title: Altered gene expression profiles of NIH3T3 cells regulated by human lung cancer associated gene CT120.
abstract: CT120, a novel membrane-associated gene implicated in lung carcinogenesis, was previously identified from chromosome 17p13.3 locus, a hot mutation spot involved in human malignancies. In the present study, we further determined that CT120 ectopic expression could promote cell proliferation activity of NIH3T3 cells using MTS assay, and monitored the downstream effects of CT120 in NIH3T3 cells with Atlas mouse cDNA expression arrays. Among 588 known genes, 133 genes were found to be upregulated or downregulated by CT120. Two major signaling pathways involved in cell proliferation, cell survival and anti-apoptosis were overexpressed and activated in response to CT120: One is the Raf/MEK/Erk signal cascades and the other is the PI3K/Akt signal cascades, suggesting that CT120 might contribute, at least in part, to the constitutively activation of Erk and Akt in human lung cancer cells. In addition, some tumor metastasis associated genes cathepsin B, cathepsin D, cathepsin L, MMP-2/TIMP-2 were also upregulated by CT120, upon which CT120 might be involved in tumor invasiveness and metastasis. In addition, CT120 might play an important role in tumor progression through modulating the expression of some candidate "Lung Tumor Progression" genes including B-Raf, Rab-2, BAX, BAG-1, YB-1, and Cdc42.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University Medical School, Shanghai 200032, China.
authors.forename: Xiang Huo
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Jin Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yi Hu
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Yun Tian
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Gen Fu
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Wen Xin
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Da Fang
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.forename: Jian Ren
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Gu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D041681:NIH 3T3 Cells; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; C467481:TLCD3A protein, human