| PML-RARα enhances constitutive autophagic activity through inhibiting the Akt/mTOR pathway. | |
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PMID: 21673516 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Autophagy is a highly conserved, closely regulated homeostatic cellular activity that allows for the bulk degradation of long-lived proteins and cytoplasmic organelles. Its roles in cancer initiation and progression and in determining the response of tumor cells to anticancer therapy are complicated, and only limited investigation has been conducted on the potential significance of autophagy in the pathogenesis and therapeutic response of acute myeloid leukemia. Here we demonstrate that the inducible or transfected expression of the acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)-specific PML-RARα, but not PLZF-RARα or NPM-RARα, fusion protein upregulates constitutive autophagy activation in leukemic and nonleukemic cells, as evaluated by hallmarks for autophagy including transmission electron microscopy. The significant increase in autophagic activity is also found in the leukemic cells-infiltrated bone marrow and spleen from PML-RARα-transplanted leukemic mice. The autophagy inhibitor 3-methyladenine significantly abrogates the autophagic events upregulated by PML-RARα, while the autophagic flux assay reveals that the fusion protein induces autophagy by increasing the on-rate of autophagic sequestration. Furthermore, this modulation of autophagy by PML-RARα is possibly mediated by a decreased activation of the Akt/mTOR pathway. Finally, we also show that autophagy contributes to the anti-apoptotic function of the PML-RARα protein. Given the critical role of the PML-RARα oncoprotein in APL pathogenesis, this study suggests an important role of autophagy in the development and treatment of this disease. |
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Ying Huang; Jia-Kai Hou; Ting-Ting Chen; Xu-Yun Zhao; Zhao-Wen Yan; Jing Zhang; Jie Yang; Scott C Kogan; Guo-Qiang Chen |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-10-01 |
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Title: Autophagy Volume: 7 ISSN: 1554-8635 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Oct |
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Created Date: 2011-6-15 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101265188 Medline TA: Autophagy Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (SJTU-SM); Shanghai, China. |
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