Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 423-433Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/onc.2010.432
Keywords
frizzled; collagen XVIII; Wnt; beta-catenin; colorectal cancer; secreted frizzled-related proteins
Funding
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
- Institut National du Cancer
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Universite de Rennes 1
- Region Bretagne
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Constitutive activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in cancer results from mutations in pathway components, which frequently coexist with autocrine Wnt signaling or epigenetic silencing of extracellular Wnt antagonists. Among the extracellular Wnt inhibitors, the secreted frizzled-related proteins (SFRPs) are decoy receptors that contain soluble Wnt-binding frizzled domains. In addition to SFRPs, other endogenous molecules harboring frizzled motifs bind to and inhibit Wnt signaling. One of such molecules is V3Nter, a soluble SFRP-like frizzled polypeptide that binds to Wnt3a and inhibits Wnt signaling and expression of the beta-catenin target genes cyclin D1 and c-myc. V3Nter is derived from the cell surface extracellular matrix component collagen XVIII. Here, we used HCT116 human colon cancer cells carrying the Delta S45 activating mutation in one of the alleles of beta-catenin to show that V3Nter and SFRP-1 decrease baseline and Wnt3a-induced beta-catenin stabilization. Consequently, V3Nter reduces the growth of human colorectal cancer xenografts by specifically controlling cell proliferation and cell cycle progression, without affecting angiogenesis or apoptosis, as shown by decreased [H-3]-thymidine (in vitro) or BrdU (in vivo) incorporation, clonogenesis assays, cell cycle analysis and magnetic resonance imaging in living mice. Additionally, V3Nter switches off the beta-catenin target gene expression signature in vivo. Moreover, experiments with b-catenin allele-targeted cells showed that the DS45 beta-catenin allele hampers, but does not abrogate, inhibition of Wnt signaling by SFRP-1 or by the SFRP-like frizzled domain. Finally, neither SFRP-1 nor V3Nter affect beta-catenin signaling in SW480 cells carrying nonfunctional Adenomatous polyposis coli. Thus, SFRP-1 and the SFRP-like molecule V3Nter can inhibit tumor growth of beta-catenin-activated tumor cells in vivo. Oncogene (2011) 30, 423-433; doi: 10.1038/onc.2010.432; published online 20 September 2010
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