Loss of transgelin in breast and colon tumors and in RIE-1 cells by Ras deregulation of gene expression through Raf-independent pathways

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Abstract

Activated Ras but not Raf can transform RIE-1 and other epithelial cells, indicating the critical importance of Raf-independent effector function in Ras transformation of epithelial cells. To elucidate the nature of these Raf-independent activities, we utilized representational difference analysis to identify genes aberrantly expressed by Ras through Raf-independent mechanisms in RIE-1 cells. We identified a total of 22 genes, both known and novel, whose expression was either activated (10) or abolished (12) by Ras but not Raf. The genes up-regulated encode proteins involved in protein or DNA synthesis, regulation of protease activity, or ligand binding, whereas those genes down-regulated encode actin cytoskeletal-, extracellular matrix-, and gap junction-associated proteins, and transmembrane receptor- or cytokine-like proteins. These results suggest that a key function of Raf-independent signaling involves deregulation of gene expression. We further characterized transgelin as a gene whose expression was abolished by Ras. Transgelin was identified previously as a protein whose expression was lost in virally transformed cell lines. We show that this loss is regulated at the level of gene expression and that both Raf-dependent and Raf-independent pathways are required to cause Ras down-regulation of transgelin in RIE-1 cells, whereas Raf alone is sufficient to cause its loss in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. We also found that Ras-dependent and Ras-independent mechanisms can cause the down-regulation of transgelin in human breast and colon carcinoma cells lines and patient-derived tumor samples. We conclude that loss of transgelin gene expression may be an important early event in tumor progression and a diagnostic marker for breast and colon cancer development.

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Shields, J. M., Rogers-Graham, K., & Der, C. J. (2002). Loss of transgelin in breast and colon tumors and in RIE-1 cells by Ras deregulation of gene expression through Raf-independent pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(12), 9790–9799. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M110086200

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