Yuen, Hiu-Fung, Chan, Ka-Kui, Platt-Higgins, Angela, Dakir, EL-Habib, Matchett, Kyle B., Ahmed Haggag, Yusuf, Jithesh, Puthen V., Habib, Tanwir, Faheem, Ahmed, Dean, Fennell A., Morgan, Richard, Rudland, Philip S. and El-Tanani, Mohamed (2016) Ran GTPase promotes cancer progression via Met receptormediated downstream signaling. Oncotarget, 7. pp. 75854-75864. ISSN 1949-2553
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It has been shown previously that cancer cells with an activated oncogenic pathway, including Met activation, require Ran for growth and survival.
Here, we show that knockdown of Ran leads to a reduction of Met receptor expression in several breast and lung cancer cell lines. This, in turn suppressed HGF expression and the Met-mediated activation of the Akt pathway, as well as cell adhesion, migration, and invasion. In a cell line model where Met amplification has previously been shown to contribute to gefitinib resistance, Ran knockdown sensitized cells to gefitinib-mediated inhibition of Akt and ERK1/2 phosphorylation and consequently reduced cell proliferation. We further demonstrate that Met reduction-mediated by knockdown of Ran, occurs at the post-transcriptional level, probably via a matrix metalloproteinase. Moreover, the level of immunoreactive Ran and Met are positively associated in human breast cancer specimens, suggesting that a high level of Ran may be a pre-requisite for Met overexpression. Interestingly, a high level of immunoreactive Ran dictates the prognostic significance of Met, indicating that the co-overexpression of Met and Ran may be associated with cancer progression and could be used in combination as a prognostic indicator.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Depositing User: | Barry Hall |
| URI: | https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6780 |
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