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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 295, Issue 4, Pages G798-G805Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00015.2008
Keywords
apoptosis; hypergastrinemia; neuroendocrine tumor; bcl-2 family
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- Wellcome Trust
- Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals National Health Service Trust Research and Development Fund
- Medical Research Council [G9900432] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G9900432] Funding Source: UKRI
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Elevated serum concentrations of the hormone gastrin are associated with the development of gastric carcinoid tumors, but the mechanisms of tumor development are not fully understood. We hypothesized that the antiapoptotic effects of gastrin may be implicated and have therefore investigated the role of antiapoptotic members of the bcl-2 family of proteins. AGS-G(R) human gastric carcinoma cells stably transfected with the CCK-2 receptor were used to assess changes in the expression of bcl-2 family members following gastrin treatment and the function of mcl-1 during apoptosis was investigated by use of small-interfering RNA (siRNA). Treatment of AGS-G(R) cells with 10 nM gastrin for 6 h caused maximally increased mcl-1 protein abundance. Gastrin-induced mcl-1 expression was inhibited by the transcription inhibitor actinomycin D and by the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide. Downstream signaling of mcl-1 expression occurred via the CCK-2 receptor, protein kinase C, and MAP kinase pathways, but not via PI 3-kinase. Transfection with mcl-1 siRNA significantly suppressed mcl-1 protein expression and abolished the antiapoptotic effects of gastrin on serum starvation-induced apoptosis. Mcl-1 protein expression was also specifically increased in the type I enterochromaffin-like cell carcinoid tumors of 10 patients with autoimmune atrophic gastritis and hyper-gastrinemia. Gastrin therefore signals via the CCK-2 receptor, protein kinase C, and MAP kinase to induce expression of antiapoptotic mcl-1 in AGS-G(R) cells, and mcl-1 expression is also increased in human hypergastrinemia-associated type I gastric carcinoid tumors. Gastrin-induced mcl-1 expression may therefore be an important mechanism contributing toward type I gastric carcinoid development.
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