Stimulation of TPA-responsive element activity by a cooperative action of insulin and estrogen in human breast cancer cells

Molecular Endocrinology
B van der BurgS W De Laat

Abstract

Approximately one third of the human breast tumors are estradiol (E2)-dependent in the initial stages of the disease. E2 is thought to stimulate growth indirectly, through induced production of autocrine polypeptide growth factors. In this hypothesis constitutive production of such growth factors would lead to the loss of E2 dependence, as associated with progression of the disease. Recent data, however, suggest that breast cancer cells do not react to the growth factors that they produce. Here we provide evidence that the direct stimulation of the c-fos proto-oncogene may be an important step in the stimulation by E2 of the human breast cancer cell line MCF7. E2 by itself, however, is poorly mitogenic, and it does not induce genes from the jun family, whose gene products are necessary for heterodimerization with the c-fos-encoded protein (Fos), leading to an important step in growth factor signalling pathways, stimulation of TPA-responsive element (TRE)-dependent transcriptional activity. In combination with insulin-like growth factors, that were found to be efficient inducers of c-jun in breast cancer cells, E2 synergistically stimulates TRE activity and proliferation. These effects of E2 on growth factor signalling pathways ...Continue Reading

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