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2. Supplementary Table 1, Figures 1-8 from Smad2 and Smad3 Phosphorylated at Both Linker and COOH-Terminal Regions Transmit Malignant TGF-β Signal in Later Stages of Human Colorectal Cancer

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Matsuzaki, Koichi, primary, Kitano, Chiaki, primary, Murata, Miki, primary, Sekimoto, Go, primary, Yoshida, Katsunori, primary, Uemura, Yoshiko, primary, Seki, Toshihito, primary, Taketani, Shigeru, primary, Fujisawa, Jun-ichi, primary, and Okazaki, Kazuichi, primary

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2023
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5. Smad2 and Smad3 phosphorylated at both linker and COOH-terminal regions transmit malignant TGF-beta signal in later stages of human colorectal cancer.

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Matsuzaki K, Kitano C, Murata M, Sekimoto G, Yoshida K, Uemura Y, Seki T, Taketani S, Fujisawa J, and Okazaki K

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Animals, Cell Division, Colorectal Neoplasms genetics, Disease Progression, Fibroblasts physiology, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genes, myc, Humans, Liver physiology, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Neoplasm Staging, Phosphorylation, Rabbits, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Signal Transduction, Smad2 Protein deficiency, Smad2 Protein genetics, Smad3 Protein deficiency, Smad3 Protein genetics, Colorectal Neoplasms pathology, Smad2 Protein metabolism, Smad3 Protein metabolism, Transforming Growth Factor beta physiology
Abstract

Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta initially inhibits growth of mature epithelial cells. Later, however, autocrine TGF-beta signaling acts in concert with the Ras pathway to induce a proliferative and invasive phenotype. TGF-beta activates not only TGF-beta type I receptor (TbetaRI) but also Ras-associated kinases, which differentially phosphorylate the mediators Smad2 and Smad3 to create distinct phosphorylated forms: COOH-terminally phosphorylated Smad2/3 (pSmad2C and pSmad3C) and both linker and COOH-terminally phosphorylated Smad2/3 (pSmad2L/C and pSmad3L/C). In this study, we investigated actions of pSmad2L/C and pSmad3L/C in cancer progression. TGF-beta inhibited cell growth by down-regulating c-Myc oncoprotein through the pSmad2C and pSmad3C pathway; TGF-beta signaling, in turn, enhanced cell growth by up-regulating c-Myc through the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 4-dependent pSmad2L/C and pSmad3L/C pathways in cell nuclei. Alternatively, TbetaRI and c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) together created cytoplasmic pSmad2L/C, which entered the nucleus and stimulated cell invasion, partly by up-regulating matrix metalloproteinase-9. In 20 clinical samples, pSmad2L/C and pSmad3L/C showed nuclear localization at invasion fronts of all TGF-beta-producing human metastatic colorectal cancers. In vitro kinase assay confirmed that nuclear CDK4 and cytoplasmic JNK obtained from the tumor tissue could phosphorylate Smad2 or Smad3 at their linker regions. We suggest that CDK4, together with JNK, alters tumor-suppressive TGF-beta signaling to malignant characteristics in later stages of human colorectal cancer. The linker phosphorylation of Smad2 and Smad3 may represent a target for intervention in human metastatic cancer.

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2009
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