Khatun Anowara, Shimozawa Motoki, Kito Hiroaki, Kawaguchi Mayu, Fujimoto Mayu, Ri Moe, Kajikuri Junko, Niwa Satomi, Fujii Masanori, Ohya Susumu
Division of Pathological Sciences, Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan.
Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan.
Front Physiol. 2018 Apr 16;9:312. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.00312. eCollection 2018.
The large-conductance Ca-activated K channel K1.1 plays an important role in the promotion of breast cancer cell proliferation and metastasis. The androgen receptor (AR) is proposed as a therapeutic target for AR-positive advanced triple-negative breast cancer. We herein investigated the effects of a treatment with antiandrogens on the functional activity, activation kinetics, transcriptional expression, and protein degradation of K1.1 in human breast cancer MDA-MB-453 cells using real-time PCR, Western blotting, voltage-sensitive dye imaging, and whole-cell patch clamp recording. A treatment with the antiandrogen bicalutamide or enzalutamide for 48 h significantly suppressed (1) depolarization responses induced by paxilline (PAX), a specific K1.1 blocker and (2) PAX-sensitive outward currents induced by the depolarizing voltage step. The expression levels of K1.1 transcripts and proteins were significantly decreased in MDA-MB-453 cells, and the protein degradation of K1.1 mainly contributed to reductions in K1.1 activity. Among the eight regulatory β and γ subunits, LRRC26 alone was expressed at high levels in MDA-MB-453 cells and primary and metastatic breast cancer tissues, whereas no significant changes were observed in the expression levels of LRRC26 and activation kinetics of PAX-sensitive outward currents in MDA-MB-453 cells by the treatment with antiandrogens. The treatment with antiandrogens up-regulated the expression of the ubiquitin E3 ligases, FBW7, MDM2, and MDM4 in MDA-MB-453 cells, and the protein degradation of K1.1 was significantly inhibited by the respective siRNA-mediated blockade of FBW7 and MDM2. Based on these results, we concluded that K1.1 is an androgen-responsive gene in AR-positive breast cancer cells, and its down-regulation through enhancements in its protein degradation by FBW7 and/or MDM2 may contribute, at least in part, to the antiproliferative and antimetastatic effects of antiandrogens in breast cancer cells.
大电导钙激活钾通道K1.1在促进乳腺癌细胞增殖和转移中起重要作用。雄激素受体(AR)被认为是AR阳性晚期三阴性乳腺癌的治疗靶点。我们在此使用实时PCR、蛋白质印迹、电压敏感染料成像和全细胞膜片钳记录,研究了抗雄激素处理对人乳腺癌MDA-MB-453细胞中K1.1的功能活性、激活动力学、转录表达和蛋白质降解的影响。用抗雄激素比卡鲁胺或恩杂鲁胺处理48小时可显著抑制:(1)由特异性K1.1阻滞剂盘尼西林(PAX)诱导的去极化反应,以及(2)去极化电压阶跃诱导的PAX敏感外向电流。MDA-MB-453细胞中K1.1转录本和蛋白质的表达水平显著降低,K1.1的蛋白质降解是导致K1.1活性降低的主要原因。在八个调节性β和γ亚基中,只有LRRC26在MDA-MB-453细胞以及原发性和转移性乳腺癌组织中高水平表达,而用抗雄激素处理MDA-MB-453细胞后,LRRC26的表达水平和PAX敏感外向电流的激活动力学未观察到显著变化。抗雄激素处理上调了MDA-MB-453细胞中泛素E3连接酶FBW7、MDM2和MDM4的表达,并且通过分别用siRNA介导阻断FBW7和MDM2可显著抑制K1.1的蛋白质降解。基于这些结果,我们得出结论,K1.1是AR阳性乳腺癌细胞中的雄激素反应基因,通过FBW7和/或MDM2增强其蛋白质降解导致其下调,这可能至少部分地促成了抗雄激素对乳腺癌细胞的抗增殖和抗转移作用。