title: Annexin II/annexin II receptor axis regulates adhesion, migration, homing, and growth of prostate cancer.
abstract: One of the most life-threatening complications of prostate cancer is skeletal metastasis. In order to develop treatment for metastasis, it is important to understand its molecular mechanisms. Our work in this field has drawn parallels between hematopoietic stem cell and prostate cancer homing to the marrow. Our recent work demonstrated that annexin II expressed by osteoblasts and endothelial cells plays a critical role in niche selection. In this study, we demonstrate that annexin II and its receptor play a crucial role in establishing metastasis of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cell lines migrate toward annexin II and the adhesion of prostate cancer to osteoblasts and endothelial cells was inhibited by annexin II. By blocking annexin II or its receptor in animal models, short-term and long-term localization of prostate cancers are limited. Annexin II may also facilitate the growth of prostate cancer in vitro and in vivo by the MAPK pathway. These data strongly suggest that annexin II and its receptor axis plays a central role in prostate cancer metastasis, and that prostate cancer utilize the hematopoietic stem cell homing mechanisms to gain access to the niche.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1078, USA.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shiozawa
authors.forename: Aaron M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Havens
authors.forename: Younghun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ziegler
authors.forename: Elisabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Pedersen
authors.forename: Jingcheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ganwei
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: G David
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Roodman
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Loberg
authors.forename: Kenneth J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Pienta
authors.forename: Russell S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Taichman
mesh_terms: D017306:Annexin A2 / Q000502:physiology*; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002465:Cell Movement; D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D018920:Coculture Techniques; D042783:Endothelial Cells; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000473:pathology*; D010006:Osteoblasts; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018000:Receptors, Peptide / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D017306:Annexin A2; D018000:Receptors, Peptide; C514873:annexin II receptor, human