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Article Dans Une Revue Carcinogenesis Année : 2006

Neurotensin receptor 1 gene activation by the Tcf/b-catenin pathway is an early event in human colonic adenomas

Nicolas Roullet
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Mireille Toy-Miou-Leong
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Anne Gompel
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Erik Bruyneel
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Eva Comperat
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Maree C Faux
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Marc Mareel
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William Rostene
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Jean-François Flejou
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Christian Gespach
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Patricia Forgez
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Résumé

Alterations in the Wnt/APC (adenomatous polyposis coli) signalling pathway, resulting in b-catenin/T cell factor (Tcf)-dependent transcriptional gene activation, are frequently detected in familial and sporadic colon cancers. The neuropeptide neurotensin (NT) is widely distributed in the gastrointestinal tract. Its proliferative and survival effects are mediated by a G-protein coupled receptor, the NT1 receptor. NT1 receptor is not expressed in normal colon epithelial cells, but is over expressed in a number of cancer cells and tissues suggesting a link to the outgrowth of human colon cancer. Our results demonstrate that the upregulation of NT1 receptor occurring in colon cancer is the result of Wnt/APC signalling pathway activation. We first established the functionality of the Tcf response element within the NT1 receptor promoter. Consequently, we observed the activation of NT1 receptor gene by agents causing b-catenin cytosolic accumulation, as well as a strong decline of endogenous receptor when wt-APC was restored. At the cellular level, the re-establishment of wt-APC phenotype resulted in the impaired functionality of NT1 receptor, like the breakdown in NT-induced intracel-lular calcium mobilization and the loss of NT pro-invasive effect. We corroborated the Wnt/APC signalling pathway on the NT1 receptor promoter activation with human colon carcinogenesis, and showed that NT1 receptor gene activation was perfectly correlated with nuclear or cytoplasmic b-catenin localization while NT1 receptor was absent when b-catenin was localized at the cell-cell junction in early adenomas of patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer and loss of het-erozygosity tumours. In this report we establish a novel link in vitro between the Tcf/b-catenin pathway and NT1 receptor promoter activation.

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inserm-02459595 , version 1 (29-01-2020)

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Frédérique Souazé, Véronique Viardot-Foucault, Nicolas Roullet, Mireille Toy-Miou-Leong, Anne Gompel, et al.. Neurotensin receptor 1 gene activation by the Tcf/b-catenin pathway is an early event in human colonic adenomas. Carcinogenesis, 2006, 27 (4), pp.708-716. ⟨10.1093/carcin/bgi269⟩. ⟨inserm-02459595⟩
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