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Vol. 12, Issue 1, 27-36, January 2001
1 Mediates Epithelial to
Mesenchymal Transdifferentiation through a RhoA-dependent Mechanism
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Departments of Cancer Biology and
Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
37232
Transforming growth factor-
1 (TGF-
) can be tumor suppressive,
but it can also enhance tumor progression by stimulating the complex
process of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transdifferentiaion (EMT). The
signaling pathway(s) that regulate EMT in response to TGF-
are not
well understood. We demonstrate the acquisition of a fibroblastoid
morphology, increased N-cadherin expression, loss of junctional
E-cadherin localization, and increased cellular motility as markers for
TGF-
-induced EMT. The expression of a dominant-negative Smad3 or
the expression of Smad7 to levels that block growth inhibition and
transcriptional responses to TGF-
do not inhibit mesenchymal
differentiation of mammary epithelial cells. In contrast, we show that
TGF-
rapidly activates RhoA in epithelial cells, and that blocking
RhoA or its downstream target p160ROCK, by the expression
of dominant-negative mutants, inhibited TGF-
-mediated EMT. The data
suggest that TGF-
rapidly activates RhoA-dependent signaling
pathways to induce stress fiber formation and mesenchymal characteristics.
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