| Autor: |
Hasegawa, Kazunori, Yazumi, Shujiro, Wada, Manabu, Sakurai, Toshiharu, Kida, Masaya, Yamauchi, Junichi, Hisatsune, Hiroshi, Tada, Shinsuke, Ida, Hiroshi, Nakase, Yuenn, Sakakura, Chohei, Hagiwara, Akeo, Chiba, Tsutomu |
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Cancer Science; Jun2007, Vol. 98 Issue 6, p838-843, 6p, 2 Black and White Photographs, 3 Charts, 3 Graphs |
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RUNX3 is a candidate tumor suppressor gene localized in 1p36, a region commonly inactivated by deletion and methylation in various human tumors. To elucidate the role of RUNX3 in transforming growth factor (TGF)-β signaling in biliary tract cancer, we transfected Mz-ChA-2 cells, which do not express RUNX3 but have intact TGF-β type II receptor and SMAD4 genes, with the RUNX3 expression plasmid pcDNA3.1/RUNX3 or with the vector pcDNA3.1 as a control. Four Mz-ChA-2/ RUNX3 clones and one control clone were obtained. Although TGF-β1 only slightly inhibited growth of the control cells, growth inhibition and TGF-β-dependent G1 arrest were significantly enhanced in the RUNX3-transfected clones. None of the clones, however, exhibited apoptosis. The slightly increased TGF-β1-induced p21 expression in the control clone was strongly enhanced in the RUNX3-transfected clones, and was accompanied by augmented decreases in the expression of cyclins D1 and E. When RUNX3 small interfering RNA was added, TGF-β-dependent induction of p21 was reduced in the RUNX3-transfected clones. Xenografts of the clones in nude mice demonstrated that tumorigenicity was significantly decreased in the RUNX3-transfected clones in inverse proportion to the expression levels of RUNX3. Based on these results, RUNX3 is involved in TGF-β-induced expression of p21 and the resulting induction of TGF-β-dependent G1 arrest. ( Cancer Sci 2007; 98: 838–843) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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