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Direct inhibition of myosin II effectively blocks glioma invasion in the presence of multiple motogens
Authors:Ivkovic Sanja  Beadle Christopher  Noticewala Sonal  Massey Susan C  Swanson Kristin R  Toro Laura N  Bresnick Anne R  Canoll Peter  Rosenfeld Steven S
Affiliation:Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Abstract:Anaplastic gliomas, the most common and malignant of primary brain tumors, frequently contain activating mutations and amplifications in promigratory signal transduction pathways. However, targeting these pathways with individual signal transduction inhibitors does not appreciably reduce tumor invasion, because these pathways are redundant; blockade of any one pathway can be overcome by stimulation of another. This implies that a more effective approach would be to target a component at which these pathways converge. In this study, we have investigated whether the molecular motor myosin II represents such a target by examining glioma invasion in a series of increasingly complex models that are sensitive to platelet-derived growth factor, epidermal growth factor, or both. Our results lead to two conclusions. First, malignant glioma cells are stimulated to invade brain through the activation of multiple signaling cascades not accounted for in simple in vitro assays. Second, even though there is a high degree of redundancy in promigratory signaling cascades in gliomas, blocking tumor invasion by directly targeting myosin II remains effective. Our results thus support our hypothesis that myosin II represents a point of convergence for signal transduction pathways that drive glioma invasion and that its inhibition cannot be overcome by other motility mechanisms.
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