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C1q tumor necrosis factor-related proteins (CTRPs), which are members of the adipokine superfamily, have gained significant interest in the recent years. CTRPs are homologs of adiponectin with numerous functions and are closely associated with metabolic diseases, such as abnormal glucose and lipid metabolism and diabetes. Previous studies have demonstrated that CTRPs are highly involved in the regulation of numerous physiological and pathological processes, including glycolipid metabolism, protein kinase pathways, cell proliferation, cell apoptosis and inflammation. CTRPs also play important roles in the development and progression of numerous types of tumor, including liver, colon and lung cancers. This observation can be attributed to the fact that diabetes, obesity and insulin resistance are independent risk factors for tumorigenesis. Numerous CTRPs, including CTRP3, CTRP4, CTRP6 and CTRP8, have been reported to be associated with tumor progression by activating multiple signal pathways. CTRPs could therefore be considered as diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets in some cancers. However, the underlying mechanisms of CTRPs in tumorigenesis remain unknown. The present review aimed to determine the roles and underlying mechanisms of CTRPs in tumorigenesis, which may help the development of novel cancer treatments in the future.
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- Mowei Kong
- Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University, Chengde, Hebei 067000, P.R. China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University, Chengde, Hebei 067000, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University, Chengde, Hebei 067000, P.R. China
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- Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University, Chengde, Hebei 067000, P.R. China
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- Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University, Chengde, Hebei 067000, P.R. China
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Müller M, Persson AB, Krueger K, Kirschner KM, Scholz H. The Wilms tumor protein WT1 stimulates transcription of the gene encoding insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 (IGFBP5). Gene 2017; 619:21-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2017.03.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Obesity and type 2 diabetes are becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide, and both are associated with an increased incidence and mortality from many cancers. The metabolic abnormalities associated with type 2 diabetes develop many years before the onset of diabetes and, therefore, may be contributing to cancer risk before individuals are aware that they are at risk. Multiple factors potentially contribute to the progression of cancer in obesity and type 2 diabetes, including hyperinsulinemia and insulin-like growth factor I, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, adipokines and cytokines, and the gut microbiome. These metabolic changes may contribute directly or indirectly to cancer progression. Intentional weight loss may protect against cancer development, and therapies for diabetes may prove to be effective adjuvant agents in reducing cancer progression. In this review we discuss the current epidemiology, basic science, and clinical data that link obesity, diabetes, and cancer and how treating obesity and type 2 diabetes could also reduce cancer risk and improve outcomes.
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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Werner H, Sarfstein R. Transcriptional and epigenetic control of IGF1R gene expression: implications in metabolism and cancer. Growth Horm IGF Res 2014; 24:112-118. [PMID: 24863809 DOI: 10.1016/j.ghir.2014.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2013] [Revised: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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IGF1R plays an important role in protection from apoptosis, regulation of cell growth, differentiation and oncogenic transformation. IGF1R aberrations lead to intrauterine and postnatal growth failure, microcephaly, mental retardation and deafness. High levels of IGF1R are detected in a diversity of human tumors. IGF1R gene transcription is controlled by complex interactions involving DNA-binding and non DNA-binding transcription factors. This review highlights selected examples of a series of tumor suppressors, including the breast cancer gene-1 (BRCA1), p53, the Wilm's tumor protein-1 (WT1) and the von Hippel-Lindau gene (VHL), whose mechanisms of action involve regulation of IGF1R gene expression. IGF1R gene transcription is also dependent on the presence of stimulatory nuclear proteins, including zinc-finger protein Sp1, EWS-WT1, E2F1, Krüppel-like factor-6 (KLF6), high-mobility group A1 (HMGA1), and others. Loss-of-function of tumor suppressor genes, usually caused by mutations, may result in non-functional proteins unable to control IGF1R promoter activity. Impaired regulation of the IGF1R gene is linked to defective cell division, chromosomal instability and increased incidence of cancer.
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- Haim Werner
- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
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- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Aim and background The Wilms' tumor 1 gene (WT1) is overexpressed in many cancers, including breast cancer, and its high expression is an adverse prognostic factor. However, the factors that regulate WT1 expression are poorly understood. Methods and study design Expression of genes at the RNA and protein level was detected by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, western blotting, and reverse-phase protein array assays in breast cancer cell lines and tumor samples. Results In the study, we showed that the treatment of MCF-7 breast cancer cells with insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) increases WT1 protein expression by 77%. IGF-I uses Akt to up-regulate WT1 expression. Conversely, inhibition of IGF-I by IGF-binding protein 3 and of IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR) by anti-IGF-IR antibody (α-IR3) uses Akt to decrease WT1 protein levels in MCF-7 cells. We thus newly identified a mechanism by which IGF-I up-regulates WT1, especially the (+exon 5/-KTS) isoform, at the post-transcriptional level in MCF-7 cells and primary breast tumor samples. Conclusions The results indicate a novel posttranscriptional regulatory factor of WT1 in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.
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- Musaffe Tuna
- Department of Cancer Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tottori University School of Medicine, Yonago, Japan
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Clark PE, Polosukhina D, Love H, Correa H, Coffin C, Perlman EJ, de Caestecker M, Moses HL, Zent R. β-Catenin and K-RAS synergize to form primitive renal epithelial tumors with features of epithelial Wilms' tumors. Am J Pathol 2011; 179:3045-55. [PMID: 21983638 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2011] [Revised: 07/27/2011] [Accepted: 08/10/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Wilms' tumor (WT) is the most common childhood renal cancer. Although mutations in known tumor-associated genes (WT1, WTX, and CATNB) occur only in a third of tumors, many tumors show evidence of activated β-catenin-dependent Wnt signaling, but the molecular mechanism by which this occurs is unknown. A key obstacle to understanding the pathogenesis of WT is the paucity of mouse models that recapitulate its features in humans. Herein, we describe a transgenic mouse model of primitive renal epithelial neoplasms that have high penetrance and mimic the epithelial component of human WT. Introduction of a stabilizing β-catenin mutation restricted to the kidney is sufficient to induce primitive renal epithelial tumors; however, when compounded with activation of K-RAS, the mice develop large, bilateral, metastatic, multifocal primitive renal epithelial tumors that have the histologic and staining characteristics of the epithelial component of human WT. These highly malignant tumors have increased activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-AKT and extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathways, increased expression of total and nuclear β-catenin, and increased downstream targets of this pathway, such as c-Myc and survivin. Thus, we developed a novel mouse model in which activated K-RAS synergizes with canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling to form metastatic primitive renal epithelial tumors that mimic the epithelial component of human WT.
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- Peter E Clark
- Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2765, USA.
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Kühnl A, Kaiser M, Neumann M, Fransecky L, Heesch S, Radmacher M, Marcucci G, Bloomfield CD, Hofmann WK, Thiel E, Baldus CD. High expression of IGFBP2 is associated with chemoresistance in adult acute myeloid leukemia. Leuk Res 2011; 35:1585-90. [PMID: 21899885 DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2011.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2011] [Revised: 08/08/2011] [Accepted: 08/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling plays an important role in many tumors and overexpression of IGF Binding Protein (IGFBP) 2 has been associated with adverse outcome in childhood leukemia. Here, we evaluated IGFBP2 mRNA expression and its prognostic implications in 99 adult acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients by quantitative real-time RT-PCR. High IGFBP2 was associated with a high incidence of primary resistant disease (IGFBP2 high 65%, IGFBP2 low 32%; P=0.02) and was independently predictive for therapy resistance [OR 3.6 (95% CI 1.2-11); P=0.02] in multivariate analyses. Gene-expression profiling revealed an up-regulation of genes implicated in leukemogenesis (MYB, MEIS1, HOXB3, HOXA9) and genes associated with adverse outcome (ERG, WT1) in patients with high IGFBP2 expression. Thus, our data suggest a role of IGFBP2 and IGF signaling in chemoresistance of AML. Patients with high IGFBP2 expression might benefit from molecular therapies targeting the IGF pathway.
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- Andrea Kühnl
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Charité University Hospital, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany.
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Aleem E, Nehrbass D, Klimek F, Mayer D, Bannasch P. Upregulation of the insulin receptor and type I insulin-like growth factor receptor are early events in hepatocarcinogenesis. Toxicol Pathol 2011; 39:524-43. [PMID: 21411721 DOI: 10.1177/0192623310396905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The molecular mechanisms underlying the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are not yet fully understood. Preneoplastic foci of altered hepatocytes regularly precede HCC in various species. The predominant earliest type of foci of altered hepatocytes, the glycogen storage focus (GSF), shows an excess of glycogen (glycogenosis) in the cytoplasm. During progression from GSF to HCC, the stored glycogen is gradually reduced, resulting in complete loss in basophilic HCC. We have previously shown that in N-nitrosomorpholine-induced hepatocarcinogenesis, insulin receptor substrate (IRS-1) is strongly expressed in GSF and reduced during progression to HCC, thus correlating with the glycogen content. In the present study, we observed increased levels of insulin receptor, IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR), IRS-2, and mitogen-activated kinase/extracellular regulated kinase-1 in GSF, following the same pattern of expression as IRS-1. We conclude that the abundance of IRS-1, IRS-2, and mitogen-activated kinase/extracellular regulated kinase-1 coincides with a concerted upregulation of both IR and IGF-IR induced by the hepatocarcinogen. Our data suggest that in early hepatocellular preneoplasia, the upregulation of IR elicits glycogenosis through IRS-1 and/or IRS-2, whereas the increased level of the IGF-IR may lead to the increased cell proliferation previously reported in GSF. Therefore, the concerted upregulation of both IR and IGF-IR may represent initial events in hepatocarcinogenesis.
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- Eiman Aleem
- German Cancer Research Center, Cell Pathology Division, Heidelberg, Germany
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Huang CC, Gadd S, Breslow N, Cutcliffe C, Sredni ST, Helenowski IB, Dome JS, Grundy PE, Green DM, Fritsch MK, Perlman EJ. Predicting relapse in favorable histology Wilms tumor using gene expression analysis: a report from the Renal Tumor Committee of the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res 2009; 15:1770-8. [PMID: 19208794 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-08-1030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE The past two decades has seen significant improvement in the overall survival of patients with favorable histology Wilms tumor (FHWT); however, this progress has reached a plateau. Further improvements may rely on the ability to better stratify patients by risk of relapse. This study determines the feasibility and potential clinical utility of classifiers of relapse based on global gene expression analysis. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Two hundred fifty FHWT of all stages enriched for relapses treated on National Wilms Tumor Study-5 passed quality variables and were suitable for analysis using oligonucleotide arrays. Relapse risk stratification used support vector machine; 2- and 10-fold cross-validations were applied. RESULTS The number of genes associated with relapse was less than that predicted by chance alone for 106 patients (32 relapses) with stages I and II FHWT treated with chemotherapy, and no further analyses were done. This number was greater than expected by chance for 76 local stage III patients. Cross-validation including an additional 68 local stage III patients (total 144 patients, 53 relapses) showed that classifiers for relapse composed of 50 genes were associated with a median sensitivity of 47% and specificity of 70%. CONCLUSIONS This study shows the feasibility and modest accuracy of stratifying local stage III FHWT using a classifier of <50 genes. Validation using an independent patient population is needed. Analysis of genes differentially expressed in relapse patients revealed apoptosis, Wnt signaling, insulin-like growth factor pathway, and epigenetic modification to be mechanisms important in relapse. Potential therapeutic targets include FRAP/MTOR and CD40.
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- Chiang-Ching Huang
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA
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Wu-Wong JR, Nakane M, Ma J, Ruan X, Kroeger PE. Effects of Vitamin D analogs on gene expression profiling in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells. Atherosclerosis 2005; 186:20-8. [PMID: 16095599 DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.06.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2005] [Revised: 06/21/2005] [Accepted: 06/23/2005] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Vitamin D analogs provide survival benefit for chronic kidney disease patients with cardiovascular complications. Activation of smooth muscle cells plays a role in cardiovascular diseases. It is not known how Vitamin D analogs modulate gene expression in smooth muscle cells. In this study, DNA microarray technology was used to assess the gene expression profile in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells treated with 0.1microM 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (calcitriol) or paricalcitol (an analog of calcitriol) for 30 h. The effects of calcitriol and paricalcitol were similar. A total of 176 target genes were identified with 115 up-regulated and 61 down-regulated genes in the paricalcitol group. Target genes fall into various categories including cell differentiation/proliferation. Real-time RT-PCR analysis demonstrated that paricalcitol dose- and time-dependently regulated the expression of IGF1, WT1 and TGFbeta3, three genes known to modulate cell proliferation. Paricalcitol also down-regulated the expression of natriuretic peptide precursor B and thrombospondin 1. Both drugs inhibited cell proliferation in a dose-dependent manner. This study identified genes not previously known to be regulated by VDR, providing insight into understanding the role of VDR on regulating smooth muscle cell growth, thrombogenicity, fibrinolysis and endothelial regeneration.
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- J Ruth Wu-Wong
- Abbott Laboratories, R4CM, AP52, 200 Abbott Park Rd., Abbott Park, IL 60064, USA.
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