Expression of AIE-75 PDZ-domain protein induces G2/M cell cycle arrest in human colorectal adenocarcinoma SW480 cells

Cancer Lett. 2004 Aug 10;211(2):209-18. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.02.005.

Abstract

AIE-75 has been known as a 75-kDa autoantigen detected in the serum of autoimmune enteropathy (AIE) and as a colon cancer-related antigen, and now designated as a gene causative of Usher syndrome type 1C hereditary syndromic hearing loss. It binds to a novel putative tumor suppressor MCC2 that is homologous to MCC (mutated in colon cancer) through a PSD-95/Dlg/ZO-1 (PDZ) domain. To clarify the functional role in colon cancer cells, we transfected AIE-75 gene into SW480 colon cancer cells which do not express AIE-75. Expression of AIE-75 suppressed growth of SW480 cells in vitro in correlation with the expression levels. It was due mainly to G2/M phase cell cycle arrest associated with mitotic slippage, resulting in emergence of hyperploid giant-nucleated or multi-nucleated cells. Screening of proteins that bound to PDZ domains of AIE-75 by a yeast two hybrid system showed that three serine/threonine phosphatase catalytic subunits (PP2AC-alpha, PP2AC-beta, and PPP6C) could bind to AIE-75. Since PP2AC is known to regulate G2/M checkpoint, we suggest that AIE-75 interacts with PP2AC and prevent cells to transit mitotic phase.

MeSH terms

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Adenocarcinoma / genetics*
  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology
  • Carrier Proteins / genetics*
  • Cell Cycle Proteins
  • Cell Cycle* / genetics
  • Cell Cycle* / physiology
  • Colonic Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Colonic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • Gene Expression Profiling*
  • Humans
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / pharmacology
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Transfection
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Cell Cycle Proteins
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • USH1C protein, human
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases