title: Effects of hyperthermia on the cytoskeleton and focal adhesion proteins in a human thyroid carcinoma cell line.
abstract: Hyperthermia is reported to act as a sensitizer to chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer. Thyroid follicular carcinoma were used to elucidate the effects of hyperthermic treatment (41-43 degrees C) on cell morphology, cytoskeleton, and the focal adhesion complex. The critical temperature that resulted in inhibition of cell proliferation as the cell number in the same area did not increase over a 23 h time course and irreversible changes in cell morphology was 42-43 degrees C. An immunofluorescence study on heat-treated cells (43 degrees C, 1-5 h) demonstrated that depolymerization of actin filaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules accounted for the rounding-up of cells and detachment from the substratum. Characteristic staining patterns for integrin alphav, focal adhesion kinase, and vinculin were noted in untreated cells, but the immunoreactive intensities for these proteins became weaker with time of heat treatment. Anti-phosphotyrosine staining revealed less immunoreactivity in the focal adhesions in treated cells compared with control cells. The disappearance of integrin alphav from the cell surface may result in inhibition of integrin-mediated activation of focal adhesion kinase, which results in dephosphorylation of focal adhesion components and its disassembly. These results indicate that hyperthermia induces disruption of integrin-mediated actin cytoskeleton assembly and, possibly, of other integrin-mediated signaling pathways.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10018, Taiwan.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000502:physiology; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000502:physiology*; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology*; D005334:Fever; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D051417:Focal Adhesion Kinase 1; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D006801:Humans; D016023:Integrins / Q000378:metabolism; D008870:Microtubules / Q000378:metabolism; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000502:physiology*; D013696:Temperature; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*; D013997:Time Factors; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014746:Vimentin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D016023:Integrins; D014746:Vimentin; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; D051417:Focal Adhesion Kinase 1; D051416:Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C496050:PTK2 protein, human