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ORAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 7, Pages 683-688Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.08.017
Keywords
invasion; oral squamous cell carcinoma; Rac1; Cdc42; Vav2
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- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE 15856-01, DE 018061-01, DE 015626-01] Funding Source: Medline
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The Rho family of GTPases regulates cellular adhesion and motility. Guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) in turn regulate GTPases by promoting nucleotide exchange from GDP to GTP. We have determined that GTP-bound Rac1 is elevated in invasive oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cell tines. Because of the critical role of invasion in the progression and metastasis of OSCC, we investigated if the GEF Vav2 modulated Rac1 and Cdc42 activation and thus influenced OSCC invasion. Expression levels of Vav2 did not correlate with invasion but phosphorylated or activated Vav2 was associated with the more invasive cell lines. Transfection of activated Vav2 into the immortalized keratinocyte cell line HaCat and a low-level. expressing Vav2 invasive OSCC cell line resulted in increased GTP-bound Rac1 and Cdc42 and increased invasion. Thus, activation of Vav2 appears to modulate cellular invasion through specific regulation of Rac1 and Cdc42 activity in OSCC. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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