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| Author(s): |
Ana Carolina Thome Capuano
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Odontologia (FO/SDO) |
| Defense date: | 2006-01-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Décio dos Santos Pinto Júnior;
Maria Cristina Zindel Deboni;
Adriana Etges;
Andrea Mantesso;
Luiz Eduardo Blumer Rosa
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| Advisor: | Décio dos Santos Pinto Júnior |
| Abstract | |
PTEN is a tumor suppressor gene that encodes a dual phosphates protein capable to modulate apoptosis and cell cycle and prevent cellular migration. On the other hand, Akt oncogene promotes both cell cycle progression and inhibits apoptosis. Akt activation is inversely correlated with PTEN lost in a variety of cancers. In this study, highly invasive clones of OSCC cell lines (HN6, HN30, HN31 and a control cell line, HaCat) were isolated using an in vitro assay method. The expression of both proteins in these cells was compared by immunofluorescence and western blot technique. The metalloproteinase activation was analyzed by gelatin zimography, since several MMPs have been shown to play an important role in the invasion and metastasis of OSCC. All OSCC cell lines and its new clones showed cytoplasmatic and nuclear staining for PTEN and pAkt, respectively. The western blot analysis revealed no significant decrease of PTEN expression in the most invasive clones (named HN6.1, HN30.1 and HN31.1). Only HaCat.1 had a significant decrease (p<0,05). However, there was no significant increase of Akt in the invasiveness clones and oppositely the expression of Akt was strongly reduced (p<0,05) in the HaCat.1. Finally, the zimography showed a discrete increase of inactive MMP-2 and/or a significant increase of active MMP-9 in all the most invasive cell lines. In conclusion, no correlation was seen between PTEN and pAkt in the process of invasion in vitro. There is not only a linear PTEN-PI3K-Akt pathway in OSCC. The HaCat.1 had a different behavior in relation to OSCC cell lines and probably allowed cellular differentiation. In addition, a significant increase of active MMP-9 was seen in 2 of 3 lines of cells derived from OSCC (AU) | |