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Emerging Roles of Angiopoietin-Like 4 in Human Cancer Published OnlineFirst June 1, 2012; DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-11-0519 Molecular Cancer Review Research Emerging Roles of Angiopoietin-like 4 in Human Cancer Ming Jie Tan1, Ziqiang Teo1, Ming Keat Sng1, Pengcheng Zhu1, and Nguan Soon Tan1,2 Abstract Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) is best known for its role as an adipokine involved in the regulation of lipid and glucose metabolism. The characterization of ANGPTL4 as an adipokine is largely due to our limited understanding of the interaction partners of ANGPTL4 and how ANGPTL4 initiates intracellular signaling. Recent findings have revealed a critical role for ANGPTL4 in cancer growth and progression, anoikis resistance, altered redox regulation, angiogenesis, and metastasis. Emerging evidence suggests that ANGPTL4 function may be drastically altered depending on the proteolytic processing and posttranslational modifications of ANGPTL4, which may clarify several conflicting roles of ANGPTL4 in different cancers. Although the N-terminal coiled-coil region of ANGPTL4 has been largely responsible for the endocrine regulatory role in lipid metabolism, insulin sensitivity, and glucose homeostasis, it has now emerged that the COOH-terminal fibrinogen-like domain of ANGPTL4 may be a key regulator in the multifaceted signaling during cancer development. New insights into the mechanistic action of this functional domain have opened a new chapter into the possible clinical application of ANGPTL4 as a promising candidate for clinical intervention in the fight against cancer. This review summarizes our current understanding of ANGPTL4 in cancer and highlights areas that warrant further investigation. A better understanding of the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms of ANGPTL4 will reveal novel insights into other aspects of tumorigenesis and the potential therapeutic value of ANGPTL4. Mol Cancer Res; 10(6); 1–12. Ó2012 AACR. Introduction Tumors consist of heterogeneous cell types such as cancer- associated fibroblasts, endothelial cells, pericytes, immune Cancer is a disease in which a group of cells attains the fl ability to proliferate uncontrollably, invades surrounding in ammatory cells, and proliferating cancerous cells (3). This heterogeneity and interdependency sustain tumor tissues, and ultimately spreads to distal tissues and organs fi through the circulatory system to form metastatic tumors. growth and progression. Cancer-associated broblasts form the majority of the tumor stromal population and are capable Based on our current knowledge, the process of cancer fl development is somewhat perplexing and certainly multi- of in uencing cancer cell behavior via paracrine regulation. factorial. Genetic instability fueled by DNA damage and Endothelial cells that form the tumor vasculature act as a errors generated by DNA replication machinery drive the transportation route for nutrients not only to support tumor initiation of tumorigenesis (1, 2). Extensive exposure to growth, but also to facilitate cancer metastasis. The pericytes provide paracrine support signals to stabilize tumor vascular carcinogens or genotoxic chemicals is a prime factor that fl causes mutations and increases the risk of cancer. In addi- integrity and its function. Immune in ammatory cells tion, by-products of normal cellular metabolism, such as secrete proangiogenic effectors like angiogenic growth fac- reactive oxygen species (ROS), also create a constant threat tor, VEGF, and proinvasive matrix metalloproteinases to promote tumor progression (3). to DNA integrity (1). Genetic mutations or alterations of – – critical regulatory genes, such as tumor-suppressor genes and Reciprocal cell cell and cell matrix communications dic- tate nearly every aspect of tumor development, and they can proto-oncogenes, cause uncontrolled proliferation and the fi deregulation of apoptosis further mediating tumor drastically affect the ef cacy of antitumor therapies. Such progression. communication encourages the tumor cells of many human cancers to acquire several essential capabilities to sustain proliferative signals, evade growth suppressors, resist cell death, enable replicative immortality, induce angiogenesis, Authors' Affiliations: 1School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Techno- logical University; 2Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, activate invasion and metastasis, reprogram their energy Singapore metabolism, and evade immune destruction (3). Research M.J. Tan and Z. Teo contributed equally to this article. to identify critical mediators of these hallmarks will offer novel insights into the network of molecular mechanisms Corresponding Author: Nguan Soon Tan, Nanyang Technological Uni- versity, School of Biological Sciences, 60 Nanyang Drive, 02S-62, Singa- that are central to cancer development. pore 637551. Phone: 65-6316-2941; Fax: 65-67913856; E-mail: Ongoing cancer research focusing on understanding the [email protected] interaction of cancer cells with their microenvironment has doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-11-0519 intensified over recent years, and a new class of proteins Ó2012 American Association for Cancer Research. known as matricellular proteins have since been implicated www.aacrjournals.org OF1 Downloaded from mcr.aacrjournals.org on September 25, 2021. © 2012 American Association for Cancer Research. Published OnlineFirst June 1, 2012; DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-11-0519 Tan et al. (4–6). Matricellular proteins are a group of nonstructural, inflammation, and this was strongly correlated to the fre- extracellular matrix (ECM)–associated glycoproteins secret- quency of carcinogenesis in vivo using a chemically induced ed by cancer cells and neighboring stromal cells into the skin squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) mouse model. Fur- extracellular environment (4, 5). This large group of struc- thermore, tumor-derived ANGPTL2 was shown to enhance turally and functionally diverse proteins modulates cell– metastasis and tumor angiogenesis (16). This finding sug- matrix interactions and cell functions by interacting with gests that other ANGPTL family proteins may have similar membrane receptors, proteases, hormones, and other bioef- roles in cancer development. fector molecules, as well as with structural matrix proteins Emerging evidence has identified a novel role for such as collagen and vitronectin (7, 8). Recent studies have ANGPTL4 in cancer progression, although the other implicated several members of matricellular proteins, such as ANGPTL members have been mostly characterized as osteopontin, secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine, and factors involved in angiogenesis and metabolism. The angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) as important factors in involvement of other ANGPTL family members in cancer tumor progression (4, 9–11). Of particular interest, remains unclear and warrants further investigation. In this ANGPTL4 is a novel matricellular protein that was reported review, we discuss the potentially diverse roles of ANGPTL4 to interact with specific ECM proteins and integrins to in tumor development and discuss certain discrepancies with facilitate cell migration during wound healing (7, 8). ANGPTL4 that require further clarification. ANGPTL4 is a novel, glycosylated adipokine that belongs to a family of 7 ANGPTL proteins (Fig. 1; refs. 12,13). The 7 proteins, designated angiopoietin-like 1 to 7 (ANGPTL1– Functional Domains of ANGPTL4 7), were identified in systemic circulation and share amino ANGPTL4 is characterized by the presence of a highly acid sequence similarity with the angiopoietin family hydrophobic signal peptide, an N-terminal coiled-coil (ANG). Despite being structurally similar to ANGs, these domain, and a large ANG/fibrinogen-like COOH-terminal ANGPTLs do not bind to the ANG receptors Tie 1 and Tie domain, which is well conserved in the ANG and ANGPTL 2 to mediate their biological functions. The cognate recep- families (Fig. 2; ref. 17). The native full-length ANGPTL4 tors for ANGPTLs remain unknown; thus, ANGPTLs are (flANGPTL4) exists in the form of dimeric or tetrameric considered orphan ligands (12, 14). ANGPTL3, 4, and 6 complexes that can undergo proteolytic processing to gen- play critical roles in lipid and glucose metabolism (14, 15). erate the N-terminal coiled-coil fragment (nANGPTL4) and Studies have also revealed that ANGPTL2, 3, 5, and 7 the COOH-terminal fibrinogen-like domain (cANGPTL4; regulate hematopoietic stem cell activity (12). Interestingly, ref. 17). Although ANGPTL4s are known to be proteolyt- ANGPTL2 was recently reported to be a critical factor for ically processed, the mechanism of cleavage, the importance carcinogenesis (16). ANGPTL2-associated chronic inflam- of the processing, and the roles of the various ANGPTL4 mation was also found to increase cancer susceptibility (16). fragments are only beginning to be elucidated. ANGPTL2 was identified as a causative mediator of chronic The proteolytic cleavage of ANGPTL4 is mediated by proprotein convertases (PC; Fig. 2; ref. 17). Because ANGPTL4 is proteolytically processed in the liver, the hepatocellular carcinoma cell line Huh7 has been used in studies investigating ANGPTL4 cleavage. Using Huh7 cells transfected with expression vectors encoding for the various convertases, Lei and colleagues showed that in vitro several ANGPTL5 PCs, including furin, PC5/6, paired basic amino acid– cleaving enzyme 4, and PC7, are able to cleave human ANGPTL4 at the -RRXR- consensus cleavage site (17). ANGPTL7 Although this study showed that ANGPTL4 is cleaved by PCs, the correlation between the expression of PCs and the truncated forms
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