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Cosgarea I, McConnell A, Ewen T, Tang D, Hill D, Anagnostou M, Elias M, Ellis R, Murray A, Spender L, Giglio P, Gagliardi M, Greenwood A, Piacentini M, Inman G, Fimia G, Corazzari M, Armstrong J, Lovat P. Melanoma secretion of transforming growth factor-β2 leads to loss of epidermal AMBRA1 threatening epidermal integrity and facilitating tumour ulceration. Br J Dermatol 2022; 186:694-704. [PMID: 34773645 PMCID: PMC9546516 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.20889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND For patients with early American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)-stage melanoma the combined loss of the autophagy regulatory protein AMBRA1 and the terminal differentiation marker loricrin in the peritumoral epidermis is associated with a significantly increased risk of metastasis. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential contribution of melanoma paracrine transforming growth factor (TGF)-β signalling to the loss of AMBRA1 in the epidermis overlying the primary tumour and disruption of epidermal integrity. METHODS Immunohistochemistry was used to analyse AMBRA1 and TGF-β2 in a cohort of 109 AJCC all-stage melanomas, and TGF-β2 and claudin-1 in a cohort of 30 or 42 AJCC stage I melanomas, respectively, with known AMBRA1 and loricrin (AMLo) expression. Evidence of pre-ulceration was analysed in a cohort of 42 melanomas, with TGF-β2 signalling evaluated in primary keratinocytes. RESULTS Increased tumoral TGF-β2 was significantly associated with loss of peritumoral AMBRA1 (P < 0·05), ulceration (P < 0·001), AMLo high-risk status (P < 0·05) and metastasis (P < 0·01). TGF-β2 treatment of keratinocytes resulted in downregulation of AMBRA1, loricrin and claudin-1, while knockdown of AMBRA1 was associated with decreased expression of claudin-1 and increased proliferation of keratinocytes (P < 0·05). Importantly, we show loss of AMBRA1 in the peritumoral epidermis was associated with decreased claudin-1 expression (P < 0·05), parakeratosis (P < 0·01) and cleft formation in the dermoepidermal junction (P < 0·05). CONCLUSIONS Collectively, these data suggest a paracrine mechanism whereby TGF-β2 causes loss of AMBRA1 overlying high-risk AJCC early-stage melanomas and reduced epidermal integrity, thereby facilitating erosion of the epidermis and tumour ulceration.
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- I. Cosgarea
- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
- AMLo Biosciences LtdThe BiosphereNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
- Faculty of Health Sciences and WellbeingUniversity of SunderlandSunderlandUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
- AMLo Biosciences LtdThe BiosphereNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
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- Jacqui Wood Cancer Centre & Nine Wells Hospital and Medical SchoolUniversity of DundeeDundeeUK
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’RomeItaly
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- Department Health Sciences, and Centre for Translational Research on Autoimmune and Allergic Disease (CAAD)University of Piemonte OrientaleNovaraItaly
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
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- Department of BiologyUniversity of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’RomeItaly
- Department of EpidemiologyPreclinical Research, and Advanced DiagnosticsNational Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘L. Spallanzani’ IRCCSRomeItaly
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- CRUK Beatson Institute and Institute of Cancer SciencesUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowUK
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- Department of EpidemiologyPreclinical Research, and Advanced DiagnosticsNational Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘L. Spallanzani’ IRCCSRomeItaly
- Department of Molecular MedicineSapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department Health Sciences, and Centre for Translational Research on Autoimmune and Allergic Disease (CAAD)University of Piemonte OrientaleNovaraItaly
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
- Faculty of Health Sciences and WellbeingUniversity of SunderlandSunderlandUK
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- Translation and Clinical Research InstituteThe Medical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastleUK
- AMLo Biosciences LtdThe BiosphereNewcastle upon TyneUK
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Di Rienzo M, Antonioli M, Fusco C, Liu Y, Mari M, Orhon I, Refolo G, Germani F, Corazzari M, Romagnoli A, Ciccosanti F, Mandriani B, Pellico MT, De La Torre R, Ding H, Dentice M, Neri M, Ferlini A, Reggiori F, Kulesz-Martin M, Piacentini M, Merla G, Fimia GM. Autophagy induction in atrophic muscle cells requires ULK1 activation by TRIM32 through unanchored K63-linked polyubiquitin chains. Sci Adv 2019; 5:eaau8857. [PMID: 31123703 PMCID: PMC6527439 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau8857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 03/21/2019] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Optimal autophagic activity is crucial to maintain muscle integrity, with either reduced or excessive levels leading to specific myopathies. LGMD2H is a muscle dystrophy caused by mutations in the ubiquitin ligase TRIM32, whose function in muscles remains not fully understood. Here, we show that TRIM32 is required for the induction of muscle autophagy in atrophic conditions using both in vitro and in vivo mouse models. Trim32 inhibition results in a defective autophagy response to muscle atrophy, associated with increased ROS and MuRF1 levels. The proautophagic function of TRIM32 relies on its ability to bind the autophagy proteins AMBRA1 and ULK1 and stimulate ULK1 activity via unanchored K63-linked polyubiquitin. LGMD2H-causative mutations impair TRIM32's ability to bind ULK1 and induce autophagy. Collectively, our study revealed a role for TRIM32 in the regulation of muscle autophagy in response to atrophic stimuli, uncovering a previously unidentified mechanism by which ubiquitin ligases activate autophagy regulators.
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- M. Di Rienzo
- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
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- Division of Medical Genetics, IRCCS, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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- Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Novara, Novara, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
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- Division of Medical Genetics, IRCCS, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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- Division of Medical Genetics, IRCCS, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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- Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Section of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Section of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
- Department of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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- Division of Medical Genetics, IRCCS, Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS, Lazzaro Spallanzani, 00149 Rome, Italy
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce 73100, Italy
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Corazzari M, Rapino F, Ciccosanti F, Giglio P, Antonioli M, Conti B, Fimia GM, Lovat PE, Piacentini M. Oncogenic BRAF induces chronic ER stress condition resulting in increased basal autophagy and apoptotic resistance of cutaneous melanoma. Cell Death Differ 2015; 22:946-58. [PMID: 25361077 PMCID: PMC4423179 DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2014.183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2014] [Revised: 09/29/2014] [Accepted: 09/30/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The notorious unresponsiveness of metastatic cutaneous melanoma to current treatment strategies coupled with its increasing incidence constitutes a serious worldwide clinical problem. Moreover, despite recent advances in targeted therapies for patients with BRAF(V600E) mutant melanomas, acquired resistance remains a limiting factor and hence emphasises the acute need for comprehensive pre-clinical studies to increase the biological understanding of such tumours in order to develop novel effective and longlasting therapeutic strategies. Autophagy and ER stress both have a role in melanoma development/progression and chemoresistance although their real impact is still unclear. Here, we show that BRAF(V600E) induces a chronic ER stress status directly increasing basal cell autophagy. BRAF(V600E)-mediated p38 activation stimulates both the IRE1/ASK1/JNK and TRB3 pathways. Bcl-XL/Bcl-2 phosphorylation by active JNK releases Beclin1 whereas TRB3 inhibits the Akt/mTor axes, together resulting in an increase in basal autophagy. Furthermore, we demonstrate chemical chaperones relieve the BRAF(V600E)-mediated chronic ER stress status, consequently reducing basal autophagic activity and increasing the sensitivity of melanoma cells to apoptosis. Taken together, these results suggest enhanced basal autophagy, typically observed in BRAF(V600E) melanomas, is a consequence of a chronic ER stress status, which ultimately results in the chemoresistance of such tumours. Targeted therapies that attenuate ER stress may therefore represent a novel and more effective therapeutic strategy for BRAF mutant melanoma.
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- M Corazzari
- Department of Biology, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy
- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L. Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L. Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L. Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L. Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L. Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L. Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technology (Di.S.Te.B.A.), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
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- Dermatological Sciences Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy
- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L. Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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González-Rodríguez Á, Mayoral R, Agra N, Valdecantos MP, Pardo V, Miquilena-Colina ME, Vargas-Castrillón J, Lo Iacono O, Corazzari M, Fimia GM, Piacentini M, Muntané J, Boscá L, García-Monzón C, Martín-Sanz P, Valverde ÁM. Impaired autophagic flux is associated with increased endoplasmic reticulum stress during the development of NAFLD. Cell Death Dis 2014; 5:e1179. [PMID: 24743734 PMCID: PMC4001315 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2014.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 418] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2013] [Revised: 03/05/2014] [Accepted: 03/10/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The pathogenic mechanisms underlying the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are not fully understood. In this study, we aimed to assess the relationship between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and autophagy in human and mouse hepatocytes during NAFLD. ER stress and autophagy markers were analyzed in livers from patients with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatosis (NAS) or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) compared with livers from subjects with histologically normal liver, in livers from mice fed with chow diet (CHD) compared with mice fed with high fat diet (HFD) or methionine-choline-deficient (MCD) diet and in primary and Huh7 human hepatocytes loaded with palmitic acid (PA). In NASH patients, significant increases in hepatic messenger RNA levels of markers of ER stress (activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78) and C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP)) and autophagy (BCN1) were found compared with NAS patients. Likewise, protein levels of GRP78, CHOP and p62/SQSTM1 (p62) autophagic substrate were significantly elevated in NASH compared with NAS patients. In livers from mice fed with HFD or MCD, ER stress-mediated signaling was parallel to the blockade of the autophagic flux assessed by increases in p62, microtubule-associated protein 2 light chain 3 (LC3-II)/LC3-I ratio and accumulation of autophagosomes compared with CHD fed mice. In Huh7 hepatic cells, treatment with PA for 8 h triggered activation of both unfolding protein response and the autophagic flux. Conversely, prolonged treatment with PA (24 h) induced ER stress and cell death together with a blockade of the autophagic flux. Under these conditions, cotreatment with rapamycin or CHOP silencing ameliorated these effects and decreased apoptosis. Our results demonstrated that the autophagic flux is impaired in the liver from both NAFLD patients and murine models of NAFLD, as well as in lipid-overloaded human hepatocytes, and it could be due to elevated ER stress leading to apoptosis. Consequently, therapies aimed to restore the autophagic flux might attenuate or prevent the progression of NAFLD.
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- Á González-Rodríguez
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols' (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols' (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols' (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols' (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Liver Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Liver Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital del Tajo, Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
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- National Institute for Infectious Diseases IRCCS ‘L Spallanzani', Rome, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Oncology Surgery, Cell Therapy and Transplant Organs, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS)/Virgen del Rocio Universitary Hospital/CSIC/University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols' (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Liver Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa, Madrid, Spain
- Liver Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa, Calle del Maestro Amadeo Vives, 2, 28009 Madrid, Spain. Tel: +34 91 5574402; Fax: +34 91 5574400; E-mail:
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols' (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols', Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/Arturo Duperier 4, 28029 Madrid, Spain. Tel: +34 91 4972746; Fax: +34 91 5854401; E-mail: (PM-S) or Tel: +34 915854497; Fax: +34 915854401; E-mail: (ÁMV)
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols' (CSIC/UAM), Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas ‘Alberto Sols', Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/Arturo Duperier 4, 28029 Madrid, Spain. Tel: +34 91 4972746; Fax: +34 91 5854401; E-mail: (PM-S) or Tel: +34 915854497; Fax: +34 915854401; E-mail: (ÁMV)
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Fimia GM, Corazzari M, Antonioli M, Piacentini M. Ambra1 at the crossroad between autophagy and cell death. Oncogene 2012; 32:3311-8. [DOI: 10.1038/onc.2012.455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2012] [Revised: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 08/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Columbano A, Corazzari M, Fimia GM, Piacentini M. 14th Euroconference on Apoptosis: 'death or survival? Fate in Sardinia'. Cell Death Differ 2007; 14:1555-7. [PMID: 17510657 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4402169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- A Columbano
- Department of Toxicology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari 09124, Italy
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Corazzari M, Lovat PE, Armstrong JL, Fimia GM, Hill DS, Birch-Machin M, Redfern CPF, Piacentini M. Targeting homeostatic mechanisms of endoplasmic reticulum stress to increase susceptibility of cancer cells to fenretinide-induced apoptosis: the role of stress proteins ERdj5 and ERp57. Br J Cancer 2007; 96:1062-71. [PMID: 17353921 PMCID: PMC2360126 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) malfunction, leading to ER stress, can be a consequence of genome instability and hypoxic tissue environments. Cancer cells survive by acquiring or enhancing survival mechanisms to counter the effects of ER stress and these homeostatic responses may be new therapeutic targets. Understanding the links between ER stress and apoptosis may be approached using drugs specifically to target ER stress responses in cancer cells. The retinoid analogue fenretinide [N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) retinamide] is a new cancer preventive and chemotherapeutic drug, that induces apoptosis of some cancer cell types via oxidative stress, accompanied by induction of an ER stress-related transcription factor, GADD153. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that fenretinide induces ER stress in neuroectodermal tumour cells, and to elucidate the role of ER stress responses in fenretinide-induced apoptosis. The ER stress genes ERdj5, ERp57, GRP78, calreticulin and calnexin were induced in neuroectodermal tumour cells by fenretinide. In contrast to the apoptosis-inducing chemotherapeutic drugs vincristine and temozolomide, fenretinide induced the phosphorylation of eIF2α, expression of ATF4 and splicing of XBP-1 mRNA, events that define ER stress. In these respects, fenretinide displayed properties similar to the ER stress inducer thapsigargin. ER stress responses were inhibited by antioxidant treatment. Knockdown of ERp57 or ERdj5 by RNA interference in these cells increased the apoptotic response to fenretinide. These data suggest that downregulating homeostatic ER stress responses may enhance apoptosis induced by oxidative stress-inducing drugs acting through the ER stress pathway. Therefore, ER-resident proteins such as ERdj5 and ERp57 may represent novel chemotherapeutic targets.
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- M Corazzari
- INMI-IRCCS Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome 00149, Italy
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- School of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Paul O’Gorman Building, Medical School Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- INMI-IRCCS Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome 00149, Italy
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- School of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
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- School of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Paul O’Gorman Building, Medical School Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- INMI-IRCCS Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome 00149, Italy
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Corasaniti MT, Amantea D, Russo R, Piccirilli S, Leta A, Corazzari M, Nappi G, Bagetta G. 17beta-estradiol reduces neuronal apoptosis induced by HIV-1 gp120 in the neocortex of rat. Neurotoxicology 2005; 26:893-903. [PMID: 15922453 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2005.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2004] [Revised: 01/17/2005] [Accepted: 01/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) coat glycoprotein gp120 represents a likely contributor to the development of HIV-1 associated dementia (HAD), a neurological syndrome often observed in AIDS patients and characterised by significant neuronal loss in the neocortex. Since recent studies have highlighted that female sex hormones represent potential neuroprotective agents against damage produced by acute and chronic injuries in the adult brain, we have investigated whether estrogens exert protection in a rat model of gp120 neurotoxicity. Our results demonstrate that systemic administration of 17beta-estradiol (E2, 0.02-0.2 mg/kg) significantly reduces apoptotic cell death observed in the neocortex of rat following subchronic i.c.v. administration of gp120 (100 ng/rat/day). Furthermore, both tamoxifen and ICI182,780, two selective antagonists of estrogen receptors (ER) in the brain, reverted the neuroprotective effect of E2. The molecular mechanism of estrogenic neuroprotection does not appear to involve modulation of the antiapoptotic Bcl-2 or the proapoptotic Bax since we failed to observe changes in the levels of the two proteins in the neocortical tissue after gp120 and/or E2 treatment. However, we detected increased levels of IL-1beta in the neocortex of rats injected with gp120, as early as 6h after drug administration, and this effect was potentiated following pretreatment with E2. Taken together, our results demonstrate that E2 exerts neuroprotection against gp120 neurotoxicity in vivo through a mechanism involving ER activation and, possibly, via modulation of neocortical levels of IL-1beta.
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- M T Corasaniti
- Department of Pharmacobiological Science, University Magna Graecia, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
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Hewson QDC, Lovat PE, Corazzari M, Catterall JB, Redfern CPF. The NF-kappaB pathway mediates fenretinide-induced apoptosis in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. Apoptosis 2005; 10:493-8. [PMID: 15909111 DOI: 10.1007/s10495-005-1878-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Fenretinide induces apoptosis in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells via a signaling pathway involving the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), 12-lipoxygenase activity and the induction of the GADD153 transcription factor. NF-kappa B is a key element of many cell signaling pathways and adopts a pro- or anti-apoptotic role in different cell types. Studies have suggested that NF-kappa B may play a pro-apoptotic role in SH-SY5Y cells, and in other cell types NF-kappa B activation may be linked to lipoxygenase activity. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that NF-kappa B activity mediates fenretinide-induced apoptosis in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. Using a dominant-negative construct for Ikappa Balpha stably transfected into SH-SY5Y cells, we show that apoptosis, but not the induction of ROS, in response to fenretinide was blocked by abrogation of NF-kappa B activity. In parental SH-SY5Y cells, fenretinide induced NF-kappa B activity and Ikappa Balpha phosphorylation. These results suggest that NF-kappa B activity links fenretinide-induced ROS to the induction of apoptosis in SH-SH5Y cells, and may be a target for the future development of drugs for neuroblastoma therapy.
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- Q D Campbell Hewson
- Northern Institute for Cancer Research and School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Nitric oxide (NO) plays an important anti-apoptotic role by inactivating both upstream and downstream apoptotic molecules. We now report that exogenously supplied NO protected Jurkat T cells from anti-CD95-stimulated apoptosis. We have recently shown that nitrosation of the activator protein-1 (AP-1) transcriptional factor is crucial for NO-mediated inhibition of cell death triggered by etoposide or ceramide. Since the inhibition of apoptosis by NO has been reported to involve AP-1, we evaluated its involvement in in CD95-mediated cell death. Cross-linking of CD95 enhanced AP-1 DNA binding activity and AP-1-dependent CD95L transactivation, which were both significantly reduced by different NO-donors compounds. However, AP-1 induction does not seem to significantly contribute to anti-CD95-triggered apoptosis, as cell death could not be prevented by using the recombinant Fas-Fc fusion protein which inhibits the CD95/CD95L interaction. We observed that caspase 3-like activity was negatively modulated by several NO-donors in vitro and that titratable thiol groups of purified caspases 3, 7, and 9 decreased in the presence of NO-releasing compounds. In conclusion, we demonstrated that NO-mediated inhibition of other targets, possibly caspases, but not AP-1, is a crucial event responsible for protection against anti-CD95-stimulated apoptosis. Even though NO affects multiple molecular mechanisms, the relevant target for exerting the cellular effects, may vary among different models.
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- F Bernassola
- Biochemistry Laboratory, IDI-IRCCS, c/o Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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Melino G, Bernassola F, Catani MV, Rossi A, Corazzari M, Sabatini S, Vilbois F, Green DR. Nitric oxide inhibits apoptosis via AP-1-dependent CD95L transactivation. Cancer Res 2000; 60:2377-83. [PMID: 10811113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Several inducers of cytotoxic stress promote apoptotic cell death, which, at least in some cases, involves the CD95/CD95 ligand (CD95L) pathway. The induction of the CD95/CD95L pathway can be activated by the activator protein-1 (AP-1)-mediated up-regulation of the CD95L promoter, which is responsible for the induction of apoptosis elicited by stimuli such as etoposide. We show that nitric oxide (NO) represents a regulatory element able to block apoptosis by interfering with this loop. Etoposide- and C6-ceramide-induced apoptosis in Jurkat T cells with different kinetics. Cell death was accompanied by an increase in DNA-binding activity of the transcription factor AP-1, transactivation of the AP-1 site-containing CD95L promoter, and caspase 3-like protease activation. Using different NO-releasing compounds, we found that apoptosis was prevented in a dose-dependent manner. Furthermore, in both models of apoptosis, NO-releasing compounds dose-dependently reduced: (a) the number of the titratable thiol groups (cysteine residues) of c-Jun; (b) induction of AP-1 DNA-binding activity; (c) AP-1-driven transactivation of the CD95L promoter; and (d) caspase activation. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that NO can modulate cell death at an upstream level, by interfering with the ability of AP-1 to induce CD95L expression.
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- G Melino
- IDI-IRCCS, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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Nitric oxide (NO) and its related molecules are important messengers that play central roles in pathophysiology. Redox modulation of thiol groups on protein cysteine residues by S-nitrosylation can modulate protein function. NO has emerged as a potent regulator of apoptosis in many cell types, either preventing cell death or driving an apoptotic response into a necrotic one. NO protects neuroblastoma cells from retinoid- and cisplatin-induced apoptosis, without significantly increasing necrotic cell damage. Nitrosylation of thiol groups of several critical factors may be important for cell survival. Indeed, S-nitrosylation of the active-site cysteine residue of apoptotic molecules, such as caspases and tissue transglutaminase, results in the inhibition of their catalytic activities and has important implications for the regulation of apoptosis by NO. On the other hand, NO is able to shift the anti-CD95- and ceramide-triggered apoptotic response of Jurkat T cells into necrotic cell death. In these apoptotic models, NO is therefore unable to solely inhibit cell death, indicating that it may act below the point of no return elicited by CD95-ligation and ceramide stimulation.
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- G Melino
- IDI-IRCCS, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
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Bernardini S, Melino G, Cortese C, Ballerini S, Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli M, Bernassola F, Corazzari M, Federici G. Modulation of glutathione transferase P1-1 activity by retinoic acid in neuroblastoma cells. J Cell Biochem 1999; 75:375-81. [PMID: 10536361 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19991201)75:3<375::aid-jcb3>3.3.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The ability of retinoic acid to modulate glutathione S-transferase P1-1 (GSTP1-1) activity has important implications both for cancer prevention and for anticancer therapy. We investigated GSTP1-1 expression and activity in the human neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-BE(2) (genotype A*/B*) under basal conditions and during 48-h incubation with 0.1 microM all-trans-retinoic acid. The steady-state levels of glutathione transferase P1-1 mRNA and protein during 48-h incubation with all-trans-retinoic acid did not increase substantially, but we detected a significant reduction of GSTP1-1 specific activity. This reduction in enzymatic activity could not be ascribed to a differential action of retinoic acid on the gene variants A* and B*; indeed, the two GSTP1-1 isoforms have different affinities toward 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB), while we found a substantial invariance of the K(m) (CDNB) in the cytosol during retinoid treatment. A modulatory effect of retinoic acid on other enzymes involved in glutathione transferase P1-1 metabolism, such as the retinoic acid-induced tissue trans-glutaminase, might be hypothesized, as well as a direct inactivation of GSTP1-1 by the oxidative stress that characterizes the early phases of apoptosis.
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- S Bernardini
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
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Bernardini S, Melino G, Cortese C, Ballerini S, Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli M, Bernassola F, Corazzari M, Federici G. Modulation of glutathione transferase P1-1 activity by retinoic acid in neuroblastoma cells. J Cell Biochem 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19991201)75:3<375::aid-jcb3>3.0.co;2-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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De Laurenzi VD, Catani MV, Terrinoni A, Corazzari M, Melino G, Costanzo A, Levrero M, Knight RA. Additional complexity in p73: induction by mitogens in lymphoid cells and identification of two new splicing variants epsilon and zeta. Cell Death Differ 1999; 6:389-90. [PMID: 10381648 DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Lovat PE, Annicchiarico-Petruzzelli M, Corazzari M, Dobson MG, Malcolm AJ, Pearson AD, Melino G, Redfern CP. Differential effects of retinoic acid isomers on the expression of nuclear receptor co-regulators in neuroblastoma. FEBS Lett 1999; 445:415-9. [PMID: 10094499 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00162-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Retinoic acid modulates growth and induces differentiation and apoptosis of neuroblastoma cells in vitro, with the all-trans and 9-cis isomers having different biological properties. Transcriptional activation in response to retinoic acid isomers is mediated by retinoic acid receptors and retinoid X receptors. The differential expression of co-activators and co-repressors which preferentially interact with retinoic acid receptors or retinoid X receptors may be a mechanism leading to different cellular responses to 9-cis and all-trans retinoic acid. To test this hypothesis, we have studied the expression of the nuclear receptor co-regulators TIF1alpha, TIF1beta, SUG1 and SMRT in the N-type and S-type neuroblastoma cell lines SH SY 5Y and SH S EP. Transcripts for all four co-regulators were expressed in these neuroblastoma cells. The expression of TIF1alpha, TIF1beta and SUG1 did not change in response to retinoic acid; however, SMRT was induced in both neuroblastoma cell lines, but particularly by all-trans retinoic acid in SH S EP cells. An additional co-activator, Trip3, was isolated by differential mRNA display and shown to be preferentially induced by 9-cis retinoic acid in SH SY 5Y and SH S EP cells. These data suggest that retinoic acid isomer-specific induction of nuclear receptor co-regulators may determine, in part, the differential biological effects of retinoic acid isomers.
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- P E Lovat
- Department of Child Health, Medical School, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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