| Literature DB >> 15737688 |
Joon Song1, Ahmed Fadiel, Valentine Edusa, Zhaocong Chen, John So, Hideki Sakamoto, David A Fishman, Frederick Naftolin.
Abstract
We have for the first time exposed estrogen's role in the epithelial ovarian cancer (OVCA) metastatic cascade and discovered that it is related to the induction of ezrin over-expression. 17beta Estradiol (E2) was administered to SKOV3 (ERalpha>beta) and DOV13 (ERalpha<ERbeta) OVCA cells in serum-and phenol red-free medium fortified with transferrin and insulin. Incubated cells that penetrated Matrigel membranes were counted, immunostained and analyzed for immunoreactive ezrin. E2 induced an invasive phenotype with translocation of ezrin to cell edges, including pseudopodia and ruffles. A strong correlation was found between ezrin expression and Matrigel penetration induced by E2. Increases in cell number and ezrin expression were confirmed by flask incubations. E2 stimulation of OVCA cell proliferation, motility and Matrigel penetration was dose-related and raloxifene or tamoxifen blocked E2's effect, supporting an ER action. This previously unreported effect of estrogen on ezrin expression may play a role in the clinical course of estrogen-sensitive cancers and other normal or diseased cell actions.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 15737688 DOI： 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.04.024
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Lett ISSN： 0304-3835 Impact factor: 8.679