Fukui Yasuhisa, Tanaka Takayuki, Tachikawa Hiroyuki, Ihara Sayoko
Division of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 May 4;356(2):512-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.03.011. Epub 2007 Mar 8.
SWAP-70 is a phosphatidylinositol trisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4,5)P(3)) binding protein, which acts in F-actin rearrangement. The role of SWAP-70 in oncogenic transformation of mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) by v-Src was examined by use of MEFs defective in SWAP-70. v-Src morphologically transformed MEFs lacking SWAP-70, but growth of the transformed cells in culture was slower than that of cells supplemented with exogenous SWAP-70. The v-Src-transformed MEFs deficient in SWAP-70 were unable to grow in soft agar while those expressing SWAP70 readily formed colonies, suggesting that SWAP-70 is required for anchorage independent growth of v-Src transformed MEFs. When transplanted in nude mice, tumors formed by the v-Src transformed SWAP-70(-/-) MEFs were smaller than those formed by cells expressing exogenous SWAP-70. These results suggest that SWAP-70 may be required for oncogenic transformation and contributes to cell growth in MEFs transformed by v-Src.
SWAP-70是一种磷脂酰肌醇三磷酸(PtdIns(3,4,5)P(3))结合蛋白,作用于F-肌动蛋白重排。通过使用SWAP-70缺陷的小鼠胚胎成纤维细胞(MEF),研究了SWAP-70在v-Src诱导的小鼠胚胎成纤维细胞致癌转化中的作用。v-Src使缺乏SWAP-70的MEF发生形态转化,但转化细胞在培养中的生长速度比补充外源性SWAP-70的细胞慢。缺乏SWAP-70的v-Src转化的MEF在软琼脂中无法生长,而表达SWAP70的细胞则很容易形成集落,这表明SWAP-70是v-Src转化的MEF锚定非依赖性生长所必需的。当移植到裸鼠体内时,v-Src转化的SWAP-70(-/-)MEF形成的肿瘤比表达外源性SWAP-70的细胞形成的肿瘤小。这些结果表明,SWAP-70可能是致癌转化所必需的,并有助于v-Src转化的MEF中的细胞生长。