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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-6-22
pubmed:abstractText
Clusterin (CLU) is a multivalent glycoprotein with ubiquitous tissue distribution. To address the possible differential functional roles assumed by different isoforms of CLU in the progression of human ovarian cancer, we constructed 2 human ovarian cancer cell models that represent examples of contradistinctive CLU expression levels. One is constitutively overexpressing different clusterin isoforms in SKOV3 cells by transfection of the 3 different expression vectors, another is silencing the intrinsically expressing clusterin in cisplatin-resistant human A2780-cis(CP70) tumor cells with the usage of shRNA-mediated CLU gene silencing. Then, the different cellular localization, biological effects, and functional roles played in tumor progression and drug resistances were studied. We found that (i) in the distinct cellular contexts of human ovarian carcinoma SKOV3 and CP70 cells assayed, sCLU is a central molecule in cell homeostasis that functions as a cytoprotective protein, whereas nCLU is proapoptotic; (ii) In SKOV3 cells, nuclear localization of the truncated CLU is NLS dependent, without which the pnCLU protein was sequestrated in cytoplasm to prevent cytotoxicity. (iii) sCLU plays a significant role in the development of the chemoresistance phenotype in ovarian cancer cells. Moreover, with the CLU-specific shRNA oligonucleotides, we successfully sensitized cells for chemotherapy, and inhibited cells' proliferation, migration and invasion. Collectively, our results reveal that, CLU gene expression might play a crucial role in ovarian cancer progression, adaptation and eventual resistance to chemotherapy through differential processing of CLU isoforms. Specifically, sCLU as an antiapoptotic protein, upregulated in an adaptive cell-survival manner by chemotherapy, confers resistance to various cell-death triggers.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1097-0215
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
125
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
791-806
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Cell Cycle, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Cell Movement, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Cisplatin, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Clusterin, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Disease Progression, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Drug Resistance, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Neoplasm Metastasis, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Ovarian Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Protein Isoforms, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-RNA, Small Interfering, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Subcellular Fractions, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:19391138-Tumor Stem Cell Assay
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Roles of clusterin in progression, chemoresistance and metastasis of human ovarian cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, People's Republic of China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article