Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8553108 | Toxicology Letters | 2018 | 26 Pages |
Abstract
As widely used in consumer products, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) has become a common environmental pollutant, which has been detected in human serum and associated with cancers. Our previous study showed that PFOA is a carcinogen that promotes endometrial cancer cell migration and invasion through activation of ERK/mTOR signaling. Here, we showed that PFOA (â¥100â¯nM) treatment also stimulated A2780 ovarian cancer cell invasion and migration, which correlated with increased matrix metalloproteinases MMP-2/-9 expression, important proteases associated with tumor invasion and migration. Notably, PFOA treatment induced activation of ERK1/2/ NF-κB signaling. Pre-treatment with U0126, an ERK1/2inhibitorï¼or JSH-23, a NF-kB inhibitor, can reverse the PFOA-induced cell migration and invasion. Consistent with these results, inhibiting ERK1/2 or NF-κB signaling abolished PFOA-induced up-regulation of MMP-2/-9 expression. These results indicate that PFOA can stimulate ovarian cancer cell migration, invasion and MMP-2/-9 expression by up-regulating ERK/NF-κB pathway.
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Authors
Xiaozhao Li, Chunyu Bao, Zhinan Ma, Boqun Xu, Xiaoyan Ying, Xiaoqiu Liu, Xuesen Zhang,