Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor production and angiogenesis by the cytoplasmic tail of tissue factor
AUTOR(ES)
Abe, Keisuke
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Tissue factor (TF), a transmembrane receptor for coagulation factor VII/VIIa, is aberrantly expressed in human cancers. We demonstrated a significant correlation between TF and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production in 13 human malignant melanoma cell lines (r2 = 0.869, P < 0.0001). Two of these cell lines, RPMI-7951, a high TF and VEGF producer, and WM-115, a low TF and VEGF producer, were grown s.c. in severe combined immunodeficient mice. The high-producer cell line generated solid tumors characterized by intense vascularity, whereas the low producer generated relatively avascular tumors, as determined by immunohistologic staining of tumor vascular endothelial cells with anti-von Willebrand factor antibody. To investigate the structure-function relationship of TF and VEGF, a low-producer melanoma cell line (HT144) was transfected with a TF cDNA containing the full-length sequence, a cytoplasmic deletion mutant lacking the coding sequence for the distal three serine residues (potential substrates for protein kinase C), or an extracellular domain mutant, which has markedly diminished function for activation of factor X. Cells transfected with the full-length sequence produced increased levels of both TF and VEGF. Transfectants with the full-length sequence and the extracellular domain mutant produced approximately equal levels of VEGF mRNA. However, cells transfected with the cytoplasmic deletion mutant construct produced increased levels of TF, but little or no VEGF. Thus, the cytoplasmic tail of TF plays a role in the regulation of VEGF expression in some tumor cells.
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