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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M606532200 on October 10, 2006
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 49, 37728-37737, December 8, 2006
Autocrine and Juxtacrine Effects of Amphiregulin on the Proliferative, Invasive, and Migratory Properties of Normal and Neoplastic Human Mammary Epithelial Cells*
Nicole E. Willmarth and
Stephen P. Ethier 1
From the
Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and the Breast Cancer Program, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201
Amphiregulin (AR) autocrine loops have been associated with several types of cancer. We demonstrate that SUM149 breast cancer cells have a self-sustaining AR autocrine loop. SUM149 cells are epidermal growth factor (EGF)-independent for growth, and they overexpress AR mRNA, AR membrane precursor protein, and secreted AR relative to the EGF-dependent human mammary epithelial cell line MCF10A. MCF10A cells made to overexpress AR (MCF10A AR) are also EGF-independent for growth. Treatment with the pan-ErbB inhibitor CI1033 and the anti-EGF receptor (EGFR) antibody C225 demonstrated that ligand-mediated activation of EGFR is required for SUM149 cell proliferation. AR-neutralizing antibody significantly reduced both SUM149 EGFR activity and cell proliferation, confirming that an AR autocrine loop is required for mitogenesis in SUM149 cells. EGFR tyrosine phosphorylation was dramatically decreased in both SUM149 and MCF10A AR cells after inhibition of AR cleavage with the broad spectrum metalloprotease inhibitor GM6001, indicating that an AR autocrine loop is strictly dependent on AR cleavage in culture. However, a juxtacrine assay where fixed SUM149 cells and MCF10A AR cells were overlaid on top of EGF-deprived MCF10A cells showed that the AR membrane precursor can activate EGFR. SUM149 cells, MCF10A AR cells, and MCF10A cells growing in exogenous AR were all considerably more invasive and motile than MCF10A cells grown in EGF. Moreover, AR up-regulates a number of genes involved in cell motility and invasion in MCF10A cells, suggesting that an AR autocrine loop contributes to the aggressive breast cancer phenotype.
Received for publication, July 10, 2006
, and in revised form, September 7, 2006.
* This research was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01 CA100724 and R01 CA70354 and Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program Grant W81XWH-06-1-0405. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed: Karmanos Cancer Institute, 4100 John Rd., Detroit, MI 48201. Tel.: 313-576-8335; Fax: 313-576-8626; E-mail: ethier{at}karmanos.org.

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