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Bone‐induced c‐kit expression in prostate cancer: A driver of intraosseous tumor growth
Author(s) -
Mainetti Leandro E.,
Zhe Xiaoning,
Diedrich Jonathan,
Saliganan Allen D.,
Cho Won Jin,
Cher Michael L.,
Heath Elisabeth,
Fridman Rafael,
Kim HyeongReh Choi,
Bonfil R. Daniel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.28948
Subject(s) - downregulation and upregulation , cancer research , prostate cancer , metastasis , biology , receptor tyrosine kinase , bone metastasis , pathology , cancer , medicine , kinase , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , biochemistry , genetics
Loss of BRCA2 function stimulates prostate cancer (PCa) cell invasion and is associated with more aggressive and metastatic tumors in PCa patients. Concurrently, the receptor tyrosine kinase c‐kit is highly expressed in skeletal metastases of PCa patients and induced in PCa cells placed into the bone microenvironment in experimental models. However, the precise requirement of c‐kit for intraosseous growth of PCa and its relation to BRCA2 expression remain unexplored. Here, we show that c‐kit expression promotes migration and invasion of PCa cells. Alongside, we found that c‐kit expression in PCa cells parallels BRCA2 downregulation. Gene rescue experiments with human BRCA2 transgene in c‐kit ‐transfected PCa cells resulted in reduction of c‐kit protein expression and migration and invasion, suggesting a functional significance of BRCA2 downregulation by c‐kit. The inverse association between c‐kit and BRCA2 gene expressions in PCa cells was confirmed using laser capture microdissection in experimental intraosseous tumors and bone metastases of PCa patients. Inhibition of bone‐induced c‐kit expression in PCa cells transduced with lentiviral short hairpin RNA reduced intraosseous tumor incidence and growth. Overall, our results provide evidence of a novel pathway that links bone‐induced c‐kit expression in PCa cells to BRCA2 downregulation and supports bone metastasis.

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