Reversal of the malignant phenotype of ovarian cancer A2780 cells through transfection with wild-type PTEN gene

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• 作者：Huijuan Wu ; Shixuan Wang ; Danghui Weng ; Hui Xing ; Xiaohong Song ; Tao Zhu ; Xi Xia ; Yanjie Weng ; Gang Xu ; Li Meng ; Jianfeng Zhou ; Ding Ma
• 关键词：Ovarian cancer ; PTEN ; Apoptosis ; Proliferation ; Invasion ; Migration
• 刊名：Cancer Letters
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：28 November 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：271
• 期：2
• 页码：205-214
• 全文大小：817 K

文摘

Objective

PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10) is a tumor suppressor gene identified on human chromosome 10q23. Substantial studies have demonstrated that PTEN can inhibit cell proliferation, migration and invasion of many cancer cells. The purpose of this study was to determine whether upregulation of PTEN gene by transfection wild-type PTEN gene to ovarian cancer cells can inhibit growth and migration and to explore the potential for PTEN gene therapy of ovarian cancers.

Method

Wild-type and phosphatase-inactive (C124A) PTEN plasmids were transfected into ovarian epithelial cancer A2780 cells, and their effects on cell apoptosis, cell proliferation, cell migration and cell invasion were analyzed by flow cytometry analysis, TUNEL assay, MTT assay, wound-healing assay and transwell assay.

Results

Both wild-type and mutant PTEN can upregulate the expression of PTEN gene dramatically; however, it is wild-type PTEN not phosphatase-inactive PTEN that can induce apoptosis and decrease cell migration, invasion and proliferation in ovarian cancer cells.

Conclusion

These results demonstrated that PTEN had played an important role in the cell proliferation, cell migration and invasion dependent on its phosphatase activity. Enhanced expression of PTEN by gene transfer is sufficient to reverse the malignant phenotype of ovarian cancer cells and transfection of ovarian cancer cells with wild-type PTEN gene might be another novel approach for therapeutic intervention in ovarian cancer.