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(American Journal of Pathology. 2002;160:511-519.)
© 2002 American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Vitamin D Arrests Thyroid Carcinoma Cell Growth and Induces p27 Dephosphorylation and Accumulation through PTEN/Akt-Dependent and -Independent Pathways

Wei Liu*{dagger}, Sylvia L. Asa{dagger}, I. George Fantus*, Paul G. Walfish* and Shereen Ezzat*

From the Department of Medicine,*
Mount Sinai Hospital,Toronto; and the Department of Pathology,{dagger}
University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto,Ontario, Canada

We investigated the effects of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol vitamin D3 (VD) and its noncalciomimetic analog EB1089 on thyroid carcinoma cell growth. VD and EB1089 exhibited anti-proliferative effects in a dose-dependent manner as determined by [3H]thymidine incorporation and MIB-1 immunolabeling. VD or EB1089 resulted in similar G1-phase arrest. Neither apoptosis nor differentiation was affected. VD and EB1089 induced increased nuclear protein expression of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, p27kip1 (p27). VD/EB1089 effects paralleled but were not additive to those of the proteasome inhibitor LLnL, consistent with reduced p27 degradation. As p27 phosphorylation and association with Skp2 is a key step in its degradation, we examined the effects of VD/EB1089 on this reaction. Despite increased total p27, the pThr content of p27 remained unaffected, an effect confirmed by diminished association with Skp2 as well as in situ phosphorylation. Moreover, phosphatase inhibition abrogated the effect of VD/EB1089 on p27 accumulation consistent with a role for phosphatase action in mediating this VD effect. Although VD/EB1089 resulted in comparable increases in p27 in WRO and NPA cells, only WRO but not NPA cells demonstrated a change in the phosphatase PTEN and its downstream target pAkt/PKB in response to VD/EB1089. Transfection of PTEN resulted in p27 accumulation and was partially additive to the effect of VD/EB1089. Moreover, treatment with PI-3 kinase inhibitors decreased pAkt/PKB and increased p27 in both WRO and NPA cells highlighting the potential role of this downstream pathway in regulating p27 in the thyroid. These findings point to a novel mechanism of action for VD/EB1089 inhibition of thyroid carcinoma cell growth by p27 hypophosphorylation, diminished association with Skp2, and consequent accumulation. This effect can be mediated but is not essentially dependent on the phosphatase PTEN/Akt/PKB pathway. These properties support the potential utility of VD analogs in the treatment of thyroid carcinomas irrespective of their PTEN/pAkt status.




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