Aggressive melanoma cells escape from BMP7-mediated autocrine growth inhibition through coordinated Noggin upregulation

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are members of the TGF-beta superfamily responsible for mediating a diverse array of cellular functions both during embryogenesis and in adult life. Previously, we reported that upregulation of BMP7 in human melanoma correlates with tumor progression. However, melanoma cells are either inhibited by or become resistant to BMP7 as a function of tumor progression, with normal melanocytes being most susceptible. Herein, real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactions and western blotting revealed that the expression of BMP antagonist, Noggin, correlates with resistance to BMP7 in advanced melanoma cells. To test the hypothesis that coordinated upregulation of Noggin protects advanced melanoma cells from autocrine inhibition by BMP7, functional expression of Noggin in susceptible melanoma cells was achieved by adenoviral gene transfer. The Noggin-overexpressing cells exhibited a growth advantage in response to subsequent BMP7 transduction in vitro under anchorage-dependent and -independent conditions, in three-dimensional skin reconstructs, as well as in vivo in severe combined immunodeficient mice. In concordance, Noggin knockdown by lentiviral shRNA confers sensitivity to BMP7-induced growth inhibition in advanced melanoma cells. Our findings suggest that, like TGF-beta, BMP7 acts as an autocrine growth inhibitor in melanocytic cells, and that advanced melanoma cells may escape from BMP7-induced inhibition through concomitant aberrant expression of Noggin.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2008

Erschienen:

2008

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:88

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Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology - 88(2008), 8 vom: 02. Aug., Seite 842-55

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hsu, Mei-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Rovinsky, Sherry A [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Chiou-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Qasem, Shadi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaoming [VerfasserIn]
How, Joan [VerfasserIn]
Engelhardt, John F [VerfasserIn]
Murphy, George F [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

148294-77-3
BMP7 protein, human
Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins
Carrier Proteins
Growth Inhibitors
Journal Article
Noggin protein
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Transforming Growth Factor beta

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Date Completed 21.08.2008

Date Revised 05.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/labinvest.2008.55

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM180274988