Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8320749 | DNA Repair | 2014 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
NAD+ metabolism is an essential regulator of cellular redox reactions, energy pathways, and a substrate provider for NAD+ consuming enzymes. We recently demonstrated that enhancement of NAD+/NADH levels in breast cancer cells with impaired mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase activity, through augmentation of complex I or by supplementing tumor cell nutrients with NAD+ precursors, inhibits tumorigenicity and metastasis. To more fully understand how aberrantly low NAD+ levels promote tumor cell dissemination, we here asked whether inhibition of NAD+ salvage pathway activity by reduction in nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (NAMPT) expression can impact metastasis and tumor cell adhesive functions. We show that knockdown of NAMPT, the enzyme catalyzing the rate-limiting step of the NAD+ salvage pathway, enhances metastatic aggressiveness in human breast cancer cells and involves modulation of integrin expression and function. Reduction in NAMPT expression is associated with upregulation of select adhesion receptors, particularly αvβ3 and β1 integrins, and results in increased breast cancer cell attachment to extracellular matrix proteins, a key function in tumor cell dissemination. Interestingly, NAMPT downregulation prompts expression of integrin αvβ3 in a high affinity conformation, known to promote tumor cell adhesive interactions during hematogenous metastasis. NAMPT has been selected as a therapeutic target for cancer therapy based on the essential functions of this enzyme in NAD+ metabolism, cellular redox, DNA repair and energy pathways. Notably, our results indicate that incomplete inhibition of NAMPT, which impedes NAD+ metabolism but does not kill a tumor cell can alter its phenotype to be more aggressive and metastatic. This phenomenon could promote cancer recurrence, even if NAMPT inhibition initially reduces tumor growth.
Keywords
AMPSCIDNRKNARNAMPTERKnicotinic acid mononucleotideshRNAPARPsmTORC1uPARBRCA2MMTV-PyMTMMPαvβ3NAD+Nmnatsmall hairpin RNAAdenosine TriphosphateATPadenosine monophosphateNdi1IntegrinsNicotinamide ribosidebreast cancer 2Breast cancerbreast cancer 1Vascular endothelial growth factorVascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)MetastasisMatrix metalloproteinasesNADHNaMNnicotinamide adenine dinucleotidenicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferasenicotinamide mononucleotideMammalian target of rapamycin complex 1BRCA1reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotidesevere combined immunodeficiencyextracellular signal-regulated kinasesUrokinase plasminogen activator receptor
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Authors
Antonio F. Santidrian, Sarah E. LeBoeuf, Erik D. Wold, Melissa Ritland, Jane S. Forsyth, Brunhilde H. Felding,