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SLURP-1 and -2 in normal, immortalized and malignant oral keratinocytes

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Arredondo, Juan, Chernyavsky, Alexander I., Grando, Sergei A.·2007·Life Sciences

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The secreted mammalian Ly-6/urokinase plasminogen activator receptor-related proteins (SLURP)-1 and -2 are produced by keratinocytes comprising the mucocutaneous epithelium. They regulate in autocrine and paracrine ways cell growth and differentiation through the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) expressed on the plasma membrane. Keratinocyte nAChRs are targeted by tobacco-derived carcinogenic nitrosamines 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) and N'-nitrosonornicotine (NNN) that can induce tumorigenic transformation of Het-1A keratinocytes. In this study we asked if SLURPs could abolish tumorigenic effects of nitrosamines. Preincubation with either recombinant SLURP-1 or -2 in both cases considerably reduced the number of colonies in soft agar, and the number of tumor nodules >0.5 cm in diameter in Nu/Nu mice produced by Het-1A cells treated with nitrosamines. The levels of SLURP-1 and -2 mRNA transcripts in nitrosamine-transformed Het-1A cells as well as in the tumor cell lines SCC-25 and FaDu were significantly (p<0.05) less compared to normal gingival keratinocytes, which are probably the major source of the secreted SLURPs found in a sample of human saliva. The expression of SLURPs was decreased due to gene silencing of different nAChR alpha subunits with small hairpin RNA, suggesting that a positive feedback regulation is altered in malignant cells. Thus, SLURP-1 and -2 are efficient autocrine and paracrine ligands of keratinocyte nAChRs capable of preventing tobacco nitrosamine-induced malignant transformation of oral cells. These "proof-of-concept" preliminary results have salient clinical implications.

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Authors
Arredondo, J., Chernyavsky, A. I., & Grando, S. A.
Affiliations
University of California, Davis (US)
Corresponding author
Grando, Sergei A.
Venue
Life Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-05
Volume
80
Issue
24-25
Pages
2243-2247
ISSN
0024-3205 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2067182083
Cited by
66
References
11
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Life Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Cancer Institute (CA117327, R03CA117327)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R21ES014384, ES014384)
  • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (R01DE014173, DE14173)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Otorhinolaryngology › Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral Health Pathology and Treatment
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
Keywords
SLURP-1, oral keratinocytes, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, nitrosamines, NNK, NNN, tumorigenic transformation, oral cancer prevention, autocrine and paracrine signaling, gene silencing, shRNA, gingival keratinocytes, saliva, Het-1A cells, FaDu cells
MeSH terms
Antigens, Ly, Cells, Cultured, Humans, Membrane Glycoproteins, Mouth Mucosa, Nitrosamines, Receptors, Nicotinic, Recombinant Proteins, Transfection, Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator, Immunoblotting, Keratinocytes, Gene Expression, Protein Isoforms, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA Interference, RNA, Small Interfering, Cell Line, Tumor, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Cell Proliferation, GPI-Linked Proteins

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