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Trop-2 promotes prostate cancer metastasis by modulating β1 integrin functions
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Trop-2 promotes prostate cancer metastasis by modulating β1 integrin functions

Marco Trerotola, Danielle L Jernigan, Qin Liu, Javed Siddiqui, Alessandro Fatatis and Lucia R Languino
Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.), v 73(10), pp 3155-3167
15 May 2013
PMID: 23536555
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https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-3266View
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Abstract

The molecular mechanisms underlying metastatic dissemination are still not completely understood. We have recently shown that β 1 integrin-dependent cell adhesion to fibronectin (FN) and signaling are affected by a transmembrane molecule, Trop-2, which is frequently upregulated in human carcinomas. Here we report that Trop-2 promotes metastatic dissemination of prostate cancer cells in vivo and is abundantly expressed in metastasis from human prostate cancer. We also show here that Trop-2 promotes prostate cancer cell migration on FN, a phenomenon dependent on β 1 integrins. Mechanistically, we demonstrate that Trop-2 and the α 5 β 1 integrin associate through their extracellular domains, causing relocalization of α 5 β 1 and the β 1 -associated molecule talin from focal adhesions to the leading edges. Trop-2 effect is specific since this molecule does not modulate migration on vitronectin (VN), does not associate with the major VN receptor, α v β 3 integrin, and does not affect localization of α v β 3 integrin as well as vinculin in focal adhesions. We show that Trop-2 enhances directional prostate cancer cell migration, through modulation of Rac1 GTPase activity. Finally, we demonstrate that Trop-2 induces activation of PAK4, a kinase that has been reported to mediate cancer cell migration. In conclusion, we provide the first evidence that β 1 integrin-dependent migratory and metastatic competence of prostate cancer cells is enhanced by Trop-2.

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