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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 1, Pages 50-63Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.06152-11
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81072166]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB834305]
- Shanghai Municipal Education Commission [09ZZ04]
- Natural Science Foundation of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [09ZR1406900]
- Shanghai Pujiang Program
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TIEG1 can induce apoptosis of cancer cells, but its role in inhibiting invasion and metastasis has not been reported and is unclear. In this study, we find that decreased TIEG1 expression is associated with increased human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression in breast cancer tissues and cell lines. TIEG1 plays an important role in suppressing transcription of EGFR by directly binding to the EGFR promoter. While overexpression of TIEG1 attenuates EGFR expression, knockdown of TIEG1 stimulates EGFR expression. Furthermore, TIEG1 and HDAC1 form a complex, which binds to Sp1 sites on the EGFR promoter and inhibits its transcription by suppressing histone acetylation. TIEG1 significantly inhibits breast cancer cell invasion, suppresses mammary tumorigenesis in xenografts in mice, and decreases lung metastasis by inhibition of EGFR gene transcription and the EGFR signaling pathway. Therefore, TIEG1 is an antimetastasis gene product; regulation of EGFR expression by TIEG1 may be part of an integral signaling pathway that determines and explains breast cancer invasion and metastasis.
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