Fibulin-5 downregulates Ki-67 and inhibits proliferation and invasion of breast cancer cells

  • Authors:
    • Yamina Mohamedi
    • Tania Fontanil
    • Laura Solares
    • Olivia Garcia-Suárez
    • Jorge García-Piqueras
    • Jose A. Vega
    • Santiago Cal
    • Alvaro J. Obaya
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  • Published online on: February 17, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3394
  • Pages: 1447-1456
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Abstract

Fibulins not only function as molecular bridges within the cellular microenvironment but also influence cell behavior. Thus, fibulins may contribute to create a permissive microenvironment for tumor growth but can also stimulate different mechanisms that may impede tumor progression. This is the case with Fibulin-5, which has been shown to display both tumor-promoting and tumor-protective functions by mechanisms that are not totally defined. We show new evidence on the tumor-protective functions displayed by Fibulin-5 in MCF-7, T47D and MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells including the inhibition of invasion and proliferation capacity and hampering the ability to form mammospheres. Reduction in the level of phosphorylation of Ser residues involved in the nuclear translocation of β-catenin may underlie these antitumor effects. We also found that Fibulin-5 reduces the level of expression of Ki-67, a nuclear protein associated with cell proliferation. Moreover, reduction in Fibulin-5 expression corresponds to an increase of Ki-67 detection in breast tissue samples. Overall, our data provide new insights into the influence of Fibulin-5 to modify breast cancer cell behavior and contribute to better understand the connections between fibulins and cancer.

Introduction

Fibulin-5, also known as DANCE, EVEC or UP50, is a 66-kDa secreted glycoprotein belonging to the fibulin family, whose members play essential roles in growth and tissue development (1,2). Fibulins can act as molecular bridges within the ECM, and as mediators of cellular processes including cell adhesion and motility, cell-cell and cell-ECM communications and elastogenesis. In particular, Fibulin-5 is an elastogenic short fibulin that interacts with different ECM proteins such as tropoelastin, fibrillin-1, EMILIN-1, lysyl oxidase-like I or apolipoprotein A (3,4). It is also noteworthy that Fibulin-5 is the only member of the family that contains an RGD motif within its structure, which allows its interaction with a subset of integrins (5). Functional importance of Fibulin-5 is also highlighted when performing the phenotypic characterization of the mice deficient in Fbln5, the gene coding for murine fibulin-5 (6). Although these mice live through adulthood, they exhibit anatomical abnormalities related to elastic fiber assembly with resulting emphysematous lungs, vascular disorders and cutis laxa. Notably, mutations indentified in human FBLN5 gene have been also associated to age-related macular degeneration and cutix laxa (7,8).

In addition to their role in tissue architecture and function, fibulins have also been involved in tumorigenesis. Thus, different fibulins have been found overexpressed or downregulated in tumor or stromal cells showing both oncogenic and tumor-protective properties (9,10). In this regard, Fibulin-5 elicits tumor-promoting effects in nasopharyngeal carcinoma as its overexpression significantly correlates with advanced tumor metastasis (11); and Fibulin-5 is also involved in pulmonary metastasis of a rat model of renal cell carcinoma (12). Moreover, Fibulin-5 mediates EMT in mouse 4T1 breast tumor cells (13), and in human HeLa cervical cancer cells (14). By contrast, a growing number of studies highlight the antitumor effects caused by Fibulin-5. For instance, Fibulin-5 inhibits invasion and proliferation of the human bladder cancer cell line 5637 (15), and hampers cancer invasion and tumor metastasis of lung cancer cell lines (16,17). Furthermore, Fibulin-5 can inhibit angiogenesis induced by HT1080 (18) and MCA102 (19) fibrosarcoma cell lines. Additionally, FBLN5 gene has been found epigenetically silenced in prostate (20) and lung cancer (16), which reinforces the tumor-suppressive roles of Fibulin-5.

In the present study, we have employed well-known human breast cancer cell models to overexpress Fibulin-5 and to investigate changes in cell phenotype using different cell-based approaches including cell proliferation, migration and invasion assays, as well as mammosphere formation. Overall, our data suggest that Fibulin-5 induces antitumor effects by suppression of β-catenin phosphorylation. Immunohistochemical analysis of tumor samples of breast cancer patients indicated that a high Fibulin-5 expression level is concomitant with a low expression of the proliferative marker Ki-67 (21), which suggest that Fibulin-5 may influence breast cancer cell proliferation.

Materials and methods

Cell culture and transfection

MCF-7, T47D and MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells and A549 lung cancer cell lines were routinely maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum and 50 μg/ml streptomycin and 100 U/ml penicillin (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA). These cell lines were kindly provided by Dr Carlos López-Otín (Universidad de Oviedo). pcDNA3 plasmid containing full-length cDNA for FBLN5 (22) was kindly provided by Dr William P. Schiemann (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA). This expression vector was transfected into cells using TransIT-X2 Dynamic Delivery System (Mirus Bio LLC, Madison, WI, USA) as recommended by the manufacturer. Cells stably expressing exogenous FBLN5 were selected in the presence of 500 μg/ml G418 (Sigma-Aldrich). In all experiments cells transfected with an empty vector were employed as a control.

Western blot analysis and cell staining

Cell extracts were resolved by 10% polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, transferred to a PVDF membrane and then probed with a rabbit anti-Fibulin-5 antibody (Origene Technologies Inc., Rockville, MD, USA). Rabbit anti-β-catenin antibodies were from Cell Signaling Technology (Danvers, MA, USA), rabbit anti-Ki-67 antibody was from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Dallas, TX, USA) and mouse monoclonal anti-β-actin antibody (AC-40) was from Sigma-Aldrich Química S.A. (Madrid, Spain). Immunoreactive proteins were visualized using HPR-peroxidase labeled anti-rabbit antibody (Pierce, Dorchester, MA, USA). For immunocytochemical analysis, breast cancer cells expressing Fibulin-5 were fixed with 3.7 paraformaldehyde in phosphate-buffered saline buffer and cells were then blocked with 10% fetal bovine serum. To detect Ki-67, blocked slides were incubated overnight with the H-300 antibody from Santa Cruz Biotechnologies, followed by 1-h incubation with a secondary Alexa 546-conjugated antibody (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA). In all samples, DAPI was added at 100 ng/ml to visualize DNA in the cell nucleus. Images were obtained using a fluorescence microscope (Axiovert).

Cell proliferation assay

Cell proliferation was assayed using the CellTiter 96 Non-radiactive Cell Proliferation assay kit from Promega Biotech Ibérica SL (Madrid, Spain). MCF-7, T47D and MBA-MB-231 cells (5×103/well) were seeded in 96-well plates and six replicates per condition. Cell proliferation rates were measured on four days using an automated microtiter plate reader Power WaveWS (Bio-Tek Instruments, Inc., Winooski, VT, USA). Additionally, cell proliferation was also estimated as an average of Ki-67-positive nuclei in relation to the total number of nuclei per microscopic field (n=4) (23).

Invasion assay

In vitro invasion potential was examined by using 24-well Matrigel-coated invasion chambers with an 8-μm pore size (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA). To this end, 5×104 MCF-7 or T47D cells were allowed to migrate for 96 h using 10% fetal bovine serum as a chemoattractant. In the case of MDA-MB-231 cells, migration time was 24 h. At least three independent experiments were made for each condition. Non-invading cells on the upper surface were removed from the chambers using a cotton swab and cells that reached the lower surface were fixed with 100% methanol and stained with 0.5% crystal violet in 2% ethanol. Cells were counted in four randomly selected microscopic fields.

Mammosphere assay

To evaluate mammosphere formation capacity of breast tumor cells overexpressing Fibulin-5, 4×104 MCF-7 and T47D cells were plated in 6-well ultralow attachments plates (Corning Costar, Corning, NY, USA) and grown in MammoCult Basal Medium (Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, Canada) supplemented with 10% MammoCult proliferation supplement, 4 μg/ml heparin and 0.5 μg/ml hydrocortisone. After 7 days, cells were collected and enzymatically dissociated as previously described (24). Then, individual dissociated cells were cultured in 96-well ultralow attachment (Corning Costar) at a density of 20 cells/well. Mammosphere formation was daily monitored to ensure that they derived from single cells. Number of mammospheres were determined after 7 days and mammospheres were again counted and graphically presented.

Migration assay

To evaluate the migratory capacity on ECM components, we employed the Radius™ 24-Well Cell Migration assay kit (Cell Biolabs Inc., San Diego, CA, USA), following the manufacturer' instructions. Briefly, 1.25×104 MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 cells overexpressing Fibulin-5 or transfected with an empty vector were seeded on wells coated with fibronectin and type-I collagen. Migration was monitored for 12 h using a time-lapse Zeiss Axio Observer Microscopy. Experiments were performed in triplicates and covered area was quantified at different times using ImageJ software.

Human breast cancer tissue array

A breast cancer tissue array containing 78 samples of different types of human breast tumors and 3 normal tissues was obtained from the Institute of Oncology of Asturias Tumor Bank. Study subjects were newly diagnosed with breast cancer and histopathologically confirmed at the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA). Tumor-free samples were selected from healthy tissue areas and immediately frozen. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients prior to sample collection. The study was approved by the appropriate institutional review board according to national and EU guidelines. To perform the histological analysis, deparaffinized and rehydrated sections were processed for detection of Fibulin-5 and Ki-67 using the EnVision antibody complex kit (Dako Denmark A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark) following the manufacturer's recommendations. The rabbit anti-Fibulin-5 antibody (Abcam) was diluted 1:200 and the anti-Ki67 was a mouse monoclonal antibody (Dako, clone MIB-1) diluted 1:100. For control purposes, representative sections were processed as above but rabbit or goat non-immune serum, or blocking buffer, were used instead of the primary antibodies. For simultaneous detection of Fibulin-5 and Ki-67 double immunofluorescence coupled to laser confocal microscope was used. Non-specific binding was reduced by incubation for 30 min with a solution of 1% bovine serum albumin in TBS (Tris-buffered saline buffer). Sections were incubated overnight, at 4°C in a humid chamber with a 1:1 mixture of anti-fibulin-5 and anti-Ki-67 antibodies, diluted 1:200 and 1:100, respectively. After rinsing with TBS, sections were incubated for 1 h with Alexa Fluor 488-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (AbD Serotec, Kidlington, UK), diluted 1:1,000 in TBS containing 5% mouse serum (AbD Serotec), then rinsed again, and incubated for another hour with CyTM3-conjugated donkey anti-mouse antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch) diluted 1:50 in TBS. Double fluorescence was detected using a Leica DMR-XA automatic fluorescence microscope (Photonic Microscopy Service, University of Oviedo) coupled with a Leica Confocal software, version 2.5 (Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany) and the images captured were processed using ImageJ version 1.43g software, McMaster Biophotonics Facility (www.macbiophotonics.ca).

Survival analysis

To evaluate the effect of Fibulin-5 on breast cancer prognosis, a Kaplan-Meier log-rank test survival plot was performed using the data available at www.kmplot.com (affy ID 203088_at) (25).

Statistical analysis

To perform statistical analysis, we employed GraphPad Prism 5.0 software and data are presented as means ± SE. Significant differences were determined with the Student-Welch t-test and P-values <0.05 were considered statistically significant (in the figures as: *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.005).

Results

Recombinant Fibulin-5 reduces breast cancer cell invasion

In the present study we wanted to examine if Fibulin-5 induces changes in the behavior of three commonly employed human breast cancer cells, the poorly invasive T47D and MCF-7 and the highly invasive MDA-MB-231 cell lines. Following transfection, production of recombinant Fibulin-5 was analyzed by western blot analysis using an anti-Fibulin-5 antibody (Fig. 1A). An immunoreactive band corresponding to Fibulin-5 was detected in cell extracts containing Fibulin-5, but not in control cells transfected with an empty vector. To assess whether Fibulin-5 could affect cell invasion, cells were allowed to invade using Matrigel-coated invasion chambers (Fig. 2B). After 96 h, invasion of T47D and MCF-7 was analyzed with the finding that the presence of Fibulin-5 reduced the invasive potential of both cell lines in comparison with control cells (45.5% reduction in the case of T47D cells; and 49.8% reduction in MCF-7 cells). MDA-MB-231 cells were allowed to invade for 24 h and cells producing recombinant Fibulin-5 showed 40.4% reduction in their invasive capacity when compared to control cells (Fig. 1B). These results suggest that Fibulin-5 strongly affects invasive capacity of breast cancer cells.

Fibulin-5 affects proliferation of breast cancer cells

To assess the potential effect of Fibulin-5 on breast cancer cell proliferation we performed two different approaches. First, we measured cell proliferation on 4 consecutive days employing a MTT assay. As shown in Fig. 2A, presence of Fibulin-5 reduced the number of T47D, MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231 proliferating cells. It is noteworthy that the highly invasive MDA-MB-231 cells seemed to be more affected than the other two since difference in cell proliferation between MDA-MB-231 cells expressing recombinant Fibulin-5 and control cells was already evident on the second day of the assay. Second approach was to examine the presence of the proliferation marker Ki-67 in Fibulin-5-transfected breast cancer cells. Western blot analysis showed that expression level of Ki-67 was considerably reduced in breast cancer cell lines expressing Fibulin-5 when compared to control cells (Fig. 2B). Moreover, nuclear staining of the cells using an anti-Ki-67 antibody revealed that the number of nuclei showing Ki-67-positive staining was lower in cells expressing recombinant Fibulin-5 than in control cells. Thus, Ki-67-positive nuclei represented an average of 78, 64 and 72% in control MCF-7, T47D and MDA-MB-231 cells respectively, whereas 58, 50 and 44% of total nuclei showed positive staining in cells expressing exogenous Fibulin-5 (Fig. 2B). These data indicate that Fibulin-5 has an effect on breast cancer cell proliferation.

Fibulin-5 decreases the number of mammosphere formation units

MCF-7 and T47D are breast tumor cell lines that show a strong ability to form mammospheres (26). To evaluate whether the presence of Fibulin-5 could alter this ability, we carried out mammosphere forming assays that showed that the presence of Fibulin-5 did not seem to affect the size or morphology of the mammospheres (Fig. 3). However, we found a significant decrease in the number of mammospheres derived from MCF-7 and T47D cells expressing recombinant Fibulin-5. Indeed, Fibulin-5 decreased ~50% the mammosphere forming units (MFU) in the case of MCF-7 cells and ~64% in the case of T47D cells in comparison with control cells and in two consecutive passages (Fig. 3). Overall, these data indicate that capacity for in vitro self-renewal of MCF-7 and T47D cells is constrained by the presence of Fibulin-5.

Effect of Fibulin-5 on breast cancer cell migration

Next, we wanted to explore the possibility that Fibulin-5 affected breast cancer cell migration on type-I collagen and fibronectin, two extracellular matrix proteins that influence cell adhesion and migration properties of both the poorly invasive MCF-7 cells and the highly invasive MDA-MB-231 cells (27). After 12 h, MCF-7 expressing Fibulin-5 and control MCF-7 cells did not show differences in cell migration using wells coated with type-I collagen or fibronectin (Fig. 4). MDA-MB-231 cells also showed no differences between cells expressing Fibulin-5 and control cells in wells coated with fibronectin (Fig. 4). However, presence of Fibulin-5 affected the migratory capacity of MDA-MB-231 cells in wells coated with type-I collagen (Fig. 5). Thus after 12 h, 87.7% of area was covered by control MDA-MB-231 cells while only 53.9% was covered by MDA-MB-231 cells expressing Fibulin-5 (P<0.01). Differences in migration on type-I collagen were already evident at 4 h (48.2 vs. 5.7%; P<0.01). These data indicate that Fibulin-5 may act as a modulator of metastatic breast cancer cell migration through type-I collagen.

Presence of Fibulin-5 inhibits β-catenin phosphorylation

Then we asked whether the functional changes due to Fibulin-5 could be attributed to alterations in β-catenin phosphorylation. Western blot analysis revealed a decrease in the phosphorylation levels of the β-catenin residues Ser552 and Ser675 in MCF-7 cells (Fig. 6). Attending to previous results on the effect of Fibulin-5 in Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in lung cancer (17), we evaluated whether the human lung carcinoma cell line A549 undergoes the same effect, with the finding that Fibulin-5 also affects phosphorylation of Ser552 and Ser675 in this cell line (Fig. 6). Ser552 and Ser675 residues are involved in the translocation of β-catenin from cell-cell contacts into the nucleus. In consequence, decrease in β-catenin phosphorylation could underlie the changes observed in the phenotype of breast cancer cells employed in the present study.

Immunostaining of Fibulin-5 and Ki-67 in breast tumors

Taking into account our previous results on Fibulin-5 and Ki-67 in breast cancer cells, we next performed an immunohistochemical analysis to evaluate the simultaneous detection of Fibulin-5 and Ki-67 in breast cancer samples. To this end we employed a tissue array containing samples of the most common types of breast tumors as well as 3 normal breast tissues (Fig. 7). In normal samples, Fibulin-5 was present in both lobular and ductal epithelial cells, and the intensity of immunostaining varied among different segments of the organ. The density of Ki-67 positive nuclei profiles was very low or undetectable in wide segments of the tissue. In tumor samples, immunoreactivity of Fibulin-5 was very low or absent in those samples showing medium or high expression of Ki-67 independently of tumor type (Fig. 7A). In ductal carcinoma, Fibulin-5 showed high immunoreactivity in the most advance stages of the disease. In parallel, the density of Ki-67 immunoreactive nuclei profiles decreased. By contrast, in lobular carcinoma, the expression of Fibulin-5 and Ki-67 showed an opposite evolution. Double immunofluorescence for simultaneous detection of Fibulin-5 and Ki-67 was used to ascertain these results (Fig. 7B). In a representative section of poorly differentiated ductal carcinoma, abundant tumor cells displaying strong Fibulin-5 immunofluorescence were found which were devoid of Ki-67 immunofluorescence. Conversely, in sections of poorly differentiated lobular carcinoma Fibulin-5 was absent in tumor cells while they showed numerous Ki-67 positive nuclei profiles. This analysis also indicated that Fibulin-5 was not colocalized with Ki-67 in most samples examined. Moreover, Kaplan-Meier analysis using the data available at www.kmplot.com revealed that breast cancer patients with high levels of Fibulin-5 showed better prognosis than patients expressing low levels (Fig. 7C). This analysis suggests that FBLN5 gene expression is associated with better outcome in breast cancer patients.

Discussion

The number of studies supporting the importance of fibulins in tumorigenesis has considerably grown in recent years (10). Role of these secreted glycoproteins in cancer is still controversial as they can induce both tumor-promoting or tumor-suppressive effects depending on multiple factors, and Fibulin-5 is not an exception. For instance, the interaction between Fibulin-5 and β1 integrins regulates the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in tumors, which has been shown to be increased in Fbln5(−/−) mice in comparison with the wild-type littermates (28). Nogo-B, an isoform of reticulon-4, is also an interacting partner of Fibulin-5 and the consequence of this interaction is induction of EMT as well as the promotion of cell migration and invasion of HeLa cervical cancer cells (14). Fibulin-5 also enhances EMT and stimulates dedifferentiation of mammary epithelial cells upon induction by TGF-β (13). Interestingly, FBLN5 is a TGF-β-inducible gene that can modulate protein kinase activities thus affecting cell growth and motility.

As opposed to these tumor-promoting effects, Fibulin-5 can also support tumor-protective properties (4). Thus, Fibulin-5 has been identified as angiostatic agent in tumors produced by MCA102 (19) and HT1080 (18) fibrosarcoma cells. Moreover, it has been found that Fibulin-5 hampers invasion and proliferation of human bladder, ovarian and lung cancer cells (15,17,29), thereby inhibiting tumor growth. In the present study and using different cell-based assays we have found that Fibulin-5 also induces antitumor effects in three well-known human breast cancer cell lines. In fact, overexpression of Fibulin-5 decreases invasion of the poorly invasive T47D and MCF-7 cells, and also of the highly invasive MDA-MB-231 cells. Moreover, MDA-MB-231 cells overexpressing Fibulin-5 significantly reduce their in vitro migration capacity on type-I collagen. Interestingly, deposition of type-I collagen facilitates metastasis of breast cancer cells (30). Collectively, our data allow to speculate that the presence of Fibulin-5 may exert its antitumor effects through the modulation of a signaling pathway involved in breast cancer progression. Recently Chen et al (17) found that Fibulin-5 affects Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in lung cancer cells. To evaluate the possibility that β-catenin is also affected in breast cancer cells upon overexpression of Fibulin-5, we explored the phosphorylation status in MCF-7 cells of the two forms β-catenin involved in its nuclear translocation. We found that phosphorylation levels of Ser675 and particularly of Ser552 were drastically reduced in MCF-7 cells overexpressing Fibulin-5 in comparison to control cells. Nuclear translocation of β-catenin implies an increase of its transcriptional activity which contributes to promote tumor metastasis not only in breast cancer cells, including MCF-7 (3133), but also in different types of cancer (34). Consequently, Fibulin-5 could function as a tumor suppressor by blocking phosphorylation of β-catenin in breast cancer.

Two more findings highlight the antitumor effect displayed by Fibulin-5 in breast cancer cells. First, presence of Fibulin-5 affects the capacity of tumor cells to form mammospheres. This effect strongly suggests that Fibulin-5 abrogates the ability of breast cancer cells for in vitro self-renewal (24). Second finding is that Fibulin-5 inhibits proliferation of breast tumors cells. Moreover, our data indicate that Fibulin-5 is associated with a low expression of Ki-67, a nuclear protein related to cell proliferation and an important parameter in breast cancer prognosis (21). To explore if this effect can be reproduced in breast cancer samples we performed and immunohistochemical analysis. Detection of Fibulin-5 in breast cancer samples has been previously reported by Lee et al (13). These authors found that breast tumors contained abundant levels of Fibulin-5 protein despite the FBLN5 messenger RNA levels were reduced in mammary tumors attending to the data obtained from Oncomine Research Database. Our immunohistochemical study confirmed that Fibulin-5 is detected in breast cancer samples, and also revealed that its detection is concomitant with low detection of Ki-67. Moreover, ductal and lobular carcinoma, the two most common types of breast tumors, have a contrary evolution as poorly differentiated ductal carcinoma showed high Fibulin-5 and low Ki-67 detection and vice versa. Overall, these data suggest that Fibulin-5 could influence breast cancer cell proliferation. Previous studies have addressed the influence of Fibulin-5 in cell proliferation and again, Fibulin-5 showed a dual role as it can display both pro- and anti-proliferative effects. For instance, Fibulin-5 overexpression inhibits endothelial cell proliferation (35,36). Moreover, Spencer et al (37) highlighted the role of Fibulin-5 as an inhibitor of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation employing the Fbln5-deficient mice. By contrast, Fibulin-5 can also exert pro-proliferative effects in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells (11). Based on these data, we speculate that upon secretion, Fibulin-5 can modify the local cell microenvironment through distinct interactions or establishing complex networks with other ECM that could either promote or repress a tumor microenvironment. In the present study we show new insights into the tumor-protective functions of Fibulin-5. Moreover, high expression levels of FBLN5 patients indicate a better outcome of breast cancer patients. Overall, these data could help to develop new therapeutic approaches to target tumor microenvironment.

Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Carlos López-Otín (Universidad de Oviedo) for providing cell lines and reagents, and Dr William P. Schiemann (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA) for providing plasmid containing cDNA for Fibulin-5. Y.M. is supported by a Ficyt (Gobierno del Principado de Asturias, Spain) fellowship and T.F. is supported by the IUOPA. The present study is partially supported by a grant from European Union FEDER funds, Principado de Asturias (Plan de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion), FICYT (GRUPIN 14-069), to J.A.V., S.C. and A.J.O, and by a grant from the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias, FISS PI11/00371. IUOPA is supported by the Obra Social Cajastur, Asturias, Spain.

Abbreviations:

DAPI

4′-6′-diamino-2-phenylindole hydrochloride

ECM

extracellular matrix

EMT

epithelial-mensenchymal transition

kDa

kilodaltons

RGD

arginine-glycine-aspartic acid

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Mohamedi Y, Fontanil T, Solares L, Garcia-Suárez O, García-Piqueras J, Vega JA, Cal S and Obaya AJ: Fibulin-5 downregulates Ki-67 and inhibits proliferation and invasion of breast cancer cells. Int J Oncol 48: 1447-1456, 2016.
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Mohamedi, Y., Fontanil, T., Solares, L., Garcia-Suárez, O., García-Piqueras, J., Vega, J.A. ... Obaya, A.J. (2016). Fibulin-5 downregulates Ki-67 and inhibits proliferation and invasion of breast cancer cells. International Journal of Oncology, 48, 1447-1456. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3394
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Mohamedi, Y., Fontanil, T., Solares, L., Garcia-Suárez, O., García-Piqueras, J., Vega, J. A., Cal, S., Obaya, A. J."Fibulin-5 downregulates Ki-67 and inhibits proliferation and invasion of breast cancer cells". International Journal of Oncology 48.4 (2016): 1447-1456.
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Mohamedi, Y., Fontanil, T., Solares, L., Garcia-Suárez, O., García-Piqueras, J., Vega, J. A., Cal, S., Obaya, A. J."Fibulin-5 downregulates Ki-67 and inhibits proliferation and invasion of breast cancer cells". International Journal of Oncology 48, no. 4 (2016): 1447-1456. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2016.3394