scholarly journals ErbB2 Receptor in Breast Cancer: Implications in Cancer Cell Migration, Invasion and Resistance to Targeted Therapy

Author(s):  
Maria del Pilar Camacho-Leal ◽  
Marianna Sciortino ◽  
Sara Cabodi
2012 ◽  
Vol 214 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Diaz ◽  
Evelyn Aranda ◽  
Soledad Henriquez ◽  
Marisol Quezada ◽  
Estefanía Espinoza ◽  
...  

Progesterone and progestins have been demonstrated to enhance breast cancer cell migration, although the mechanisms are still not fully understood. The protease-activated receptors (PARs) are a family of membrane receptors that are activated by serine proteases in the blood coagulation cascade. PAR1 (F2R) has been reported to be involved in cancer cell migration and overexpressed in breast cancer. We herein demonstrate that PAR1 mRNA and protein are upregulated by progesterone treatment of the breast cancer cell lines ZR-75 and T47D. This regulation is dependent on the progesterone receptor (PR) but does not require PR phosphorylation at serine 294 or the PR proline-rich region mPRO. The increase in PAR1 mRNA was transient, being present at 3 h and returning to basal levels at 18 h. The addition of a PAR1-activating peptide (aPAR1) to cells treated with progesterone resulted in an increase in focal adhesion (FA) formation as measured by the cellular levels of phosphorylated FA kinase. The combined but not individual treatment of progesterone and aPAR1 also markedly increased stress fiber formation and the migratory capacity of breast cancer cells. In agreement with in vitro findings, data mining from the Oncomine platform revealed that PAR1 expression was significantly upregulated in PR-positive breast tumors. Our observation that PAR1 expression and signal transduction are modulated by progesterone provides new insight into how the progestin component in hormone therapies increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Zhou ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Mingming Luan ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Bo Tang

Cancer cell migration and invasion are initial steps for tumor metastasis that increases patient mortality. Tumor microenvironment is characterized by hypoxic and low nutrient-containing. Previous studies have suggested that hypoxia...


2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 658-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer S. Kaoud ◽  
Shreya Mitra ◽  
Sunbae Lee ◽  
Juliana Taliaferro ◽  
Michael Cantrell ◽  
...  

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 4293
Author(s):  
Xiaowen Liu ◽  
Manuel A. Riquelme ◽  
Yi Tian ◽  
Dezhi Zhao ◽  
Francisca M. Acosta ◽  
...  

ATP released by bone osteocytes is shown to activate purinergic signaling and inhibit the metastasis of breast cancer cells into the bone. However, the underlying molecular mechanism is not well understood. Here, we demonstrate the important roles of the CXCR4 and P2Y11 purinergic receptors in mediating the inhibitory effect of ATP on breast cancer cell migration and bone metastasis. Wound-healing and transwell migration assays showed that non-hydrolysable ATP analogue, ATPγS, inhibited migration of bone-tropic human breast cancer cells in a dose-dependent manner. BzATP, an agonist for P2X7 and an inducer for P2Y11 internalization, had a similar dose-dependent inhibition on cell migration. Both ATPγS and BzATP suppressed the expression of CXCR4, a chemokine receptor known to promote breast cancer bone metastasis, and knocking down CXCR4 expression by siRNA attenuated the inhibitory effect of ATPγS on cancer cell migration. While a P2X7 antagonist A804598 had no effect on the impact of ATPγS on cell migration, antagonizing P2Y11 by NF157 ablated the effect of ATPγS. Moreover, the reduction in P2Y11 expression by siRNA decreased cancer cell migration and abolished the impact of ATPγS on cell migration and CXCR4 expression. Similar to the effect of ATPγS on cell migration, antagonizing P2Y11 inhibited bone-tropic breast cancer cell migration in a dose-dependent manner. An in vivo study using an intratibial bone metastatic model showed that ATPγS inhibited breast cancer growth in the bone. Taken together, these results suggest that ATP inhibits bone-tropic breast cancer cells by down-regulating the P2Y11 purinergic receptor and the down-regulation of CXCR4 expression.


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