Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 20, Issue 34, Pages 4710-4717Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1204619
Keywords
integrins; apoptosis; anoikis; extracellular matrix
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A population of cells surviving during prolonged incubation in suspension (anoikis-negative cells) were selected from the original anoikis-positive human intestinal carcinoma cell line Caco-2. Anoikis-negative cells are characterized by a strong transcriptional downregulation of the alphav-integrin chain as detected by FACS analysis, RT-PCR and Northern blotting. This finding suggested that ow-integrin generates a signal stimulating apoptosis of Caco-2 cells upon their detachment from the extracellular matrix. Two lines of evidence supporting this suggestion were provided. First, activation of the alphav beta3 integrin on Caco-2 cells by their treatment with an alphav beta3-specific monoclonal antibody resulted in marked stimulation of anoikis. Second, treatment of Caco-2 cells with alphav-specific antisense oligonucleotide resulted in downregulation of the expression of alphav chain and in elevated resistance of these cells to anoikis. Thus, for the first time, our data prove that alphav beta3 integrin can be an active transducer of apoptosis-stimulating signals generated in response to disruption of the cell-matrix contacts.
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