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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-18
pubmed:abstractText
Historically, ErbB3 has been overlooked within the ErbB receptor family due to its perceived lack of tyrosine kinase activity. We have previously demonstrated that in pancreatic cancer ErbB3 is the preferred dimerization partner of EGFR, ErbB3 protein expression level directly correlates with the anti-proliferative effect of erlotinib (an EGFR-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitor), and transient knockdown of ErbB3 expression results in acquired resistance to EGFR-targeted therapy. In this study, we develop a stable isogenic model of ErbB3 expression in an attempt to decipher ErbB3's true contribution to pancreatic cancer tumorigenesis and to examine how this receptor affects cellular sensitivity to EGFR-targeted therapy. Analysis of the EGFR-ErbB3 heterodimer demonstrates that ligand-induced PI3K-AKT signaling is limited to ErbB3-expressing cells and that this signaling cascade can be partially abrogated by inhibiting EGFR function with erlotinib. Using our model of exogenous ErbB3 expression we showed a direct relationship between ErbB3 protein levels and increased pancreatic cancer cell proliferation in vitro. In vivo, ErbB3(+)PANC-1 xenografts had a significantly larger tumor volume than PANC-1 control xenografts (ErbB3-PANC-1) and displayed increased sensitivity to EGFR-targeted therapy. In pancreatic cancer, ErbB3 appears to be critically involved in EGFR signaling as evidenced by its profound effect on cellular proliferation and its ability to influence response to EGFR-targeted therapy.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
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pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1555-8576
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
555-63
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Adenocarcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Cell Line, Tumor, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Chromones, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Flavonoids, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Mice, SCID, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Morpholines, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Pancreatic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Protein Kinase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Quinazolines, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-RNA Interference, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Receptor, erbB-3, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Tumor Burden, pubmed-meshheading:20647770-Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
ErbB3 expression promotes tumorigenesis in pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural