PMID: 11933074Apr 5, 2002Paper

v-Ha-ras mitogenic signaling through superoxide and derived reactive oxygen species

Molecular Carcinogenesis
Ji-Qin YangL Oberley

Abstract

The ras proto-oncogene is frequently mutated in human tumors and functions to constitutively stimulate signal transduction cascades, resulting in unchecked proliferation and malignant transformation. In certain cells, superoxide functions as a signal-transduction messenger, mediating the downstream effects of ras and rac. We demonstrated previously that v-Ha-ras-transfected rat kidney epithelial cells (RECs) overproduced superoxide anion and that this superoxide production was mediated by ras. In the present study, we further demonstrated that v-Ha-ras overexpression transformed immortal nonmalignant RECs into malignant cancer cells; v-Ha-ras-transfected cells formed clones in soft agar, had high plating efficiency, and formed tumors in nude mice. Our data suggest that superoxide radical plays a role in ras-induced transformation; modulation of intracellular superoxide level by overexpression of manganese-containing superoxide dismutase or copper- and zinc-containing superoxide dismutase inhibited ras-induced transformation, as evidenced by in vitro studies of plating efficiency and by in vivo studies of tumor formation in nude mice. Overexpression of catalase (CAT) alone was found to have little effect on tumor cell growth, bu...Continue Reading

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