Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: EC:3.4.24.23 (MMP)
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Hybridization with cDNA arrays was used to obtain expression profiles of 263 protein-tyrosine kinase (PTK), protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP), dual-specific phosphatase (DuSP), and other genes for the normal prostate tissue, primary prostate carcinomas (PC) of 84 patients, 7 xenografts, and 5 carcinoma cell lines. Analysis of 96 profiles revealed eight clusters of genes coexpressed in PC (coefficient of correlation r > 0.7). According to the known functions of their genes, the clusters were designated as proliferating-cell (CDC42, TOP2A, FGFR3, MYC, etc.), neoangiogenesis and blood-cell (LCK, VAV1, KDR, VEGF, MMP9, SYK, PTPRS, and FLT4), invasion-1 and invasion-2 (ADAM17, TRPM2, DUSP6, VIM, CAV1, CAV2, JAK1, PTPNS1, FYN, and PDGFB), HER2, and PSA/PSM/HER3. Basing on expression profiles of 66 genes, a molecular classification of PC was constructed and allowed discrimination between PC and cell lines or xenografts at 98.9% probability. The results suggested that, along with PSA, PSM (FOLH1), kallikrein-2, and a-2-macroglobulin, cell signaling genes EGFR, HER2, HER3, TOP2, KRT8, KRT18, VEGF, CD44, VIM, CAV1, and CAV2 may serve as diagnostic and prognostic markers in PC. The HER2, VEGF, and CD44 genes and the MMP and ADAM families were assumed to be promising targets for inhibitors of PC cell proliferation and metastasis.
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PMID:[Gene expression profiles of protein kinases and phosphatases obtained by hybridization with cDNA arrays: molecular portrait of human prostate carcinoma]. 1262 52

Human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) express Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and produce cytokines and chemokines, all of which contribute to these cells' immunomodulatory and proangiogenic properties. Among the secreted cytokines, colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) regulate angiogenesis through activation of endothelial cell proliferation and migration. Since MSC are recruited within hypoxic tumors where they signal paracrine-regulated angiogenesis, the aim of this study was to evaluate which CSF members are expressed and are inducible in activated MSC. Furthermore, we investigated the JAK/STAT signal transducing pathway that may impact on CSF transcription. MSC were activated with Concanavalin-A (ConA), a TLR-2/6 agonist as well as a membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) inducer, and we found increased transcription of granulocyte macrophage-CSF (GM-CSF, CSF-2), granulocyte CSF (G-CSF, CSF-3), and MT1-MMP. Gene silencing of either STAT3 or MT1-MMP prevented ConA-induced phosphorylation of STAT3, and reversed ConA effects on CSF-2 and CSF-3. Treatment with the Janus Kinase (JAK)2 inhibitor AG490 antagonized the ConA induction of MT1-MMP and CSF-2, while the pan-JAK inhibitor Tofacitinib reversed ConA-induced CSF-2 and -3 gene expression. Silencing of JAK2 prevented the ConA-mediated increase of CSF-2, while silencing of JAK1, JAK3 and TYK2 prevented the increase in CSF-3. Given that combined TLR-activation and locally-produced CSF-2 and CSF-3 could regulate immunomodulation and neovascularization, pharmacological targeting of TLR-2/6-induced MT1-MMP/JAK/STAT3 signalling pathway may prevent MSC contribution to tumor development.
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PMID:Selective JAK/STAT3 signalling regulates transcription of colony stimulating factor-2 and -3 in Concanavalin-A-activated mesenchymal stromal cells. 2368 18

Plant lectins have been considered as possible anti-tumor drugs because of their property to induce autophagic cell death. Given that expression of membrane type-1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) has been found to regulate expression of the autophagy biomarker Bcl-2/adenovirus E1B 19kDa interacting protein 3 (BNIP3), we sought to investigate possible signaling interplay mechanisms between MT1-MMP and BNIP3 in Concanavalin-A (ConA) lectin-activated U87 glioblastoma cells. ConA induced acidic vacuole organelle formation as well as BNIP3 and MT1-MMP gene and protein expressions, whereas only BNIP3 expression was dose-dependently inhibited by the JAK2 tyrosine kinase inhibitor AG490 suggesting a requirement for some STAT-mediated signaling. Gene silencing of MT1-MMP and of STAT3 abrogated ConA-induced STAT3 phosphorylation and BNIP3 expression. Correlative analysis shows that STAT3 signaling events occur downstream from MT1-MMP induction. Overexpression of a full length MT1-MMP recombinant protein led to increased BNIP3 gene and protein expressions. The cytoplasmic domain of MT1-MMP was also found necessary for transducing STAT3 phosphorylation. Among JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, and TYK2, only JAK2 gene silencing abrogated ConA's effects on MT1-MMP and BNIP3 gene and protein expressions. Our study elucidates how MT1-MMP signals autophagy, a process which could contribute to the chemoresistance phenotype in brain cancer cells.
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PMID:Induction of autophagy biomarker BNIP3 requires a JAK2/STAT3 and MT1-MMP signaling interplay in Concanavalin-A-activated U87 glioblastoma cells. 2446 46