Inhibition of Pulmonary and Skeletal Metastasis by a Transforming Growth Factor-beta Type I Receptor Kinase Inhibitor.
From: Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Cancer research
- Publish Date: Jul 2006
- ISSN: 0008-5472
- Volume: 66
- Issue: 13
- Pages: 6714-21
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Bandyopadhyay Abhik, Agyin Joseph K, Wang Long, et al. Inhibition of Pulmonary and Skeletal Metastasis by a Transforming Growth Factor-beta Type I Receptor Kinase Inhibitor.. Cancer Res. Jul 2006;66:6714-21
Abstract
Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signaling has been shown to promote invasion and metastasis in various models of human cancers. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of a TGF-beta type I receptor kinase inhibitor (TbetaRI-I) to limit early systemic metastases in an orthotopic xenograft model of lung metastasis and in an intracardiac injection model of experimental bone and lung metastasis using human breast carcinoma MDA-MB-435-F-L cells, a highly metastatic variant of human breast cancer MDA-MB-435 cells, expressing the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). Treatment of the cells with the TbetaRI-I had no effect on their growth but blocked TGF-beta-stimulated expression of integrin alpha(v)beta(3) and cell migration in vitro. Systemic administration of the TbetaRI-I via i.p. injection effectively reduced the number and size of the lung metastasis in both orthotopic xenograft and experimental metastasis models with no effects on primary tumor growth rate compared with controls. TbetaRI-I treatment also reduced the incidence of widespread early skeletal metastases in the femur, tibia, mandible, and spine detected by whole-body EGFP fluorescence imaging. Tumor burden in femora and tibiae was also reduced after TbetaRI-I treatment as detected by histomorphometry analysis compared with the placebo controls. Our results indicate for the first time that abrogation of TGF-beta signaling by systemic administration of the TbetaRI-I can inhibit both early lung and bone metastasis in animal model systems and suggest antimetastatic therapeutic potential of the TbetaRI-I.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Activin Receptors, Type I, Animals, Bone Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms, Cell Growth Processes, Cell Line, Tumor, Enzyme Inhibitors, Female, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Mice, Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta, Transforming Growth Factor beta, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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