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Influence of beta1 integrins on epidermal squamous cell carcinoma formation in a transgenic mouse model: alpha3beta1, but not alpha2beta1, suppresses malignant conversion.

Abstract
Although aberrant integrin expression has been documented in many epithelial tumors, little is known about how integrins influence neoplastic progression. To examine this issue, transgenic mice in which the alpha2beta1 or alpha3beta1 integrin was expressed in the suprabasal epidermal layers via the involucrin promoter were subjected to skin carcinogenesis. Equal numbers of benign squamous papillomas were observed in transgenic and wild-type animals. However, the frequency of conversion of papillomas to malignant squamous cell carcinomas was much lower in alpha3beta1 transgenic than in alpha2beta1 transgenic and wild-type mice. No differences were observed in apoptosis or in the expression of endogenous integrins in transgenic and wild-type papillomas. However, alpha3beta1 transgenic papillomas displayed a diminished proliferative capacity and were more highly differentiated as judged by BrdUrd incorporation and keratin 10 expression, respectively, than alpha2beta1 transgenic and wild-type papillomas. Two proteins that associate with alpha3beta1 and not alpha2beta1 are extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer and CD81. Extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer expression correlated inversely with the degree of differentiation in normal epidermis and in transgenic and wild-type papillomas. Up-regulation of CD81 was observed in 100% of wild-type and 88% of alpha2beta1 transgenic papillomas but in only 25% of alpha3beta1 transgenic papillomas. CD81 was undetectable in untreated epidermis and strongly expressed in all transgenic and wild-type squamous cell carcinomas. Our results demonstrate that the alpha3beta1 integrin can suppress malignant conversion, and that the mechanism may involve CD81.
AuthorsD M Owens, F M Watt
JournalCancer research (Cancer Res) Vol. 61 Issue 13 Pg. 5248-54 (Jul 01 2001) ISSN: 0008-5472 [Print] United States
PMID11431366 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Antigens, CD
  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Bsg protein, mouse
  • Carcinogens
  • Cd81 protein, mouse
  • Integrin alpha3beta1
  • Integrins
  • Membrane Glycoproteins
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Receptors, Collagen
  • Tetraspanin 28
  • Basigin
  • 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene
  • Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate
Topics
  • 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene
  • Animals
  • Antigens, CD (biosynthesis)
  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Basigin
  • Carcinogens
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell (chemically induced, metabolism, pathology)
  • Cell Division
  • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic (drug effects, metabolism, pathology)
  • Female
  • Integrin alpha3beta1
  • Integrins (biosynthesis, genetics, physiology)
  • Keratinocytes (cytology, metabolism)
  • Membrane Glycoproteins (biosynthesis)
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Inbred CBA
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Papilloma (chemically induced, metabolism, pathology)
  • Receptors, Collagen
  • Skin (cytology, metabolism)
  • Skin Neoplasms (chemically induced, metabolism, pathology)
  • Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate
  • Tetraspanin 28

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