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J Biol Chem, Vol. 274, Issue 42, 29779-29785, October 15, 1999
From The Burnham Institute, Cancer Research Center, La Jolla,
California 92037 and the Phorbol ester
12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and
all-trans-retinoic acid (trans-RA) are potent
regulators of growth of cancer cells. In this study, we investigated
the effect of TPA and trans-RA alone or their combination
on proliferation of human breast cancer ZR75-1 and T47D and lung cancer
H460 and H292 cell lines. trans-RA caused various degrees
of growth inhibition of these cell lines. However, TPA showed
inhibition of proliferation of H460 and H292 cells and induction of
ZR75-1 cell growth. Although trans-RA did not significantly
regulate the growth inhibitory effect of TPA, it completely prevented
its growth stimulating function. The divergent effects of TPA were
associated with specific disruption of cell cycle events, an induction
of G0/G1 arrest in H460 and H292 cells and
inhibition of G0/G1 arrest with increase of S
phase in ZR75-1 cells. Induction of G0/G1
arrest was accompanied by induction of p21WAF1 and ERK
activity, whereas inhibition of G0/G1 arrest
was associated with enhanced activity of JNK and AP-1 but not ERK.
trans-RA did not affect TPA-induced p21WAF1
expression. However, it inhibited TPA-induced AP-1 activity in ZR75-1
cells and the constitutive AP-1 activity in H460 and H292 cells. Thus,
trans-RA modulates TPA activity through its interaction through TPA-induced JNK/AP-1 pathway but not TPA-induced
ERK/p21WAF1 pathway.
Phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate
(TPA)1 is a potent regulator
of growth of many different cell types (1). It activates protein kinase
C, which plays a key role in the control of many signal transduction
pathways involved in different cellular functions, such as growth,
differentiation, and cell transformation (2-4). Protein kinase C
overexpression is associated with increased tumorigenicity and
metastatic potential in several experimental models (5), and its
activity is increased in tumors of breast and lung as compared with
their normal counterparts (6). Activation of protein kinase C by TPA
can lead to growth stimulation and cellular transformation (5-7) and
is in part due to induction of AP-1, a collection of sequence-specific
transcriptional activators composed of members of the c-Jun and c-Fos
families, which are often associated with proliferation of cancer cells
(8). TPA could also induce growth arrest and differentiation in certain leukemia cells and cancer cells, which is accompanied by induction of
p21WAF1 (9-11). Recent studies have demonstrated that
induction of p21WAF1 depends on Raf/ERK signaling and involves
transcriptional activation of the p21WAF1 promoter in a
p53-independent manner (12). P21WAF1 is believed to inhibit
cell cycle progression through its interaction with
cyclin-dependent kinase complexes, which are required for various cell cycle transitions (13, 14). Thus, TPA can either stimulate
or inhibit cell proliferation, depending on cell type.
All-trans-retinoic acid (trans-RA) and its
natural and synthetic derivatives (retinoids) regulate a broad range of
biological processes, including growth, differentiation, and
development in both normal and neoplastic cells (15, 16). The effect of retinoids are mainly mediated by two classes of nuclear receptors, the
RA receptors and retinoids X receptors, that are encoded by three
distinct genes, ( In addition to transactivation function, retinoid receptors exert
potent trans-repression function, which also plays an
important role in mediating the diverse function of retinoids. Retinoid receptors, in response to their ligands, can inhibit the effect of TPA
by repressing the transcriptional activity of AP-1 (20). The mechanism
by which ligand-activated retinoid receptors repress AP-1 activity
remains largely unknown, although a direct protein-protein interaction
between retinoid receptors and AP-1 (20) and a competition for a common
coactivator (21) have been proposed. Nevertheless, the interaction
between membrane and retinoid receptor signaling pathways may represent
an important mechanism by which retinoids exert their potent
anti-neoplastic effect.
To further understand the growth regulatory effect of TPA and its
interaction with retinoid signaling, we evaluated the interaction of
TPA and trans-RA on growth of several human lung cancer and breast cancer cell lines and the underlying molecular mechanisms. Our
results demonstrated that TPA exhibited different effects on growth of
these cancer cell lines. TPA induced growth arrest of lung cancer cell
lines H460 and H292 through either induction of p21WAF1
expression and ERK activity and/or inhibition of Cdk2 expression. In
contrast, TPA enhanced proliferation of ZR75-1 breast cancer cells
through induction of JNK and AP-1 activity. When the effect of
trans-RA on TPA activity was studied, we observed that it
could additively increase the growth inhibitory effect of TPA in lung cancer cells, mainly due to its repression of constitutive AP-1 activity in the cells rather than its modulation of TPA-induced P21WAF1 expression and ERK activity. In contrast,
trans-RA abolished the growth-stimulatory effect of TPA by
repressing TPA-induced AP-1 activity in a JNK-independent mechanism in
breast cancer cells. These results demonstrate that two potent growth
regulators, TPA and trans-RA, play a critical role in
regulating cancer cell growth and that trans-RA modulates
TPA activity through its interaction with TPA-induced JNK/AP1 pathway
but not TPA-induced ERK/p21WAF1 pathway.
Cell Culture--
The non-small cell lung cancer cell lines H460
and H292 and breast cancer cell lines ZR75-1 and T47D were obtained
from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). They were grown in RPMI
1460 medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS).
Growth Inhibition Assay--
Cells were seeded at a density of
1,000 cells per well in 96-well plates. One day later, the desired
volume of TPA was added to the cells to achieve a final concentration
of 0.001-10 nM. The effect of 10 Flow Cytometry Analysis--
Cells were trypsinized and
collected by centrifugation at 2,000 rpm for 5 min. The cell pellets
were then resuspended in 1 ml PBS and fixed in 70% ice-cold ethanol
and kept in a freezer overnight. Fixed cells were centrifuged, washed
once in PBS, and then resuspended in 100 µl of phosphate-citrate
buffer (192 parts of 0.2 M Na2HPO4
and 8 parts of 0.1 M citric acid, pH 7.8) for 30 min at
room temperature to wash out any degraded DNA from apoptotic cells. The
cells were then collected by centrifugation at 2,000 rpm, and the cell
pellets were washed twice with PBS and resuspended in PBS containing 50 µg/ml propidium iodide (Sigma) and 100 µg/ml DNase-free RNase A
(Roche Molecular Biochemicals). The cell suspension, protected against
light, was incubated for 30 min at 37 °C and then analyzed using the
FACScater-plus Flow cytometer.
RNA Preparation and Northern Blot Analysis--
For Northern
blot analysis, total RNAs were prepared by the guanidine
hydrochloride/ultracentrifugation method (22). About 30 µg total of
RNAs from different cell lines were fractionated on 1% agarose gels,
transferred to nylon filters, and probed with the
32P-labeled probe as described previously
(22).
Antibodies and Western Blot Analysis--
Cells were lysed in
150 mM NaCl, 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 5 mM EDTA, 1% Triton X-100, and protease inhibitors.
Aliquots containing 50 µg of proteins were resolved on 12% by
SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, followed by electrotransfer to
nitrocellulose membrane. Immunodetection was carried out using
anti-p21WAF1 (Santa Cruz), anti-p53 (Oncogene Inc.), and
anti-Cdk2 (Santa Cruz) antibodies in TBST (50 mM Tris-HCl,
pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 0.1% Tween 20), followed by
horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (Amersham
Pharmacia Biotech). Detection was performed with an enhanced
chemilumienescence detection kit (ECL, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech).
Anti- Protein Kinase Assays--
Cells were seeded in six-well plates
2 days prior the analysis to provide ~80% confluent preparations.
After treatment with different agents, cells were washed twice with
ice-cold PBS solution and suspended in lysis buffer (25 mM
HEPES, pH 7.7, 0.3 M NaCl, 1.5 mM
MgCl2, 0.1% Triton X-100, 100 µg/ml phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 1 mM EDTA, 2 µg/ml leupeptin, 2 µg/ml
aprotinin, 20 mM Transient Transfection Assays--
Cells were seeded in six-well
culture plates at 5 × 105 cells/well. A modified
calcium phosphate precipitation procedure was used for transient
transfection as described elsewhere (24). Briefly, 250 ng of reporter
plasmid ( Effect of TPA and trans-RA on the Growth of Lung and Breast Cancer
Cells--
We investigated the growth inhibitory effect of TPA and
trans-RA on a number of human cancer cell lines, including
lung cancer cell lines H460 and H292 and breast cancer cell lines
ZR75-1 and T47D. As shown in Fig. 1, TPA
inhibited the growth of both lung cancer cell lines by 80% at 1 or 10 nM. TPA, however, did not exhibit any inhibitory effect on
growth of ZR75-1 and T47D breast cancer cells over a broad range of
concentrations from 0.001 to 10 nM. Interestingly, TPA at
10 nM, enhanced the growth of ZR75-1 cells but not T47D
cells. These data demonstrate that the effect of TPA on the growth of
cancer cells is cell type-dependent, consistent with
previous observations (27-30). In contrast to TPA, trans-RA showed growth inhibition on all cell lines investigated. In lung cancer
cells H460 and H292, the percentage of inhibition was about 40 and
20%, respectively, whereas in breast cancer cells ZR75-1 and T47D
trans-RA showed 60 and 50% inhibition, respectively (Fig. 1). When trans-RA was used in combination with TPA, an
additive growth inhibitory effect was observed in H460 and H292 cells
when low concentrations of TPA (0.01 nM and 0.1 nM) were used. Interestingly, the growth stimulatory effect
of TPA on ZR75-1 cells was completely abolished by trans-RA
(Fig. 1). Thus, trans-RA could enhance TPA-induced growth
inhibition, but antagonizes TPA-induced cell proliferation.
Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression by TPA and trans-RA--
To
determine how TPA regulates growth of H460, H292, ZR75-1, and T47D
cells, we investigated their cell cycle progression in response to TPA.
The DNA content analysis showed that H460 and H292 cells underwent a
stable G0/G1 arrest following 15 h of TPA
treatment (Fig. 2, A and
B). The entry of these cells into S phase was suppressed,
while G0/G1 population was increased from 52 to
75%, and from 51% to 72%, respectively (Fig. 2, A and
B, Table I). This data
suggests that the growth inhibitory effect of TPA on these lung cancer
cells is mainly due to its effect on cell cycle progression. When
ZR75-1 and T47D breast cancer cells were analyzed, we observed a
decrease in G0/G1 cell population (Fig. 2,
A and B). This decrease was more apparent in
ZR75-1 cells, with a percentage of cells in the
G0/G1 phase decreasing from 75 to 43% when
they were treated with 10 nM TPA for 15 h (Fig. 2,
A and B, Table I). At the same time an increase
in S phase cell population of 37 and 16% was observed in ZR75-1 and
T47D cells, respectively. When the effect of trans-RA on
cell cycle progression was analyzed, trans-RA alone did not
show significant changes of G0/G1 arrest of
H460, H292, and ZR75-1 cells, except a slight increase (5%) observed
in T47D cells (Table I). When trans-RA was used together
with TPA, it slightly increased TPA-induced G0/G1 in H460 and H292 cells (Table I).
However, the inhibitory effect of TPA on G0/G1
phase in ZR75-1 and T47D cells was largely blocked by
trans-RA (Table I). In ZR75-1 cells, in the absence of
trans-RA, TPA decreased G0/G1 phase
from 75 to 43%, which was reverted to 55% when trans-RA
was present. The effect of TPA on G0/G1 phase
in T47D cells was completely abolished by trans-RA. These
data demonstrate that trans-RA could inhibit the effect of
TPA on cell cycle progression of ZR75-1 and T47D cells.
Effect of TPA on Gene Expression--
To obtain insight into the
molecular mechanism by which TPA regulates cell cycle progression of
cancer cells, we examined the effect of TPA on p21WAF1, p53 and
Cdk2 gene expression. When expression of p21WAF1, an inhibitor
of cyclin-dependent kinases (31, 32), was determined by
Northern blot analysis, we observed that it was rapidly and strongly
induced by TPA in H460, H292, ZR75-1, and T47D cells (Fig.
3, A and B).
Interestingly, when expression of p21WAF1 was analyzed by
Western blotting, we found that it was only strongly induced in H292
and H460 cells (Fig. 4A). Slight
induction of p21WAF1 was observed in T47D cells, whereas ZR75-1
cells did not show any expression of p21WAF1 either in the
absence or in the presence of TPA (Fig. 4B). This observation suggests that p21WAF1 expression is also regulated
by a post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism. A 12-h treatment
increased p21WAF1 expression by about 8-fold in H460 cells and
12-fold in H292 cells (Fig. 4A). There was no evidence for
p53 induction by TPA in these cell lines (Fig. 4A). The fact
that p21WAF1 was induced in H460 and H292 cells, in which p53
was not expressed or induced indicates that TPA-induced p21WAF1
is p53-independent. We also examined the effect of TPA on expression of
Cdk2 gene, which is also known to play a critical role in
G0/G1 progression (13). The Cdk2 gene was
highly expressed in all cell lines investigated (Fig. 4, A
and B). However, TPA treatment for 12 h strongly
inhibited expression of Cdk2 in H460 cells (Fig. 4A), while
it had no effect in H292, ZR75-1, and T47D cells (Fig. 4, A
and B). These data suggest that induction of
G0/G1 arrest by TPA in H292 cells is likely due
to its effect on p21WAF1, whereas induction of p21WAF1
and/or inhibition of Cdk2 expression may be responsible for TPA-induced G0/G1 arrest in H460 cells.
Effect of TPA on c-Jun and c-Fos Gene Expression--
AP-1 is
known to be associated with cell proliferation and it can be induced by
TPA (1, 8). We then determined whether induction of AP-1 could account
for enhancement of cell proliferation by TPA in ZR75-1 cells. As shown
in Fig. 3B, expression of both c-Jun and c-Fos was strongly
induced in ZR75-1 cells. Induction of c-Jun and c-Fos occurred as early
as 30 min after TPA treatment. c-Jun was expressed in both H460 and
H292 cells. However, its level of expression was not affected by TPA
treatment. Expression of c-Fos in H460 and H292 cells was not
influenced by TPA either (Fig. 3A). These data, therefore,
suggest that induction of c-Jun and c-Fos may contribute to TPA-induced
cell proliferation in ZR75-1 cells.
Induction of ERK by TPA Is Mainly Responsible for
p21WAF1 Induction--
To study how TPA regulates
p21WAF1 expression and whether trans-RA modulates
TPA activities in lung and breast cancer cell lines, we evaluated ERK
activity that is known to regulate expression of p21WAF1 (12).
We examined the phosphorylation of MBP after immunoprecipitation of the
whole cell extracts with anti-ERK2 antibody to determine ERK activity.
As shown in Fig. 5, treatment of H460
cells with TPA for 30 min strongly induced ERK activity, while
treatment with trans-RA did not show a clear effect on this
activity. When trans-RA and TPA were used together
TPA-induced ERK activity was not affected (Fig. 5). In ZR75-1 cells,
ERK activity was slightly induced by TPA. Again, trans-RA
did not show any effect on TPA-induced ERK activity in these cells. To
determine whether induction of ERK activity by TPA is responsible for
p21WAF1 induction, we examined the effect of PD98059, a
specific inhibitor of Raf/ERK pathway, on p21WAF1 expression in
H460 and ZR75-1 cells (Fig. 6). PD98059
alone (50 µM) did not show any effect on the expression
of p21WAF1. However, when PD98059 was used together with 10 nM TPA, induction of p21WAF1 by TPA was completely
inhibited in both cell lines (Fig. 6). This suggests that induction of
ERK is mainly responsible for p21WAF1 induction. Treatment of
H460 cells with trans-RA for 24 h did not show a clear
effect on p21WAF1 expression, consistent with the observation
that trans-RA could not affect TPA-induced ERK activity.
Thus, trans-RA has no effect on TPA-induced
ERK/p21WAF1 pathway.
Induction of c-Jun and JNK by TPA Modulates Its Effect on the
Growth of Cancer Cells--
The above data demonstrate that TPA was
able to induce c-Jun and c-Fos expression in ZR75-1 cells (Fig.
3B), suggesting that signaling that leads to AP-1 induction
is functional in these cells. Transcriptional regulation of c-Jun
expression is mainly mediated by a TPA-response element in its
promoter, which binds to c-Jun/ATF-2 heterodimer (33). ATF-2 and c-Jun
are activated mainly by JNK. The fact that c-Jun expression was rapidly
induced by TPA in ZR75-1 cells (Fig. 3B) suggests that TPA
may induce JNK in this cell line. To investigate this possibility, we
analyzed JNK activation in H460 and ZR75-1 cells. JNK activity was
determined by examination of the phosphorylation of GST-c-Jun in whole
cell extracts prepared from H460 and ZR75-1 cells treated with
different agents. As shown in Fig. 7,
treatment of ZR75-1 cells with 10 nM TPA for 30 min
strongly induced JNK activity in these cells. However, the same
treatment failed to activate JNK in H460 cells. As a control, UV
stimulation exhibited a strong activation of JNK in both cell lines.
These data suggest that induction of c-Jun by TPA in ZR75-1 cells is
likely due to activation of JNK. trans-RA has been shown to
inhibit JNK activity in various cell types (34). To study whether
inhibition of TPA-induced cell proliferation in ZR75-1 cells by
trans-RA was due to inhibition of JNK activity, we cotreated
cells with TPA and trans-RA. Trans-RA alone did
not show any effect on JNK activity in ZR75-1 cells (Fig. 7). It also failed to inhibit TPA-induced JNK activity. Thus, it is unlikely that
trans-RA antagonizes TPA effect by inhibiting TPA-induced JNK activity in ZR75-1 cells.
Inihibtion of AP-1 Activity by trans-RA--
trans-RA
can antagonize TPA effect through inhibition of AP-1 activity (20). We
then investigated the effect of trans-RA on transactivation
of collagenase promoter which contains an AP-1 binding site (25, 26).
When reporter construct containing the collagenase promoter linked with
the CAT gene, In this study, we investigated the effect of two potent growth
regulators, TPA and trans-RA, on the growth of lung (H460, H292) and breast (ZR75-1, T47D) cancer cell lines and their
interaction. Our results demonstrate that TPA exerts either inhibition
or stimulation of cancer cell proliferation, whereas
trans-RA shows various degrees of growth inhibition in all
cell lines investigated (Fig. 1). When trans-RA was used
together with TPA an additive growth inhibitory effect was observed in
H460 and H292 cells, whereas it completely abolished the
growth-stimulatory effect of TPA on ZR75-1 breast cancer cells. We also
show that induction of G0/G1 arrest by TPA in
H460 and H292 cells is accompanied by induction of p21WAF1 due
to activation of ERK pathway (Fig. 5) and/or inhibition of Cdk2 gene
expression, whereas stimulation of cell proliferation in ZR75-1 cells
by TPA is associated with induction of c-Jun and c-Fos expression and
JNK activation (Fig. 3B, Fig. 7). Although trans-RA did not interfere with TPA-induced p21WAF1
expression and ERK activity, it strongly inhibited TPA-induced AP-1
activity without affecting TPA-induced JNK activity (Figs. 6, 7, and
8).
The growth inhibitory effect of TPA on H460 and H292 cells is mainly
due to arrest of these cells in G0/G1 phase
(Fig. 2, A and B, Table I), due to induction of
p21WAF1 expression in H292 cells and/or inhibition of Cdk2
expression in H460 cells (Figs. 3 and 4). P21WAF1 can interact
with cyclin-Cdk complexes and is capable of inhibiting kinase
activities associated with these complexes (31, 32). A major target of
p21WAF1 inhibition is the cyclin-Cdk2 kinase complex whose
activity is required for G0/G1 progression into
S phase (13, 14). TPA has been shown to induce p21WAF1 in a
variety of cell types (35, 36). Inhibition of Cdk2 expression by TPA
has also been observed during the differentiation of HL60 leukemia
cells (37). Thus, the increase of p21WAF1 in H292 cells and/or
the decrease of Cdk2 expression in H460 cells upon TPA treatment may be
sufficient to inhibit kinase activity required for
G0/G1 progression into S phase. These results,
taken together with previous findings (35-37), suggest that induction of p21WAF1 and/or inhibition of Cdk2 expression may play a
causative role in TPA-induced growth arrest. Interestingly,
p21WAF1 messenger was also highly induced by TPA in ZR75-1
cells (Fig. 3B). However, we did not detect any
p21WAF1 protein product (Fig. 4B). A previous study
(38) demonstrated that expression of p21WAF1 often involves a
post-transcriptional mechanism. The inability of ZR75-1 cells to
express p21WAF1 protein product suggests that p21WAF1
transcript may be unstable in these cells. Although p21WAF1 was
also induced in T47D cells (Figs. 3 and 4), the degree of induction is
much less than those observed in H460 and H292 cells, and may not be
enough to confer a G0/G1 arrest by TPA in the
cells (Fig. 2 and Table I). Induction of p21WAF1 by DNA damage
requires p53 (39). However, under many experimental conditions
p21WAF1 can be induced through p53-independent pathways
(35-37). Our observation that p21WAF1 was induced by TPA in
H460 and H292 cells without affecting p53 expression (Figs.
3A and 4A) suggests that TPA induced
p21WAF1 expression is p53-independent. In studying possible
signaling pathway leading to p21WAF1 induction in H460 cells,
we found that TPA strongly activated ERK kinase activity, while it had
no effect on JNK activity (Figs. 5 and 7). Our observation that
PD98059, a specific inhibitor of Raf/ERK pathway, abolished
p21WAF1 induction by TPA (Fig. 6) suggests that ERK pathway is
responsible for TPA-induced p21WAF1 in both H460 and ZR75-1
cells. A similar study also showed that induction of p21WAF1 by
TPA in SKBR3 breast cancer and LNCaP prostate cancer cells is
attributed to stimulation of Raf-1/MEK pathway (40).
Our results also demonstrate that TPA can stimulate proliferation of
ZR75-1 breast cancer cells (Fig. 1). Although TPA acts as a potent
inducer of growth arrest of many cancer cell types, the mitogenic
effect of TPA has been also described (5, 7). TPA inhibited the growth
of malignant melanoma cells, while the growth of normal melanocytes was
stimulated (41). Similarly, two NIH3T3 clones, N3T3 and P-3T3, showed
opposite response to TPA (42); TPA inhibited the growth of N-3T3 cells,
while it stimulated the growth of P-3T3 cells. Our present study
further demonstrates the diverse functions of TPA, which is likely
determined by the cell context, which in turn dictates the biological
outcome of TPA. The molecular mechanism by which TPA induces growth
arrest is well studied. However, how TPA stimulates cell proliferation is less understood. When we investigated the effect of TPA in ZR75-1
cells, we found that it strongly induced expression of c-Jun and c-Fos
(Fig. 3B). Such an effect was not seen in H460 cells (Fig.
3A). C-jun and c-Fos, the components of AP-1, act as
transcriptional factors for numerous genes, and overexpression of these
genes is often associated with cell proliferation and malignant
transformation (8). Thus, induction of AP-1 activity by TPA may
contribute to its growth stimulatory effect in ZR75-1 cells. Our
results also demonstrate that induction of c-Jun and c-Fos expression
by TPA is likely due to activation of JNK, which is known to activate
c-Jun promoter through phosphorylation of c-Jun and ATF2 that bind to a
TPA-response element in the c-Jun promoter as heterodimer (33).
Interestingly, activation of JNK was not observed in H460 cells (Fig.
7), which could explain the inability of TPA to induce c-Jun expression
in these cells. Taken together, our results demonstrate that the
pleiotropic effects of TPA are mediated by multiple signaling pathways
whose operation is largely determined by the cellular context.
Previous studies have demonstrated that trans-RA could
effectively counteract TPA effects (20, 25, 26, 43).
trans-RA could prevent transformation of JB6 mouse epidermal
cells promoted by TPA (43) and counteract the effect of TPA on
expression of fibronectin gene in fibroblasts (44), transglutaminase 1 gene in keratinocytes (45), as well as collagenase (46), stromelysin (47), and ornithine decarboxylase (48). In this study, we found that
trans-RA exerted different effects on TPA activities in
different cell lines. In H460 and H292 cells, pretreatment of the cells
with trans-RA increased the growth inhibitory effect of TPA.
An additive effect was observed when 1 nM or less TPA was
used. In contrast, trans-RA antagonized the growth
stimulatory effect of TPA on ZR75-1 cells. In the absence of
trans-RA, TPA enhanced proliferation of ZR75-1 cells, which
was almost completely abolished when trans-RA was added
(Fig. 1). Although p21WAF1 promoter contains a RA response
element (49) we did not observe any effect of trans-RA on
p21WAF1 expression (Fig. 6). This suggests that the growth
inhibitory effect of trans-RA is unlikely due to induction
of p21WAF1. In studying the antagonism effect of
trans-RA on TPA activity in ZR75-1 cells, we found that
trans-RA could effectively inhibit TPA-induced AP-1 activity
(Fig. 8A). TPA could induce endogenous AP-1 activity as
demonstrated by our observation that TPA strongly induced collagenase
promoter activity in ZR75-1 cells (Fig. 8A). The TPA-induced
AP-1 activity in ZR75-1 cells was largely inhibited by
trans-RA. This is consistent with previous observations
showing that trans-RA could antagonize AP-1 activity in HeLa
cells (25) and suggests that trans-RA may antagonize the
growth-stimulatory effect of TPA in ZR75-1 cells through repression of
TPA-induced AP-1 activity. Interestingly, trans-RA could
also inhibit the constitutive AP-1 activity in H292 cells (Fig.
8B), suggesting that the growth inhibitory effect of
trans-RA in these cells may be in part due to inhibition of
AP-1 activity which may contribute to the additive growth inhibitory
effect of TPA and trans-RA combinatory treatment observed in
these cells (Fig. 1). A previous study demonstrated that
trans-RA inhibited JNK activity in HeLa cells (34). However, we did not detect any effect of trans-RA on TPA-induced JNK
activity in ZR75-1 cells (Fig. 7). Thus a mechanism other than
inhibition of JNK activity may be responsible for inhibition of AP-1
activity by trans-RA.
Together, our results demonstrate that TPA could exert mitogenic or
anti-mitogenic effect through different signaling transduction pathways
in a cell type specific manner. trans-RA may enhance anti-mitogenic effect of TPA and antagonize its mitogenic effect through inhibition of AP-1 activity. These two potent regulators of
cell growth, through their interaction, are expected to play a critical
role in the regulation of cancer cell growth.
We thank Paula Kovack for preparation of the manuscript.
*
This work is supported in part by National Institutes of
Health Grants CA51933 and CA60988, Tobacco-related Disease Research Program of California 6RT-0168, California Breast Cancer Research Program 3PB-0018, and United States Army Medical Research Program Grant
DAMD17-4440.The costs of publication of this
article were defrayed in part by the
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To whom correspondence should be addressed: The Burnham
Institute, Cancer Research Center, 10901 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La
Jolla, CA 92037. Tel.: 619-646-3141; Fax: 619-646-3195;
E-mail: xzhang@burnham-inst.org.
The abbreviations used are:
TPA, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate;
ERK, extracellular
signal-regulated kinase;
trans-RA, all-trans-retinoic acid;
FCS, fetal calf serum;
PBS, phosphate-buffered saline;
GST, glutathione S-transferase;
JNK, c-Jun N-terminal kinase.
Differential Effect of Retinoic Acid on Growth Regulation by
Phorbol Ester in Human Cancer Cell Lines*
,
, and
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San
Diego, California 92121
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6
M trans-RA was analyzed alone or in combination
with various TPA concentrations. The control cells received vehicle
(ethanol). Media and retinoids were changed every 48 h. Viable
cell number was determined by the
3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay as
described previously (22).
-tubulin antibody (Sigma) was used as a control for protein loading.
-glycerophosphate, 0.1 mM
Na3VO4). The Jun kinase assay was performed
according to the method described previously (23). Briefly, 50 µg of
whole cell lysate were mixed with 10 µg of glutathione S-transferase-c-Jun (1-223) (GST-c-Jun) and rotated for
3 h at 4 °C. GST-c-Jun proteins were purified from
Escherichia coli and bound to agarose beads (Sigma). The
beads were then washed twice and incubated with 20 µl of kinase
reaction buffer (20 mM HEPES, pH 7.7, 20 mM
MgCl2, 20 mM
-glycerophosphate, 20 mM p-nitrophenyl phosphate, 0.1 mM
Na3VO4, 2 mM ditiothreitol, 20 µM ATP, and 5 µCi of [
-32P]ATP) for 20 min at 30 °C. For ERK assay, 50 µg of whole cell extract was
immunoprecipitated with anti-ERK2 antibody, which exhibit
cross-reactivity with ERK1 (Santa Cruz) for 2 h at 4 °C. Immunoprecipitates were then washed and incubated with 20 µl of kinase reaction buffer containing 1 µg/reaction of myelin basic protein (MBP, Sigma) as substrate. Reactions were stopped by adding 15 µl of SDS-loading buffer containing 10%
-mercaptoethanol. Phosphorylated GST-c-Jun and MBP proteins were eluted by boiling the
samples for 5 min, and resolved on 10% and 15% SDS-polyacrylamide gel
electrophoresis, respectively.
73Col-CAT) (25, 26) and 250 ng of
-galactosidase
expression vector (pCH 110, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) were mixed with
carrier DNA (pBluescript) to 2.5 µg total of DNA/well. The day after
transfection (18 h), cells were incubated in a medium containing 0.5%
charcoal-treated FCS with trans-RA at the indicated
concentrations and/or TPA (100 ng/ml) for an additional 24 h.
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Fig. 1.
Growth inhibition by TPA and
trans-RA in human lung cancer and breast cancer cell
lines. H460 and H292 lung cancer cells and ZR75-1 and T47D breast
cancer cells were seeded at a cell density of 1,000 cells/well in
96-well plates. Cells were treated with 10
6 M
trans-RA in the presence or absence of the indicated
concentrations of TPA for 7 days, and viable cell number was determined
by the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium
bromide.

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Fig. 2.
Effect of TPA on cell cycle progression.
A, effect of TPA concentrations on cell cycle progression of
lung (H460, H292) and breast (ZR75-1, T47D) cancer cell lines. Cells
were treated with the indicated concentrations of TPA for 15 h,
stained with propidium iodide, and analyzed by flow cytometry. B, DNA
content analysis by flow cytometry. Cells were treated with 10 nM TPA for 15 h, stained with propidium iodide, and
analyzed by flow cytometry. The DNA content is presented as relative
fluorescence. Cells in G0/G1 phase represent
the first peak, and cells in the G2/M phase represent the
second peak. Cells in S phase are in the area between the
G0/G1 and G2/M phase peaks.
Quantitation of cell cycle distribution is presented in Table I.
Effect of TPA and RA on cell cycle distribution of human cancer cell
lines

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Fig. 3.
Regulation of c-Jun, c-Fos, and
p21WAF1 expression by TPA. A, lung cancer cell
lines. B, breast cancer cell lines. Cells were treated with
10 nM TPA at the indicated times, and total RNAs were
prepared and analyzed for the expression of the indicated genes by
Northern blotting. Expression of
-actin is shown to ensure that
equal amounts of RNAs were used, not treated with TPA.

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Fig. 4.
Analysis of TPA effect on p21WAF1,
p53, and Cdk2 expression by Western blot. A, lung
cancer cells. B, breast cancer cells. Cell extracts were
prepared from the indicated cell lines treated with 10 nM
TPA at the indicated times and analyzed for the expression of
p21WAF1, p53, and Cdk2. Expression of
-tubulin gene is shown
as a control for protein loading.
, not treated with TPA.

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Fig. 5.
Effect of TPA and trans-RA
on ERK activity. ERK activity was determined in H460 lung and
ZR75-1 breast cancer cells. Cells maintained in 0.5% FCS were treated
for 30 min with TPA (10 nM) or UV (100 J/m2).
trans-RA was used at 10
6 M. When
trans-RA was used in combination with TPA, cells were first
incubated for 24 h with trans-RA before TPA addition.
Whole cell extracts were prepared as described under "Experimental
Procedures." Kinase activity was measured via the phosphorylation of
the MBP protein. Control, untreated cells.

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Fig. 6.
PD98059 inhibits TPA-induced
p21WAF1. Cells maintained in 0.5% FCS were first treated
with 10
6 M trans-RA for 24 h.
One day later PD98059 (PD) (50 µM) was added,
and the cells were incubated for 4 h before addition of TPA (10 nM). Cells were then incubated for an additional 15 h.
Total RNAs were prepared from H460 and ZR75-1 cells and analyzed for
the expression of p21WAF1 by Northern blot. Expression of
-actin is shown to ensure that equal amounts of RNAs were used.
Control, untreated cells.

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Fig. 7.
Effect of TPA and trans-RA
on JNK activity. JNK activity was determined in H460 and ZR75-1
breast cancer cells. Cells were treated as described in the legend to
Fig. 5. Kinase activity was measured via the phosphorylation of
GST-c-Jun protein.
73Col-CAT, was transiently transfected into ZR75-1
cells, treatment of the cells with TPA strongly induced the reporter
transcription (Fig. 8A). In
contrast, the
73-Col-CAT reporter was highly active in H292 cells,
and addition of TPA did not significantly induce transcription of the
reporter gene (Fig. 8B). This suggests that TPA could
strongly induce AP-1 activity in ZR75-1 cells but not in H292 cells,
consistent with regulation of c-Jun and c-Fos expression by TPA (Fig.
3, A and B). In ZR75-1 and cells,
trans-RA alone did not show any effect on transcription of
the collagenase promoter (data not shown). However, when it was used
together with TPA, TPA-induced reporter gene transcription was impaired
in a trans-RA concentration dependent manner (Fig.
8A). trans-RA, at 10
6
M, almost completely abolished TPA-induced reporter
activity. Thus trans-RA could repress TPA-induced AP-1
activity, which may contribute to its inhibitory effect on the
growth-stimulatory activity of TPA in ZR75-1 cells. However, in H292
cells, trans-RA significantly repressed the basal reporter
activity. A similar degree of inhibition was also observed in the
presence of TPA (Fig. 8B). This suggests that inhibition of
the constitutive AP-1 activity by trans-RA may be the
mechanism by which trans-RA inhibits proliferation of H460
and H292 cells and may explain the additive growth inhibitory effect by
trans-RA and TPA combination on these cells.

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Fig. 8.
Inhibition of AP-1 activity by
trans-RA. A, inhibition of TPA-induced
AP-1 activity by trans-RA in ZR75-1 breast cancer cells.
B, inhibition of AP-1 activity by trans-RA in
H292 lung cancer cells. The
73Col-CAT reporter was transfected into
the cells. After transfection, cells were incubated in medium
containing 0.5% FCS and treated with the indicated concentrations of
trans-RA and/or TPA (100 ng/ml). 24 h later, the cells
were harvested, and CAT activities were determined.
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