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CANCER SCIENCE
Volume 100, Issue 3, Pages 396-404Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2008.01059.x
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- Japan Society for Promotion of Science
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [18659067]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18659067] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We previously demonstrated that the proto-oncogene Pim-3 with serine/threonine kinase activity was aberrantly expressed in cancer cells but not in the normal cells of the pancreas. In order to elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying aberrant Pim-3 expression in pancreatic cancer cells, we constructed luciferase expression vectors linked to 5'-flanking deletion mutants of the human Pim-3 gene and transfected human pancreatic cancer cells with the resultant vectors. The region up to -264 bp was essential for constitutive Pim-3 gene expression, and the mutation in the Ets-1 binding site (between -216 and -211 bp) reduced luciferase activities. Moreover, Ets-1 mRNA and protein were constitutively expressed together with Pim-3 in human pancreatic cancer cell lines. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assay demonstrated constitutive binding of Ets-1 to the 5'-flanking region of human Pim-3 gene between -249 and -183 bp. Pim-3 promoter activity and its protein expression were induced by transfection with wild type-Ets-1 and were reduced by transfection with dominant negative-Ets-1 or Ets-1 small-interfering RNA (siRNA). Furthermore, dominant negative-Ets-1 and Ets-1 siRNA reduced the amount of Bad phosphorylated at its Ser(112) and induced apoptosis, when they were transfected into human pancreatic cancer cells. Finally, Pim-3 cDNA transfection reversed Ets-1 siRNA-induced increase in apoptosis and decrease in Bad phosphorylation at its Ser(112). These observations would indicate that the transcription factor Ets-1 can induce aberrant Pim-3 expression and subsequently prevent apoptosis in human pancreatic cancer cells. (Cancer Sci 2009; 100: 396-404).
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