Astrocyte elevated gene-1 is a proliferation promoter in breast cancer via suppressing transcriptional factor FOXO1
Open Access
- 27 July 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Oncogene
- Vol. 28 (36), 3188-3196
- https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2009.171
Abstract
We have previously reported that astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1) was upregulated in human breast cancer. However, the biological function of AEG-1 in the development and progression of breast cancer remains to be clarified. In this study, we examined the effect of AEG-1 on cell proliferation and found that AEG-1 upregulation was significantly linked to increased Ki67 (PKip1 and p21Cip1 two key cell-cycle inhibitors. Moreover, we further demonstrated that AEG-1 could downregulate the transcriptional activity of FOXO1 by inducing its phosphorylation through the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway. These observations were further confirmed in clinical human primary breast cancer specimens, in which high-level expression of AEG-1 was inversely correlated with the expression of FOXO1. Taken together, our results provide the first demonstration of a novel mechanism by which AEG-1 induces proliferation of breast cancer cell, and our findings suggest that AEG-1 might play an important role in tumorigenesis of breast cancer.Keywords
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