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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 3, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep02932
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91019011, 31170719, 31071149, 31100998]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities
- Program for Introducing Talents to Universities [B07017]
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition is a change of cellular plasticity critical for embryonic development and tumor metastasis. CDK5 is a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase playing important roles in cancer progression. Here we show that CDK5 is commonly overexpressed and significantly correlated with several poor prognostic parameters of breast cancer. We found that CDK5 participated in TGF-beta 1-induced EMT. In MCF10A, TGF-beta 1 upregulated the CDK5 and p35 expression, and CDK5 knockdown inhibited TGF-beta 1-induced EMT. CDK5 overexpression also exhibited a potential synergy in promoting TGF-beta 1-induced EMT. In mesenchymal breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 and BT549, CDK5 knockdown suppressed cell motility and tumorigenesis. We further demonstrated that CDK5 modulated cancer cell migration and tumor formation by regulating the phosphorylation of FAK at Ser-732. Therefore, CDK5-FAK pathway, as a downstream step of TGF-beta 1 signaling, is essential for EMT and motility in breast cancer cells. This study implicates the potential value of CDK5 as a molecular marker for breast cancer.
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