Regulation by p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase of adenylate- and uridylate-rich element-mediated urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) messenger RNA stability and uPA-dependent in vitro cell invasion - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Regulation by p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase of adenylate- and uridylate-rich element-mediated urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) messenger RNA stability and uPA-dependent in vitro cell invasion

L Montero et al. Cancer Res. 1999.

Abstract

MDA-MB-231 cells are highly metastatic breast tumor cells. Their high invasiveness is thought to be due to constitutively high levels of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and its receptor. Previously (R. Nanbu et al., C. Eur. J. Biochem., 247: 169-174, 1997), we showed that uPA mRNA in these cells is stable and that mRNA degradation mediated by an AU-rich element (ARE) is impaired. Here we report that treatment of MDA-MB-231 cells with SB203580, an inhibitor of the stress-activated p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase, strongly destabilized uPA mRNA in an ARE-dependent manner. In contrast, in LLC-PK1 and HeLa cells, uPA mRNA is unstable, and an ARE present in the 3' untranslated region plays a role in its degradation. Enhanced ARE-mediated mRNA destabilization induced by SB203580 was also observed in both LLC-PK1 and HeLa cells with a globin chimeric mRNA harboring two copies of the ARE (globin-2ARE) from uPA mRNA. Overexpression of constitutively active MKK6, a p38 upstream activator kinase, increased the stability of the globin-2ARE message in LLC-PK1 cells, confirming the participation of p38 in the regulation of ARE-mediated mRNA decay. Interestingly, the half-life of the uPA mRNA in the three cell lines studied correlated with the basal levels of active p38. SB203580 treatment of MDA-MB-231 cells decreased cell-associated uPA activity and dramatically reduced in vitro cell invasiveness. These results suggest the participation of p38 in the control of invasiveness through regulation of the stability of uPA and uPA receptor mRNA, which is also destabilized by p38.

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Regulation by p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase of adenylate- and uridylate-rich element-mediated urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) messenger RNA stability and uPA-dependent in vitro cell invasion - PubMed (original) (raw)