TRANSCRIPTIONAL SWITCHING MODEL FOR THE REGULATION OF TUMORIGENESIS AND METASTASIS BY THE HA-RAS ONCOGENE - TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES IN THE HA-RAS TUMOR-SUPPRESSOR GENE LYSYL OXIDASE

  • Authors:
    • ZZ SU
    • S YEMUL
    • A ESTABROOK
    • RM FRIEDMAN
    • SG ZIMMER
    • PB FISHER
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  • Published online on: December 1, 1995     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.7.6.1279
  • Pages: 1279-1284
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Abstract

A model system is described that allows an analysis of the molecular and biochemical changes associated with expression and suppression of the oncogenic and metastatic phenotype of cloned rat embryo fibroblast (CREF) cells. Ha-ras-transformed CREF cells are morphologically transformed, anchorage-independent and both tumorigenic and metastatic in athymic nude mice and syngeneic Fischer rats. Co-expression of the Ha-ras oncogene and Krev-1 tumor suppressor gene in CREF cells results in suppression of in vitro transformation. In contrast, Ha-ras/Krev-1 transformed CREF cells retain, with greatly extended latency periods, both tumorigenic and metastatic capabilities in athymic nude mice. The present study investigates changes in the Ha-ms suppressor gene, rrg (lysyl oxidase), during expression and suppression of the oncogenic phenotype in CREF cells. Nontumorigenic CREF cells and CREF cells transformed by the Ha-ras and Krev-1 gene that express a suppression in in vitro transformation contain elevated levels of lysyl oxidase mRNA and protein. In contrast, Ha-ms and Ha-ras/Krev-1 nude mouse tumor- and nude mouse lung metastasis-derived CREF cells contain reduced levels of lysyl oxidase mRNA and protein. Nuclear run-on assays indicate that suppression of lysyl oxidase expression in transformed subclones of CREF cells correlates with a reduction in transcription of the lysyl oxidase gene. Taken together, the current studies support a transcriptional switching model in which lysyl oxidase expression correlates directly with suppression of the Ka-ms-induced transformation phenotype and escape from oncogenic suppression correlates with a transcriptional silencing of the lysyl oxidase gene and decreased lysyl oxidase mRNA and protein.

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SU Z, YEMUL S, ESTABROOK A, FRIEDMAN R, ZIMMER S and FISHER P: TRANSCRIPTIONAL SWITCHING MODEL FOR THE REGULATION OF TUMORIGENESIS AND METASTASIS BY THE HA-RAS ONCOGENE - TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES IN THE HA-RAS TUMOR-SUPPRESSOR GENE LYSYL OXIDASE. Int J Oncol 7: 1279-1284, 1995
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SU, Z., YEMUL, S., ESTABROOK, A., FRIEDMAN, R., ZIMMER, S., & FISHER, P. (1995). TRANSCRIPTIONAL SWITCHING MODEL FOR THE REGULATION OF TUMORIGENESIS AND METASTASIS BY THE HA-RAS ONCOGENE - TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES IN THE HA-RAS TUMOR-SUPPRESSOR GENE LYSYL OXIDASE. International Journal of Oncology, 7, 1279-1284. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.7.6.1279
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SU, Z., YEMUL, S., ESTABROOK, A., FRIEDMAN, R., ZIMMER, S., FISHER, P."TRANSCRIPTIONAL SWITCHING MODEL FOR THE REGULATION OF TUMORIGENESIS AND METASTASIS BY THE HA-RAS ONCOGENE - TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES IN THE HA-RAS TUMOR-SUPPRESSOR GENE LYSYL OXIDASE". International Journal of Oncology 7.6 (1995): 1279-1284.
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SU, Z., YEMUL, S., ESTABROOK, A., FRIEDMAN, R., ZIMMER, S., FISHER, P."TRANSCRIPTIONAL SWITCHING MODEL FOR THE REGULATION OF TUMORIGENESIS AND METASTASIS BY THE HA-RAS ONCOGENE - TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES IN THE HA-RAS TUMOR-SUPPRESSOR GENE LYSYL OXIDASE". International Journal of Oncology 7, no. 6 (1995): 1279-1284. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.7.6.1279