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- Title
TGF-β regulates isoform switching of FGF receptors and epithelial-mesenchymal transition.
- Authors
Shirakihara, Takuya; Horiguchi, Kana; Miyazawa, Keiji; Ehata, Shogo; Shibata, Tatsuhiro; Morita, Ikuo; Miyazono, Kohei; Saitoh, Masao
- Abstract
The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a crucial event in wound healing, tissue repair, and cancer progression in adult tissues. Here, we demonstrate that transforming growth factor (TGF)-β induced EMT and that long-term exposure to TGF-β elicited the epithelial-myofibroblastic transition (EMyoT) by inactivating the MEK-Erk pathway. During the EMT process, TGF-β induced isoform switching of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptors, causing the cells to become sensitive to FGF-2. Addition of FGF-2 to TGF-β-treated cells perturbed EMyoT by reactivating the MEK-Erk pathway and subsequently enhanced EMT through the formation of MEK-Erk-dependent complexes of the transcription factor δEF1/ZEB1 with the transcriptional corepressor CtBP1. Consequently, normal epithelial cells that have undergone EMT as a result of combined TGF-β and FGF-2 stimulation promoted the invasion of cancer cells. Thus, TGF-β and FGF-2 may cooperate with each other and may regulate EMT of various kinds of cells in cancer microenvironment during cancer progression.
- Publication
The EMBO journal, 2011, Vol 30, Issue 4, p783
- ISSN
1460-2075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/emboj.2010.351