P190-B RhoGAP regulates the microenvironment in the developing mammary gland

P190-B RhoGAP 调节发育中乳腺的微环境

• 批准号: 7380077
• 负责人: Tracy Vargo-Gogola
• 金额: $ 12.78万
• 依托单位: INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7380077
• 关键词: Ablation; Acute; Affect; Arts; Basement membrane; Binding; Biological Assay; Breeding; Cell Proliferation; Cell physiology; Collagen; Complex; Coupled; Data; Deposition; Development; Disruption; Ductal; Environment; Epithelial; Epithelial Cells; Epithelial-Stromal Communication; Epithelium; Exhibits; Extracellular Matrix; Faculty; Family; Fibroblasts; Fostering; Gene Expression; Goals; Growth Factor Receptors; Homeostasis; Human; Hyperplasia; In Vitro; Infiltration; Insulin-Like-Growth Factor I Receptor; Integrins; Investigation; K-Series Research Career Programs; Laboratories; Lesion; Malignant - descriptor; Malignant Neoplasms; Mammary Neoplasms; Mammary gland; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Medicine; Microarray Analysis; Migration Assay; Modeling; Molecular; Morphogenesis; Morphology; Mus; Organoids; Pathway interactions; Phenotype; Play; Positioning Attribute; Pregnancy; Protein Overexpression; Proteins; RNA; Receptor Signaling; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Sampling; Side; Signal Pathway; Signal Transduction; Staging; Stromal Cells; System; Technology; Testing; Tetracycline; Tetracyclines; Time; Tissues; Training Programs; Trees; career; college; day; extracellular; in vivo; inhibitor/antagonist; insight; loss of function; macrophage; malignant breast neoplasm; migration; mouse model; novel; planetary Atmosphere; postnatal; programs; reconstitution; rho; rho GTP-Binding Proteins; rho GTPase-activating protein; skills; success; tumor growth; tumor progression; tumorigenesis

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): My long-term career goal is to obtain a faculty position and to investigate the molecular pathways that regulate mammary gland (MG) development with the ultimate goal of determining how they are disrupted in breast cancer. My immediate goal is to develop an independent research program using new experimental approaches that will enhance my research skills. While a few of the objectives of this proposal are extensions of my postdoctoral studies, the majority are new lines of investigation on which I can build an independent research program. Dr. Rosen's laboratory and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have state-of-the-art technology, core laboratories, training programs, and a highly collaborative atmosphere with over 30 MG biologists/breast cancer researchers to facilitate success in my research. Thus, I believe that this is an ideal environment in which to pursue a career development award that will foster my transition to a faculty position. I generated inducible p190-B RhoGAP overexpressing mice to study the role of an essential signaling pathway in distinct stages of MG development and cancer. I showed that p190-B is required for MG morphogenesis and identified a novel role for p190-B in regulating the stromal-epithelial interactions that govern MG development. The aims of this proposal will investigate the signaling interactions by which p190-B regulates mammary epithelial cell (MEC) morphogenesis and the stromal-epithelial interactions that mediate MG development. To model MG morphogenesis in vitro, I will grow primary MECs and stromal cells isolated from the p190-B mice using a well-established 3D culture assay. This will allow me to dissect the complex cellular and molecular interactions by which p190-B regulates MG morphogenesis, which cannot be done in vivo. I will test the role of stromal cells in mediating the effects of p190-B on MG development in vivo, and microarray analysis will be performed on microdissected epithelium and stroma to determine the gene expression changes by which p190-B overexpression disrupts MG morphogenesis. It is now evident that the environment surrounding a breast tumor is disrupted, which facilitates tumor growth and spread. Understanding how the environment regulates MG development is a critical first step in determining how its disruption promotes breast cancer. The role of p190-B in human breast cancer is unknown. Because proteins like p190-B that are essential for development frequently become disrupted during tumorigenesis, p190-B may play an important role in breast cancer. An understanding of p190-B function in normal MG development is crucial if we are to determine how it is involved in breast cancer.

描述（由申请人提供）：我的长期职业目标是获得教职，并研究调节乳腺（MG）发育的分子途径，最终目标是确定它们在乳腺癌中是如何被破坏的。我的近期目标是开发一个独立的研究项目，使用新的实验方法，这将提高我的研究技能。虽然这个提案的一些目标是我博士后研究的延伸，但大多数是新的研究方向，我可以在此基础上建立一个独立的研究项目。Rosen博士的实验室和贝勒医学院（BCM）拥有最先进的技术，核心实验室，培训计划，以及与30多名MG生物学家/乳腺癌研究人员的高度合作氛围，以促进我的研究成功。因此，我相信这是一个理想的环境，我可以在这里获得职业发展奖，这将促进我向教师职位的过渡。