Endometrial cancer is a receptor-mediated target for Mullerian Inhibiting Substance
AUTOR(ES)
Renaud, Elizabeth J.
FONTE
National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Mullerian Inhibiting Substance (MIS), a 140-kDa homodimer glycoprotein member of the TGF-β superfamily of biological-response modifiers, causes regression of the Mullerian ducts in developing male embryos. MIS also can induce growth arrest and apoptosis in ovarian and cervical cancer cell lines. The embryonic progenitor of the ovarian and cervical epithelium is the coelomic epithelium, the same tissue that regresses under the direction of MIS in the male. The endometrium and uterus also arise from the coelomic epithelium and the Mullerian ducts. Here, we show that both normal human endometrium and endometrial cancers express the receptor for MIS and that MIS can inhibit the proliferation of a number of human endometrial cancer cell lines that express the MIS type II receptor. In the representative endometrial cancer cell line AN3CA, MIS affects the expression of key cell-cycle regulatory proteins. This work broadens the scope of tumors that MIS can potentially control and, by elucidating the MIS signaling pathway, identifies other potential avenues for intervention.
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