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University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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5ß1 integrin receptor, we examined the effect of inhibiting integrin function on cell motility. As expected, disruption of fibronectin-integrin interactions interrupted basal motility in MDA-231BO cells. In addition, disruption of integrin function by an
5ß1 blocking peptide also inhibited IGF stimulation of cell motility. To determine whether integrin function could interfere with IGF signaling, we used an
5ß1 blocking peptide to show that in MDA-231BO cells integrin occupancy appeared necessary for phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate-2 but not for IGFR1 activation. We conclude that IGFR1 and integrin action are linked in these breast cancer cells as disruption of integrin binding to its receptor influences IGF signaling pathways. Moreover, IGFBP-1 could have dual effects on cancer cell motility by disrupting both receptor systems. | INTRODUCTION |
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Both of the IGF ligands, IGF-I and IGF-II, interact with specific cell surface receptors to stimulate intracellular signaling pathways (4) . It has been shown that IGF-I and IGF-II can interact with IR, IGFR1, and hybrid IR/IGFR1 to demonstrate that multiple receptors play roles in determining IGF action. Both IR and IGFR1 are transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptors. In theory, a small molecule inhibitor could be developed to inhibit the kinase activity of the IGFR1. However, because both IR and IGFR1 are highly homologous in the tyrosine kinase domain, efforts thus far have not yielded a selective inhibitor (5 , 6) . Moreover, given the importance of IR action in peripheral normal tissues (7) , it would then be necessary to deliver the IR and IGFR1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor directly to breast cancer cells. At present, existence of such a specifically targeted delivery system seems unlikely.
Unlike other tyrosine kinase receptors involved in malignancy, activation of IGFR1 by overexpression alone is not seen in cells. In transfection model systems, ligand binding to IGFR1 is required to initiate signal transduction (8) . Whereas src transformed cells can activate IGFR1 in cell culture models, this pathway has not been shown to occur in human tissue specimens (9) . Thus, another way to block IGF action would be to disrupt ligand/receptor interaction. Indeed, monoclonal antibodies that inhibit IGF binding to IGFR1 have been shown to be useful in animal models of breast cancer (10 , 11) .
Another anti-IGF strategy involves ligand neutralization by providing a "target decoy" for IGF-I and IGF-II. Dunn et al. (12) have shown that the extracellular ligand binding domain of IGFR1 inhibits metastasis in an animal model. IGF action is controlled by high affinity binding proteins. To date, six distinct IGFBP species have been cloned, although there are proteins with shared domains, and have been called IGFBP-related proteins (13 , 14) . Because the IGFBPs have higher affinity for IGF-I and IGF-II than the receptors, it would also be possible to neutralize IGF action with these naturally occurring proteins. We have shown that inhibition of IGFR1 function by an excess of IGFBP-1 inhibits monolayer growth of MCF-7 cells (15 , 16) . In addition, conjugation of IGFBP-1 with polyethylene glycol is effective in inhibiting tumor growth in athymic mouse models (17) . Our data show that in this breast cancer cell line, IGF-I stimulates cell proliferation and inhibits apoptosis. Thus, ligand neutralization of IGF-I by IGFBP-1 blocks activation of the IGFR1 to impact tumor cell growth.
We and others have shown recently that IGFR1 activation in some breast cancer cell lines does not enhance proliferation (18
, 19) . In contrast, we have shown that IGFR1 activation augments cell adhesion and motility in two cell lines derived from metastatic deposits in vivo (LCC6 and MDA-231BO). In these cells, we found that IGFR1 activation of IRS-2 was responsible for these effects. In this study, we wanted to determine whether rhBP-1 would also function to inhibit IGF-mediated adhesion and cell motility. As expected, we found that rhBP-1 could neutralize IGF action in these cell lines. However, we noticed that rhBP-1 by itself had inhibitory effects on cell motility. Because rhBP-1 contains an arg-gly-asp (RGD) motif important in integrin binding (20)
, it was possible that rhBP-1 had dual effects on both integrin and IGFR1 function. We found that this is indeed the case; in fact, activation of appropriate signaling pathways downstream of IGFR1 requires ligation of
5ß1 integrin.
| MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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IR3 antibody to IGF-IR used in inhibitory experiments was from Oncogene Science (Cambridge, MA).
5 integrin antibody for immunoblot was from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA). Inhibitory
5 antibody (clone P1D6) was purchased from Chemicon (Temecula, CA). This antibody has been shown to disrupt binding of FN to
5 integrin (22)
. IRS-2 antibody was purchased from Upstate Biotechnology (Lake Placid, NY). Horseradish peroxidase-linked antirabbit or antimouse antibodies and rainbow molecular weight markers were from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech (Piscataway, NJ).
Cell Migration Assay.
Cell migration was measured in a 10 well chamber (Neuro Probe, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD) as described previously (18)
. SFM (0.4 ml) with or without IGF-I (5 nM) was placed in the bottom wells of the chamber. SFM contains IMEM Zinc Option (GIBCO) as a base with 10 mM HEPES buffer, 1 µg/ml transferrin, 2 µg/ml FN, and 0.01 ml/ml trace elements (Biofluids). A polycarbonate polyvinylpyrrolidone-free filter (12-µm pore size) was placed above this. After detachment in PBS-EDTA and twice washing with PBS, cells were resuspended in SFM, and 0.3-ml cell suspension (5 x 105 cells/ml) was added to the top wells of the chamber above the filter. For the inhibitor assays, cells were pretreated for 30 min at 37°C with
IR3 antibody (1 µg/ml), rhBP-1 (40 nM), RGD (25 µg/ml), or RGE (100 µg/ml), or
5 integrin inhibitory antibody (1 µg/ml or 10 µg/ml) before addition to the top wells. The chamber was then incubated for 4 h in a humidified atmosphere at 37°C. At the end of incubation, cells remaining on the top side of the filter were scraped off with cotton swabs. The filter was then removed from the chamber, and the cells that had migrated to the underside of the filter were fixed and stained in HEMA3 (Fisher). The filter was then mounted onto a glass microscope slide and cells were counted in 10 different areas with the aid of a light microscope.
Cell Lysate Preparation.
Cells were cultured in DMEM with 5% FCS and 10 nM insulin until 80% confluent, then washed twice with PBS. Cells were then starved in SFM overnight. For the experiments, the cells were pretreated with or without
IR3, rhBP-1, RGD, and RGE before exposure to 5 nM IGF-I for 10 min. After washing with ice cold PBS, cells were lysed with TNESV buffer [50 mM Tris (pH 7.4), 1% NP40, 2 mM EDTA, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM sodium orthovanadate, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 20 µg/ml leupeptin, and 20 µg/ml aprotinin]. The total cell lysate was then cleared by centrifugation for 20 min at full speed of the microcentrifuge. Protein concentration of the cleared lysates was determined by using the BCA kit from Pierce Laboratory (Rockford, IL).
To isolate membranes, cells were treated then washed twice with PBS. After removal of PBS, 1 ml of membrane lysis buffer [20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0), 2 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 20 µg/ml leupeptin, and 20 µg/ml aprotinin] was added to the culture plate. The cells were then sheared 10 times by passing through a 26-gauge needle and clarified by microcentrifuge at 800 x g. The supernatant was collected and microcentrifuged again at 15,000 x g for 30 min. The pellet (cell membrane) was then lysed with TNESV buffer.
Immunoprecipitation.
All of the steps were performed on a rotation rocker at 4 °C. To detect IGFR1 phosphorylation, 1 mg of membrane lysate in 1 ml of TNESV buffer was used for immunoprecipitation with IGF-1Rß (1 µg/ml; Santa Cruz) and PY-20 antibody (1:10,000) was used for Western blot to detect tyrosine phosphorylation of IGF-1R. Quantification of band intensity was performed by scanning the radiograph and analyzing specific band intensity with AlphaImager 1220 analysis software (AlphaInnotech, San Leandro, CA).
| RESULTS |
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IR3) that inhibits IGF-I activation of IGFR1 (10
, 23)
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IR3. To examine the effect of
IR3 on activation of downstream signaling pathways, we treated cells with IGF-I with and without the antibody. Total antiphosphotyrosine immunoblotting demonstrated that IGF-I-stimulated phosphorylation of IRS species was inhibited by
IR3 (Fig. 2)
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IR3, rhBP-1 inhibited the basal levels of migration. Thus, both
IR3 and rhBP-1 clearly inhibited IGF-I effects by blocking the ability of IGF-I to activate IGFR1. However, rhBP-1, and not
IR3, inhibited motility even in the absence of IGF-I. These data suggested that rhBP-1 could influence additional aspects of cell motility that are independent of IGFR1 function. Because rhBP-1 contains an integrin binding motif (20)
, we examined the possibility that interruption of integrin function by rhBP-1 could account for this inhibition of basal motility.
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5 Integrin Antibody.
5ß1 integrin. Because rhBP-1 has been shown to bind
5ß1 integrin (20)
via its RGD domain, it was possible that rhBP-1 was influencing FN interactions with its integrin receptor to affect cell migration. To test this possibility, we used a synthetic RGD containing peptide (GRGDTP), which blocks FN binding to its receptor (24)
. As shown in Fig. 4
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5ß1 integrin was a relevant target for rhBP-1, we measured expression of this integrin in MDA-231, MDA-231BO, and MCF-7 cells. Fig. 5
5 and ß1 integrin were expressed in MDA-231BO and MDA-MB-231 cells, whereas in MCF-7L, ß1 integrin expression was low and
5 integrin was almost undetectable. IGF-I treatment had no effect on
5ß1 integrin expression. We have shown previously that MCF-7L cells do not migrate in response to IGF-I in our FN containing system (18)
suggesting that expression of
5 integrin could be necessary for IGF-mediated motility. To test this directly, we incubated cells with a neutralizing antibody to
5 integrin. Fig. 6
5 integrin by an antibody that interferes with FN binding to its integrin receptor diminished the ability of IGF-I to enhance cell motility. Notably, the parent MDA-MB-231 cell line expressed
5 integrin yet did not migrate in response to IGF-I suggesting that integrin expression alone is not sufficient to cause IGF-I-induced motility. However, these data indicate that integrin-mediated cell adhesion may be required in the IGF-I stimulated cell migration as well as in the basal level of migration. Because both RGD peptide and rhBP-1 inhibited IGF effects, these findings raised the possibility that IGFR1 function may be linked to integrin occupancy.
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Vß3 integrin is required for IGFR1 activation in vascular smooth muscle cells. To determine whether a similar requirement for
5ß1 occupancy was required in these breast cancer cells, we examined the ability of RGD peptide to influence IGFR1 autophosphorylation. Cells were treated in the absence or presence of IGF-I and membranes were isolated. Fig. 9
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| DISCUSSION |
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IR3 blocked the IGF-I-mediated migration as well as decreased the downstream signaling molecule IRS-2 phosphorylation in MDA-231BO cells (Figs. 1
rhBP-1 binds IGF-I with high affinity and can be used as an inhibitor of IGF-I action (15)
. In this study, we found that rhBP-1 not only inhibited IGF-I-stimulated IRS-2 phosphorylation and cell migration as mentioned above but also significantly reduced cell migration in the absence of IGF-I. IGFBP-1 contains an RGD integrin recognition sequence and has been reported to bind
5ß1 integrin. The physiological consequences of an IGFBP-1/
5ß1 integrin interaction are not clear. IGFBP-1 has been reported to stimulate cell migration in Chinese hamster ovary and pSMC cells (20
, 31)
. However, IGFBP-1 has also been shown to inhibit cytotrophoblast attachment to FN and invasion into decidualized endometrial stromal cultures (32)
. Thus, it appears that the effect of IGFBP-1 on integrin function could be cell specific. In addition, we used rhBP-1 at concentrations far beyond the physiological range.
There is growing evidence that cell proliferation, differentiation, and migration are regulated by the integrated action of growth factor and integrin signaling events (27
, 33, 34, 35, 36)
. Blocking ligand occupancy of the
Vß3 integrin inhibits IGF-I signaling in pSMC (26)
. Jones et al. (37)
have reported that ligand occupancy of the
Vß3 integrin is necessary for SMC to migrate in response to IGF-I. By using the synthetic
Vß3 antagonists, pSMC replication and migration in response to IGF-I were also attenuated (29)
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5ß1 integrin, a major mediator of cell binding to FN, has been reported to interact with oncogenic SHC proteins, and to regulate breast cancer cell adhesion and motility (38)
. Thus, a large body of evidence suggests that integrin and IGFR1 signaling pathways interact.
Our data suggested that rhBP-1 inhibited basal and IGF-I-stimulated cell motility. Because our migration assay medium contains FN, it was quite possible that IGFBP-1 competes with FN and blocks integrin-mediated effect required for cell migration. We used a synthetic RGD peptide, which blocks FN binding to its receptor, to indirectly test this hypothesis. Indeed, RGD peptide had the similar inhibitory effect on both basal and IGF-I-induced MDA-231BO cell migration. This result suggested that IGFBP-1 may play dual roles in the cell migration process. IGFBP-1 may neutralize IGF-I action and inhibit of integrin signaling. This effect may be specific for specific substrates and integrins, as we do not detect IGF-I-induced cell motility in type I collagen (18) .
Our previous study showed that MCF-7L cells in which IRS-1 was phosphorylated in response to the IGF-I treatment have negligible basal migration under our experimental conditions (18)
. Whereas in MDA-231BO and MDA-MB-231, the two cell lines that phosphorylate IRS-2 on IGF-I treatment, basal migration was much higher. To determine whether integrin expression accounted for the differences in basal cell migration, we examined the
5ß1 levels in these cell lines by immunoblot. As shown in Fig. 5
, both integrins were expressed in MDA-231BO and MDA-MB-231 cells at a relatively high level, whereas in MCF-7L, the ß1 expression was low and
5 was almost undetectable. The initial event in the migratory cycle is adhesion formation and protrusion at the cell leading edge. Subsequently, the cell must be able to release adhesions at the cell rear (39)
. Thus, the adhesion proteins, such as FN, and their receptors, such as
5ß1 integrin, constitute a versatile recognition system providing cells with anchorage, adhesion-dependent cooperative signals and traction for migration. In accordance with the
5ß1 integrin expression profiles in MDA-231BO, MDA-MB-231, and MCF-7L, we had shown previously that MCF-7L had negligible adhesion to FN compared with that of MDA-231BO and MDA-MB-231 (18)
. Whereas the differential IRS activation may partially explain the different behavior of cell migration in MDA-231BO, MDA-MB-231, and MCF-7L (18)
, the lack of FN
5ß1 integrin receptor may also account for the poor IGF-induced cell migration in MCF-7L cells. Of note is that Doerr and Jones (27)
have shown that IGF-I enhances migration and is a chemotactic factor in MCF-7 cells on vitronectin and collagen. Similar to our findings, these authors showed that MCF-7 cells do not migrate on FN, demonstrating that specific integrin species may interact with IGF signaling pathways (18)
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It is also clear that the ability of IGFR1 to activate downstream signaling pathways in breast cancer cells depends on the function of the integrin receptors. First, MCF-7L cells detached from a substrate can still phosphorylate IRS-1 in response to IGF-I, whereas IRS-2 phosphorylation in MDA-231 and MDA-231BO cells was diminished after detachment from the substrate. Secondly, inhibition of
5ß1 integrin occupancy by RGD peptide diminished IRS-2 phosphorylation in MDA-231BO cells, whereas autophosphorylation of IGFR1 itself was not affected. Thus, in MDA-231BO cells, occupancy of both IGFR1 and
5ß1 integrin are required to phosphorylate IRS-2 and initiate cell motility.
The mechanism of preferential metastasis of breast cancer to bone is not understood. MDA-231BO, an exclusive bone-seeking subclone of the human breast cancer cell line MDA-231, has distinct biological characteristics compared with the parental cell line (21) . For example, IGF-I and -II markedly promoted the anchorage-independent growth in MDA-231BO, but not in MDA-MB-231, and transforming growth factor ß profoundly inhibited the growth of MDA-MB-231 but not of MDA-231BO. We have shown previously that MDA-231BO has increased IRS-2 activation and signaling compared with that of parental cell line MDA-MB-231 (18) . During the selection for bone metastasis, MDA-231BO cells became less adherent to FN while becoming more responsive to IGF-I. Despite lower basal migration compared with that of MDA-MB-231, MDA-231BO cell migration was stimulated by IGF-I, and MDA-MB-231 cell migration was not. Whereas our experiments using an antisense strategy to down-regulate IRS-2 expression show that activation of IRS-2 is required for IGF-induced motility, the molecular mechanisms for these observations have not been fully explained. We have shown that the MDA-231BO cell line has a slightly higher level of IGFR1 compared with the parent cell (18) . However, this finding alone cannot account for the difference in the ability of integrin occupancy to affect IRS-2 phosphorylation or the observed difference in basal adhesion to FN. It is possible that cellular localization of IGFR1 and integrin receptors differ between the two cell lines. It is also possible that other integrin receptors vary in their level of expression.
Breast cancer metastasis requires a complex cascade of events that involve multiple molecular mechanisms. Interestingly, both integrin and IGF receptors are functionally linked in this process. Inhibition of either or both receptors affects the ability of MDA-231BO cells to respond to IGF-I. rhBP-1 is a more potent inhibitor of cell motility than
IR3, an antibody that specifically inhibits IGFR1. Whereas
IR3 inhibits the ability of IGF-I to stimulate motility, rhBP-1 blocks both basal and IGF-induced motility. The dual function of rhBP-1 in both IGF-I and integrin action could be exploited to understand how these pathways intersect to influence breast cancer cell metastasis.
As shown by several laboratories, IGFR1 activation participates in all of the aspects of the malignant phenotype (12 , 25 , 40 , 41) . In MDA-231 cells, IGFR1 appears to enhance cell motility but, even when overexpressed, does not influence cell proliferation or survival (42) . Thus, IGFR1 has defined functions in specific cells. It is also clear that overexpression of specific IRS adaptor proteins within a cell line cannot "force" an activated IGFR1 to participate in a biological process that the cell does not normally display. For example, although IRS-1 is the predominant signaling pathway activated in a proliferative pathway in MCF-7 cells, overexpression of IRS-1 in cell lines that show no mitogenic response to IGF-I does not result in IGF-I-mediated proliferation (43) .
Thus, it is likely that interaction of IGFR1 with other signaling pathways ultimately determines the biological consequences of IGF action in breast cancer cells. The clearest example of this hypothesis concerns the cross-talk between IGFR1 and estrogen receptor
in breast cancer cells (4)
. Recent work has shown that the IGFR1 signaling pathway depends on functional expression of estrogen receptor
(44)
. In this study, we show that inhibition of MDA-231BO cell migration by rhBP-1 could be because of dual effects, neutralization of IGF-I action, and interruption of integrin function. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which IGF-I and integrins interact in the metastatic cascade will be very important in designing new prevention and therapeutic approaches to breast cancer.
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1 This work was supported by NIH Grant R01 CA74285 and USPHS Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA77398. ![]()
2 To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at University of Minnesota Cancer Center, MMC 806, 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: (612) 626-8487; Fax: (612) 626-4842; E-mail: yeexx006{at}umn.edu ![]()
3 The abbreviations used are: IGF, insulin-like growth factor; IR, insulin receptor; IGFR1, type I insulin-like growth factor receptor; IGFBP, insulin-like growth factor binding protein; rhBP-1, recombinant human insulin-like growth factor binding protein 1; SFM, serum-free medium; FN, fibronectin; IRS, insulin receptor substrate; pSMC, porcine smooth muscle; RGD, argenine-glycine-aspartate; RGE, arginine-glycine-glutamine. ![]()
Received 1/21/02. Accepted 5/24/02.
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