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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 51, Pages 47901-47905Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M107574200
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We reported previously that endogenous p38 ALAPK activity is elevated in invasive breast cancer cells and that constitutive p38 MAPK activity is important for overproduction of uPA in these cells (Huang, S., New, L., Pan, Z., Han, J., and Nemerow, G. R. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 12266-12272). However, it is unclear how elevated endogenous p38 MAPK activity is maintained in invasive breast cancer cells. In the present study, we found that blocking a, integrin functionality with a function-blocking monoclonal antibody or down-regulating alpha (v) integrin expression with alpha (v)-specific antisense oligonucleotides significantly decreased the levels of active p38 MAPK and inhibited cell-associated uPA expression in invasive breast cancer MDA-ME-231 cells. These results suggest a function link between alpha (v) integrin, p38 MAPK activity, and uPA expression in invasive tumor cells. We also found that vitronectin/alpha (v) integrin ligation specifically induced p38 MAPK activation and uPA up-regulation in invasive MDA-MB-231 cells but not in non-invasive MCF7 cells. Finally, using a panel of melanoma cells, we demonstrated that the cytoplasmic tail of a, integrin subunit is required for alpha (v) integrin ligation-induced p38 MAPK activation.
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