Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Student: Lenka Burgetová Supervisor: PharmDr. Martina Čečková PhD. Specialized supervisor: Dr. Kathryn Taylor PhD. Title of diploma thesis: Investigating the role of zinc transporter ZIP 6 and STAT3 in mitosis It has been shown that STAT3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3) plays a role in the development of cancer. ZIP6 is the downstream target of this transcription factor. Previous research has focused mainly on the activation of STAT3 by tyrosine phosphorylation, while the effect of phosphorylation at a second site, serine 727, remained relatively uninvestigated. In this study, it is proposed that serine-phosphorylated STAT3 is activated throughout mitosis in tamoxifen-resistant (TamR) breast cancer cells and that zinc transporter ZIP6 and serine-phosphorylated STAT3 are involved in a zinc-mediated mitotic mechanism. After using nocodazole to induce mitotic arrest, the expression of tyrosine- phosphorylated STAT3 protein was observed to be reduced while the expression of serine- phosphorylated STAT3 was increased. Zinc supplementation after nocodazole treatment appeared to push cells through mitotic-arrest and cause proteolytic cleavage of STAT3 suggesting a novel...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:324433 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Burgetová, Lenka |
| Contributors | Čečková, Martina, Štaud, František |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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