Antisense Tiam1 Down-Regulates the Invasiveness of 95D Cells in Vitro |
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Authors: | Min HOU Li TAN Xia WANG and Yun-Song ZHU |
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Affiliation: | Min HOU,Li TAN,Xia WANG,and Yun-Song ZHU Department of Molecular Genetics,Shanghai Medical College,Fudan University & Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine,Ministry of National Education,Shanghai 200032,China |
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Abstract: | As a specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor of Rac1, Tiam1 (T-lymphoma invasion and metastasis inducing protein 1) is involved in a number of cellular events, such as cytoskeleton reorganization, cell adhesion, and cell migration. Since Tiam1 was implicated in the invasion and metastasis of T-lymphoma cells and breast tumor cells, we compared the expression level of Tiam1 in two human giant-cell lung carcinoma cell strains with high or low metastasis potential, and found that Tiam1 expression level in high-metastatic 95D cells was higher than that in low-metastatic 95C cells. To further confirm the role of Tiam1 in invasion and metastasis, we constructed the antisense Tiam1 expression plasmid (pcDNA3-anti- Tiam1), which was transfected into 95D cells. A stable transfected clone with decreased Tiam1 expression was screened and selected for further research. Transwell assay showed that down-regulation of endogenous Tiam1 by anti-Tiam1 can reduce the in vitro invasiveness of 95D cells. Our results suggested that Tiam1 signaling contributed to the invasion and metastasis of the human giant-cell lung carcinoma cells. |
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Keywords: | T-lymphoma invasion and metastasis inducing protein 1 (Tiam1) invasion and metastasis |
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