Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10755053 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2014 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Although ionizing radiation (IR) has provided considerable improvements in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), in subsets of patients, radioresistance is still a major problem in the treatment. In this study, we demonstrated that irradiation induced MET overexpression and activation, and the aberrant MET signal mediated by hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) induced radioresistance. We also found that MET inhibitor PHA-665752 effectively suppressed HGF induced cell proliferation and radioresistance in NPC cells. Further investigation indicated that PHA-665752 suppressed the phosphorylation of the Akt, ERK1/2, and STAT3 proteins in a dose-dependent manner. Our data indicated that the combination of IR with a MET inhibitor, such as PHA-665752, might be a promising therapeutic strategy for NPC.
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Authors
Tongxin Liu, Qi Li, Quanquan Sun, Yuqin Zhang, Hua Yang, Rong Wang, Longhua Chen, Wei Wang,