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Indole-3-carbinol inhibits MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell motility and induces stress fibers and focal adhesion formation by activation of Rho kinase activity.
Brew, Christine T; Aronchik, Ida; Kosco, Karena; McCammon, Jasmine; Bjeldanes, Leonard F; Firestone, Gary L.
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  • Brew CT; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA.
Int J Cancer ; 124(10): 2294-302, 2009 May 15.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19173291
Indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a phytochemical derived from cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts, has potent antiproliferative effects in human breast cancer cells and has been shown to decrease metastatic spread of tumors in experimental animals. Using chemotaxis and fluorescent-bead cell motility assays, we demonstrated that I3C significantly decreased the in vitro migration of MDA-MB-231 cells, a highly invasive breast cancer cell line. Immunofluorescence staining of the actin cytoskeleton revealed that concurrent with the loss of cell motility, I3C treatment significantly increased stress fiber formation. Furthermore, I3C induced the localization of the focal adhesion component vinculin and tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins to the cell periphery, which implicates an indole-dependent enhancement of focal adhesions within the outer boundary of the cells. Coimmunoprecipitation analysis of focal adhesion kinase demonstrated that I3C stimulated the dynamic formation of the focal adhesion protein complex without altering the total level of individual focal adhesion proteins. The RhoA-Rho kinase pathway is involved in stress fiber and focal adhesion formation, and I3C treatment stimulated Rho kinase enzymatic activity and cofilin phosphorylation, which is a downstream target of Rho kinase signaling, but did not increase the level of active GTP-bound RhoA. Exposure of MDA-MB-231 cells to the Rho kinase inhibitor Y-27632, or expression of dominant negative RhoA ablated the I3C induced formation of stress fibers and of peripheral focal adhesions. Expression of constitutively active RhoA mimicked the I3C effects on both processes. Taken together, our data demonstrate that I3C induces stress fibers and peripheral focal adhesions in a Rho kinase-dependent manner that leads to an inhibition of motility in human breast cancer cells.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Adesão Celular / Movimento Celular / Proteína rhoA de Ligação ao GTP / Proteína-Tirosina Quinases de Adesão Focal / Indóis Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Adesão Celular / Movimento Celular / Proteína rhoA de Ligação ao GTP / Proteína-Tirosina Quinases de Adesão Focal / Indóis Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article