Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
Cancer Invest. 2010 Jul;28(6):588-97. doi: 10.3109/07357900903286941.
The degree of tumor progression (such as growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis) directly correlates with the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), but inversely correlates with the expression of tumor-suppressor gene p16, therefore we examined whether the restoration of p16 in breast cancer cells would modulate VEGF expression. Adenoviral-mediated p16 expression downregulated VEGF gene expression in breast cancer cells, and inhibited breast cancer cell-induced angiogenesis by a dorsal air sac model in mice. Moreover, p16 appears to form a complex with HIF-1a, the transcription factor for the VEGF gene promoter. Taken together, the binding between p16 and HIF-1a protein may alter HIF-1a's ability to transactivate VEGF expression.
肿瘤的进展程度(如生长、血管生成和转移)与血管内皮生长因子(VEGF)的表达直接相关,但与肿瘤抑制基因 p16 的表达呈负相关,因此我们研究了乳腺癌细胞中 p16 的恢复是否会调节 VEGF 的表达。腺病毒介导的 p16 表达下调了乳腺癌细胞中 VEGF 基因的表达,并通过小鼠背部气囊模型抑制了乳腺癌细胞诱导的血管生成。此外,p16 似乎与 HIF-1a 形成复合物,HIF-1a 是 VEGF 基因启动子的转录因子。综上所述,p16 和 HIF-1a 蛋白之间的结合可能改变 HIF-1a 激活 VEGF 表达的能力。