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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 294, Issue 29, Pages 11248-11258Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007713
Keywords
vacuolar ATPase; breast cancer; cell invasion; cell migration; plasma membrane; proton pump; metastasis; a-subunit isoforms; protein trafficking
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 GM34478]
- Breast Cancer Alliance
- Tufts University
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The vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) is an ATP-driven proton pump present in various intracellular membranes and at the plasma membrane of specialized cell types. Previous work has reported that plasma membrane V-ATPases are key players in breast cancer cell invasiveness. The two subunit a-isoforms known to target the V-ATPase to the plasma membrane are a3 and a4, and expression of a3 has been shown to correlate with plasma membrane localization of the V-ATPase in various invasive human breast cancer cell lines. Here we analyzed the role of subunit a-isoforms in the invasive mouse breast cancer cell line, 4T1-12B. Quantitation of mRNA levels for each isoform by quantitative RT-PCR revealed that a4 is the dominant isoform expressed in these cells. Using a CRISPR/Cas9-based approach to disrupt the genes encoding each of the four V-ATPase subunit a-isoforms, we found that ablation of only the a4-encoding gene significantly inhibits invasion and migration of 4T1-12B cells. Additionally, cells with disrupted a4 exhibited reduced V-ATPase expression at the leading edge, suggesting that the a4 isoform is primarily responsible for targeting the V-ATPase to the plasma membrane in 4T1-12B cells. These findings suggest that different subunit a-isoforms may direct V-ATPases to the plasma membrane of different invasive breast cancer cell lines. They further suggest that expression of V-ATPases at the cell surface is the primary factor that promotes an invasive cancer cell phenotype.
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