Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 modulates expression of Bax and Bcl-2 and potentiates p53-independent radiation-induced apoptosis in human breast cancer cells
Aj. Butt et al., Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 modulates expression of Bax and Bcl-2 and potentiates p53-independent radiation-induced apoptosis in human breast cancer cells, J BIOL CHEM, 275(50), 2000, pp. 39174-39181
We report that transfection of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3
(IGPBP-3) cDNA in human breast cancer cell lines expressing either mutant
p53 (T47D) or wild-type p53 (MCF-7) induces apoptosis, IGFBP-3 also increas
es the ratio of pro-apoptotic to anti-apoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family
. In MCF-7, an increase in Bad and Bax protein expression and a decrease in
Bcl-x(L) protein and Bcl-2 protein and mRNA were observed. In T47D, Bax an
d Bad proteins were up-regulated; Bcl-2 protein is undetectable in these ce
lls. As T47D expresses mutant p53 protein, these modulations of pro-apoptot
ic proteins and induction of apoptosis are independent of p53. The effect o
f IGFBP-3 on the response of T47D to ionizing radiation (IR) was examined.
These cells do not G(1) arrest in response to IR and are relatively radiore
sistant. Transfection of IGFBP-3 increased the radiosensitivity of T47D and
increased IR-induced apoptosis but did not effect a rapid G(1) arrest. IR
also caused a much greater increase in Bax protein in IGFBP-3 transfectants
compared with vector controls. Thus, IGFBP-3 increases the expression of p
ro-apoptotic proteins and apoptosis both basally and in response to IR, sug
gesting it may be a p53-independent effector of apoptosis in breast cancer
cells via its modulation of the Bax:Bcl-2 protein ratio.