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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2008-01-04
    Description: NUMB is a cell fate determinant, which, by asymmetrically partitioning at mitosis, controls cell fate choices by antagonising the activity of the plasma membrane receptor of the NOTCH family. NUMB is also an endocytic protein, and the NOTCH-NUMB counteraction has been linked to this function. There might be, however, additional functions of NUMB, as witnessed by its proposed role as a tumour suppressor in breast cancer. Here we describe a previously unknown function for human NUMB as a regulator of tumour protein p53 (also known as TP53). NUMB enters in a tricomplex with p53 and the E3 ubiquitin ligase HDM2 (also known as MDM2), thereby preventing ubiquitination and degradation of p53. This results in increased p53 protein levels and activity, and in regulation of p53-dependent phenotypes. In breast cancers there is frequent loss of NUMB expression. We show that, in primary breast tumour cells, this event causes decreased p53 levels and increased chemoresistance. In breast cancers, loss of NUMB expression causes increased activity of the receptor NOTCH. Thus, in these cancers, a single event-loss of NUMB expression-determines activation of an oncogene (NOTCH) and attenuation of the p53 tumour suppressor pathway. Biologically, this results in an aggressive tumour phenotype, as witnessed by findings that NUMB-defective breast tumours display poor prognosis. Our results uncover a previously unknown tumour suppressor circuitry.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Colaluca, Ivan N -- Tosoni, Daniela -- Nuciforo, Paolo -- Senic-Matuglia, Francesca -- Galimberti, Viviana -- Viale, Giuseppe -- Pece, Salvatore -- Di Fiore, Pier Paolo -- England -- Nature. 2008 Jan 3;451(7174):76-80. doi: 10.1038/nature06412.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉IFOM, the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology Foundation, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18172499" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Breast Neoplasms/genetics/metabolism/pathology ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cells, Cultured ; DNA Damage ; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm ; Gene Silencing ; Humans ; Membrane Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Prognosis ; Protein Binding ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2/metabolism ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*metabolism ; Ubiquitination
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 1990-04-06
    Description: The epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor (EGFR) can efficiently couple with mitogenic signaling pathways when it is transfected into interleukin-3 (IL-3)-dependent 32D hematopoietic cells. When expression vectors for erbB-2, which is structurally related to EGFR, or its truncated counterpart, delta NerbB-2, were introduced into 32D cells, neither was capable of inducing proliferation. This was despite overexpression and constitutive tyrosine kinase activity of their products at levels associated with potent transformation of fibroblast target cells. Thus, EGFR and erbB-2 couple with distinct mitogenic signaling pathways. The region responsible for the specificity of intracellular signal transduction was localized to a 270-amino acid stretch encompassing their respective tyrosine kinase domains. Thus, tissue- or cell-specific regulation of growth factor receptor signaling can occur at a point after the initial interaction of growth factor with receptor. Such specificity in signal transduction may account for the selection of certain oncogenes in some malignancies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Di Fiore, P P -- Segatto, O -- Taylor, W G -- Aaronson, S A -- Pierce, J H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1990 Apr 6;248(4951):79-83.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2181668" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Cell Division ; Cell Line ; DNA/genetics ; DNA, Recombinant ; Fibroblasts/cytology/metabolism ; Gene Expression ; Genetic Vectors ; Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism ; Immunoblotting ; Mice ; *Mitogens ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics/*physiology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/*physiology ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor/genetics/*physiology ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Signal Transduction ; Transfection
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
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    Publication Date: 2010-01-30
    Description: Endocytosis has long been thought of as simply a way for cells to internalize nutrients and membrane-associated molecules. But an explosive growth in knowledge has given a new dimension to our understanding of this process. It now seems that endocytosis is a master organizer of signalling circuits, with one of its main roles being the resolution of signals in space and time. Many of the functions of endocytosis that are emerging from recent research cannot yet be reconciled with the canonical view of intracellular trafficking but, instead, point to endocytosis being integrated at a deeper level in the cellular 'master plan' (the cellular network of signalling circuits that lie at the base of the cell's make-up). Deconvolution of this level, which we call the 'endocytic matrix', might uncover a fundamental aspect of how a cell is built.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Scita, Giorgio -- Di Fiore, Pier Paolo -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 28;463(7280):464-73. doi: 10.1038/nature08910.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉IFOM, the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology Foundation, at the IFOM-IEO Campus, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy. giorgio.scita@ifom-ieo-campus.it〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20110990" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Division ; Cell Membrane/physiology ; *Cell Physiological Phenomena ; Cells/cytology ; Cellular Reprogramming ; Endocytosis/*physiology ; Genes, p53 ; Humans ; Mitosis ; *Signal Transduction ; Systems Biology
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 1988-02-05
    Description: An expression vector for the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor was introduced into the 32D myeloid cell line, which is devoid of EGF receptors and absolutely dependent on interleukin-3 (IL-3) for its proliferation and survival. Expression of the EGF receptor conferred the ability to utilize EGF for transduction of a mitogenic signal. When the transfected cells were propagated in EGF, they exhibited a more mature myeloid phenotype than was observed under conditions of IL-3-directed growth. Moreover, exposure to EGF led to a rapid stimulation of phosphoinositide metabolism, while IL-3 had no detectable effect on phosphoinositide turnover either in control or EGF receptor-transfected 32D cells. Although the transfected cells exhibited high levels of functional EGF receptors, they remained nontumorigenic. In contrast, transfection of v-erbB, an amino-terminal truncated form of the EGF receptor with constitutive tyrosine kinase activity, not only abrogated the IL-3 growth factor requirement of 32D cells, but caused them to become tumorigenic in nude mice. These results show that a naive hematopoietic cell expresses all of the intracellular components of the EGF-signaling pathway necessary to evoke a mitogenic response and sustain continuous proliferation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pierce, J H -- Ruggiero, M -- Fleming, T P -- Di Fiore, P P -- Greenberger, J S -- Varticovski, L -- Schlessinger, J -- Rovera, G -- Aaronson, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Feb 5;239(4840):628-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3257584" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Division ; Cell Line ; *Cloning, Molecular ; DNA Replication/drug effects ; Epidermal Growth Factor/metabolism/pharmacology ; Genetic Vectors ; Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology/drug effects/*metabolism ; Interleukin-3/*pharmacology ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor/*genetics/metabolism ; *Transfection
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 1987-07-10
    Description: A wide variety of human tumors contain an amplified or overexpressed erbB-2 gene, which encodes a growth factor receptor-like protein. When erbB-2 complementary DNA was expressed in NIH/3T3 cells under the control of the SV40 promoter, the gene lacked transforming activity despite expression of detectable levels of the erbB-2 protein. A further five- to tenfold increase in its expression under influence of the long terminal repeat of Moloney murine leukemia virus was associated with activation of erbB-2 as a potent oncogene. The high levels of the erbB-2 product associated with malignant transformation of NIH/3T3 cells were observed in human mammary tumor cells that overexpressed this gene. These findings demonstrate a new mechanism for acquisition of oncogenic properties by genes encoding growth factor receptor-like proteins and provide a functional basis for the role of their overexpression in the development of human malignancies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Di Fiore, P P -- Pierce, J H -- Kraus, M H -- Segatto, O -- King, C R -- Aaronson, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jul 10;237(4811):178-82.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2885917" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Breast Neoplasms/genetics ; Cell Line ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics ; DNA/genetics ; Fibroblasts/*metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Viral ; Humans ; Mice ; Moloney murine leukemia virus/genetics ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/biosynthesis/genetics/*physiology ; Rats ; Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor ; Receptor, ErbB-2 ; Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis/genetics/physiology ; Simian virus 40/genetics ; Tumor Stem Cell Assay
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 1988-09-09
    Description: Human platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) consists of two distinct but related polypeptide chains designated PDGF-A and PDGF-B. The gene encoding PDGF-B has given rise to the v-sis oncogene. In the present study the transforming activities of PDGF-A and PDGF-B genes are compared. The PDGF-A chain gene is markedly less efficient in inducing transformation than the PDGF-B gene under the influence of the same promoter. There are significant differences in the secretory and growth stimulating properties of the two chains. These properties appear to account for the much more potent transforming ability of the PDGF-B gene. These findings provide insights into biologic properties of a growth factor responsible for potent autocrine stimulation of abnormal cell proliferation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Beckmann, M P -- Betsholtz, C -- Heldin, C H -- Westermark, B -- Di Marco, E -- Di Fiore, P P -- Robbins, K C -- Aaronson, S A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Sep 9;241(4871):1346-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2842868" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Compartmentation ; Cell Line ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Immunologic Techniques ; Mice ; Molecular Weight ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/*physiology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/*physiology ; Receptors, Cell Surface/*physiology ; Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor ; Solubility
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