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Expression and characterization of truncated HGF in human breast cancer cell

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is a multifunctional mitogen, stimulating cell proliferation, motility, angiogenesis and morphogenesis via activating its receptor, c-Met tyrosine kinase. Overexpression of HGF and c-Met has been shown as a characteristic of cancer transformation and metastasis. Inhibition of HGF/c-Met signaling may abrogate the malignant and metastatic states of cancer cells and offer a useful therapeutic approach for treating cancers. Thus with the aim of creating inhibitors to HGF-cMet signaling, we constructed plasmids containing truncated N-terminus of HGF, NK1, NK2, NK3 and NK4, respectively, and transfected into MDA MB 435S cells by electroporation. After selection with antibiotics, stable transfectants were obtained. Proliferation assay showed that the truncated NKs significantly inhibited the growth of the cells. Moreover, wound healing assay showed that migration of the NK-transfected cells were also significantly inhibited in comparison with GFP-transfected and nontransfected cells. These results therefore suggest that truncated NKs may be good inhibitors to HGF/c-Met signaling in the proliferation and migration of human breast cancer cells in vitro. In the future, the in vivo animal model is needed to be carried out to further clarify the clinical values of truncated NKs for application to cancer therapy.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0722107-203940
Date22 July 2007
CreatorsCheng, Pei-Hsin
ContributorsHung-Tu Huang, Shiping He, Ming-Hong Tai
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0722107-203940
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