ADAM17 Targets MMP-2 and MMP-9 Via EGFR-MEK-ERK Pathway Activation to Promote Prostate Cancer Cell Invasion
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1714 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 40: 1714-1724, 2012 ADAM17 targets MMP-2 and MMP-9 via EGFR-MEK-ERK pathway activation to promote prostate cancer cell invasion LI-JIE XIAO1,2*, PING LIN1*, FENG LIN1*, XIN LIU1, WEI QIN1, HAI-FENG ZOU1, LIANG GUO1, WEI LIU1, SHU-JUAN WANG1 and XIAO-GUANG YU1 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Basic Medical Science, Harbin Medical University, 194 Xuefu Road, Harbin 150081, Heilongjiang; 2College of Life Science and Technology, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, 2 Xinyang Road, Daqing 163319, Heilongjiang, P.R. China Received September 8, 2011; Accepted November 18, 2011 DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2011.1320 Abstract. ADAM17, also known as tumor necrosis factor-α released and down-regulation of MMP-2, MMP-9. However, converting enzyme (TACE), is involved in proteolytic ectodo- these effects could be reversed by simultaneous addition of main shedding of cell surface molecules and cytokines. TGF-α. These data demonstrated that ADAM17 contributes to Although aberrant expression of ADAM17 has been shown androgen-independent prostate cancer cell invasion by shed- in various malignancies, the function of ADAM17 in prostate ding of EGFR ligand TGF-α, which subsequently activates the cancer has not been clarified. In the present study, we sought EGFR-MEK-ERK signaling pathway, leading finally to over- to elucidate whether ADAM17 contributes to prostate cancer expression of MMP-2 and MMP-9. This study suggests that the cell invasion, as well as the mechanism involved in the process. ADAM17 expression level may be a new predictive biomarker The expression pattern of ADAM17 was investigated in human of invasion and metastasis of prostate cancer, and ADAM17 prostate cancer cells. The results showed that ADAM17 could provide a target for treating metastatic PCa. expression levels are correlated with the invasive ability of androgen-independent prostate cancer cell lines. Further, Introduction ADAM17 was overexpressed in cells showing high invasion characteristics, activation of the EGFR-MEK-ERK pathway, Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common malignancies up-regulation of MMP-2, MMP-9, and an increased TGF-α among Western males with an occurrence of approximately release into the supernatant. However, AG1478, PD98059 and 192,280 new cases and 27,360 deaths in the US, in 2009 antibody against TGF-α deactivating the EGFR-MEK-ERK (1). The growth and maintenance of cancerous cells in the signaling pathway, abolished up-regulation of MMP-2, MMP-9 early stages of prostate cancer is androgen-dependent and and prevented cell invasion. In addition, cells with knockdown therapy often involves androgen deprivation (2). In the later of ADAM17 by siRNA exhibited low invasive ability, deacti- stages therapeutic alternatives are not available, as the tumor vated EGFR-MEK-ERK signaling pathway, reduced TGF-α progresses from androgen-dependence to -independence. The lack of effective therapies for advanced PCa is related to a large extent to poor understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the progression of disease toward invasion and Correspondence to: Professor Xiao-Guang Yu, Department of metastasis (3). Therefore, the identification of new predictive Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Basic Medical biomarkers, especially those that are indicative of invasiveness Science, Harbin Medical University, 194 Xuefu Road, Harbin of the disease, which could serve as targets for establishing 150081, Heilongjiang, P.R. China effectiveness of therapeutic and chemopreventive interventions, E-mail: [email protected] will improve clinical management of PCa (4). * The ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase) are Contributed equally members of the metzincin superfamily of Zn-dependent matrix metalloproteinases. They are transmembrane and secreted Abbreviations: ADAM17, a disintegrin and metalloprotease 17; ADAMs, a disintegrin and metalloproteinase; TACE, tumor necrosis proteins with important roles in diverse biological functions, factor-α converting enzyme; MMP-2 and MMP-9, matrix metallo- such as fertilization, adhesion, migration, proteolysis and proteinase-2 and -9; TGF-α, transforming growth factor-α; EGFR, signaling (5,6). Recently, specific ADAMs were implicated in a epidermal growth factor receptor; Akt, mitogenactivated protein broad range of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, asthma, kinase; ERK, extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase; ECM, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, kidney fibrosis, extracellular matrix and cancer (7,8). To date, 21 functional ADAMs have been described in humans and 40 in different organisms (9). Out of Key words: a disintegrin and metalloprotease 17, transforming this long list of ADAMs, the best characterized ADAM family growth factor-α, prostatic adenocarcinomas, matrix metallopro- member is ADAM17. ADAM17, also known as tumor necrosis teinase-2 and -9 factor-α converting enzyme (TACE) was originally described XIAO et al: ADAM17 TARGETS MMP-2 AND MMP-9 TO PROMOTE PROSTATE CANCER 1715 as being responsible for the proteolytic cleavage of the soluble are as follows: ADAM17-siRNA1, 5'-AUGAGUUGUAACCAG form of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), which is located on GUCAGCUUCC-3'; ADAM17-siRNA2, 5'-AUACAUGACAUA the cell surface (10,11). However, subsequent studies showed UUUCCCUCCCUGG-3'. DU145 cells grown to 40-60% conflu- that ADAM17 also sheds a variety of important cell surface ency were transfected with ADAM17 siRNA or a negative molecules, including growth factors (12), adhesion molecules control siRNA using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen) according (13,14) and chemokines (15,16). Any of these play key roles in to manufacturer's protocol. The transfected cells were harvested a variety of diseases, including cancer. Aberrant expression of at 48 or 72 h for mRNA isolation and protein extraction, ADAM17 has been shown in various malignancies (17-19). respectively. However, reports on the expression and function of Transfections of PC-3-ADAM17 cells with MMP-2-siRNA ADAM17 in prostate cancer are limited. ADAM17 mRNA or MMP-9-siRNA were performed as described above. expression was found in both androgen-dependent and Nucleotide synthetic duplexes of MMP-2-siRNA and MMP-9- androgen-independent prostate cancer cell lines (2). Subsequent siRNA were obtained from Invitrogen. Sequences are as study showed ADAM17 expression in non-cancerous (BPH) follows: MMP-2-siRNA, 5'-AGUAGAUCCAGUAUUCAUUC prostatic tissues was lower than that in tumor samples (20). CCUGC-3'; MMP-9-siRNA, 5'-AAUACAGCUGGUUCCCAA Although the expression pattern for ADAM17 was determined UCUCCGC-3'. in human prostatic adenocarcinomas, no functional assays were performed in these studies, where the expression has been Semi-quantitative real-time PCR. Total RNA from control investigated in a very limited way. Nevertheless, these studies treated cells was extracted using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen). raise the possibility of a functional role of ADAM17 in prostatic Then, 2 µg RNA was converted to cDNA with Superscript II carcinomas. Therefore, the goal of this study was to investigate reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen). The cDNA product was mixed whether ADAM17 contributes to prostate cancer cell invasion with SYBR® Green PCR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems) and its mechanisms. and specific primers of ADAM17 or β-actin in the subsequent PCR using ABI7500 real-time PCR system (Applied Biosys- Materials and methods tems). Primers used in this study were as follows: β-actin, sense: 5'-TACCTCATGAAGATCCTCACC-3'; antisense: 5'-TTTCG Materials. Primary antibodies against Akt, p-Akt, and p-EGFR TGGATGCCACAGGAC-3'; ADAM 17, sense: 5'-AGCAACAG were purchased from Cell Signaling Technology; antibodies CATCCACCTAAT-3'; antisense: 5'-CAGGAGTGTCTGGAA against ERK, p-ERK, MMP-2, MMP-9 and GAPDH were from TTGTC-3'. Annealing temperatures was 55˚C. Amplification Santa Cruz Biotechnology; ADAM17 antibody was obtained cycles were 30 for ADAM17 and 23 for β-actin. Each reaction from Abcam and EGFR antibody from SAB. HRP-labeled anti- was done in triplicate to minimize experimental variation and mouse or rabbit antibodies were from Santa Cruz Biotechnology. transcript levels of β-actin were monitored as an internal control. Geneticin and culture media were from Gibco (Grand Island, NY, USA) and Hyclone (Logan, UT), respectively. TGF-α and Western blot analysis. Cells treated with different compounds EGF were from R&D Systems (Minneapolis, MN) and AG1478, were harvested at indicated time, washed, and lysed in ice-cold LY294002, PD98059 were purchased from Cell Signaling lysis buffer (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, P.R. China) Technology (Danvers, MA, USA). All the primers used in this for 10 min on ice. The lysate was centrifuged at 12,000 g at research were synthesized by Shanghai Sangon Biotechnology 4˚C for 5 min. The protein concentration of extracts was deter- Co., Ltd. mined with BCA reagent (Beyotime Institute of Biotechnology, P.R. China). Equal amounts of protein (40 µg/lane) were Cell culture. Human prostate cancer cell line DU145 and PC-3 loaded, separated by 12% SDS-PAGE and transferred onto were purchased from American Type Culture Collection, and nitrocellulose membrane. After blocked with 5% non-fat milk, PC-3M, PC-3M-1E8 and PC-3M-2B4 were obtained from the the membranes were incubated with different primary antibody Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing, P.R. China). at 4˚C overnight, and then HRP-labeled secondary antibodies. Cells were maintained