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Cyclic AMP in ovarian cancer cells both inhibits proliferation and increases c-KIT expression.

Abstract：

:C-KIT encodes a tyrosine kinase receptor (KIT) that, when activated by its ligand (KL), stimulates proliferation, differentiation, migration, and survival. Greater than 70% of epithelial ovarian cancers coexpress c-KIT and KL. C-KIT and KL expression levels have been shown to be up-regulated by cAMP in some cell types. Additionally, cAMP is well-recognized for its anti-proliferative effects in cancer cells. The goal of these experiments was to investigate these seemingly contradictory consequences of cAMP treatment by: (1) confirming the growth inhibitory actions of cAMP on ovarian cancer cells; (2) investigating the ability of cAMP to affect c-KIT and KL expression in these cells; and (3) examining the possible role of endogenous and/or cAMP-regulated c-KIT and KL expression in ovarian cancer cell proliferation. HEY cells, an ovarian cancer cell line which expresses c-KIT and KL, were treated with dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP), 8-bromo-cAMP, and cholera toxin over a range of concentrations. With all treatments, stimulation of cAMP signaling caused a dose-dependent inhibition of HEY cell proliferation by up to 40, 62, and 38%, respectively. This inhibition of proliferation correlated with a dose-dependent increase in c-KIT mRNA expression, yielding 4- to 7-fold elevations in transcript abundance; there were no changes in steady-state levels of KL transcripts. In order to determine whether KIT expression/activity was responsible for the observed decrease in proliferation, dbcAMP-treated HEY cells were exposed either to anti-KIT neutralizing antibodies or to the KIT inhibitor STI571. These experiments demonstrated that KIT inhibition did not alter the growth rate of cells or reverse the dbcAMP-induced inhibition of proliferation. These results suggest that cAMP signaling pathways regulate both cell proliferation and c-KIT expression in ovarian cancer cells; however, KIT is not assuming its well-established role as a growth factor.

journal_name

Exp Cell Res

journal_title

Experimental cell research

authors

Shaw TJ,Keszthelyi EJ,Tonary AM,Cada M,Vanderhyden BC

doi

10.1006/excr.2001.5426

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-02-01 00:00:00

pages

95-106

issue

eissn

0014-4827

issn

1090-2422

pii

S0014482701954266

journal_volume

273

pub_type

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Cyclic AMP in ovarian cancer cells both inhibits proliferation and increases c-KIT expression.