Heregulin-[beta]1 promotes metastasis of breast cancer cell line SKBR3 through upregulation of Snail and induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition

HRG-β1 stimulation of breast cancer cell line SKBR3 resulted in not only increased cell migration and invasion, upregulation of some mesenchymal markers, and downregulation of epithelial marker, but also upregulation of transcription factor Snail and its nuclear translocation. Similar results were a...

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Published inCancer letters Vol. 280; no. 1; p. 50
Main Authors Cheng, LianSheng, Zha, Zhao, Lang, Bo, Liu, Jing, Yao, XueBiao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Clare Elsevier Limited 18.07.2009
Subjects
Breast cancer
Cell culture
Genotype & phenotype
Kinases
Ligands
Motility
Phosphorylation
Proteins
R&D
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Summary:HRG-β1 stimulation of breast cancer cell line SKBR3 resulted in not only increased cell migration and invasion, upregulation of some mesenchymal markers, and downregulation of epithelial marker, but also upregulation of transcription factor Snail and its nuclear translocation. Similar results were acquired for cells transfected with Snail cDNA. Furthermore, downregulation of Snail by siRNA attenuated HRG-β1 induced EMT-like phenotype. Inhibition of Akt kinase activation by a PI3K inhibitor LY294002, or exogenous expression of a kinase-dead mutant of Akt abrogated the increase of Snail expression induced by HRG-β1. Conversely, expression of a constitutively active Akt resulted in increase of Snail expression. These results indicated that Snail upregulation by HRG-β1 is mediated via the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway and that Snail plays a key role in HRG-β1 induced breast cancer cell metastasis through induction of EMT.
ISSN:0304-3835
1872-7980
DOI:10.1016/j.canlet.2009.02.007