Estrogens and growth factors induce the mRNA of the 52K-pro-cathepsin-D secreted by breast cancer cells.

AUTOR(ES)

Cavailles, V

RESUMO

The estrogen-induced 52K protein secreted by human breast cancer cells is a lysosomal protease recently identified as a pro-cathepsin D by sequencing several cDNA clones isolated from MCF7 cells (Augereau et al., Mol. Endocr.). Using one of these clones, we detected, in MCF7 cells, a 2.2 kb mRNA whose level was rapidly increased 4- to 10-fold by estradiol, but not by other classes of steroids. Other mitogens, such as epidermal growth factor and insulin, also induced the 2.2 kb mRNA in a dose-dependent manner. Induction with epidermal growth factor was as rapid but was 2- to 3-fold lower than with estradiol. Antiestrogens had no effect on the 52K-cathepsin-D mRNA in MCF7 cells, but became estrogen agonists in two antiestrogen-resistant sublines R27 and LY2. The use of transcription and translation inhibitors and nuclear run-on experiments indicate that estradiol enhances transcription of the 52K-cathepsin-D gene in MCF7 cells.

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