PMID- 19033662 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20081230 LR - 20230202 IS - 0021-9738 (Print) IS - 1558-8238 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9738 (Linking) VI - 118 IP - 12 DP - 2008 Dec TI - The tumor suppressor gene ARHI regulates autophagy and tumor dormancy in human ovarian cancer cells. PG - 3917-29 LID - 35512 [pii] LID - 10.1172/JCI35512 [doi] AB - The role of autophagy in oncogenesis remains ambiguous, and mechanisms that induce autophagy and regulate its outcome in human cancers are poorly understood. The maternally imprinted Ras-related tumor suppressor gene aplasia Ras homolog member I (ARHI; also known as DIRAS3) is downregulated in more than 60% of ovarian cancers, and here we show that re-expression of ARHI in multiple human ovarian cancer cell lines induces autophagy by blocking PI3K signaling and inhibiting mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), upregulating ATG4, and colocalizing with cleaved microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 (LC3) in autophagosomes. Furthermore, ARHI is required for spontaneous and rapamycin-induced autophagy in normal and malignant cells. Although ARHI re-expression led to autophagic cell death when SKOv3 ovarian cancer cells were grown in culture, it enabled the cells to remain dormant when they were grown in mice as xenografts. When ARHI levels were reduced in dormant cells, xenografts grew rapidly. However, inhibition of ARHI-induced autophagy with chloroquine dramatically reduced regrowth of xenografted tumors upon reduction of ARHI levels, suggesting that autophagy contributed to the survival of dormant cells. Further analysis revealed that autophagic cell death was reduced when cultured human ovarian cancer cells in which ARHI had been re-expressed were treated with growth factors (IGF-1, M-CSF), angiogenic factors (VEGF, IL-8), and matrix proteins found in xenografts. Thus, ARHI can induce autophagic cell death, but can also promote tumor dormancy in the presence of factors that promote survival in the cancer microenvironment. FAU - Lu, Zhen AU - Lu Z AD - Department of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. FAU - Luo, Robert Z AU - Luo RZ FAU - Lu, Yiling AU - Lu Y FAU - Zhang, Xuhui AU - Zhang X FAU - Yu, Qinghua AU - Yu Q FAU - Khare, Shilpi AU - Khare S FAU - Kondo, Seiji AU - Kondo S FAU - Kondo, Yasuko AU - Kondo Y FAU - Yu, Yinhua AU - Yu Y FAU - Mills, Gordon B AU - Mills GB FAU - Liao, Warren S-L AU - Liao WS FAU - Bast, Robert C Jr AU - Bast RC Jr LA - eng GR - P01 CA064602/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - P50 CA098258/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - P01CA64602/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20081120 PL - United States TA - J Clin Invest JT - The Journal of clinical investigation JID - 7802877 RN - 0 (Antibiotics, Antineoplastic) RN - 0 (Antirheumatic Agents) RN - 0 (DIRAS3 protein, human) RN - 0 (Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins) RN - 0 (MAP1LC3A protein, human) RN - 0 (Microtubule-Associated Proteins) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Proteins) RN - 886U3H6UFF (Chloroquine) RN - EC 2.7.- (Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (MTOR protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (mTOR protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 3.4.22.- (Cysteine Endopeptidases) RN - EC 3.6.5.2 (rho GTP-Binding Proteins) RN - W36ZG6FT64 (Sirolimus) SB - IM CIN - J Clin Invest. 2008 Dec;118(12):3837-40. PMID: 19033653 MH - Animals MH - Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/pharmacology MH - Antirheumatic Agents/pharmacology MH - *Autophagy/drug effects/genetics MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Cell Survival/drug effects/genetics MH - Chloroquine/pharmacology MH - Cysteine Endopeptidases/genetics/metabolism MH - Female MH - Genomic Imprinting/drug effects/genetics MH - Humans MH - Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/pharmacology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Mice, Nude MH - Microtubule-Associated Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Neoplasm Transplantation MH - Ovarian Neoplasms/genetics/*metabolism/pathology MH - Phagosomes/genetics/metabolism MH - Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/genetics/metabolism MH - Protein Kinases/genetics/metabolism MH - Sirolimus/pharmacology MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases MH - Transplantation, Heterologous MH - Tumor Suppressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - rho GTP-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism PMC - PMC2582930 EDAT- 2008/11/27 09:00 MHDA- 2008/12/31 09:00 PMCR- 2008/12/01 CRDT- 2008/11/27 09:00 PHST- 2008/03/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2008/09/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2008/11/27 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/12/31 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/11/27 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2008/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 35512 [pii] AID - 10.1172/JCI35512 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Clin Invest. 2008 Dec;118(12):3917-29. doi: 10.1172/JCI35512. Epub 2008 Nov 20.