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CANCER RESEARCH
卷 67, 期 20, 页码 9844-9851出版社
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-1905
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- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has been reported to have both positive and negative effects on carcinogenesis. Here, we show that the loss of c-Met signaling in hepatocytes enhanced rather than suppressed the early stages of chemical hepatocarcinogenesis. c-Met conditional knockout mice (c-metfl/fl, AlbCre(+/-); MetLivKO) treated with N-nitrosodiethylamine developed Significantly more and bigger tumors and with a shorter latency compared with control (w/w, AlbCre+/-; Cre-Ctrl) mice. Accelerated tumor development was associated with increased rate of cell proliferation and prolonged activation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling. MetLivKO livers treated with N-nitrosodiethylamine also displayed elevated lipid peroxidation, decreased ratio of reduced glutathione to oxidized glutathione, and up-regulation of superoxide dismutase I and heat shock protein 70, all consistent with increased oxidative stress. Likewise, gene expression profiling done at 3 and 5 months after N-nitrosodiethylamine treatment revealed up-regulation of genes associated with cell proliferation and stress responses in c-Met mutant livers. The negative effects of c-Met deficiency were reversed by chronic p.o. administration of antioxidant N-acetyl-L-eysteine. N-acetyl-L-cysteine blocked the EGFR activation and reduced the N-nitrosodiethylamineinitiated hepatocarcinogenesis to the levels of Cre-Ctrl mice, These results argue that intact HGF/c-Met signaling is essential for maintaining normal redox homeostasis in the liver and has tumor suppressor effect(s) during the early stages of Nnitrosodiethylamine-induced hepatocarcinogenesis.
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