Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 20, Issue 14, Pages 1715-1729Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1204247
Keywords
polyamines; nuclear factor kappa B; estrogen receptor; breast cancer
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [CA 80163, CA 73058, CA 42439] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 53220] Funding Source: Medline
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The natural polyamines -putrescine, spermidine, and spermine- are essential for cell growth and differentiation. Polyamines are involved in several gene regulatory functions, although their mechanism(s) of action has not been elucidated. We investigated the role of polyamines in the function of NF-kappaB and estrogen receptor-alpha (ER alpha), two transcription factors implicated in breast cancer cell proliferation and cell survival, using MCF-7 breast cancer cells. We found that spermine facilitated the binding of ER alpha and NF-kappaB to estrogen response element (ERE)- and NF-kappaB response element (NRE), respectively, and enhanced ER alpha -mediated transcriptional activation in transient transfection experiments. We also found that the association of the co-regulatory protein CBP/p300 with ER alpha and NF-kappaB was increased by spermine treatment of MCF-7 cells. Spermine also increased the nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB compared to the control. In contrast, treatment of MCF-7 cells with polyamine analogs, BE-3-4-3 and BE-3-3-3, resulted in transcriptional inhibition of both ERE- and NRE-driven reporter plasmids, in addition, polyamine analogs inhibited the association of ER alpha and NF-kappaB with CBP/p300 and were unable to facilitate nuclear translocation of NF-kappaB, APO-BRDU assay demonstrated that polyamine analogs induced apoptosis, with a loss of the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-2, These data show a gene regulatory function of polyamines involving transcriptional activation of ER alpha and NF-kappaB, potentially leading to the up-regulation of genes involved in breast cancer cell proliferation. Our results with BE-3-4-3 and BE-3-3-3 suggest that down-regulation of ER alpha- and NF-kappaB-regulated genes is a possible mechanism for the action of polyamine analogs in inducing apoptosis of breast cancer cells.
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