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ArticleBritish journal of cancer2017

KIBRA attains oncogenic activity by repressing RASSF1A.

Anuj, Lakshmi Arivazhagan, Rohan Prasad Surabhi, Archana Kanakarajan, Sandhya Sundaram, Ravi Shankar Pitani, Lakmini Mudduwa, Joachim Kremerskothen, Ganesh Venkatraman, Suresh K Rayala

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AnujDepartment of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai 600036, India.
Lakshmi ArivazhaganDepartment of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai 600036, India.
Rohan Prasad SurabhiDepartment of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai 600036, India.
Archana KanakarajanPathology, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai 600116, India.
Sandhya SundaramPathology, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai 600116, India.
Ravi Shankar PitaniCommunity Medicine, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai 600116, India.
Lakmini MudduwaDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka.
Joachim KremerskothenInternal Medicine D, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Rheumatology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster 48149, Germany.
Ganesh VenkatramanDepartments of Human Genetics, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai 600116, India.
Suresh K RayalaDepartment of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai 600036, India.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras · INSri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research · INUniversity Hospital Münster · DEUniversity of Ruhuna · LK

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Abstract

backgroundKIBRA-initially identified as a neuronal associated protein is now shown to be functionally associated with other tissue types as well. KIBRA interacts with dyenin light chain 1 and this interaction is essential for oestrogen receptor transactivation in breast cancer cells. KIBRA as a substrate of Cdk1, Aurora kinase and ERK plays an important role in regulating cell cycle, cell proliferation and migration. Despite these evidences, the exact role of KIBRA in cancer progression is not known.

methodsWe studied the expression of KIBRA in breast tissues and breast cancer cell lines by western blotting, immunohistochemisry (IHC) and RT-PCR. Stable over expression and knockdown clones were generated to study the transforming properties of KIBRA by conventional assays. Xenograft studies were performed in nude mice to study the in vivo tumourigenic efficacy of KIBRA. qPCR array was performed to understand the molecular mechanism behind oncogenic activity of KIBRA.

resultsOur results showed that KIBRA is upregulated in breast cancer cells and in malignant human breast tumours by both western blotting and IHC. Interestingly, we found that KIBRA expression level goes up with increase in breast cancer progression in well-established MCF10A model system. Further, results from stable overexpression clones of KIBRA in fibroblasts (Rat-1) and epithelial breast cancer cells (ZR75) and lentiviral short hairpin RNA-mediated knockdown (KD) clones of KIBRA in ZR75 showed increase in transforming properties with KIBRA overexpression and vice-versa. Results also showed that fibroblasts stably overexpressing KIBRA showed increased tumourigenic potential in nude mice. By adopting a quantitative PCR array-based approach, we identified RASSF1A, a tumour suppressor, as a transcriptional target of KIBRA.

conclusionsThis is the first study to demonstrate the in vivo tumourigenic property of KIBRA in a nude mouse model and also unravel the underlying molecular mechanism of KIBRA-mediated transformation via repression of RASSF1A.British Journal of Cancer advance online publication, 29 June 2017; doi:10.1038/bjc.2017.192 www.bjcancer.com.

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