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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 66, Issue 16, Pages 8007-8016Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-4451
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- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA068485, R01 CA108646, P30CA68485, U01 CA096403, R01 CA108646-03, CA96403] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK067049, R01 DK067049, R56 DK067049] Funding Source: Medline
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Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) is a piciotropic growth factor with actions that are dependent on circumstances, including dose, target cell type, and context. TGF-beta can elicit both growth-promoting and growth-suppressive activities. In normal tissues, TGF-beta generally acts to restrict growth and maintain differentiation. However, during tumorigenesis, changes in TGF-beta expression and cellular responses can promote tumorigenesis. The present study examines the effects of TGF-beta on the nontumorigenic human prostatic epithelial cell line BPH1 and on three derivative tumorigenic sublines BPH1(CAFTD)1, BPHI(CAFTD)3, and BPH1(CAFTD)5. The data show that TGF-beta has different effects on the nontumorigenic and tumorigenic cells. The nontumorigenic cells are growth inhibited by TGF-beta. In contrast, the tumorigenic sublines are not growth inhibited but instead undergo an epithelial to mesenchymal transformation (EMT) in response to TGF-beta. The tumorigenic lines show constitutively elevated levels of phosphorylated Akt, which modulates their response to TGF-beta by blocking Smad3 and p21 nuclear translocation. On TGF-beta stimulation of the tumorigenic sublines, the activated Akt allows the cell to escape cell cycle arrest. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathway is also involved in TGF-beta-induced EMT, defined here by induction of vimentin expression and enhanced cellular motility. In vivo, tumorigenic cells with constitutively active TGF-beta signaling show increased invasion with EMT, which express vimentin, located specifically at the invasive front of the tumor. These data indicate that following malignant transformation TGF-beta can play a direct role in promoting prostatic cancer and further that these responses are context specific in vivo.
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