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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Smad4-dependent regulation of urokinase plasminogen activator secretion and RNA stability associated with invasiveness by autocrine and paracrine transforming growth factor-beta.
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2006 November 11
Metastasis is a primary cause of mortality due to cancer. Early metastatic growth involves both a remodeling of the extracellular matrix surrounding tumors and invasion of tumors across the basement membrane. Up-regulation of extracellular matrix degrading proteases such as urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) and matrix metalloproteinases has been reported to facilitate tumor cell invasion. Autocrine transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signaling may play an important role in cancer cell invasion and metastasis; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study, we report that autocrine TGF-beta supports cancer cell invasion by maintaining uPA levels through protein secretion. Interestingly, treatment of paracrine/exogenous TGF-beta at higher concentrations than autocrine TGF-beta further enhanced uPA expression and cell invasion. The enhanced uPA expression by exogenous TGF-beta is a result of increased uPA mRNA expression due to RNA stabilization. We observed that both autocrine and paracrine TGF-beta-mediated regulation of uPA levels was lost upon depletion of Smad4 protein by RNA interference. Thus, through the Smad pathway, autocrine TGF-beta maintains uPA expression through facilitated protein secretion, thereby supporting tumor cell invasiveness, whereas exogenous TGF-beta further enhances uPA expression through mRNA stabilization leading to even greater invasiveness of the cancer cells.
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