Journal
NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERGS ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 384, Issue 4-5, Pages 421-431Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-011-0649-3
Keywords
Nucleoside diphosphate kinase; Metastasis; Cancer; Invasion; Silencing; Knockout
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- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
- Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
- Groupement des Entreprises Francaises contre le Cancer (GEFLUC)
- Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer (ARC)
- Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer
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The human NME gene family (also known as NM23) comprises ten genes that are involved in diverse physiological and pathological processes including proliferation, differentiation, development, ciliary functions, and metastasis. For the moment, only the NME1, NME2, and NME7 genes have been inactivated in transgenic knockout mice, as well as a double NME1-NME2 gene knockout. Mice lacking NME1 or NME2 grow to adulthood without health problems, although NME1 (-/-) mice have modest growth retardation. Double knockout NME1 (-/-) -NME2 (-/-) mice, by contrast, are highly hypotrophic and die at birth from profound anemia due to impaired erythroblast development. Evidence for a metastasis suppressor function of NME1 in vivo comes from crossing NME1 (-/-) mice with mice prone to develop hepatocellular carcinoma; the double transgenic mice present a higher incidence of lung metastases. Silencing of NME1 by siRNA interference has confirmed this function by conferring a metastatic phenotype on non-invasive human epithelial cancer cell lines. This function is specific to NME1 and is not observed when the NME2 is silenced. The data indicate that NME1 loss is causally involved at the early stages of the metastatic cascade. NME2 (-/-) mice and NME2 silencing experiments reveal a specific role of NME2 in activation of heterotrimeric G proteins and of KCa3.1 channel in T cells, pointing to a role of NME2 as a histidine phosphotransferase. Regarding NME7, consistent with its expression in axonemal structures, NME7 (-/-) mice present lesions similar to primary ciliary dyskinesia. This review summarizes the recent data obtained by knockout and silencing of NME/NM23 genes that provide mechanistic insights into their respective roles in physiology and pathology.
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