title: D-dopachrome tautomerase is over-expressed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and acts cooperatively with macrophage migration inhibitory factor to promote cancer growth.
abstract: Previous studies have established the important role of MIF in the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) for both therapeutic and diagnostic perspectives, but little is known about the expression and function of D-dopachrome tautomerase (DDT), a functional homolog of MIF, in PDAC. In the present study, we demonstrated that DDT was over-expressed in PDAC tissues in a pattern correlated with MIF. In the pancreatic cancer cell lines, PANC-1, BXPC-3 and ASPC-1, both DDT and MIF were expressed and co-localized with each other in the endosomal compartments and plasma membrane. Knockdown of DDT and MIF in PANC-1 cells cooperatively inhibited ERK1/2 and AKT phosphorylation, increased p53 expression, and reduced cell proliferation, invasion and tumor formation. These effects were rescued by the re-expression of MIF or DDT, but not by the forced expression of the tautomerase-deficient mutants of DDT and MIF, P1G-DDT and P1G-MIF. Finally, we observed that 4-iodo-6-phenylpyrimidine (4-IPP), a covalent tautomerase inhibitor of both DDT and MIF, attenuated PANC-1 cell proliferation and colony formation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo. Thus, targeting the tautomerase sites of both MIF and DDT may offer more efficient therapeutic benefits to PDAC patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Dawei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Jinshuai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Junchao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Haiyang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Wenyu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Xiaofeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D021441:Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal / Q000378:metabolism*; D002460:Cell Line; D002465:Cell Movement; D048049:Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; D006801:Humans; D019746:Intramolecular Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism*; D008263:Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism*; D010766:Phosphorylation; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / Q000378:metabolism; D015854:Up-Regulation
chemical_list: D008263:Macrophage Migration-Inhibitory Factors; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D048049:Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases; D019746:Intramolecular Oxidoreductases; C515598:MIF protein, human; C042501:dopachrome isomerase
keywords: D-dopachrome tautomerase; invasion; macrophage migration inhibitory factor; pancreatic cancer; proliferation; tumor growth