- Anti-neoplastic drugs increase caveolin-1-dependent migration, invasion and metastasis of cancer cells.
Anti-neoplastic drugs increase caveolin-1-dependent migration, invasion and metastasis of cancer cells.
Oncotarget (2018-01-18)
Natalia I Díaz-Valdivia, Claudia C Calderón, Jorge E Díaz, Lorena Lobos-González, Hugo Sepulveda, Rina J Ortíz, Samuel Martinez, Veronica Silva, Horacio J Maldonado, Patricio Silva, Sergio Wehinger, Verónica A Burzio, Vicente A Torres, Martín Montecino, Lisette Leyton, Andrew F G Quest
PMID29340103
ABSTRACT
Expression of the scaffolding protein Caveolin-1 (CAV1) enhances migration and invasion of metastatic cancer cells. Yet, CAV1 also functions as a tumor suppressor in early stages of cancer, where expression is suppressed by epigenetic mechanisms. Thus, we sought to identify stimuli/mechanisms that revert epigenetic CAV1 silencing in cancer cells and evaluate how this affects their metastatic potential. We reasoned that restricted tissue availability of anti-neoplastic drugs during chemotherapy might expose cancer cells to sub-therapeutic concentrations, which activate signaling pathways and the expression of CAV1 to favor the acquisition of more aggressive traits. Here, we used
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