serine 380 of PTEN, which is an inactivating modification, in PEL cell lines and in tumor xenografts. We also evaluated a large tissue microarray of Kaposi's sarcoma biopsies and observed concordant high levels of phospho-PTEN, phospho-Akt, and phospho-S6 ribosomal protein. Reintroduction of PTEN into PEL inhibited colony formation in soft agar, verifying the functional dependence of PEL on PI3K signaling. This was also true for PEL cell lines that carried mutant p53 and for KS-like cell lines. Activating PTEN in these cancers may yield a new treatment strategy for PEL, KS, and similar PTEN wild-type lymphomas.
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- Debasmita Roy
- Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for AIDS Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7290, USA
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Cantelmo AR, Cammarota R, Noonan DM, Focaccetti C, Comoglio PM, Prat M, Albini A. Cell delivery of Met docking site peptides inhibit angiogenesis and vascular tumor growth. Oncogene 2010; 29:5286-98. [PMID: 20603611 PMCID: PMC3007100 DOI: 10.1038/onc.2010.267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and its receptor Met are responsible for a wide variety of cellular responses, both physiologically during embryo development and tissue homeostasis, and pathologically, particularly during tumor growth and dissemination. In cancer, Met can act as an oncogene on tumor cells, as well as a pro-angiogenic factor activating endothelial cells and inducing new vessel formation. Molecules interfering with Met activity could be valuable therapeutic agents. Here we have investigated the antiangiogenic properties of a synthetic peptide mimicking the docking site of the Met carboxyl-terminal tail, which was delivered into the cells by fusion with the internalization sequences from Antennapedia or HIV-Tat. We showed that these peptides inhibit ligand-dependent endothelial cell proliferation, motility, invasiveness and morphogenesis in vitro to an even greater extent and with much less toxicity than the Met inhibitor PHA-665752, which correlated with interference of HGF-dependent downstream signaling. In vivo, the peptides inhibited HGF-induced angiogenesis in the matrigel sponge assay and impaired xenograft tumor growth and vascularization in Kaposi's sarcoma. These data show that interference with the Met receptor intracellular sequence impairs HGF-induced angiogenesis, suggesting the use of antidocking site compounds as a therapeutic strategy to counteract angiogenesis in cancer as well as in other diseases.
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- A R Cantelmo
- Oncology Research, Science and Technology Pole, Casa di Cura MultiMedica-IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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Induction, regulation, and biologic function of Axl receptor tyrosine kinase in Kaposi sarcoma. Blood 2010; 116:297-305. [PMID: 20442363 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-12-257154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Axl is an oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinase that plays multiple roles in tumorigenesis and metastasis of many cancers. This study is the first to demonstrate that Axl is induced in Kaposi sarcoma and Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) transformed endothelial cells. Conditionally, expression of one KSHV latency protein vFLIP induces Axl expression in endothelial cells. This induction can be blocked by nuclear factor-kappaB inhibitor, consistent with the known vFLIP mechanism of action. KS cell lines lacking KSHV also have elevated Axl expression, which probably resulted from hypomethylation of AXL promoter. Axl activation activates downstream phosphoinositol-3 kinase signaling, and Axl knockdown by siRNA impairs phosphoinositol-3 kinase signaling. Furthermore, Axl knockdown inhibits KS cell growth and invasion. To explore the potential for translation of these findings, we generated monoclonal antibodies to block the biologic functions of Axl. MAb173, which induces receptor degradation, showed activity in vitro to inhibit KS cell invasion. Moreover, in vivo xenograft studies with KS cells with or without KSHV infection showed that MAb173 reduced tumor growth, increased tumor cell apoptosis, and markedly decreased Axl protein level in tumors. Axl thus has a potential role in KS pathogenesis and is a candidate for prognostic and therapeutic investigations.
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Albini A, Indraccolo S, Noonan DM, Pfeffer U. Functional genomics of endothelial cells treated with anti-angiogenic or angiopreventive drugs. Clin Exp Metastasis 2010; 27:419-39. [PMID: 20383568 DOI: 10.1007/s10585-010-9312-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2009] [Accepted: 02/16/2010] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Angiogenesis is a highly regulated physiological process that has been studied in considerable detail given its importance in several chronic pathologies. Many endogenous factors and hormones intervene in the regulation of angiogensis and classical as well as targeted drugs have been developed for its control. Angiogenesis inhibition has come off the bench and entered into clinical application for cancer therapy, particularly for metastatic disease. While the clinical benefit is currently in terms of months, preclinical data suggest that novel drugs and drug combinations could lead to substantial improvement. The many targets of endogenous angiogenesis inhibitors reflect the complexity of the process; in contrast, current clinical therapies mainly target the vascular endothelial growth factor system. Cancer chemopreventive compounds can retard tumor insurgence and delay or prevent metastasis and many of these molecules hinder angiogenesis, a mechanism that we termed angioprevention. Angiopreventive drugs appear to prevalently act through the inhibition of the pro-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic player NFkappaB, thus contrasting inflammation dependent angiogenesis. Relatively little is known concerning the effects of these angiogenesis inhibitors on gene expression of endothelial cells, the main target of many of these molecules. Here we provide an exhaustive list of anti-angiogenic molecules, and summarize their effects, where known, on the transcriptome and functional genomics of endothelial cells. The regulation of specific genes can be crucial to preventive or therapeutic intervention. Further, novel targets might help to circumvent resistance to anti-angiogenic therapy. The studies we review are relevant not only to cancer but also to other chronic degenerative diseases involving endothelial cells, such as cardiovascular disorders, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and retinopaties, as well as vessel aging.
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- Adriana Albini
- MultiMedica Castellanza (VA) and Oncology Research, IRCCS MultiMedica, 20138 Milan, Italy.
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Grange C, Geninatti-Crich S, Esposito G, Alberti D, Tei L, Bussolati B, Aime S, Camussi G. Combined delivery and magnetic resonance imaging of neural cell adhesion molecule-targeted doxorubicin-containing liposomes in experimentally induced Kaposi's sarcoma. Cancer Res 2010; 70:2180-90. [PMID: 20215497 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-09-2821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Specific targeting of tumors by combined delivery of drugs and of imaging agents represents an attractive strategy for treatment of cancer. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM)-targeted liposomes may enhance drug delivery and allow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a severe combined immunodeficient mouse model of NCAM-positive Kaposi's sarcoma. NCAM-binding peptide-coated liposomes loaded with both doxorubicin and a lipophilic gadolinium (Gd) derivative were generated. NCAM-targeted liposomes induced an enhanced in vitro doxorubicin internalization within Kaposi's cells as detected by MRI with respect to untargeted polyethylene glycol liposomes. Internalization resulted in enhanced apoptosis. In vivo weekly administration of NCAM-targeted liposomes containing 5 mg/kg doxorubicin for 4 consecutive weeks induced a significant reduction of tumor mass and vascularization and enhanced cell necrosis and apoptosis with respect to untargeted liposomes. These effects were associated with an enhanced concentration of doxorubicin within the tumor and a reduced systemic toxicity of doxorubicin. By electron microscopy, NCAM-targeted liposomes were detected mainly within tumor cells whereas the untargeted liposomes were mainly accumulated in the extracellular space. Gd-labeled liposomes allowed the MRI visualization of drug delivery in the tumor region. The intensity of MRI signal was partially hampered by the "quenching" of the attainable relaxation enhancement on endosomal entrapment of the Gd-labeled liposomes. In conclusion, targeting NCAM may be a suitable strategy for specific drug delivery and imaging by liposomes in NCAM-expressing tumors. Moreover, treatment with NCAM-targeted liposomes showed enhanced therapeutic effect and reduced toxicity with respect to untargeted liposomes.
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- Cristina Grange
- Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Imaging, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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KSHV-induced notch components render endothelial and mural cell characteristics and cell survival. Blood 2009; 115:887-95. [PMID: 19965636 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-08-236745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) infection is essential to the development of Kaposi sarcoma (KS). Notch signaling is also known to play a pivotal role in KS cell survival and lytic phase entrance of KSHV. In the current study, we sought to determine whether KSHV regulates Notch components. KSHV-infected lymphatic endothelial cells showed induction of receptors Notch3 and Notch4, Notch ligands Dll4 and Jagged1, and activated Notch receptors in contrast to uninfected lymphatic endothelial cells. In addition, KSHV induced the expression of endothelial precursor cell marker (CD133) and mural cell markers (calponin, desmin, and smooth muscle alpha actin), suggesting dedifferentiation and trans-differentiation. Overexpression of latency proteins (LANA, vFLIP) and lytic phase proteins (RTA, vGPCR, viral interleukin-6) further supported the direct regulatory capacity of KSHV viral proteins to induce Notch receptors (Notch2, Notch3), ligands (Dll1, Dll4, Jagged1), downstream targets (Hey, Hes), and endothelial precursor CD133. Targeting Notch pathway with gamma-secretase inhibitor and a decoy protein in the form of soluble Dll4 inhibited growth of KSHV-transformed endothelial cell line. Soluble Dll4 was also highly active in vivo against KS tumor xenograft. It inhibited tumor cell growth, induced tumor cell death, and reduced vessel perfusion. Soluble Dll4 is thus a candidate for clinical investigation.
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Lorusso G, Vannini N, Sogno I, Generoso L, Garbisa S, Noonan DM, Albini A. Mechanisms of Hyperforin as an anti-angiogenic angioprevention agent. Eur J Cancer 2009; 45:1474-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2009.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2008] [Revised: 12/30/2008] [Accepted: 01/15/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Stallone G, Infante B, Pontrelli P, Ranieri E, Loverre A, Schena A, Cormio L, Carrieri G, Schena FP, Grandaliano G, Gesualdo L. ID2-VEGF-related pathways in the pathogenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma: a link disrupted by rapamycin. Am J Transplant 2009; 9:558-66. [PMID: 19260835 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02537.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The Id-proteins are a family of four related proteins implicated in the control of differentiation and cell-cycle progression. Down-regulation of Id-gene expression is essential for the differentiation of several cell types. In addition, deregulated Id2 activity inhibits the Rb tumor suppressor pathway and promotes the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Several members of VEGF family could be involved in Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) development and progression. Lymphatic vascular endothelial hyaluronan receptor-1 (LYVE-1) is the first marker of lymphatic endothelial competence during development in the mature vasculature, and is also expressed on KS spindle cells. Rapamycin (RAPA), an immunosuppressive drug, has been shown to reverse KS growth and to reduce tumor angiogenesis. We evaluate, in transplantation-associated KS and in cultured KS-cells the RAPA effect on Id2 and on de novo lymphangiogenesis. Markers of lymphatic-endothelial-cells (VEGFR-3, LYVE-1) and Id2, expressed at low levels within the normal skin, were up-regulated in KS and returned to normal levels after RAPA introduction. The association between Id2 and lymphangiogenesis is suggested by co-localization of Id2, VEGFR-3 and LYVE-1. RAPA inhibition on Id2 expression was confirmed in vitro in KS-cells, both in basal conditions and upon stimulation with VEGF. In conclusion, our data would suggest a novel molecular mechanism for the antineoplastic effects of RAPA in posttransplant KS.
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- G Stallone
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Section of Nephrology, University of Foggia, Italy.
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Qin D, Lu C. The biology of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and the infection of human immunodeficiency virus. Virol Sin 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/s12250-008-2996-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Catrina SB, Botusan IR, Rantanen A, Catrina AI, Pyakurel P, Savu O, Axelson M, Biberfeld P, Poellinger L, Brismar K. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha and hypoxia-inducible factor-2alpha are expressed in kaposi sarcoma and modulated by insulin-like growth factor-I. Clin Cancer Res 2007; 12:4506-14. [PMID: 16899596 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-05-2473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Neoangiogenesis is essential for tumor development. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), a transcriptional factor composed of two subunits (alpha and beta), plays a key role in this process, activating proangiogenic factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). The HIF alpha subunits are critically regulated by oxygen and are also modulated by growth factors. Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is a highly vascular tumor that releases large amounts of VEGF and for which we have recently described an essential role for the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system. We therefore investigated the expression of HIF alpha subunits in biopsies from KS tumors and their modulation by IGF-I in KSIMM, a KS cell line. RESULTS Both HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha were expressed in KS biopsies in all tumoral stages. HIF-1alpha immunopositivity increased through the tumor development with highest expression in the late nodular stages. In KSIMM cells, IGF-I induced accumulation of both HIF alpha subunits. The induction suggests a translation mechanism as documented by cycloheximide chase experiment coupled with constant RNA levels as evaluated by quantitative real-time PCR. IGF-I-induced HIF alpha accumulation was followed by an increase in HIF function as assessed both by reporter gene assay and by induction of endogenous target gene expression (VEGF-A). Specific blockade of IGF-I receptor with alphaIR3 antibody or with picropodophyllin, a specific IGF-IR tyrosine kinase inhibitor, diminishes the basal and IGF-I-dependent induction of both HIF alpha congeners. CONCLUSION These novel findings show the coupling between the IGF and HIF signaling in KS and suggest a coordinated contribution by these pathways to the characteristic vascular phenotype of this tumor.
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MESH Headings
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/biosynthesis
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/drug effects
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics
- Biopsy, Needle
- Cell Hypoxia/drug effects
- Cobalt/pharmacology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Humans
- Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/biosynthesis
- Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/drug effects
- Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, alpha Subunit/genetics
- Immunohistochemistry
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/antagonists & inhibitors
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/metabolism
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/pharmacology
- Podophyllotoxin/analogs & derivatives
- Podophyllotoxin/pharmacology
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/drug therapy
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/genetics
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Time Factors
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- Sergiu-Bogdan Catrina
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Diabetes Center Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Vannini N, Lorusso G, Cammarota R, Barberis M, Noonan DM, Sporn MB, Albini A. The synthetic oleanane triterpenoid, CDDO-methyl ester, is a potent antiangiogenic agent. Mol Cancer Ther 2007; 6:3139-46. [PMID: 18065492 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-07-0451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We show that the synthetic oleanane triterpenoid, CDDO-methyl ester (CDDO-Me; methyl 2-cyano-3,12-dioxoolean-1,9-dien-28-oate) is an effective agent for suppressing angiogenesis, both in cell culture and in vivo. The potency of CDDO-Me is particularly striking when dosed in vivo to inhibit the angiogenic effects of vascular endothelial growth factor and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in Matrigel sponge assays; activity is seen at i.p. doses of CDDO-Me as low as 0.003 mg/kg of body weight. If the Matrigel sponges are impregnated with CDDO-Me just before implantation in the mice, picomolar doses of CDDO-Me will suppress angiogenesis. CDDO-Me also inhibits growth of endothelial cells in monolayer cultures and suppresses neovascular morphogenesis in three-dimensional cultures, but significantly higher doses (50-200 nmol/L) are required. We also show antiangiogenic effects of CDDO-Me on xenografts of Kaposi's sarcoma cells in immunocompromised mice, using CD31 as a marker. Several known individual molecular targets of CDDO-Me and related triterpenoids that are relevant to all of these findings include nuclear factor-kappaB signaling, signal transducers and activators of transcription signaling, and transforming growth factor-beta signaling, as well as Keap1, the endogenous inhibitor of the transcription factor Nrf2. However, the particularly potent antiangiogenic activity seen in vivo in the present experiments suggest that CDDO-Me, as an angioprevention agent, may be interacting with an entire network of molecular and cellular targets, rather than at a single molecular locus or in a single-cell type.
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces sustained levels of vascular endothelial growth factors A and C early during in vitro infection of human microvascular dermal endothelial cells: biological implications. J Virol 2007; 82:1759-76. [PMID: 18057235 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00873-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), a vascular tumor associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection, is characterized by spindle-shaped endothelial cells, inflammatory cells, cytokines, growth and angiogenic factors, and angiogenesis. KS spindle cells are believed to be of the lymphatic endothelial cell (LEC) type. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV, or human herpesvirus 8) is etiologically linked to KS, and in vitro KSHV infection of primary human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HMVEC-d) is characterized by the induction of preexisting host signal cascades, sustained expression of latency-associated genes, transient expression of a limited number of lytic genes, sustained induction of NF-kappaB and several cytokines, and growth and angiogenic factors. KSHV induced robust vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) and VEGF-C gene expression as early as 30 min postinfection (p.i.) in serum-starved HMVEC-d, which was sustained throughout the observation period of 72 h p.i. Significant amounts of VEGF-A and -C were also detected in the culture supernatant of infected cells. VEGF-A and -C were also induced by UV-inactivated KSHV and envelope glycoprotein gpK8.1A, thus suggesting a role for virus entry stages in the early induction of VEGF and requirement of KSHV viral gene expression for sustained induction. Exogenous addition of VEGF-A and -C increased KSHV DNA entry into target cells and moderately increased latent ORF73 and lytic ORF50 promoter activation and gene expression. KSHV infection also induced the expression of lymphatic markers Prox-1 and podoplanin as early as 8 h p.i., and a paracrine effect was seen in the neighboring uninfected cells. Similar observations were also made in the pure blood endothelial cell (BEC)-TIME cells, thus suggesting that commitment to the LEC phenotype is induced early during KSHV infection of blood endothelial cells. Treatment with VEGF-C alone also induced Prox-1 expression in the BEC-TIME cells. Collectively, these studies show that the in vitro microenvironments of KSHV-infected endothelial cells are enriched, with VEGF-A and -C molecules playing key roles in KSHV biology, such as increased infection and gene expression, as well as in angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, thus recapitulating the microenvironment of early KS lesions.
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Kiss J, Kunstár A, Fajka-Boja R, Dudics V, Tóvári J, Légrádi A, Monostori E, Uher F. A novel anti-inflammatory function of human galectin-1: inhibition of hematopoietic progenitor cell mobilization. Exp Hematol 2007; 35:305-13. [PMID: 17258079 DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2006.09.015] [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] [Received: 06/07/2006] [Revised: 09/22/2006] [Accepted: 09/25/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory activity of mammalian galectin-1 (Gal-1) has been well established in experimental in vivo animal models and in vitro studies. Since the proliferation and migration of leukocytes represent a necessary and important step in response to the inflammatory insult, we have investigated whether Gal-1 affects the mobilization of hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) induced by cyclophosphamide (CY) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). METHODS Bone marrow HPCs were mobilized with CY/G-CSF or CY/G-CSF plus human recombinant Gal-1 in BDF1 mice. Bone marrow (BM) and blood cells were taken at different time points and analyzed for their in vivo repopulating ability in lethally irradiated syngeneic animals. The number of myeloid progenitor cells in BM and blood samples was determined by colony-forming cell assay. Expression of surface markers (Sca-1, CD3epsilon, CD45R/B220, Ter-119, GR-1, and CD11b) on nucleated marrow cells was measured by flow cytometry. The lymphocytes, granulocytes, and monocytes in blood samples were counted after Giemsa staining. RESULTS Gal-1 dramatically inhibited CY/G-CSF-induced HPC migration to the periphery as well as decreased peripheral neutrophilia and monocytosis in a dose- and time-dependent manner. In contrast, Gal-1 itself stimulated HPC expansion and accumulation within the BM. The presence of the lectin for inhibition of HPC mobilization was essential during the second half of the treatment. Moreover, Gal-1 inhbited transendothelial migration of BM-derived HPCs in response to SDF-1 in vitro. CONCLUSION Gal-1 blocked BM progenitor cell migration induced by CY/G-CSF treatment, indicating a novel anti-inflammatory function of the lectin. We suggest that the inhibition of HPC mobilization occurs mainly via obstructing the transendothelial migration of BM-derived cells including primitive hematopoietic and committed myeloid progenitor cells and mature granulocytes and monocytes.
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- Judit Kiss
- Stem Cell Biology, National Medical Center, Budapest, Hungary
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Curry CL, Reed LL, Broude E, Golde TE, Miele L, Foreman KE. Notch inhibition in Kaposi's sarcoma tumor cells leads to mitotic catastrophe through nuclear factor-κB signaling. Mol Cancer Ther 2007; 6:1983-92. [PMID: 17604336 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-07-0093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most common neoplasm in untreated AIDS patients and accounts for significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. We have recently reported that Notch signaling (which plays an important role in cell proliferation, apoptosis, and oncogenesis) is constitutively activated in KS tumor cells. Blockade of this activity using γ-secretase inhibitors resulted in apoptosis of SLK cells, a KS tumor cell line; however, this apoptosis was preceded by a prolonged G2-M cell cycle arrest. This result led us to hypothesize that the cells were undergoing mitotic catastrophe, an abnormal mitosis that leads to eventual cell death. Here, we show that Notch inhibition in KS tumor cells using γ-secretase inhibitors or Notch-1 small interfering RNA resulted in G2-M cell cycle arrest and mitotic catastrophe characterized by the presence of micronucleated cells and an increased mitotic index. Interestingly, Notch inhibition led to a sustained increase in nuclear cyclin B1, a novel observation suggesting that Notch signaling can modulate expression of this critical cell cycle protein. Further analysis showed the induction of cyclin B1 was due, at least in part, to increased nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activity, which was also required for the G2-M growth arrest after Notch inhibition. Taken together, these studies suggest that Notch inhibition can initiate aberrant mitosis by inducing NF-κB activity that inappropriately increases cyclin B1 resulting in cell death via mitotic catastrophe. [Mol Cancer Ther 2007;6(7):1983–92]
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- Christine L Curry
- Department of Pathology, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola University Chicago, 2160 South First Avenue, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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Russo IH, Russo J. Primary prevention of breast cancer by hormone-induced differentiation. Recent Results Cancer Res 2007; 174:111-30. [PMID: 17302191 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-37696-5_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Breast cancer is a fatal disease whose incidence is gradually increasing in most industrialized countries and in all ethnic groups. Primary prevention is the ultimate goal for the control of this disease. The knowledge that breast cancer risk is reduced by early full-term pregnancy and that additional pregnancies increase the rate of protection has provided novel tools for designing cancer prevention strategies. The protective effect of pregnancy has been experimentally reproduced in virgin rats by treatment with the placental hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). HCG prevents the initiation and inhibits the progression of chemically induced mammary carcinomas by inducing differentiation of the mammary gland, inhibiting cell proliferation, and increasing apoptosis. It also induces the synthesis of inhibin, a tumor suppressor factor, downregulates the level of expression of the estrogen receptor alpha (ER-alpha) by methylation of CpG islands, imprinting a permanent genomic signature that characterizes the refractory condition of the mammary gland to undergo malignant transformation. The genomic signature induced by hCG is identical to that induced by pregnancy and is specific for this hormone. Comparison of the mammary gland's genomic profile of virgin Sprague-Dawley rats treated daily with hCG for 21 days with that of rats receiving 17beta-estradiol (E2) and progesterone (Pg) (E2 + Pg) revealed that in hCG-treated rats 194 genes were significantly up-modulated (> 2.5 log2-folds) (p < 0.01) and commonly expressed, whereas these genes were not expressed in the E2 + Pg group. The genomic signature induced by hCG and pregnancy included activators or repressors of transcription genes, apoptosis, growth factors, cell division control, DNA repair, tumor suppressor, and cell-surface antigen genes. Our data indicate that hCG, like pregnancy, induces permanent genomic changes that are not reproduced by steroid hormones and in addition regulates gene expression through epigenetic mechanisms that are differentiation-dependent processes, leading us to conclude that hormonally induced differentiation offers enormous promise for the primary prevention of breast cancer.
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- Irma H Russo
- Breast Cancer Research Laboratory, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA
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Greene W, Kuhne K, Ye F, Chen J, Zhou F, Lei X, Gao SJ. Molecular biology of KSHV in relation to AIDS-associated oncogenesis. Cancer Treat Res 2007; 133:69-127. [PMID: 17672038 PMCID: PMC2798888 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-46816-7_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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KSHV has been established as the causative agent of KS, PEL, and MCD, malignancies occurring more frequently in AIDS patients. The aggressive nature of KSHV in the context of HIV infection suggests that interactions between the two viruses enhance pathogenesis. KSHV latent infection and lytic reactivation are characterized by distinct gene expression profiles, and both latency and lytic reactivation seem to be required for malignant progression. As a sophisticated oncogenic virus, KSHV has evolved to possess a formidable repertoire of potent mechanisms that enable it to target and manipulate host cell pathways, leading to increased cell proliferation, increased cell survival, dysregulated angiogenesis, evasion of immunity, and malignant progression in the immunocompromised host. Worldwide, approximately 40.3 million people are currently living with HIV infection. Of these, a significant number are coinfected with KSHV. The complex interplay between the two viruses dramatically elevates the risk for development of KSHV-induced malignancies, KS, PEL, and MCD. Although HAART significantly reduces HIV viral load, the entire T-cell repertoire and immune function may not be completely restored. In fact, clinically significant immune deficiency is not necessary for the induction of KSHV-related malignancy. Because of variables such as lack of access to therapy noncompliance with prescribed treatment, failure to respond to treatment and the development of drug-resistant strains of HIV, KSHV-induced malignancies will continue to present as major health concerns.
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- Whitney Greene
- Tiumor Virology Program, Children's Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Rose PP, Carroll JM, Carroll PA, DeFilippis VR, Lagunoff M, Moses AV, Roberts CT, Früh K. The insulin receptor is essential for virus-induced tumorigenesis of Kaposi's sarcoma. Oncogene 2006; 26:1995-2005. [PMID: 17001305 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Kaposi sarcoma (KS), a multifocal neoplasm of the skin that can spread to visceral organs, is the most prevalent malignant tumor in acquired immuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients. KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV or HHV8) is considered the primary etiological factor of this malignancy, as well as of primary effusion lymphoma and multicentric Castleman's disease. KS lesions are characterized by proliferating spindle cells of endothelial cell (EC) origin. The action of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system has been implicated in many malignancies, and recent data have demonstrated that the IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR) is required for in vitro growth of the KS-derived KSIMM cell line. To examine whether the IGF pathway is also involved in KSHV-mediated transformation of ECs, we examined the expression and function of the IGF system in KSHV-infected, immortalized dermal microvascular EC (E-DMVEC). The expression of the insulin receptor (IR) was strongly induced in latently infected E-DMVEC, whereas the expression levels of the IGF-IR remained unchanged. Gene knockdown of IR, but not IGF-IR, prevented the characteristic focus formation seen in KSHV-infected E-DMVEC. Similarly, treatment with the IR-specific small-molecule inhibitor HNMPA-(AM(3)) inhibited postconfluent growth. These data suggest a role for the IR, but not the IGF-IR, in KSHV-induced transformation of vascular ECs.
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MESH Headings
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Transformation, Viral/genetics
- Endothelial Cells/metabolism
- Endothelial Cells/pathology
- Endothelial Cells/virology
- Herpesvirus 8, Human/physiology
- Humans
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism
- Naphthalenes/pharmacology
- Organophosphonates/pharmacology
- RNA, Small Interfering/pharmacology
- Receptor, IGF Type 1/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptor, IGF Type 1/genetics
- Receptor, IGF Type 1/metabolism
- Receptor, Insulin/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptor, Insulin/genetics
- Receptor, Insulin/physiology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/genetics
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/virology
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- P P Rose
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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Sangiorgi S, Congiu T, Manelli A, Dell'Eva R, Noonan DM. The three-dimensional microvascular architecture of the human Kaposi sarcoma implanted in nude mice: a SEM corrosion casting study. Microvasc Res 2006; 72:128-35. [PMID: 16920158 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2006.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2006] [Revised: 06/06/2006] [Accepted: 06/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The human Kaposi sarcoma represents one of the most common skin lesions associated with AIDS. Its clinical presentation and anatomopathological structure seem to demonstrate a particularly rich vascularity. The latest therapies aim to limit its intrinsic angiogenic activity in an attempt to reduce vascular density and the formation of new vessels. For these reasons, we decided to study the microvascular architecture of Kaposi sarcoma in three dimensions. We used a corrosion casting technique applied to nude mice previously transplanted subcutaneously with human modified neoplastic Kaposi sarcoma cells. The cooption of host vessels made by the tumor was demonstrated by three-dimensional scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images. At high magnification several angiogenic patterns were observed in the form of potato-shaped vessels, sprouts, intussusceptions and mouse tailed end tipped capillaries along with some ultrastructural features such as intercellular extravasations and endothelial cell modifications. Our investigation allowed us to build a detailed map of tumor vasculature in human Kaposi sarcoma. Furthermore, this study want to shed light on the sharp morphological three-dimensional conformation of angiogenic sprouts so to be able to better understand their modifications occurred during time and after antiangiogenic experimental therapies, by now observed only by immunohistochemical or immunofluorescent assays.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Arteries/pathology
- Arteries/ultrastructure
- Arterioles/pathology
- Arterioles/ultrastructure
- Capillaries/pathology
- Capillaries/ultrastructure
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Humans
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Microcirculation/pathology
- Microcirculation/ultrastructure
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Neovascularization, Pathologic
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/blood supply
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/ultrastructure
- Transplantation, Heterologous
- Veins/pathology
- Veins/ultrastructure
- Venules/pathology
- Venules/ultrastructure
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- S Sangiorgi
- Department of Surgery, Neurosurgical Unit, University of Insubria, Viale Borri 57, 21100 Varese, Italy.
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Khakoo AY, Pati S, Anderson SA, Reid W, Elshal MF, Rovira II, Nguyen AT, Malide D, Combs CA, Hall G, Zhang J, Raffeld M, Rogers TB, Stetler-Stevenson W, Frank JA, Reitz M, Finkel T. Human mesenchymal stem cells exert potent antitumorigenic effects in a model of Kaposi's sarcoma. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 203:1235-47. [PMID: 16636132 PMCID: PMC2121206 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20051921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 566] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Emerging evidence suggests that both human stem cells and mature stromal cells can play an important role in the development and growth of human malignancies. In contrast to these tumor-promoting properties, we observed that in an in vivo model of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), intravenously (i.v.) injected human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) home to sites of tumorigenesis and potently inhibit tumor growth. We further show that human MSCs can inhibit the in vitro activation of the Akt protein kinase within some but not all tumor and primary cell lines. The inhibition of Akt activity requires the MSCs to make direct cell-cell contact and can be inhibited by a neutralizing antibody against E-cadherin. We further demonstrate that in vivo, Akt activation within KS cells is potently down-regulated in areas adjacent to MSC infiltration. Finally, the in vivo tumor-suppressive effects of MSCs correlates with their ability to inhibit target cell Akt activity, and KS tumors engineered to express a constitutively activated Akt construct are no longer sensitive to i.v. MSC administration. These results suggest that in contrast to other stem cells or normal stromal cells, MSCs possess intrinsic antineoplastic properties and that this stem cell population might be of particular utility for treating those human malignancies characterized by dysregulated Akt.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Enzyme Activation/immunology
- Graft vs Tumor Effect/immunology
- Male
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation
- Mesenchymal Stem Cells/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Neoplasms, Experimental/immunology
- Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
- Neoplasms, Experimental/therapy
- Oncogene Protein v-akt/immunology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/immunology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/therapy
- Stromal Cells/immunology
- Stromal Cells/transplantation
- Transplantation, Heterologous
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- Aarif Y Khakoo
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cardiovascular Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Indraccolo S, Stievano L, Minuzzo S, Tosello V, Esposito G, Piovan E, Zamarchi R, Chieco-Bianchi L, Amadori A. Interruption of tumor dormancy by a transient angiogenic burst within the tumor microenvironment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:4216-21. [PMID: 16537511 PMCID: PMC1449673 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0506200103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Tumor growth is currently viewed as a phenomenon associated with neovascularization and sustained production of angiogenic factors, but whether a transient angiogenic switch may trigger tumor growth remains unclear. Here, we report that leukemia cells (MOLT-3) were poorly angiogenic and remained dormant when injected s.c. into immunodeficient mice. However, progressive growth of lymphoid tumors was invariably recorded when irradiated angiogenic cells from Kaposi's sarcoma (KS-IMM) were locally coinjected with MOLT-3 cells or administered later. The persistence of KS-IMM cells in vivo was tracked by flow cytometry and real-time PCR analysis, and it was limited to a few days, during which angiogenesis was induced and preceded tumor growth. The engraftment of other types of poorly tumorigenic cancer cells was also greatly improved by irradiated KS-IMM cells. Moreover, short-term treatment with angiogenic factors, including basic FGF or VEGF, either given as recombinant factors or delivered by retroviral vectors, also accelerated tumor growth. These findings may emphasize that tumor angiogenesis is a process requiring a higher amount of angiogenic factors for its induction than maintenance.
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- Stefano Indraccolo
- Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy.
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Bussolati B, Grange C, Bruno S, Buttiglieri S, Deregibus MC, Tei L, Aime S, Camussi G. Neural-cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) expression by immature and tumor-derived endothelial cells favors cell organization into capillary-like structures. Exp Cell Res 2006; 312:913-24. [PMID: 16406048 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2005.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2005] [Revised: 11/15/2005] [Accepted: 12/05/2005] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) is widely expressed during embryogenesis, down-regulated in the course of differentiation to be re-expressed during progression of some tumors. We here found that renal tumor-derived endothelial cells (TEC) but not normal endothelial cells (HMEC) expressed NCAM. In TEC, NCAM expression was regulated by the renal embryonic transcription factor PAX2, as transfection with PAX2 antisense abrogated NCAM expression. NCAM stimulation with an agonistic synthetic NCAM peptide enhanced apoptosis resistance and increased ability of TEC to organize in vessel-like structures. The angiogenic effect of NCAM peptide was, at least in part, mediated by the association of NCAM and FGFR1. HMEC transiently acquired NCAM when organized in vessel-like structures after VEGF stimulation or when transfected with PAX2 gene. During the process of VEGF-induced endothelial differentiation of renal stem cells and of circulating endothelial progenitors, NCAM was transiently expressed to disappear at complete endothelial maturation. Targeting NCAM with a saporin-conjugated peptide induced a cytotoxic effect on TEC but not on HMEC. In conclusion, we identified a new role of NCAM in tumor neo-angiogenesis relevant for endothelial cell organization into capillary-like structures. In addition, we found that NCAM expression was associated with an immature phenotype of endothelial cells.
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- Benedetta Bussolati
- Cattedra di Nefrologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna and Centro Ricerca Medicina Sperimentale (CeRMS), University of Torino, Ospedale Maggiore S. Giovanni Battista, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Torino, Italy
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Albini A, Dell'Eva R, Vené R, Ferrari N, Buhler DR, Noonan DM, Fassina G. Mechanisms of the antiangiogenic activity by the hop flavonoid xanthohumol: NF‐κB and Akt as targets. FASEB J 2005; 20:527-9. [PMID: 16403733 DOI: 10.1096/fj.05-5128fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Xanthohumol (XN), the principal flavonoid of the hop plant (Humulus lupulus L.) and a constituent of beer, has been suggested to have potential cancer chemopreventive activities. We have observed that most cancer chemopreventive agents show antiangiogenic properties in vitro and in vivo, a concept we termed "angioprevention." Here we show for the first time that XN can inhibit growth of a vascular tumor in vivo. Histopathology and in vivo angiogenesis assays indicated that tumor angiogenesis inhibition was involved. Further, we show the mechanisms for its inhibition of angiogenesis in vivo and related endothelial cell activities in vitro. XN repressed both the NF-kappaB and Akt pathways in endothelial cells, indicating that components of these pathways are major targets in the molecular mechanism of XN. Moreover, using in vitro analyses, we show that XN interferes with several points in the angiogenic process, including inhibition of endothelial cell invasion and migration, growth, and formation of a network of tubular-like structures. Our results suggest that XN can be added to the expanding list of antiangiogenic chemopreventive drugs whose potential in cancer prevention and therapy should be evaluated.
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MESH Headings
- 3T3 Cells/metabolism
- Administration, Oral
- Angiogenesis Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Animals
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Cell Division/drug effects
- Cell Line, Transformed/drug effects
- Cell Movement/drug effects
- Chemotaxis/drug effects
- Collagen
- Culture Media, Conditioned/pharmacology
- Drug Combinations
- Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
- Endothelial Cells/drug effects
- Endothelial Cells/metabolism
- Endothelial Cells/ultrastructure
- Endothelium, Vascular/drug effects
- Flavonoids
- Humans
- Humulus/chemistry
- I-kappa B Proteins/metabolism
- Laminin
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Morphogenesis/drug effects
- NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha
- NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Phosphorylation/drug effects
- Propiophenones/pharmacology
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/drug effects
- Protein Transport/drug effects
- Proteoglycans
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/antagonists & inhibitors
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/blood supply
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/drug therapy
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
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- Adriana Albini
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy
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Tasciotti E, Giacca M. Fusion of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Tat Protein Transduction Domain to Thymidine Kinase Increases Bystander Effect and Induces Enhanced Tumor KillingIn Vivo. Hum Gene Ther 2005; 16:1389-403. [PMID: 16390270 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2005.16.1389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The clinical success of suicide gene therapy using herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase (TK) is largely dependent on the capacity of this enzyme to effectively induce the death of bystander cells. We have shown that fusion of TK to an 11-amino acid peptide from the basic domain of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Tat protein (Tat11) imparts cell membrane-translocating ability to the enzyme and significantly increases its cytotoxic activity. Here we report on the efficacy of this strategy in two different mouse models of adoptive tumorigenesis, based on the implantation of human Kaposi sarcoma (KS-IMM) cells in nude mice or of B16F10 melanoma cells in syngeneic C57BL/6J mice. Experiments were performed by the subcutaneous injection of mixtures of unmodified tumor cells containing different fractions of TK or Tat11-TK producing cells followed by animal treatment with ganciclovir (GCV). In both systems we consistently found that mice bearing tumors containing Tat11-TK cells displayed significantly retarded tumor growth and prolonged survival as compared with mice inoculated with cells expressing unmodified TK. Collectively, these results demonstrate that fusion of Tat11 to TK imparts remarkable intercellular trafficking capability to the enzyme. This modification of TK might constitute an important step in the optimization of TK suicide gene strategy for gene therapy of cellular proliferation.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Bystander Effect/physiology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Gene Products, tat/genetics
- Gene Transfer Techniques
- Genes, Transgenic, Suicide/genetics
- Genetic Therapy
- HIV-1
- Humans
- Melanoma/genetics
- Melanoma/therapy
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Nude
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/genetics
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/therapy
- Thymidine Kinase/genetics
- Thymidine Kinase/therapeutic use
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- tat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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- Ennio Tasciotti
- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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Tasciotti E, Giacca M. Fusion of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Tat Protein Transduction Domain to Thymidine Kinase Increases Bystander Effect and Induces Enhanced Tumor Killing In Vivo. Hum Gene Ther 2005. [DOI: 10.1089/hum.2005.16.ft-143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Vacca A, Scavelli C, Montefusco V, Di Pietro G, Neri A, Mattioli M, Bicciato S, Nico B, Ribatti D, Dammacco F, Corradini P. Thalidomide Downregulates Angiogenic Genes in Bone Marrow Endothelial Cells of Patients With Active Multiple Myeloma. J Clin Oncol 2005; 23:5334-46. [PMID: 15939924 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2005.03.723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Purpose To study the antiangiogenic effect of thalidomide. Patients and Methods The expression of key angiogenic genes was studied in bone marrow endothelial cells (ECs) of patients with active and nonactive multiple myeloma (MM), monoclonal gammopathies unattributed/unassociated (MG[u]), diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in a Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) cell line, and in healthy human umbilical vein ECs (HUVECs) following exposure to therapeutic doses of thalidomide. Results Thalidomide markedly downregulates the genes in a dose-dependent fashion in active MMECs and KS cell line, but upregulates them or is ineffective in nonactive MMECs, MG(u)ECs, NHL-ECs, and in HUVECs. Secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and hepatocyte growth factor also diminishes according to the dose in culture conditioned media (CM) of active MMECs and KS, whereas it does not change in the other CM. Conclusion Inhibition by thalidomide is probably confined to the genes of active MMECs and KS. This would account for its higher efficacy in these diseases.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Angiogenesis Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Bone Marrow/pathology
- Cells, Cultured
- Culture Media, Conditioned
- Down-Regulation
- Endothelium, Vascular/drug effects
- Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism
- Endothelium, Vascular/pathology
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Female
- Fibroblast Growth Factor 2/genetics
- Fibroblast Growth Factor 2/metabolism
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Hepatocyte Growth Factor/genetics
- Hepatocyte Growth Factor/metabolism
- Humans
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/drug therapy
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/metabolism
- Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse/drug therapy
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Multiple Myeloma/drug therapy
- Multiple Myeloma/genetics
- Multiple Myeloma/metabolism
- Paraproteinemias/drug therapy
- Paraproteinemias/genetics
- Paraproteinemias/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/drug therapy
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/genetics
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/metabolism
- Thalidomide/pharmacology
- Umbilical Veins/metabolism
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/genetics
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/metabolism
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- Angelo Vacca
- Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Oncology, Policlinico-Piazza Giulio Cesare, University of Medical School Bari, Italy.
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AIMS To determine the expression of WT1 in endothelial proliferations and tumours. Endothelial cells are derived from angioblasts which differentiate into bone marrow stem cells (BMSC). BMSC are characterized by the constitutive expression of the WT1 gene and we have postulated that its expression may be maintained during the differentiation of angioblasts to endothelial cells. METHODS AND RESULTS The expression of WT1 was studied in human umbilical vein-derived (HUVEC) and brain microvascular endothelial cells (HBME) as well as in a Kaposi sarcoma (KS) cell line in vitro. Forty-two human skin biopsy samples of endothelial proliferations and tumours were analysed for the protein expression of WT1 using the monoclonal antibodies for wt-WT1 (6F-H2) and its 17AA+ variant (2C12). WT1 expression was detectable in HUVEC and KS cells and all WT1 splice variants examined (17AA+/- KTS+/-) were detectable in KS cells, while the 17AA+/- and KTS- variants were present in HUVEC. Immunohistochemical analysis of the 42 human skin biopsy samples revealed cytoplasmic WT1 expression using wild-type specific antibody (6FH2) in microvessels, which is maintained during neoangiogenesis (inflammation, haemorrhage, peritumoral angiogenesis). Around one-third of haemangiomas (3/10) and non-HIV-Kaposi sarcomas (7/18) expressed the WT1 protein in the cytoplasm of tumour cells compared with its frequent expression in angiosarcomas (7/8) using the same antibody (6FH2). The nuclear 17AA+ isoform of WT1 was detectable at protein level in a small proportion of KS cases exclusively (3/7). CONCLUSION Our data suggest that WT1 protein expression is maintained during angiogenesis and malignant transformation of endothelial cells and can be considered as a new endothelial marker.
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- J Timár
- Diagnostic Pathology, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary.
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Boccellino M, Camussi G, Giovane A, Ferro L, Calderaro V, Balestrieri C, Quagliuolo L. Platelet-activating factor regulates cadherin-catenin adhesion system expression and beta-catenin phosphorylation during Kaposi's sarcoma cell motility. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2005; 166:1515-22. [PMID: 15855650 PMCID: PMC1620029 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)62367-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In the present study, we evaluated whether motility of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) cells induced by platelet-activating factor (PAF) is dependent on the regulation of adherens junctions components. The results obtained indicate that PAF dose and time dependently reduced the endogenous expression of the main components of the adherens junctions: VE-cadherin, alpha-catenin, and beta-catenin. In addition, PAF initiated events that directly or indirectly up-regulated both the tyrosine and serine/threonine phosphorylation pathways, and both types of phosphorylation of beta-catenin were involved in the motility of KS cells. This motility was abrogated by addition of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor genistein, suggesting that this phosphorylation is an important signal responsible for breaking down the adherens junctions and diminishing the ability of neighboring cells to interact. Furthermore, immunofluorescence analysis showed that beta-catenin and VE-cadherin staining changed from a uniform distribution along the membrane of controls to a diffuse pattern with gap formation in PAF-treated KS cells. In conclusion, the data presented here indicate that PAF induces tumor cell motility by altering cell-cell adhesion through beta-catenin phosphorylation.
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- Mariarosaria Boccellino
- Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biofisica, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Costantinopoli, 16, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
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Catrina SB, Lewitt M, Massambu C, Dricu A, Grünler J, Axelson M, Biberfeld P, Brismar K. Insulin-like growth factor-I receptor activity is essential for Kaposi's sarcoma growth and survival. Br J Cancer 2005; 92:1467-74. [PMID: 15812560 PMCID: PMC2362008 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a highly vascular tumour and is the most common neoplasm associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection. Growth factors, in particular vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), have been shown to play an important role in its development. The role of insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) in the pathophysiology of different tumours led us to evaluate the role of IGF system in KS. The IGF-I receptors (IGF-IR) were identified by immunohistochemistry in biopsies taken from patients with different AIDS/HIV-related KS stages and on KSIMM cells (an established KS-derived cell line). Insulin-like growth factor-I is a growth factor for KSIMM cells with a maximum increase of 3H-thymidine incorporation of 130±27.6% (P<0.05) similar to that induced by VEGF and with which it is additive (281±13%) (P<0.05). Moreover, specific blockade of the receptor (either by α IR3 antibody or by picropodophyllin, a recently described selective IGF-IR tyrosine phosphorylation inhibitor) induced KSIMM apoptosis, suggesting that IGF-IR agonists (IGF-I and -II) mediate antiapoptotic signals for these cells. We were able to identify an autocrine loop essential for KSIMM cell survival in which IGF-II is the IGF-IR agonist secreted by the cells. In conclusion, IGF-I pathway inhibition is a promising therapeutical approach for KS tumours.
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- S-B Catrina
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Diabetes Center Karolinska, Karolinska Hospital, M1:02, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Malatos S, Neubert H, Kicman AT, Iles RK. Identification of placental transforming growth factor-beta and bikunin metabolites as contaminants of pharmaceutical human chorionic gonadotrophin preparations by proteomic techniques. Mol Cell Proteomics 2005; 4:984-92. [PMID: 15855173 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m500085-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A contaminant protein complex found in pharmaceutical urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin preparations is reported to have anti-human immunodeficiency virus-associated Kaposi's sarcoma activity. The aim of this study was to isolate and characterize this protein complex by proteomic approaches. Size exclusion chromatography was used in the isolation of these human chorionic gonadotrophin-associated fragments. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed the presence of a protein complex that dissociated into two protein bands under reducing conditions. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry of this complex showed three polypeptides at approximately 6.2, 11.4, and 15.8 kDa. Peptide mass mapping and N-terminal amino acid sequencing identified two polypeptides as metabolites of placental transforming growth factor-beta (11.4 kDa) and bikunin (15.8 kDa). Subsequent matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometric analysis of the anti-human immunodeficiency virus-associated Kaposi's sarcoma active preparations CG-10 (Sigma), Pregnyl (Organon), and Profasi (Serono) revealed the presence of metabolites of placental transforming growth factor-beta in all three; no other non-human chorionic gonadotrophin-related protein species were observed in these preparations. Our findings present evidence that urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin preparations are contaminated with metabolites of placental transforming growth factor-beta, which may have transforming growth factor-beta agonist actions, and metabolites of bikunin, which is a protease inhibitor. In combination these molecules may be responsible for the anti-human immunodeficiency virus-associated Kaposi's sarcoma activity demonstrated for these urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin preparations.
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- Sotiris Malatos
- Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Social and Health Research, Middlesex University, Enfield EN3 4SA, United Kingdom
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Forster-Horváth C, Mészáros L, Rásó E, Döme B, Ladányi A, Morini M, Albini A, Tímár J. Expression of CD44v3 protein in human endothelial cells in vitro and in tumoral microvessels in vivo. Microvasc Res 2005; 68:110-8. [PMID: 15313120 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2004.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The most universal angiogenic cytokines (VEGF, bFGF, HGF) are all heparin-binding proteins, the function of which is dependent on cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG). Several proteoglycans have been demonstrated in endothelial cells, but only glypican-1 from the cell surface HSPG subfamily was documented at protein level. Here, we show that CD44v3 is expressed in human immortalized endothelial cells [anchorage-dependent human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and anchorage-independent Kaposi sarcoma (KS-Imm)] at mRNA and protein level, but is absent from the primary culture of human brain microvascular endothelial cells. We have shown that CD44v3 has a large cytoplasmic pool in endothelial cells, but a limited surface expression, mainly at filopodia, colocalized with MMP-2. Angiogenic factors like VEGF or bFGF did not affect surface detection of CD44v3 suggesting a constitutive expression. The putative functional role for endothelial cell surface CD44v3 was identified in chemotaxis assay when anti-CD44v3 antibody pretreatment proved to be inhibitory for HUVEC. Furthermore, we provided evidence for the CD44v3 protein expression in human endothelial cells in vivo in peritumoral microvessels of both human melanoma and glottic cancers, suggesting a role for this part-time heparan sulfate proteoglycan in tumor induced angiogenesis.
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- C Forster-Horváth
- Department of Tumor Progression, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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Fassina G, Venè R, Morini M, Minghelli S, Benelli R, Noonan DM, Albini A. Mechanisms of inhibition of tumor angiogenesis and vascular tumor growth by epigallocatechin-3-gallate. Clin Cancer Res 2005; 10:4865-73. [PMID: 15269163 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-03-0672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE Green tea consumption has been linked to a reduced occurrence of some tumor types. Current data indicate that the principal mediator of this chemopreventive effect is epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the most abundant polyphenol found in dried tea leaves. Here, we examined the effects of this compound on the two key cell populations typically involved in tumor growth: tumor cells and endothelial cells. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The effects of green tea and EGCG were tested in a highly vascular Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) tumor model and on endothelial cells in a panel of in vivo and in vitro assays. RESULTS EGCG inhibited KS-IMM cell growth and endothelial cell growth, chemotaxis, and invasion over a range of doses; high concentrations also induced tumor cell apoptosis. EGCG inhibited the metalloprotease-mediated gelatinolytic activity produced by endothelial cell supernatants and the formation of new capillary-like structures in vitro. Green tea or purified EGCG when administered to mice in the drinking water inhibited angiogenesis in vivo in the Matrigel sponge model and restrained KS tumor growth. Histological analysis of the tumors were consistent with an anti-angiogenic activity of EGCG and green tea. CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that the green tea gallate or its derivatives may find use in the prevention and treatment of vascular tumors in a chemoprevention or adjuvant setting.
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- Gianfranco Fassina
- Tumor Progression Unit and Molecular Oncology Lab, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy
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Zacchigna S, Zentilin L, Morini M, Dell'Eva R, Noonan DM, Albini A, Giacca M. AAV-mediated gene transfer of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 inhibits vascular tumor growth and angiogenesis in vivo. Cancer Gene Ther 2004; 11:73-80. [PMID: 14681728 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cgt.7700657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) is a universal feature of cellular invasion, tumor angiogenesis and metastasis, which is counterbalanced and regulated by the natural tissue inhibitors of MMPs (Timps). Here we show that Timp1 gene transfer delivered by an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector inhibits tumor growth in a murine xenotransplant model. A human Kaposi's sarcoma cell line, forming highly vascularized tumors in vivo and having a high natural permissivity to AAV gene transfer, was transduced to express the Timp1 cDNA. AAV-Timp1-transduced cells secreted high levels of Timp1 that inhibited MMP2 and MMP9 gelatinolytic activity. Following subcutaneous inoculation in nude mice, the AAV-Timp1-transduced cells showed significantly reduced tumor growth when compared to control AAV-LacZ-transduced cells. In addition, direct intratumoral injection of AAV-Timp1 into pre-existing tumors significantly impaired the further expansion of the tumor mass. Histological analyses showed that the AAV-Timp1-transduced tumors had limited development of vascular structures and extensive areas of cell death, suggesting that Timp1 overexpression had an antiangiogenic effect. To further support this conclusion, we demonstrated that AAV-Timp1 transduction significantly reduced endothelial cell migration and the invasion of a Matrigel barrier and strongly inhibited angiogenesis in the chick chorioallantoic membrane assay. These results indicate that transfer and overexpression of the Timp1 gene is a promising therapeutic strategy to target tumor-associated angiogenesis in cancer gene therapy.
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- Serena Zacchigna
- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Rásó E, Mészáros L, Albini A, Tímár J. A WT1 expressing metastatic human kaposi sarcoma xenograft model. Pathol Oncol Res 2004; 10:22-5. [PMID: 15029257 DOI: 10.1007/bf02893404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2004] [Accepted: 02/20/2004] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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We have established a non-metastatic and a metastatic human Kaposi sarcoma (KS) xenograft model in SCID mice by injecting KS-Imm cells subcutaneously and intrasplenically, respectively. KS-Imm cells expressed endothelial markers, CD34 and vWF in vivo. Furthermore, we have shown that these cells express all the splice variants of the WT1 gene and WT1wt protein in vitro and in vivo detected by nested PCR and immunohistochemistry. WT1 expression in the peripheral blood was only detectable in case of metastatic KS model suggesting it as a molecular marker of progression.
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- Erzsébet Rásó
- Department of Tumor Progression, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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Morini M, Albini A, Lorusso G, Moelling K, Lu B, Cilli M, Ferrini S, Noonan DM. Prevention of angiogenesis by naked DNA IL-12 gene transfer: angioprevention by immunogene therapy. Gene Ther 2004; 11:284-91. [PMID: 14737088 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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IL-12 is thought to induce a cytokine cascade with antiangiogenic effects mediated by IFN-gamma and angiostatic CXCR3 chemokine ligands. Naked DNA intramuscular injection of an expression vector plasmid producing IL-12 resulted in significant, well-tolerated elevation of serum IL-12 levels. Injection of the IL-12 plasmid at least 2 days, and up to 20 days, before subcutaneous injection of matrigel with angiogenic factors resulted in strong prevention of angiogenesis in both C57/bl and nude mice. A single injection of the IL-12 plasmid contemporarily with the matrigel or 2 days after resulted in partial, statistically not significant, inhibition. Control plasmid injection did not affect either angiogenesis or angiogenesis inhibition by IL-12 protein in vivo. Angiogenesis inhibition was observed in NK cell-depleted C57/bl and nude mice as well as in IFN-gamma(-/-) and CXCR3(-/-) knockout mice, indicating that NK- and/or T-cell-initiated IFN-gamma-chemokine cascades were not involved in the angiogenesis inhibition observed in vivo. Finally, IL-12 plasmid DNA gene transfer significantly prevented the growth and vascularization of highly angiogenic KS-Imm Kaposi's sarcoma and TS/A murine mammary carcinoma tumors in nude and/or syngeneic mice. These data suggest that a preventive gene therapy approach using antiangiogenic cytokines can effectively inhibit tumor angiogenesis and KS, representing an example of angioimmunoprevention.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Gene Transfer Techniques
- Genetic Therapy/methods
- Genetic Vectors
- Interferon-gamma/immunology
- Interleukin-12/genetics
- Interleukin-12/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Nude
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/immunology
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/prevention & control
- Plasmids/genetics
- Receptors, CXCR3
- Receptors, Chemokine/immunology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/blood supply
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/pathology
- Sarcoma, Kaposi/therapy
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
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- M Morini
- Tumor Progression Section, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Largo Rosanna Benzi, Genova, Italy
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Buttiglieri S, Deregibus MC, Bravo S, Cassoni P, Chiarle R, Bussolati B, Camussi G. Role of Pax2 in apoptosis resistance and proinvasive phenotype of Kaposi's sarcoma cells. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:4136-43. [PMID: 14627715 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m306824200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In this study, we found that Kaposi's sarcoma cells but not human microvascular endothelial cells expressed PAX2, a gene coding for a transcription factor involved both in organogenesis and tumorigenesis. Moreover, Pax2 was frequently expressed, on spindle-shaped cells, in Kaposi's sarcoma lesions. We cloned PAX2 from Kaposi's sarcoma cells and obtained antisense and sense DNA. Transfection of Kaposi's sarcoma cells with antisense DNA, which suppressed Pax2 protein expression, reduced cell growth and survival and enhanced the sensitivity of Kaposi's sarcoma cells to apoptosis induced by serum deprivation or vincristine treatment. In addition, antisense transfection inhibited the cell motility, the invasion of Matrigel, and the spindle shape morphology, which are characteristics of Kaposi's sarcoma cells. Moreover, the alphavbeta3 integrin, known to be involved in tumor invasion, was down-regulated. To evaluate the possible role of Pax2 expression in the endothelial origin of Kaposi's sarcoma cells, human microvascular endothelial cells were transfected with sense DNA. Endothelial cells transfected with sense PAX2 acquired spindle shape morphology, showed enhanced motility and Matrigel invasion, and displayed an enhanced expression of alphavbeta3 integrin. In conclusion, the expression of Pax2 by Kaposi's sarcoma cells correlated with an enhanced resistance against apoptotic signals and with the proinvasive phenotype. Moreover, PAX2-transfected endothelial cells acquired a phenotype resembling that of Kaposi's lesional cells, suggesting a role of this embryonic gene in tumorigenesis.
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- Stefano Buttiglieri
- Cattedra di Nefrologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna and Centro Ricerca Medicina Sperimentale, Università di Torino, Torino 10126, Italy
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Sacco MG, Soldati S, Indraccolo S, Cató EM, Cattaneo L, Scanziani E, Vezzoni P. Combined antiestrogen, antiangiogenic and anti-invasion therapy inhibits primary and metastatic tumor growth in the MMTVneu model of breast cancer. Gene Ther 2003; 10:1903-9. [PMID: 14502219 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Treatments available to women with locally advanced breast cancer are unsatisfactory, since most patients succumb to metastatic spread. Therefore, there is a need to devise novel therapeutic combinations that effectively inhibit metastatization and to test them in animal models of breast cancer showing strong similarities with their human counterpart, including the ability to give rise to metastases. With these considerations in mind, tamoxifen (TAM), 4-hydrotamoxifen (4-HT) or liposome-complexed DNA constructs coding for antiangiogenic/anti-invasion proteins (angiostatin, TIMP-2, IFN-alpha(1), sFLT-1) were individually administered to MMTVneu transgenic mice. Significant inhibition of primary tumor growth was obtained with TAM (40% inhibition, P=0.049), angiostatin (85% inhibition, P=0.001) and TIMP-2 (60% inhibition, P=0.015). No lung metastasis was observed in any of these treated mice at 5 months, compared with a rate of 70% in control groups. These observations were the basis for designing a combined treatment with all these compounds. The association of angiostatin, TIMP-2 and TAM was greatly effective at the primary tumor level (90% inhibition, P=0.01). Moreover, all the mice treated with this association were metastasis free at a time point (6 months) in which seven out of nine control mice were either dead from disseminated cancer or showed lung metastasis. This combined therapy could become an important component of anticancer therapy in humans.
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- M G Sacco
- Department of Human Genome and Multifactorial Diseases, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, ITB-CNR, Segrate, Italy
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Pati S, Foulke JS, Barabitskaya O, Kim J, Nair BC, Hone D, Smart J, Feldman RA, Reitz M. Human herpesvirus 8-encoded vGPCR activates nuclear factor of activated T cells and collaborates with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Tat. J Virol 2003; 77:5759-73. [PMID: 12719569 PMCID: PMC154031 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.10.5759-5773.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the etiologic agent of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), encodes a chemokine receptor homologue, the viral G protein-coupled receptor (vGPCR), that has been implicated in KS pathogenesis. Expression of vGPCR constitutively activates several signaling pathways, including NF-kappa B, and induces the expression of proinflammatory and angiogenic factors, consistent with the inflammatory hyperproliferative nature of KS lesions. Here we show that vGPCR also constitutively activates the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NF-AT), another transcription factor important in regulation of the expression of inflammatory cytokines and related factors. NF-AT activation by vGPCR depended upon signaling through the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-Akt-glycogen synthetase kinase 3 (PI3-K/Akt/GSK-3) pathway and resulted in increased expression of NF-AT-dependent cell surface molecules (CD25, CD29, Fas ligand), proinflammatory cytokines (interleukin-2 [IL-2], IL-4), and proangiogenic factors (granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor GMCSF and TNF alpha). vGPCR expression also increased endothelial cell-T-cell adhesion. Although infection with HHV-8 is necessary to cause KS, coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), in the absence of antiretroviral suppressive therapy, increases the risk of KS by many orders of magnitude. NF-AT and NF-kappa B activation by vGPCR was greatly increased by the HIV-1 Tat protein, although Tat alone had little effect on NF-AT. The enhancement of NF-AT by Tat appears to be mediated through collaborative stimulation of the PI3-K/Akt/GSK-3 pathway by vGPCR and Tat. Our data further support the idea that vGPCR contributes to the pathogenesis of KS by a paracrine mechanism and, in addition, provide the first evidence of collaboration between an HIV-1 protein and an HHV-8 protein.
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- Shibani Pati
- Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
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Bisacchi D, Noonan DM, Carlone S, Albini A, Pfeffer U. Kaposi's sarcoma and human chorionic gonadotropin: mechanisms, moieties and mysteries. Biol Chem 2002; 383:1315-20. [PMID: 12437123 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2002.149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) is a highly angiogenic neoplasm associated with infection by the human gamma-herpesvirus, HHV-8 or Kaposi's sarcoma herpes virus (KSHV). When in 1872 the Hungarian scientist Moritz Kaposi described the sarcoma, which was later named after him, he was dealing with a rare dermatologic disease. Today, KS is a more common pathology due to its high incidence in AIDS, in immuno-suppressed transplantation patients and, in its endemic form, in Africa. The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has led to a drastic reduction of KS incidence in HIV-infected patients, but in some cases KS resists the treatment. KS is more common in men than in women. The observation of spontaneous remissions during pregnancy stimulated investigations into the potential anti-KS activity of the pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). The variable effect in clinical trials using urinary preparations of the hormone (u-hCG) has led to the hypothesis that contaminating moieties present in these preparations may account for the anti-KS effect observed in vitro. While the discrepancy between laboratory tests and clinical trials remains a mystery, little is known about potential anti-KS mechanisms of the hormone itself and/or other active moieties present in u-hCG.
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- Davide Bisacchi
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
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