PMID- 19142899 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090818 LR - 20220224 IS - 1098-2744 (Electronic) IS - 0899-1987 (Linking) VI - 48 IP - 8 DP - 2009 Aug TI - Regulation of the hedgehog signaling by the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in gastric cancer. PG - 703-12 LID - 10.1002/mc.20516 [doi] AB - The hedgehog and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways regulate growth in many tumors, suggesting cooperation between these two pathways in the regulation of cell proliferation. However, interactions between these pathways have not been extensively studied. We assessed cross-talk between hedgehog and MAPK signaling in the regulation of cell proliferation in gastric cancer. We showed that PTCH expression was significantly correlated with extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 phosphorylation (P = 0.016) as well as SHH expression (P = 0.034) in the 35 gastric cancers assessed by immunohistochemistry. Indeed, MAPK signaling increased the GLI transcriptional activity and induced the expression of hedgehog target genes in gastric cancer cells. The inductive effect of activated KRAS and mitogen-activated protein/extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase (MEK) 1 was blocked by the suppressor of fused (SUFU), indicating that MAPK signaling regulates GLI activity via a SUFU-independent process. Moreover, the deletion of the NH2-terminal domain of GLI1 gene resulted in reduced response to MEK1 stimulation. Our results suggest that the KRAS-MEK-ERK cascade has a positive regulatory role in GLI transcriptional activity in gastric cancer. FAU - Seto, Motoko AU - Seto M AD - Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. FAU - Ohta, Miki AU - Ohta M FAU - Asaoka, Yoshinari AU - Asaoka Y FAU - Ikenoue, Tsuneo AU - Ikenoue T FAU - Tada, Motohisa AU - Tada M FAU - Miyabayashi, Koji AU - Miyabayashi K FAU - Mohri, Dai AU - Mohri D FAU - Tanaka, Yasuo AU - Tanaka Y FAU - Ijichi, Hideaki AU - Ijichi H FAU - Tateishi, Keisuke AU - Tateishi K FAU - Kanai, Fumihiko AU - Kanai F FAU - Kawabe, Takao AU - Kawabe T FAU - Omata, Masao AU - Omata M LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Mol Carcinog JT - Molecular carcinogenesis JID - 8811105 RN - 0 (GLI1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Hedgehog Proteins) RN - 0 (PTCH1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Patched Receptors) RN - 0 (Patched-1 Receptor) RN - 0 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Receptors, Cell Surface) RN - 0 (Repressor Proteins) RN - 0 (SHH protein, human) RN - 0 (SUFU protein, human) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 0 (Zinc Finger Protein GLI1) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (EGFR protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (ErbB Receptors) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.12.2 (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases) RN - EC 3.6.5.2 (ras Proteins) SB - IM MH - Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous/genetics/metabolism/pathology MH - Adult MH - Aged MH - Aged, 80 and over MH - Blotting, Western MH - Carcinoma, Papillary/genetics/metabolism/pathology MH - ErbB Receptors/genetics MH - Female MH - Gene Amplification MH - Hedgehog Proteins/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Immunoenzyme Techniques MH - JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3/metabolism MH - Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases/metabolism MH - Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/*metabolism MH - Patched Receptors MH - Patched-1 Receptor MH - Phosphorylation MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun/metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism MH - Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics/*metabolism MH - Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Stomach Neoplasms/genetics/*metabolism/pathology MH - Transcription Factors/*genetics/metabolism MH - Zinc Finger Protein GLI1 MH - p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism MH - ras Proteins/metabolism EDAT- 2009/01/15 09:00 MHDA- 2009/08/19 09:00 CRDT- 2009/01/15 09:00 PHST- 2009/01/15 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/01/15 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/08/19 09:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/mc.20516 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Carcinog. 2009 Aug;48(8):703-12. doi: 10.1002/mc.20516.