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A role for phospholipase C-gamma-mediated signaling in tumor cell invasion.

Abstract
The invasive and metastatic transformation of cancers often results in death. However, the mechanisms that promote this transformation remain unclear. Two closely related receptors, the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and ErbB2, are overexpressed in a significant percentage of breast and prostate carcinomas, among others, with this up-regulated signaling correlating with tumor progression. Previous studies in our laboratory have demonstrated that an EGFR-phospholipase C (PLC)gamma-mediated motility-associated signaling pathway is rate-limiting for tumor cell invasion in vitro and in vivo in one model of prostate carcinoma. Therefore, we investigated whether this PLCgamma signaling pathway also was rate-limiting for invasion in other tumor cell lines and types and whether this EGFR activity is subsumed by the closely related ErbB2. We determined the effects of PLCgamma signal abrogation by pharmacological (U73122) and molecular (expression of the dominant-negative PLCz) means on the in vitro invasiveness of tumor cells. Inhibition of PLCgamma signaling concomitantly decreased invasiveness of de novo-occurring transgenic adenocarcinoma mouse prostate (TRAMP) lines and the human breast cancer cell lines MDA-468 and MDA-231; these lines present up-regulated EGFR signaling. Because the prostate and breast cancer lines usually present autocrine stimulatory loops involving EGFR, we also examined transgenic adenocarcinoma mouse prostate C1 and MDA-468 treated with the EGFR-specific kinase inhibitor PD153035 to determine whether invasiveness is dependent on EGFR signaling. PD153035 reduced invasiveness to levels similar to those seen with U73122, suggesting that the autocrine EGFR stimulatory loop is functioning to promote invasiveness. To determine whether this signaling pathway also promotes invasiveness of ErbB2-overexpressing tumors, we examined the human breast carcinoma line MDA-361; again, U73122 inhibition of PLCgamma decreased invasiveness. In all situations, the inhibition of PLCgamma signaling did not decrease mitogenic signaling. Thus, the motility-associated PLCgamma signaling pathway is a generalizable rate-limiting step for tumor cell progression.
AuthorsJ Kassis, J Moellinger, H Lo, N M Greenberg, H G Kim, A Wells
JournalClinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (Clin Cancer Res) Vol. 5 Issue 8 Pg. 2251-60 (Aug 1999) ISSN: 1078-0432 [Print] United States
PMID10473113 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Estrenes
  • Isoenzymes
  • Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors
  • Pyrrolidinones
  • Quinazolines
  • 1-(6-((3-methoxyestra-1,3,5(10)-trien-17-yl)amino)hexyl)-1H-pyrrole-2,5-dione
  • Epidermal Growth Factor
  • ErbB Receptors
  • Receptor, ErbB-2
  • Type C Phospholipases
  • Phospholipase C gamma
  • 4-((3-bromophenyl)amino)-6,7-dimethoxyquinazoline
Topics
  • Adenocarcinoma (enzymology, metabolism, pathology)
  • Animals
  • Autocrine Communication
  • Breast Neoplasms (enzymology, metabolism, pathology)
  • Cell Line
  • Diffusion Chambers, Culture
  • Epidermal Growth Factor (pharmacology)
  • ErbB Receptors (metabolism)
  • Estrenes (pharmacology)
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunoblotting
  • Isoenzymes (antagonists & inhibitors, genetics, metabolism, physiology)
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors (pharmacology)
  • Phospholipase C gamma
  • Phosphorylation (drug effects)
  • Prostatic Neoplasms (enzymology, metabolism, pathology)
  • Pyrrolidinones (pharmacology)
  • Quinazolines (pharmacology)
  • Receptor, ErbB-2 (metabolism)
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Signal Transduction (physiology)
  • Type C Phospholipases (antagonists & inhibitors, genetics, metabolism, physiology)

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