title: RhoE interferes with Rb inactivation and regulates the proliferation and survival of the U87 human glioblastoma cell line.
abstract: Rho GTPases are important regulators of actin cytoskeleton, but they are also involved in cell proliferation, transformation and oncogenesis. One of this proteins, RhoE, inhibits cell proliferation, however the mechanism that regulates this effect remains poorly understood. Therefore, we undertook the present study to determine the role of RhoE in the regulation of cell proliferation. For this purpose we generated an adenovirus system to overexpress RhoE in U87 glioblastoma cells. Our results show that RhoE disrupts actin cytoskeleton organization and inhibits U87 glioblastoma cell proliferation. Importantly, RhoE expressing cells show a reduction in Rb phosphorylation and in cyclin D1 expression. Furthermore, RhoE inhibits ERK activation following serum stimulation of quiescent cells. Based in these findings, we propose that RhoE inhibits ERK activation, thereby decreasing cyclin D1 expression and leading to a reduction in Rb inactivation, and that this mechanism is involved in the RhoE-induced cell growth inhibition. Moreover, we also demonstrate that RhoE induces apoptosis in U87 cells and also in colon carcinoma and melanoma cells. These results indicate that RhoE plays an important role in the regulation of cell proliferation and survival, and suggest that this protein may be considered as an oncosupressor since it is capable to induce apoptosis in several tumor cell lines.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química, Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Enric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Poch
authors.forename: Rebeca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miñambres
authors.forename: Enric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mocholí
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ivorra
authors.forename: Amparo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pérez-Aragó
authors.forename: Consuelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guerri
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pérez-Roger
authors.forename: Rosa M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Guasch
mesh_terms: D008841:Actin Cytoskeleton / Q000737:chemistry; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000235:genetics; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002470:Cell Survival; D019938:Cyclin D1 / Q000378:metabolism; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000737:chemistry; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D016160:Retinoblastoma Protein / Q000378:metabolism*; D014162:Transfection; D020741:rho GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D016160:Retinoblastoma Protein; D019938:Cyclin D1; C508705:RND3 protein, human; D020741:rho GTP-Binding Proteins