251. Slug regulates E-cadherin repression via p19Arf in prostate tumorigenesis.
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Xie Y, Liu S, Lu W, Yang Q, Williams KD, Binhazim AA, Carver BS, Matusik RJ, and Chen Z
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- Animals, Cadherins genetics, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16 genetics, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Gene Knockout Techniques, Humans, Male, Mice, Prostate metabolism, Prostatic Neoplasms genetics, SUMO-1 Protein metabolism, Snail Family Transcription Factors, Cadherins metabolism, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16 metabolism, Prostate pathology, Prostatic Neoplasms metabolism, Prostatic Neoplasms pathology, Transcription Factors metabolism
- Abstract
SLUG represses E-cadherin to promote epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in various cancers. Mechanisms that regulate SLUG/E-cadherin pathway remain poorly understood, especially during tumorigenesis in vivo. Here we report that p19(Arf) (p14(ARF) in human) stabilizes Slug to inhibit E-cadherin in prostate cancer mouse models. Inactivation of p19(Arf) reduces Slug levels, resulting in increased E-cadherin expression and delaying the onset and progression of prostate cancer in Pten/Trp53 double null mice. Mechanistically, p14(ARF) stabilizes SLUG through increased sumoylation at lysine residue 192. Importantly, levels of SLUG and p14(ARF) are positively correlated in human prostate cancer specimens. These data demonstrated that ARF modulates the SLUG/E-cadherin signaling axis for augmenting prostate tumorigenesis in vivo, revealing a novel paradigm where the oncogenic functions of SLUG require ARF to target E-cadherin in prostate cancer. Collectively, our findings further support that ARF has dual tumor suppressive/oncogenic roles in cancers in a context-dependent manner., (Copyright © 2014 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2014
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