Effects of EpCAM overexpression on human breast cancer cell lines
| Autor: | Gilbert Spizzo, Marion Zitt, Oliver A. Wrulich, Florian Lehne, Martin Hermann, Sylvia Krobitsch, Guenther Gastl, Johanna M. Gostner, Agnieszka Martowicz, Dominic Fong |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cancer Research
medicine.drug_class Antineoplastic Agents Breast Neoplasms Cell Growth Processes Docetaxel Biology Monoclonal antibody lcsh:RC254-282 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Breast cancer Antigen Antigens Neoplasm Cell Movement Surgical oncology Cell Line Tumor medicine Genetics Humans skin and connective tissue diseases beta Catenin 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences Microscopy Confocal Gene Expression Profiling Cancer Epithelial cell adhesion molecule lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule medicine.disease 3. Good health Wnt Proteins chemistry Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis biology.protein Cancer research Female Taxoids Antibody Cell Adhesion Molecules Protein Processing Post-Translational Signal Transduction Subcellular Fractions Research Article medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | BMC Cancer BMC Cancer, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 45 (2011) |
| ISSN: | 1471-2407 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2407-11-45 |
| Popis: | Background Recently, EpCAM has attracted major interest as a target for antibody- and vaccine-based cancer immunotherapies. In breast cancer, the EpCAM antigen is overexpressed in 30-40% of all cases and this increased expression correlates with poor prognosis. The use of EpCAM-specific monoclonal antibodies is a promising treatment approach in these patients. Methods In order to explore molecular changes following EpCAM overexpression, we investigated changes of the transcriptome upon EpCAM gene expression in commercially available human breast cancer cells lines Hs578T and MDA-MB-231. To assess cell proliferation, a tetrazolium salt based assay was performed. A TCF/LEF Reporter Kit was used to measure the transcriptional activity of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway. To evaluate the accumulation of β-catenin in the nucleus, a subcellular fractionation assay was performed. Results For the first time we could show that expression profiling data of EpCAM transfected cell lines Hs578TEpCAM and MDA-MB-231EpCAM indicate an association of EpCAM overexpression with the downregulation of the Wnt signaling inhibitors SFRP1 and TCF7L2. Confirmation of increased Wnt signaling was provided by a TCF/LEF reporter kit and by the finding of the nuclear accumulation of ß-catenin for MDA-MB-231EpCAM but not Hs578TEpCAM cells. In Hs578T cells, an increase of proliferation and chemosensitivity to Docetaxel was associated with EpCAM overexpression. Conclusions These data show a cell type dependent modification of Wnt signaling components after EpCAM overexpression in breast cancer cell lines, which results in marginal functional changes. Further investigations on the interaction of EpCAM with SFRP1 and TCF7L2 and on additional factors, which may be causal for changes upon EpCAM overexpression, will help to characterize unique molecular properties of EpCAM-positive breast cancer cells. |
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