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Gas6 induces proliferation in prostate carcinoma cell lines expressing the Axl receptor

✍ Scribed by Pier Paolo Sainaghi; Luigi Castello; Luca Bergamasco; Margherita Galletti; Paola Bellosta; Gian Carlo Avanzi

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
283 KB
Volume
204
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9541

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Abstract

Axl is a tyrosine kinase receptor and although it is expressed in malignancy such as leukemia, colon cancer, melanoma, endometrial, prostate and thyroid cancers, its role has not been completely elucidated yet and appears to be complex. The ligand of Axl, Gas6, is a 75 KDa multimodular protein with an N‐terminal gamma‐carboxy‐glutamic acid that is essential for binding. Gas6 has a mitogenic effect on several normal cell lines. The receptor Axl is expressed in primary prostate carcinoma and in prostate cancer cell lines as such as PC‐3 and DU 145. We demonstrated a mitogenic activity determined by Gas6/Axl interaction in these undifferentiated metastatic human prostatic cancer cell lines. This effect is proportional to Axl expression, not due to inhibition of apoptosis, and induces AKT and MAPK phosphorylation. However, only MEK phosphorylation seems to be essential for growth signaling. Our results suggest that Axl overexpression and activation by Gas6 could be involved in progression of prostate neoplastic disease. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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