Possible role of p53/Mieap‐regulated mitochondrial quality control as a tumor suppressor in human breast cancer

Autor: Siqin Gaowa, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Manabu Futamura, Hiroki Kamino, Jesse Yu Tajima, Masayuki Tsuneki, Hirofumi Arakawa, Ryutaro Mori
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Cancer Science
ISSN: 1349-7006
1347-9032
Popis: Mitochondria‐eating protein (Mieap), encoded by a p53‐target gene, plays an important role in mitochondrial quality control (MQC). Mieap has been reported to have a critical role in tumor suppression in colorectal cancer. Here, we investigated its role as a tumor suppressor in breast cancer. The enforced expression of exogenous Mieap in breast cancer cells induced caspase‐dependent apoptosis, with activation of both caspase‐3/7 and caspase‐9. Immunohistochemistry revealed endogenous Mieap in the cytoplasm in 24/75 (32%) invasive ductal carcinomas (IDC), 15/27 (55.6%) cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and 16/18 (88.9%) fibroadenomas (FA) (IDC vs DCIS; P = 0.0389, DCIS vs FA; P = 0.0234, IDC vs FA; P
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