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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 283, Issue 12, Pages 7616-7627Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M705839200
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Malignant breast cancer cells that have entered the blood circulation from primary mammary fat pad tumors or are grown in end-over-end suspension culture assemble a characteristic, multi-globular polymeric fibronectin (polyFn) coat on their surfaces. Surface polyFn is critical for pulmonary metastasis, presumably by facilitating lung vascular arrest via endothelial dipeptidylpeptidase IV (CD26). Here, we show that cell-surface polyFn assembly is initiated by the state of suspension, is dependent upon the synthesis and secretion of cellular Fn, and is augmented in a dose-and time-dependent manner by plasma Fn. PolyFn assembly is regulated by protein kinase C-epsilon (PKC epsilon), which translocates rapidly and in increasing amounts from the cytosol to the plasma membrane and is phosphorylated. PolyFn assembly is impeded by select inhibitors of this kinase, i.e. bisindolylmaleimide I, Ro-32-0432, Go6983, and Rottlerin, by the phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-mediated and time-dependent loss of PKC epsilon protein and decreased plasma membrane translocation, and more specifically, by stable transfection of lung-metastatic MTF7L breast cancer cells with small interfering RNA-PKC epsilon and dominant-negative PKC epsilon constructs (e.g. RD-PKC epsilon). The inability to assemble a cell surface-associated polyFn coat by knockdown of endogenous Fn or PKC epsilon impedes cancer cells from metastasis to the lungs. The present studies identify a novel regulatory mechanism for polyFn assembly on blood-borne breast cancer cells and depict its effect on pulmonary metastasis.
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