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Cell cycle inhibition therapy that targets stathmin in in vitro and in vivo models of breast cancer.

Abstract：

:Stathmin is the founding member of a family of microtubule-destabilizing proteins that have a critical role in the regulation of mitosis. Stathmin is expressed at high levels in breast cancer and its overexpression is linked to disease progression. Although there is a large body of evidence to support a role for stathmin in breast cancer progression, the validity of stathmin as a viable therapeutic target for breast cancer has not been investigated. Here, we used a bicistronic adenoviral vector that co-expresses green fluorescent protein and a ribozyme that targets stathmin messenger RNA in preclinical breast cancer models with different estrogen receptor (ER) status. We examined the effects of anti-stathmin ribozyme on the malignant phenotype of breast cancer cells in vitro and in xenograft models in vivo both as a single agent and in combination with chemotherapeutic agents. Adenovirus-mediated gene transfer of anti-stathmin ribozyme resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition of proliferation and clonogenicity associated with a G2/M arrest and increase in apoptosis in both ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer cell lines. This inhibition was markedly enhanced when stathmin-inhibited breast cancer cells were exposed to low concentrations of taxol, which resulted in virtually complete loss of the malignant phenotype. Interestingly, breast cancer xenografts treated with low doses of anti-stathmin therapy and taxol showed regression in a majority of tumors, while some tumors stopped growing completely. In contrast, combination of anti-stathmin ribozyme and adriamycin resulted in only a modest inhibition of growth in vitro and in breast cancer xenografts in vivo. Although inhibition of tumor growth was observed in both the combination treatment groups compared with groups treated with single agent alone, combination of anti-stathmin therapy and taxol had a more profound inhibition of tumorigenicity, as both agents target the microtubule pathway. Clinically, these findings are highly relevant because taxol is one of the most active chemotherapeutic agents in breast cancer. These studies provide the proof-of-principle that stathmin provides an attractive molecular target, which could serve as a primary focus of novel approaches to breast cancer.

journal_name

Cancer Gene Ther

journal_title

Cancer gene therapy

authors

Miceli C,Tejada A,Castaneda A,Mistry SJ

doi

10.1038/cgt.2013.21

subject

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pub_date

2013-05-01 00:00:00

pages

298-307

issue

eissn

0929-1903

issn

1476-5500

pii

cgt201321

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Cell cycle inhibition therapy that targets stathmin in in vitro and in vivo models of breast cancer.