期刊
ONCOGENE
卷 30, 期 45, 页码 4578-4589出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/onc.2011.174
关键词
Mel-18; polycomb group proteins; Akt; angiogenesis
资金
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Korean government (MEST) [2010K001350, 2010-0020534]
Mel-18 has been implicated in several processes in tumor progression, in which the Akt pathway is involved as an important key molecular event. However, the function of Mel-18 in human cancers has not been fully established yet. Here, we examined the effect of Mel-18 on tumor angiogenesis in human breast cancer, and found that Mel-18 was a novel regulator of HIF-1 alpha. Mel-18 negatively regulated the HIF-1 alpha expression and its target gene VEGF transcription during both normoxia and hypoxia. We demonstrated that Mel-18 regulated the HIF-1 alpha expression and activity via the PI3K/Akt pathway. Loss of Mel-18 downregulated Phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) expression, consequently activating the PI3K/Akt/MDM2 pathway, and leading to an increase of HIF-1 alpha protein level. Mel-18 modulated the HIF-1 alpha transcriptional activity via regulating the cytoplasmic retention of FOXO3a, a downstream effector of Akt, and recruitment of HIF-1 alpha/CBP complex to the VEGF promoter. Furthermore, our data shows that Mel-18 blocked tumor angiogenesis both in vitro and in vivo. Mel-18 overexpression inhibited in vitro tube formation in human umbilical endothelial cells (HUVECs). Xenografts in NOD/SCID mice derived from stably Mel-18 knocked down MCF7 human breast cancer cells showed increased tumor volume, microvessel density, and phospho-Akt and HIF-1a expression levels. In conclusion, our findings provide that Mel-18 is a novel regulator of tumor angiogenesis through regulating HIF-1 alpha and its target VEGF expressions mediated by the PTEN/PI3K/Akt pathway, suggesting a new tumor-suppressive role of Mel-18 in human breast cancer. Oncogene (2011) 30, 4578-4589; doi: 10.1038/onc.2011.174; published online 23 May 2011
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