Artigo Acesso aberto

pRb controls Estrogen Receptor alpha protein stability and activity

2013; Impact Journals LLC; Volume: 4; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.18632/oncotarget.1036

ISSN

1949-2553

Autores

Isabella Caligiuri, Giuseppe Toffoli, Antonio Giordano, Flavio Rizzolio,

Tópico(s)

Heat shock proteins research

Resumo

// Isabella Caligiuri 1,2,3 , Giuseppe Toffoli 3 , Antonio Giordano 1,2 , and Flavio Rizzolio 1,3 1 Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena Italy 3 Division of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Biology and Translational Research, National Cancer Institute and Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Aviano (PN) Correspondence: Antonio Giordano , email: // Flavio Rizzolio, email: // Keywords : pRb, Estrogen receptor alpha, proteasome, chaperone proteins, breast cancer Received : May 15, 2013, Accepted : May 31, 2013, Published : June 3, 2013 Abstract A cross talk between the Estrogen Receptor (ESR1) and the Retinoblastoma (pRb) pathway has been demonstrated to influence the therapeutic response of breast cancer patients but the full mechanism remains poorly understood. Here we show that the N-terminal domain of pRb interacts with the CD domain of ESR1 to allow for the assembly of intermediate complex chaperone proteins HSP90 and p23. We demonstrated that a loss of pRb in human/mouse breast cells decreases the expression of the ESR1 protein through the proteasome pathway. Our work reveals a novel regulatory mechanism of ESR1 basal turnover and activity and an unanticipated relationship with the pRb tumor suppressor.

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