## Abstract Protein kinase C (PKC) superfamily play key regulatory roles on the development of cancer. However, the exact role of these enzymes in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has not been well established. Using the RTβPCR and Western blotting to analyze the levels of PKC isoforms mRNA and
Suppression of CD44 expression decreases migration and invasion of human glioma cells
β Scribed by Hideho Okada; Jun Yoshida; Masahiro Sokabe; Takashi Wakabayashi; Masatoshi Hagiwara
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 753 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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β¦ Synopsis
We have reported high expression of CD44H in human glioma cells. To investigate the role of CD44H in the invasion of human glioma, we established a CD44-anti-sense-gene-expression glioma cell line named U-251AI. The expression of CD44H in the G-4 18-selected U-25 I A l cells was reduced to 2096 of that in the parental U-25ISP cells, as determined by flow-cytometry analysis. We first examined the migratory responses of U-25 I A l cells in vitro by time-lapse video-microscopic sparse cellmigration assay on hyaluronic acid or on chonddtin 6 sulfate. U-251AI cells did not show significant differences in motility on any substrate. while U-25 I SP and other CD44H-positive glioma cells showed dose-de ndent increase of migration specificalty on hyaluronic acid. l feo examine the physiologic function of CD44H in gliomas in vivo, U-25IAI and its control cells, U-25 I S I , which retain CD44-sense-expression vector, werp injected stereotactically into the brains of nude mice. U-25IAI cells were localised in the region of the injection site, with relatively well demarcated borders between tumour and brain tissue, while the control cells demonstrated a cell-infiltration pattern. Our data suggest that C W H may be required for infiltration of glioma cells through its interaction with hyaluronic acid, a major component of the brain extracellular matrix.
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