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ArticleCarcinogenesis2007

Overexpression of iron regulatory protein 1 suppresses growth of tumor xenografts.

Guohua Chen, Carine Fillebeen, Jian Wang, Kostas Pantopoulos

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Article in Carcinogenesis, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guohua ChenLady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote-Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2.
Carine Fillebeen
Jian Wang
Kostas Pantopoulos
Jewish General Hospital · CAMcGill University · CA

Funding

CIHR 67165
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Iron is essential for proliferation of normal and neoplastic cells. Cellular iron uptake, utilization and storage are regulated by transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms. We hypothesized that the disruption of iron homeostasis may modulate the growth properties of cancer cells. To address this, we employed H1299 lung cancer cells engineered for tetracycline-inducible overexpression of the post-transcriptional regulator iron regulatory protein 1 (IRP1). The induction of IRP1 (wild-type or the constitutive IRP1(C437S) mutant) did not affect the proliferation of the cells in culture, and only modestly reduced their efficiency to form colonies in soft agar. However, IRP1 dramatically impaired the capacity of the cells to form solid tumor xenografts in nude mice. Tumors derived from IRP1-transfectants were <20% in size compared to those from parent cells. IRP1 coordinately controls the expression of transferrin receptor 1 (TfR1) and ferritin by binding to iron-responsive elements (IREs) within their mRNAs. Biochemical analysis revealed high expression of epitope-tagged IRP1 in tumor tissue, which was associated with a profound increase in IRE-binding activity. As expected, this response misregulated iron metabolism by increasing TfR1 levels. Surprisingly, IRP1 failed to suppress ferritin expression and did not affect the levels of the iron transporter ferroportin. Our results show that the overexpression of IRP1 is associated with an apparent tumor suppressor phenotype and provide a direct regulatory link between the IRE/IRP system and cancer.

Indexed as

Cell ProliferationAconitate HydrataseAnimalsBlotting, WesternElectrophoretic Mobility Shift AssayFemaleFerritinsGene Expression RegulationHumansIronIron Regulatory Protein 1Lung NeoplasmsMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, NudeMutationAconitate HydrataseFerritinsIronIron Regulatory Protein 1

Identifiers

PMID17127713
PMCPMC2925110
OpenAlexW2132495634

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