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LABORATORY INVESTIGATION
卷 91, 期 8, 页码 1181-1187出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2011.66
关键词
breast cancer; chromatin immunoprecipitation; maspin; metastasis; nuclear localization
资金
- Terry Fox Foundation
- Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance [016506]
- Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute [018176]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-64275]
- Canada Research Chairs Program
Maspin (mammary serine protease inhibitor or SerpinB5) acts as a tumor suppressor when overexpressed in aggressive cancer cell lines. However, its role in human cancer is controversial. Maspin expression has been associated with a poor prognosis in some studies, whereas in others, with favorable outcome. The clinical data suggest, however, that nuclear-localized maspin is associated with improved survival. We hypothesized that the tumor suppressor activity of maspin may require nuclear localization, and that the discordance between clinical and experimental reports is a consequence of the variable subcellular distribution of maspin. Furthermore, we surmized that nuclear maspin could function as a tumor suppressor through the regulation of genes involved in tumor growth and invasion. Maspin or maspin fused to a nuclear export signal were expressed in metastatic human breast and epidermoid carcinoma cell lines. We found that pan-cellular localized maspin inhibited in vivo tumor growth and metastasis when assessed in xenograft chicken embryo and murine mammary fat pad injection models. However, when maspin was excluded from the nucleus via a nuclear exclusion signal, it no longer functioned as a metastasis suppressor. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we show that nuclear maspin was enriched at the promoter of colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) and associated with diminished levels of CSF-1 mRNA. Our findings demonstrate that the nuclear localization of maspin is required for its tumor and metastasis suppressor functions in vivo, and suggest that its mechanism of action involves, in part, direct association of maspin with target genes. Laboratory Investigation (2011) 91, 1181-1187; doi:10.1038/labinvest.2011.66; published online 18 April 2011
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