Metastasis suppressor gene Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) is a novel prognostic marker in prostate cancer

Fu, Zheng; Kitagawa, Yasuhide; Shen, Ronglai; Shah, Rajal B.; Mehra, Rohit; Rhodes, Daniel R.; Keller, Paul R.; Mizokami, Atsushi; Dunn, Rodney L.; Chinnaiyan, Arul M.; Yao, Zhi; Keller, Evan T.

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“…Consistent with its demonstrated inhibitory effect on Raf and NF-kB signaling, we and others have shown that the expression levels of RKIP are downregulated in a number of tumors, including highly metastatic prostate, breast and colon cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, melanomas and insulinomas (Fu et al, 2003;Chatterjee et al, 2004;Schuierer et al, 2004Schuierer et al, , 2006Zhang et al, 2004;Hegan et al, 2005;Al-Mulla et al, 2006;Lee et al, 2006). The importance of RKIP in metastases was highlighted by the finding that restoration of RKIP expression inhibits prostate cancer metastasis in a murine model (Fu et al, 2003(Fu et al, , 2005. More recent studies have shown that RKIP is also a good prognostic marker of the pathogenesis of human prostate cancer (Fu et al, 2005) and a prognostic indicator for overall survival and disease-free survival in colorectal cancer (Al-Mulla et al, 2006).…”

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“…Although there was a small increase in Slug between PCA and metastasis of prostate cancer samples, the difference was not statistically significant. RKIP was recently reported as being downregulated in metastatic prostate cancer (Fu et al, 2003(Fu et al, , 2005. However, it is not known how RKIP is downregulated in cancer, or how it is transcriptionally regulated.…”

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“…The importance of RKIP in metastases was highlighted by the finding that restoration of RKIP expression inhibits prostate cancer metastasis in a murine model (Fu et al, 2003(Fu et al, , 2005. More recent studies have shown that RKIP is also a good prognostic marker of the pathogenesis of human prostate cancer (Fu et al, 2005) and a prognostic indicator for overall survival and disease-free survival in colorectal cancer (Al-Mulla et al, 2006). Collectively, these studies suggest that RKIP is a novel cancer metastasis suppressor and an effector of signal transduction pathways leading to apoptosis.…”

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Snail is a repressor of RKIP transcription in metastatic prostate cancer cells

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Diminished expression of the metastasis suppressor protein RKIP was previously reported in a number of cancers. The underlying mechanism remains unknown. Here, we show that the expression of RKIP negatively correlates with that of Snail zinc-transcriptional repressor, a key modulator of normal and neoplastic epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) program. With a combination of loss-of-function and gain-of-function approaches, we showed that Snail repressed the expression of RKIP in metastatic prostate cancer cell lines. The effect of Snail on RKIP was on the level of transcriptional initiation and mediated by a proximal E-box on the RKIP promoter. (Chatterjee et al., 2004;Park et al., 2005). Consistent with its demonstrated inhibitory effect on Raf and NF-kB signaling, we and others have shown that the expression levels of RKIP are downregulated in a number of tumors, including highly metastatic prostate, breast and colon cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, melanomas and insulinomas (Fu et al., 2003;Chatterjee et al., 2004;Schuierer et al., 2004Schuierer et al., , 2006Zhang et al., 2004;Hegan et al., 2005;Al-Mulla et al., 2006;Lee et al., 2006). The importance of RKIP in metastases was highlighted by the finding that restoration of RKIP expression inhibits prostate cancer metastasis in a murine model (Fu et al., 2003(Fu et al., , 2005. More recent studies have shown that RKIP is also a good prognostic marker of the pathogenesis of human prostate cancer (Fu et al., 2005) and a prognostic indicator for overall survival and disease-free survival in colorectal cancer (Al-Mulla et al., 2006). Collectively, these studies suggest that RKIP is a novel cancer metastasis suppressor and an effector of signal transduction pathways leading to apoptosis. In spite of the abundance of experimental evidence on the deleterious consequences of reduced RKIP expression in tumors, the mechanisms responsible for the downregulation of RKIP in cancer are not completely understood.To set up a system to study the transcription regulation of RKIP, we examined RKIP expression levels in cancer cell lines with different metastatic capacity. In accordance with clinical tumor studies, we observed that expression levels of RKIP proteins progressively decreased in breast and prostate cancer cell lines of increasing metastatic potential. The expression of RKIP is low in invasive and metastatic breast (MB231, MB435 and 578T) and prostate (DU145 and PC3) cell lines and high in noninvasive cell lines like MCF7, BT20 and LNCaP (Figure 1a). Notably, RKIP protein levels correlated well with those of the intercellular adhesion protein E-cadherin (E-cad). E-cad is a well-documented tumor metastasis suppressor protein that is regulated by the Snail and closely related Slug transcription factors (Peinado et al., 2007). Quantitation of RKIP transcript levels in the different cancer cell lines by qRT-PCR demonstrated that they correlated with the levels of the protein, (Figure 1b), suggesting that RKIP expression is downregulated at the RNA level, via changes...

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“…Previous studies have described low levels of RKIP in other metastatic tumors, such as breast and colorectal carcinoma (23,45), as well as in many other primary tumors, including GISTs (27), insulinoma (22), hepatocarcinoma (24), ovarian carcinoma (26), merckel cell carcinoma (16) and thyroid carcinoma (15), cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (46) and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (17). Furthermore, loss of cytoplasmic RKIP has also been associated with poor prognosis in prostate, colorectal, GISTs and glial tumors (25,(27)(28)(29)(30).…”

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“…Noteworthy, RKIP has been shown to be a prognostic marker in prostate cancer, colorectal carcinomas, gliomas and GISTs (25,(27)(28)(29)(30).…”

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Absence of RKIP expression is an independent prognostic biomarker for gastric cancer patients

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Abstract. Gastric cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality, and the presence of lymph node metastasis an important prognostic factor. Downregulation of RKIP has been associated with tumor progression and metastasis in several types of neoplasms, being currently categorized as a metastasis suppressor gene. Our aim was to determine the expression levels of RKIP in gastric tissues and to evaluate its impact in the clinical outcome of gastric carcinoma patients. RKIP expression levels were studied by immunohistochemistry in a series of gastric tissues. Overall, we analysed 222 non-neoplastic gastric tissues, 152 primary tumors and 42 lymph node metastasis samples. We observed that RKIP was highly expressed in ~83% of non-neoplastic tissues (including normal tissue and metaplasia), was lost in ~56% of primary tumors and in ~90% of lymph node metastasis samples. Loss of RKIP expression was significantly associated with several markers of poor clinical outcome, including the presence of lymph node metastasis. Furthermore, the absence of RKIP protein constitutes an independent prognostic marker for these patients. In conclusion, RKIP expression is significantly lost during gastric carcinoma progression being almost absent in lymph node metastasis samples. Of note, we showed that the absence of RKIP expression is associated with poor outcome features of gastric cancer patients, this being also an independent prognostic marker.

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Expression and characterization of the PEBP homolog genes from Drosophila

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The phosphatidylethanolamine binding proteins (PEBPs) family is evolutionarily conserved and involved in different physiological phenomena. PEBPs were found in many species from bacteria to mammals. Despite numerous studies, PEBPs' biological function and mode of action remain elusive. Based on sequence homology, seven PEBP genes were detected in the Drosophila genome. Only one of them, the odorant binding protein (OBP), has been characterized. To date nothing is known concerning the expression pattern and biological roles of the six other PEBP genes. By RT-PCR and Western blot analysis, we examined expression of the PEBPs in different tissues and embryos. The 6 PEBPs were differentially expressed. Only one, CG10298, is specific of only one tissue: the testis. Additionally, by comparing in wild type and male-sterile mutants we show that CG10298 is present only during spermatid differentiation. Furthermore, by comparing structural parameters of the six PEBP proteins with those of human PEBP-1, we have established that PEBP CG10298 is most closely related to human PEBP.

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Metastasis suppressor gene Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP) is a novel prognostic marker in prostate cancer

Abstract: In contrast to increased expression of pro-tumorigenic genes, these results demonstrate decreased protein expression of a gene, for example, RKIP, can serve as a prognostic marker in PCa patients.

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Snail is a repressor of RKIP transcription in metastatic prostate cancer cells

Snail is a repressor of RKIP transcription in metastatic prostate cancer cells

Absence of RKIP expression is an independent prognostic biomarker for gastric cancer patients

Expression and characterization of the PEBP homolog genes from Drosophila

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