Journal
ONCOGENE
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages 1152-1163Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1204208
Keywords
focal adhesion kinase; Src; cell migration; prostate; signal transduction
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [P01 CA76465] Funding Source: Medline
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Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) has been implicated in the regulation of cell migration. In addition, FAK expression is:increased in a number of highly metastatic tumor cell lines. Therefore, we investigated the role of FAK in regulating migration of prostate carcinoma cell lines with increasing metastatic potential. We show that highly tumorigenic PC3 and DU145 cells exhibit intrinsic migratory capacity, while poorly tumorigenic LNCaP cells require a stimulus to migrate, Increased metastatic potential of PC3 and DU145 cells correlates with increased FAK expression, overall tyrosine phosphorylation and activity, as measured by autophosphorylation of tyrosine 397, However, in PC3 and DU145 cells, FAK autophosphorylation is adhesion dependent whereas a second site of tyrosine phosphorylation, tyrosine 861, a Src specific site, is uncoupled from adhesion-dependent signaling events, Finally, inhibiting the FAK/Src signal transduction pathway by over expressing FRNK ((F) under bar ocal adhesion kinase-(R) under bar elated (N) under bar on-(K) under bar inase), an inhibitor of FAK activation, or treatment with PP2, a Src family kinase-inhibitor, significantly inhibited migration of prostate carcinoma cell lines, demonstrating that tumor cell migration continues to be dependent on signals emanating from this pathway.
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