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KILDEY K, Kassianos A, Hultin S, Becker L, Wang X, Giuliani K, John G, Wilkinson R, Francis R, Healy H. SAT-069 FUNCTIONAL SPECIALISATION OF NATURAL KILLER CELL SUBSETS IN HUMAN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT REJECTION. Kidney Int Rep 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2019.05.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Dehnisch Ellström I, Spulber S, Hultin S, Norlin N, Ceccatelli S, Hultling C, Uhlén P. Spinal cord injury in zebrafish induced by near-infrared femtosecond laser pulses. J Neurosci Methods 2019; 311:259-266. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.10.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Revised: 10/28/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Hildebrand S, Hultin S, Subramani A, Petropoulos S, Zhang Y, Cao X, Mpindi J, Kalloniemi O, Johansson S, Majumdar A, Lanner F, Holmgren L. The E-cadherin/AmotL2 complex organizes actin filaments required for epithelial hexagonal packing and blastocyst hatching. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9540. [PMID: 28842668 PMCID: PMC5572699 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10102-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Epithelial cells connect via cell-cell junctions to form sheets of cells with separate cellular compartments. These cellular connections are essential for the generation of cellular forms and shapes consistent with organ function. Tissue modulation is dependent on the fine-tuning of mechanical forces that are transmitted in part through the actin connection to E-cadherin as well as other components in the adherens junctions. In this report we show that p100 amotL2 forms a complex with E-cadherin that associates with radial actin filaments connecting cells over multiple layers. Genetic inactivation or depletion of amotL2 in epithelial cells in vitro or zebrafish and mouse in vivo, resulted in the loss of contractile actin filaments and perturbed epithelial packing geometry. We further showed that AMOTL2 mRNA and protein was expressed in the trophectoderm of human and mouse blastocysts. Genetic inactivation of amotL2 did not affect cellular differentiation but blocked hatching of the blastocysts from the zona pellucida. These results were mimicked by treatment with the myosin II inhibitor blebbistatin. We propose that the tension generated by the E-cadherin/AmotL2/actin filaments plays a crucial role in developmental processes such as epithelial geometrical packing as well as generation of forces required for blastocyst hatching.
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- Sebastian Hildebrand
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet and Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden.,Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet and Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala Biomedical Center (BMC), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Medical Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Turku, Finland.,Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Medical Biotechnology, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Turku, Finland.,Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala Biomedical Center (BMC), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.,Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN, 46285, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet and Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden.
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Hultin S, Subramani A, Hildebrand S, Zheng Y, Majumdar A, Holmgren L. AmotL2 integrates polarity and junctional cues to modulate cell shape. Sci Rep 2017; 7:7548. [PMID: 28790366 PMCID: PMC5548744 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-07968-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The assembly of individual epithelial or endothelial cells into a tight cellular sheet requires stringent control of cell packing and organization. These processes are dependent on the establishment and further integration of cellular junctions, the cytoskeleton and the formation of apical-basal polarity. However, little is known how these subcellular events are coordinated. The (Angiomotin) Amot protein family consists of scaffold proteins that interact with junctional cadherins, polarity proteins and the cytoskeleton. In this report, we have studied how these protein complexes integrate to control cellular shapes consistent with organ function. Using gene-inactivating studies in zebrafish and cell culture systems in vitro, we show that Par3 to be essential for localization of AmotL2 to cellular junctions to associate with VE/E-cadherin and subsequently the organization of radial actin filaments. Our data provide mechanistic insight in how critical processes such as aortic lumen expansion as well as epithelial packing into hexagonal shapes are controlled.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sara Hultin
- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet and Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.,Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN, 46285, USA
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska (CCK), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Mojallal M, Zheng Y, Hultin S, Audebert S, van Harn T, Johnsson P, Lenander C, Fritz N, Mieth C, Corcoran M, Lembo F, Hallström M, Hartman J, Mazure NM, Weide T, Grandér D, Borg JP, Uhlén P, Holmgren L. AmotL2 disrupts apical-basal cell polarity and promotes tumour invasion. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4557. [PMID: 25080976 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2014] [Accepted: 06/30/2014] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The establishment and maintenance of apical-basal cell polarity is essential for the functionality of glandular epithelia. Cell polarity is often lost in advanced tumours correlating with acquisition of invasive and malignant properties. Despite extensive knowledge regarding the formation and maintenance of polarity, the mechanisms that deregulate polarity in metastasizing cells remain to be fully characterized. Here we show that AmotL2 expression correlates with loss of tissue architecture in tumours from human breast and colon cancer patients. We further show that hypoxic stress results in activation of c-Fos-dependent expression of AmotL2 leading to loss of polarity. c-Fos/hypoxia-induced p60 AmotL2 interacts with the Crb3 and Par3 polarity complexes retaining them in large vesicles and preventing them from reaching the apical membrane. The resulting loss of polarity potentiates the response to invasive cues in vitro and in vivo in mice. These data provide a molecular mechanism how hypoxic stress deregulates cell polarity during tumour progression.
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- Mahdi Mojallal
- 1] Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden [2]
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- 1] Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden [2]
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- 1] Inserm U1068, CRCM, 13009 Marseille, France [2] CNRS UMR7258, CRCM, 13009 Marseille, France [3] Institut Paoli-Calmettes, 13009 Marseille, France [4] Aix-Marseille Université, 13009 Marseille, France
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- 1] Inserm U1068, CRCM, 13009 Marseille, France [2] CNRS UMR7258, CRCM, 13009 Marseille, France [3] Institut Paoli-Calmettes, 13009 Marseille, France [4] Aix-Marseille Université, 13009 Marseille, France
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing of Nice (IRCAN), UMR CNRS 7284-INSERM U1081-UNS, Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, 33 avenue Valombrose, 06189 Nice cedex 2, France
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- Department of Internal Medicine D, Division of Molecular Nephrology, University Hospital Muenster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, A14 D-48149 Muenster, Germany
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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- 1] Inserm U1068, CRCM, 13009 Marseille, France [2] CNRS UMR7258, CRCM, 13009 Marseille, France [3] Institut Paoli-Calmettes, 13009 Marseille, France [4] Aix-Marseille Université, 13009 Marseille, France
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology and Pathology, Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden
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Hultin S, Hotston M, Day A, Taylor A, Goodall R, Thomas P, Bahl A, Persad R, Gjini A. Audit of PSA requesting practices in primary care compared to guidelines established by the Prostate Cancer Risk Management programme in the Avon region of the South West of England. Journal of Clinical Urology 2014. [DOI: 10.1177/2051415813485945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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]
Abstract
Background There is considerable challenge in transmitting the complicated information contained in the Prostate Cancer Risk Management (PCRM) programme in the primary care setting. 1 The practices surrounding requesting of PSA should be clearly understood by both GP and patient before requesting this investigation, and in order to further understand the needs and requirements of primary care practitioners in this regard we undertook an audit comparing practices in the Avon region of the Southwest of England compared to the guidelines of the PCRM programme. 1 Methods Our study identified a consistent year-on-year increase in PSA requests over the study period across all age categories and regions of the southwest of England. Results Questionnaire review of practices surrounding the PCRM programme revealed overall good practice but with space for improvement surrounding advice regarding the limitations of prostate biopsy and the relevance of testing in the elderly. Conclusions Despite requesting practices generally conforming to NICE guidelines, nearly half of all abnormal primary-care PSA tests are repeated. Requests in some cases may fall short of best practice.
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- S Hultin
- General Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK
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- Department of Urology, Royal Cornwall Hospital, UK
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Weston Area Health NHS Trust, UK
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal University Hospitals Bath, UK
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Hospital Bristol NHS Trust, UK
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital Bristol NHS Trust, UK
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital Bristol NHS Trust, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Bristol Public Health, UK
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Mojallal M, Zheng Y, Hultin S, Holmgren L. Abstract A12: AmotL2 linking hypoxia to invasion. Cancer Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.fbcr11-a12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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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Hypoxia has been shown to be a bad prognostic marker correlating with metastasis and poor survival. Furthermore, in response to antiangiogenic therapy hypoxic tumor cells become invasive and form metastasis. Malignant tumor cells undergo epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and become depolarized. A protein important for apicobasal polarity during tumor progression is Crumbs3 (crb3). Silencing of Crumbs3 disrupts epithelial cell polarity and possibly promotes metastasis. AmotL2, a gene regulated by hypoxia, associates to the Crb3/Pals/Patj polarity complex via its PDZ-binding motif (unpublished data).
Here we show that AmotL2 disrupts apicobasal polarity resulting in the development of an invasive phenotype.
Citation Format: {Authors}. {Abstract title} [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Second AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research; 2011 Sep 14-18; San Francisco, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2011;71(18 Suppl):Abstract nr A12.
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Rentoft M, Hultin S, Coates PJ, Laurell G, Nylander K. Tubulin α-6 chain is a stably expressed reference gene in archival samples of normal oral tissue and oral squamous cell carcinoma. Exp Ther Med 2010; 1:419-423. [PMID: 22993556 DOI: 10.3892/etm_00000065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2009] [Accepted: 03/01/2010] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
One of the most critical factors in gene expression studies using quantitative real-time PCR is the choice of reference gene. Many of the commonly used reference genes have been shown to vary during a number of biological processes as well as between tissues. It is therefore important to always verify the stability of the gene of choice for all new tissues and experimental conditions. Here, we used two publicly available computer software packages (GeNorm and NormFinder) to investigate the stability of eight potential reference genes in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples from normal oral tissue of different origin as well as from oral squamous cell carcinomas. Both programs found the tubulin α-6 chain (TUBA6) and ribosomal protein S13 (RPS13) to have the most stable expression between malignant and non-malignant tissue. NormFinder also found TUBA6 to be the most stable gene when samples were grouped according to tissue origin. FFPE samples constitute a large research resource, which considerably increases the number of samples available for analysis, leading to more reliable conclusions. Verification of a proper reference gene in oral FFPE tissue is therefore of great importance for future studies.
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- Matilda Rentoft
- Department of Medical Biosciences/Pathology, Umeå University, SE-901 85 Umeå
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