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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 284, Issue 25, Pages 17157-17169Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.010934
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- National Institutes of Health [CA33000, CA48737, PO1CA71932]
- Taiwan National Science Council
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Although there are numerous reports of carbohydrates enriched in cancer cells, very few studies have addressed the functions of carbohydrates present in normal cells that decrease in cancer cells. It has been reported that core3 O-glycans are synthesized in normal gastrointestinal cells but are down-regulated in cancer cells. To determine the roles of core3 O-glycans, we transfected PC3 and LNCaP prostate cancer cells with beta 3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-6 ( core3 synthase) required to synthesize core3 O-glycans. Both engineered cell lines exhibited reduced migration and invasion through extracellular matrix components compared with mock-transfected cells. Moreover we found that alpha 2 beta 1 integrin acquired core3 O-glycans in cells expressing core3 synthase with decreased maturation of beta 1 integrin, leading to decreased levels of the alpha 2 beta 1 integrin complex, decreased activation of focal adhesion kinase, and reduced lamellipodia formation. Upon inoculation into the prostate of nude mice, PC3 cells expressing core3 O-glycans produced much smaller tumors without metastasis to the surrounding lymph nodes in contrast to robust tumor formation and metastasis seen in mock-transfected PC3 cells. Similarly LNCaP cells expressing core3 O-glycans barely produced subcutaneous tumors in contrast to robust tumor formation by mock-transfected LNCaP cells. These findings indicate that addition of core3 O-glycans to beta 1 and alpha 2 integrin subunits in prostate cancer cells suppresses tumor formation and tumor metastasis.
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