Nuclear monomeric integrin αv in cancer cells is a coactivator regulated by thyroid hormone.

Thyroid hormone induces tumor cell and blood vessel cell proliferation via a cell surface receptor on heterodimeric integrin αvβ3. We investigated the role of thyroid hormone-induced internalization of nuclear integrin αv monomer. Physiological concentration of thyroxine (free T4, 10(-10) M), but not 3,5,3'-triiodo-l-thyronine (T3), induced cellular internalization and nuclear translocation ...
of integrin αv monomer in human non-small-cell lung cancer (H522) and ovarian carcinoma (OVCAR-3) cells. T4 did not complex with integrin αv monomer during its internalization. The αv monomer was phosphorylated by activated ERK1/2 when it heterodimerized with integrin β3 in vitro. Nuclear αv complexed with transcriptional coactivator proteins, p300 and STAT1, and with corepressor proteins, NCoR and SMRT. Nuclear αv monomer in T4-exposed cells, but not integrin β3, bound to promoters of specific genes that have important roles in cancer cells, including estrogen receptor-α, cyclooxygenase-2, hypoxia-inducible factor-1α, and thyroid hormone receptor β1 in chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. In summary, monomeric αv is a novel coactivator regulated from the cell surface by thyroid hormone for the expression of genes involved in tumorigenesis and angiogenesis. This study also offers a mechanism for modulation of gene expression by thyroid hormone that is adjunctive to the nuclear hormone receptor (TR)-T3 pathway.
Mesh Terms:
Active Transport, Cell Nucleus, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Nucleus, Cyclooxygenase 2, Endocytosis, Estrogen Receptor alpha, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Humans, Immunoblotting, Integrin alpha5, Integrin alphaVbeta3, Integrin beta3, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3, Neoplasms, Phosphorylation, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Protein Binding, Protein Multimerization, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, STAT1 Transcription Factor, Thyroid Hormones, Thyroxine, Triiodothyronine, p300-CBP Transcription Factors
FASEB J.
Date: Aug. 01, 2013
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