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Published on: September 28, 2017
Tumor growth suppression in vivo by overexpression of the circadian component, PER2
Koyomi Miyazaki1, Miyuki Wakabayashi, Yasuhiro Hara
1Clock Cell Biology Group, Institute for Biological Resource and Function, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 6, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan.
Abstract:
Some reports have indicated that the core clock gene, Per2 regulates the cell cycle, immune system and neural functions. To understand the effects of PER2 on tumor growth in vivo, stable transformants of murine sarcoma 180 (S-180) cell lines expressing different levels of PER2 were established. The growth of stable PER2 transformants in vivo was significantly and dose-dependently suppressed according to the amount of PER2 expressed, indicating that PER2 plays a role in the growth suppression of sarcoma cells. The anchorage-dependent and -independent growth in vitro and expression of the clock controlled cell-cycle related genes, wee1, myc, and VEGF were not altered in stable PER2 transformants. In contrast, susceptibility to murine natural killer (NK) cell cytolytic activity was enhanced in PER2 transformants. Furthermore, PER2 transformants suppressed cell motility and reduced fibronectin expression, but the expression of integrin receptors was not affected. These results suggest that sarcoma cells overexpressing PER2 suppress tumors in vivo by changing the nature of tumor cell adhesion.
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