| Literature DB >> 23941827 |
Saravana R K Murthy1, Evan Dupart1, Najla Al-Sweel1, Alexander Chen1, Niamh X Cawley1, Y Peng Loh1.
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Carboxypeptidase E (CPE), a prohormone processing enzyme is highly expressed and secreted from (neuro)endocrine tumors and gliomas, and has been implicated in cancer progression by promoting tumor growth. Our study demonstrates that secreted or exogenously applied CPE promotes survival of pheochromocytoma (PC12) and hepatocellular carcinoma (MHCC97H) cells under nutrient starvation and hypoxic conditions, but had no effect on their proliferation. CPE also reduced migration and invasion of fibrosarcoma (HT1080) cells. We show that CPE treatment mediates survival of MHCC97H cells during metabolic stress by up-regulating the expression of anti-apoptotic protein BCL-2, and other pro-survival genes, via activation of the ERK1/2 pathway. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.Entities:
Keywords: Cell invasion; Cell survival; Fibrosarcoma; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Pheochromocytoma
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23941827 PMCID: PMC3825807 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2013.08.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Lett ISSN: 0304-3835 Impact factor: 8.679