Novel Mechanisms of Carcinoma Cell Migration

癌细胞迁移的新机制

• 批准号: 8526404
• 负责人: KATHLEEN L. O'CONNOR
• 金额: $ 24.18万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-09 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8526404
• 关键词: A kinase anchoring protein; Adenylate Cyclase; Adhesions; Binding; Biochemical; Biology; Breast Carcinoma; Cancer Biology; Cancer Detection; Cancer Patient; Carcinoma; Cells; Collaborations; Complex; Consensus; Couples; Coupling; Cyclic AMP; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases; Data; Equilibrium; Generations; Goals; Growth; Growth Factor Receptors; Guanine; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; Human; Imaging Techniques; Integrins; Invaded; Joints; Macromolecular Complexes; Malignant Epithelial Cell; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediating; Methods; Modeling; Molecular; Monomeric GTP-Binding Proteins; Morphology; Neoplasm Metastasis; Operative Surgical Procedures; Output; Pathology; Patients; Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases; Phosphorylation; Phosphorylation Site; Positioning Attribute; Process; Production; Protein Serine/Threonine Phosphatase; Regulation; Research; Sampling; Signal Pathway; Signal Transduction; Solid; Spatial Distribution; Stress Fibers; Study models; Testing; Therapeutic Intervention; Tumor Cell Invasion; Validation; Work; cancer prevention; cell motility; cellular imaging; effective therapy; improved; in vivo; inorganic phosphate; insight; malignant breast neoplasm; migration; novel; receptor; rho; rhotekin; tissue-factor-pathway inhibitor 2; tumor; tumor progression

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tumor invasion and metastasis still claim the majority of cancer patients' lives. Although great strides have been made in cancer detection and prevention, the need for a more effective treatment for cancer metastasis remains a central problem. Notably, molecules that control spatial signaling for cell polarization and directed migration contribute to the lethality of cancer through their ability to improve the efficiency of he first steps of metastasis. RhoA contributes to cell polarization during directed cell motility, yet how RhoA is spatially controlled remains unclear. We propose that integrin signaling through cAMP/PKA is instrumental for spatial signaling of RhoA and cell polarization. Importantly, our previous work has shown that ?1 integrins control the generation of PKA activity gradients at the leading edge of migrating carcinoma cells where it controls RhoA function. We provide compelling evidence that these PKA activity gradients exist in breast carcinoma patient samples and in three-dimensional breast carcinoma cultures, which attest to the significance of these gradients in human breast cancer. Integrin??6?4 is upregulated in advanced breast cancers where it is most closely associated with basal-like breast cancers. Importantly, integrin ??6?4 promotes the activation of RhoA by a mechanism that we propose reverses the effect of PKA. Therefore, we suggest that the counter-opposing modes of regulation these integrins have on RhoA permit efficient compartmentalization of RhoA that facilitates breast carcinoma motility, invasion and metastasis. Accordingly, the central hypothesis of this application is that cooperative signaling between ?1 integrins and integrin ?6?4 facilitates the spatial distribution of RhoA activity to promote lamellae formation and directed migration. The long-term goal of our group is to determine how integrins contribute to tumor invasion so that they may be eventually targeted appropriately for therapeutic intervention, with special emphasis on integrin ?6?4. We will test our central hypothesis and achieve our long- term goal through the completion of the following aims: 1) Define the macromolecular complex that couples ?1 integrins to PKA activation thereby limiting RhoA activity at the leading edge, 2) Determine how integrin ?6?4 leads to the activation of RhoA, and 3) Elucidate how RhoA function is altered to promote lamellae formation. We are uniquely suited to perform these studies due to our strong collaborations; our well-characterized models of ?6?4 integrin- and RhoA-dependent invasion and migration; our expertise in integrin biology and Rho signaling, and our solid preliminary data supporting this project. The results obtained from this study will be important as they will go int mechanistic depth regarding how integrins coordinate spatial signaling to achieve polarization, lamellae formation, directed cell migration and, finally, invasion. Ultimately, our study will be significant as it will generate a firmer understanding of signaling pathways that govern leading edge dynamics that will produce successful methods to therapeutically target the early steps in metastasis.

描述（申请人提供）：肿瘤的侵袭和转移仍然夺走了大部分癌症患者的生命。尽管在癌症检测和预防方面已经取得了很大的进步，但对癌症转移的更有效治疗的需求仍然是一个中心问题。值得注意的是，控制细胞极化和定向迁移的空间信号的分子通过其提高转移第一步效率的能力，有助于癌症的致命性。RhoA在细胞定向运动过程中参与细胞极化