IngentaConnect Loss of BRCA2 promotes prostate cancer cell invasion through up-r...

Authors: Moro, Loredana; Arbini, Arnaldo A.; Yao, Jorge L.¹; di Sant'Agnese, Paul A.¹; Marra, Ersilia²; Greco, Margherita²

Source: Cancer Science, Volume 99, Number 3, March 2008 , pp. 553-563(11)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

BRCA2 is a multifunctional tumor suppressor protein which plays critical roles in DNA repair, transcription, and cell proliferation, and the loss of which has been linked to the biology of several types of cancers. Here, on prostate adenocarcinoma specimens from 80 patients, we demonstrate that BRCA2 protein is lost in carcinoma cells compared to normal and hyperplastic prostate epithelium. Using highly metastatic prostate cancer PC-3 cells, we show that while BRCA2 depletion by small-interfering RNA promoted migration onto the extracellular matrix proteins fibronectin, laminin, and collagens, as well as invasion through the reconstituted basement membrane matrix Matrigel by more than 140%, recombinant BRCA2 overexpression decreased both phenomena by 57-80% and changed cell morphology from angular and spindle to round and compact. The BRCA2 inhibitory effect on cancer cell migration and invasion resulted from down-regulation of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 protein levels due to increased MMP-9 proteolysis, and was signaled through inhibition of PI3-kinase/AKT and activation of MAPK/ERK pathway. In BRCA2-overexpressing PC-3 cells, transient transfection with a constitutively active PI3-kinase mutant or treatment with the MAPK/ERK inhibitor PD98059 rescued MMP-9 levels and restored the migratory and invasive capabilities. Consistently, PI3-kinase inhibition with a dominant-negative mutant or MAPK/ERK activation with a gain-of-function mutant reduced MMP-9 levels and prevented migration and invasion in wild-type PC-3 cells. These results provide novel evidence showing that a functional BRCA2 protein may limit the metastatic potential of neoplastic cells by down-regulating MMP-9 production through inhibition of PI3-kinase/AKT and activation of MAPK/ERK, effectively hindering cancer cell migration and invasion. (Cancer Sci 2008; 99: 553-563)

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2007.00719.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA 2: Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, National Research Council (C.N.R), Via Amendola 165/A, Bari 70126, Italy;

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Loss of BRCA2 promotes prostate cancer cell invasion through up-regulation of matrix metalloproteinase-9