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HOXB9, a gene overexpressed in breast cancer, promotes tumorigenicity and lung metastasis.


ABSTRACT: The mechanisms underlying tumoral secretion of signaling molecules into the microenvironment, which modulates tumor cell fate, angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis, are not well understood. Aberrant expression of transcription factors, which has been implicated in the tumorigenesis of several types of cancers, may provide a mechanism that induces the expression of growth and angiogenic factors in tumors, leading to their local increase in the tumor microenvironment, favoring tumor progression. In this report, we demonstrate that the transcription factor HOXB9 is overexpressed in breast carcinoma, where elevated expression correlates with high tumor grade. HOXB9 induces the expression of several angiogenic factors (VEGF, bFGF, IL-8, and ANGPTL-2), as well as ErbB (amphiregulin, epiregulin, and neuregulins) and TGF-ss, which activate their respective pathways, leading to increased cell motility and acquisition of mesenchymal phenotypes. In vivo, HOXB9 promotes the formation of large, well-vascularized tumors that metastasize to the lung. Thus, deregulated expression of HOXB9 contributes to breast cancer progression and lung metastasis by inducing several growth factors that alter tumor-specific cell fates and the tumor stromal microenvironment.

SUBMITTER: Hayashida T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2824265 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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HOXB9, a gene overexpressed in breast cancer, promotes tumorigenicity and lung metastasis.

Hayashida Tetsu T   Takahashi Fumiyuki F   Chiba Naokazu N   Brachtel Elena E   Takahashi Motomi M   Godin-Heymann Nadia N   Gross Kenneth W KW   Vivanco Maria d M Md   Wijendran Vasuki V   Shioda Toshihiro T   Sgroi Dennis D   Donahoe Patricia K PK   Maheswaran Shyamala S  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091228 3


The mechanisms underlying tumoral secretion of signaling molecules into the microenvironment, which modulates tumor cell fate, angiogenesis, invasion, and metastasis, are not well understood. Aberrant expression of transcription factors, which has been implicated in the tumorigenesis of several types of cancers, may provide a mechanism that induces the expression of growth and angiogenic factors in tumors, leading to their local increase in the tumor microenvironment, favoring tumor progression.  ...[more]

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