論文

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2020年4月2日

Signaling adaptor protein Crk is involved in malignant feature of pancreatic cancer associated with phosphorylation of c-Met.

Biochemical and biophysical research communications
  • Satoko Uemura
  • ,
  • Lei Wang
  • ,
  • Masumi Tsuda
  • ,
  • Jun Suzuka
  • ,
  • Satoshi Tanikawa
  • ,
  • Hirokazu Sugino
  • ,
  • Toru Nakamura
  • ,
  • Tomoko Mitsuhashi
  • ,
  • Satoshi Hirano
  • ,
  • Shinya Tanaka

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開始ページ
378
終了ページ
384
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.01.105

Signaling adaptor protein Crk has been shown to play an important role in various human cancers. Crk links tyrosine kinases and guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) such as C3G and Dock180 to activate small G-proteins Rap and Rac, respectively. In pancreatic cancer, various molecular targeted therapies have provided no significant therapeutic benefit for the patients so far due to constitutive activation of KRAS by frequent KRAS mutation. Therefore, the establishment of novel molecular targeted therapy in KRAS-independent manner is required. Here, we investigated a potential of Crk as a therapeutic target in pancreatic cancer. Immunohistochemistry on human pancreatic cancer specimens revealed that the patients with high expression of Crk had a worse prognosis than those with low expression. We established Crk-knockdown pancreatic cancer cells by siRNA using PANC-1, AsPC-1, and MIA PaCa-2 cells, which showed decreased cell proliferation, invasion, and adhesion. In Crk-knockdown pancreatic cancer cells, the decrease of c-Met phosphorylation was observed. In the orthotopic xenograft model, Crk depletion prolonged survival of mice significantly. Thus, signaling adaptor protein Crk is involved in malignant potential of pancreatic cancer associated with decrease of c-Met phosphorylation, and Crk can be considered to be a potential therapeutic molecular target.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.01.105
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32005519
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.01.105
  • PubMed ID : 32005519

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