Adrenomedullin expression in epithelial ovarian cancers and promotes HO8910 cell migration associated with upregulating integrin alpha 5 beta 1 and phosphorylating FAK and paxillin

作者：Deng Boya; Zhang Siyang; Miao Yuan; Han Zhuang; Zhang Xiaoli; Wen Fang^*; Zhang Yi

来源：Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 2012, 31: 19.

DOI：10.1186/1756-9966-31-19

• Epithelial ovarian cancer
• AM
• Carcinogenesis
• Progression
• Migration
• Integrin alpha 5 beta 1
• FAK
• Paxillin

Background: Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in women worldwide. Adrenomedullin (AM) is a multifunctional peptide which presents in various kinds of tumors.
Methods: In this study, we characterized the expression and function of AM in epithelial ovarian cancer using immunohistochemistry staining. Exogenous AM and small interfering RNA (siRNA) specific for AM receptor CRLR were treated to EOC cell line HO8910. Wound healing assay and flow cytometry were used to measure the migration ability and expression of integrin alpha 5 of HO8910 cells after above treatments. Western blot was used to examine the phosphorylation of FAK and paxillin.
Results: We found that patients with high AM expression showed a higher incidence of metastasis, larger residual size of tumors after cytoreduction and shorter disease-free and overall survival time. Exogenous AM induced ovarian cancer cell migration in time- and dose- dependent manners. AM upregulated the expression of integrin alpha 5 and phosphorylation of FAK, paxillin as well.
Conclusions: Our results suggested that AM contributed to the progression of EOC and had additional roles in EOC cell migration by activating the integrin alpha 5 beta 1 signaling pathway. Therefore, we presumed that AM could be a potential molecular therapeutic target for ovarian carcinoma.

• 出版日期2012-3-9
• 单位中国医科大学