Publications by authors named "Manolis C Demetriou"

We have previously identified a structural variant of the α6 integrin (Laminin receptor) called α6p. The α6p variant is a 70 kDa form of the full-length α6 integrin (140 kDa) that remains paired with either the β1 or β4 subunit on the cell surface. α6p is produced by urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), which removes the extracellular β-barrel domain while the receptor is on the cell surface.

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The alpha6 integrin is essential for early nervous system development in Xenopus laevis. We have previously reported a uPA cleaved form of integrin alpha6 (alpha6p), in invasive human prostate cancer tissue, whose presence correlates with increased migration and invasive capacity. We now report that alpha6 is cleaved during the normal development of Xenopus in a spatially and temporally controlled manner.

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Purpose: The goal was to determine if prostate tumor cells containing a mutant alpha6 integrin would be defective in tumor re-population following clinically relevant fractionated ionizing radiation (IR) treatments.

Material And Methods: Human prostate cancer cells derived from PC3N cells were used which conditionally expressed a cleavable, wild type form of alpha6 integrin (PC3N-alpha6-WT) or a mutated non-cleavable form of alpha6 integrin (PC3N-alpha6-RR). The resulting tumor growth before, during and after fractionated doses of IR (3 Gyx10 days) was analyzed using the endpoints of tumor growth inhibition (T/C), tumor growth delay (T-C), tumor doubling time (Td) and tumor cell kill (Log(10) cell kill).

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Integrins play a major role in cell adhesion and migration. Previous work reported that a cleaved form of integrin alpha6 (alpha6p) was detected in invasive human prostate cancer tissue, absent in normal prostate tissue and was produced by urokinase-type Plasminogen Activator (uPA) in a plasmin-independent manner. Using site-directed mutagenesis we identified amino acid residues R594 and R595, located in the "stalk" region of integrin alpha6, as essential for cleavage.

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During human prostate cancer progression, the integrin alpha6beta1 (laminin receptor) is expressed on the cancer cell surface during invasion and in lymph node metastases. We previously identified a novel structural variant of the alpha6 integrin called alpha6p. This variant was produced on the cell surface and was missing the beta-barrel extracellular domain.

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During human prostate cancer progression, the majority of normally expressed integrins are suppressed with the exception of the alpha6, alpha3, and beta1 integrins. We have shown that in prostate cancer, the alpha6 integrin is found paired with the beta1 integrin and that a novel form of the alpha6 integrin that lacks a large portion of the extracellular domain (alpha6p) exists. The alpha6pbeta1 integrin is found in human prostate cancer tissue specimens as well as tissue culture cell lines and is formed on the cell surface.

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We recently generated an HT-1080-derived cell line called HT-AR1 that responds to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) treatment by undergoing cell growth arrest in association with cytoskeletal reorganization and induction of neuroendocrine-like cell differentiation. In this report, we show that DHT induces a dose-dependent increase in G0/G1 growth-arrested cells using physiological levels of hormone. The arrested cells increase in cell size and contain a dramatic redistribution of desmoplakin, keratin 5, and chromogranin A proteins.

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We have developed a cell model to investigate steroid control of differentiation using a subline of HT1080 cells (HT-AR1) that have been engineered to express the human androgen receptor. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) treatment of HT-AR1 cells induced growth arrest and cytoskeletal reorganization that was associated with the expression of fibronectin and the neuroendocrine markers chromogranin A and neuron-specific enolase. Expression profiling analysis identified the human FERM domain-encoding gene EHM2 as uniquely induced in HT-AR1 cells as compared to 16 other FERM domain containing genes.

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