PMID- 25530422 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150805 LR - 20211203 IS - 1097-0215 (Electronic) IS - 0020-7136 (Linking) VI - 137 IP - 3 DP - 2015 Aug 1 TI - The proteasome inhibitor Bortezomib (Velcade) as potential inhibitor of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. PG - 686-97 LID - 10.1002/ijc.29404 [doi] AB - Around 70% of breast cancers express the estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) and depend on estrogen for growth, survival and disease progression. The presence of hormone sensitivity is usually associated with a favorable prognosis. Use of adjuvant anti-endocrine therapy has significantly decreased breast cancer mortality in patients with early-stage disease, and anti-endocrine therapy also plays a central role in the treatment of advanced stages. However a subset of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers do not benefit from anti-endocrine therapy, and nearly all hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancers ultimately develop resistance to anti-hormonal therapies. Despite new insights into mechanisms of anti-endocrine therapy resistance, e.g., crosstalk between ERalpha and Her2/neu, the management of advanced hormone-receptor-positive breast cancers that are resistant to anti-endocrine agents remains a significant challenge. In the present study, we demonstrate that the proteasome inhibitor Bortezomib strongly inhibits ERalpha and HER2/neu expression, increases expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, inhibits expression of multiple genes associated with poor prognosis in ERalpha+ breast cancer patients and induces cell death in ER+ breast cancer cells in both the presence and absence of functional p53. Although Bortezomib increased the levels of p53 and increased the expression of pro-apoptotic target genes in ERalpha+ breast cancer cells harboring wild-type p53, Bortezomib also exerts anti-tumoral effects on ERalpha+ breast cancer cells through suppression of ERalpha expression and inhibition of PI3K/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and ERK signaling independently of functional p53. These findings suggest that Bortezomib might have the potential to improve the management of anti-endocrine therapy resistant ERalpha+ breast cancers independently of their p53 status. CI - (c) 2014 UICC. FAU - Thaler, Sonja AU - Thaler S AD - Centre for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim (CBTM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. FAU - Thiede, Gitta AU - Thiede G AD - Centre for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim (CBTM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. FAU - Hengstler, Jan G AU - Hengstler JG AD - IfADo-Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany. FAU - Schad, Arno AU - Schad A AD - Department of Pathology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. FAU - Schmidt, Marcus AU - Schmidt M AD - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. FAU - Sleeman, Jonathan P AU - Sleeman JP AD - Centre for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim (CBTM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. AD - KIT Campus Nord, Institute for Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150108 PL - United States TA - Int J Cancer JT - International journal of cancer JID - 0042124 RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) RN - 0 (Boronic Acids) RN - 0 (ESR1 protein, human) RN - 0 (Estrogen Receptor alpha) RN - 0 (Proteasome Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Pyrazines) RN - 0 (Receptors, Estrogen) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) RN - 69G8BD63PP (Bortezomib) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (ErbB Receptors) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, ErbB-2) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology/*therapeutic use MH - Boronic Acids/pharmacology/*therapeutic use MH - Bortezomib MH - Breast Neoplasms/*drug therapy/*metabolism/mortality/pathology MH - Cell Death/drug effects MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - ErbB Receptors/metabolism MH - Estrogen Receptor alpha/metabolism MH - Female MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects MH - Humans MH - Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism MH - Neoplasm Metastasis MH - Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism MH - Prognosis MH - Proteasome Inhibitors/pharmacology/*therapeutic use MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism MH - Pyrazines/pharmacology/*therapeutic use MH - Receptor, ErbB-2/metabolism MH - Receptors, Estrogen/genetics/*metabolism MH - Signal Transduction MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics/metabolism MH - Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays OTO - NOTNLM OT - Her2 inhibition OT - estrogen receptor alpha inhibition OT - proteasome inhibition EDAT- 2014/12/23 06:00 MHDA- 2015/08/06 06:00 CRDT- 2014/12/23 06:00 PHST- 2014/04/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/12/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/12/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/12/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/08/06 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/ijc.29404 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Cancer. 2015 Aug 1;137(3):686-97. doi: 10.1002/ijc.29404. Epub 2015 Jan 8.