Retinoic acidinduced expression of apolipoprotein D and concomitant growth arrest in human breast cancer cells are mediated through a retinoic acid receptor RARα-dependent signaling pathway

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Apolipoprotein D (apoD) is a human plasma protein, belonging to the lipocalin superfamily, that is produced by a specific subtype of highly differentiated breast carcinomas and that is strongly up-regulated by retinoic acid (RA) in breast cancer cells. In this work, we have examined the molecular mechanisms mediating the induction of apoD gene expression by retinoids in T-47D human breast cancer cells. Northern blot analysis revealed that Ro40-6055, a synthetic retinoid that selectively binds and activates the retinoic acid receptor RARα, induced the accumulation of apoD mRNA in breast cancer cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. The time course analysis demonstrated that apoD mRNA was induced 14-fold over control cells after 48 h of incubation with 10-8 Ro40-6055. As little as 10-11 M of this retinoid induced apoD mRNA 5-fold over the control, whereas incubation with 10-7 M Ro40-6055 induced maximally 15-fold over control cells. RARα-selective antagonists counteracted the inductive effects of all-trans-RA, 9-cis-RA, and Ro40-6055 on the expression of apoD, when present at the same concentration as the retinoid agonists. By contrast, RARβ-, RARγ-, and RXR-selective retinoids did not affect apoD gene expression. The retinoid agonist Ro40- 6055 had an antiproliferative effect on T-47D cells, with maximal growth inhibition of approximately 60% obtained after 7 days of incubation with 10-7 M. This antiproliferative effect could be counteracted by a 100-fold excess of the antagonist Ro41-5253. Treatment of the cells with retinoids that do not bind the nuclear retinoic acid receptors did not affect apoD expression, despite the fact that they did have a strong antiproliferative effect on T-47D cells. On the basis of these results, a role for RARα on apoD gene expression induction by retinoids in breast cancer cells is proposed.

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López-Boado, Y. S., Klaus, M., Dawson, M. I., & López-Otín, C. (1996). Retinoic acidinduced expression of apolipoprotein D and concomitant growth arrest in human breast cancer cells are mediated through a retinoic acid receptor RARα-dependent signaling pathway. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 271(50), 32105–32111. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.271.50.32105

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