Sa1842 A Study of Photodynamic Diagnosis of Colon Cancer Generated in DSS (Dextran Sulfate Sodium) Utilizing APC (Adenomatous Polyposis Coli) Knockout Mice by Visualization Following Oral 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Sensitization

2012 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. S-339
Author(s):  
Nobuhiko Komoike ◽  
Tomohiro Kato ◽  
Reina Kawakami ◽  
Hiroki Saijo ◽  
Makoto Mitsunaga ◽  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris Vleminckx ◽  
Ellen Wong ◽  
Kathy Guger ◽  
Bonnee Rubinfeld ◽  
Paul Polakis ◽  
...  

Mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor gene are linked to both familial and sporadic human colon cancer. So far, a clear biological function for the APC gene product has not been determined. We assayed the activity of APC in the early Xenopus embryo, which has been established as a good model for the analysis of the signaling activity of the APC-associated protein β-catenin. When expressed in the future ventral side of a four-cell embryo, full-length APC induced a secondary dorsoanterior axis and the induction of the homeobox gene Siamois. This is similar to the phenotype previously observed for ectopic β-catenin expression. In fact, axis induction by APC required the availability of cytosolic β-catenin. These results indicate that APC has signaling activity in the early Xenopus embryo. Signaling activity resides in the central domain of the protein, a part of the molecule that is missing in most of the truncating APC mutations in colon cancer. Signaling by APC in Xenopus embryos is not accompanied by detectable changes in expression levels of β-catenin, indicating that it has direct positive signaling activity in addition to its role in β-catenin turnover. From these results we propose a model in which APC acts as part of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, either upstream of, or in conjunction with, β-catenin.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. e0240746
Author(s):  
Lauren E. King ◽  
Hui-Hua Zhang ◽  
Cathryn M. Gould ◽  
Daniel W. Thomas ◽  
Lachlan W. Whitehead ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 190 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-613
Author(s):  
Sean Richards ◽  
Joshua Walker ◽  
Masako Nakanishi ◽  
Mostafa Belghasem ◽  
Chimera Lyle ◽  
...  

Human Cell ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Regina Lepri ◽  
Leonardo Campos Zanelatto ◽  
Patrícia Benites Gonçalves da Silva ◽  
Daniele Sartori ◽  
Lucia Regina Ribeiro ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 2041-2056 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Roberts ◽  
Mira I. Pronobis ◽  
John S. Poulton ◽  
Eric G. Kane ◽  
Mark Peifer

Wnt signaling plays key roles in development and disease. The tumor suppressor adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) is an essential negative regulator of Wnt signaling. Its best-characterized role is as part of the destruction complex, targeting the Wnt effector β-catenin (βcat) for phosphorylation and ultimate destruction, but several studies suggested APC also may act in the nucleus at promoters of Wnt-responsive genes or to shuttle βcat out for destruction. Even in its role in the destruction complex, APC's mechanism of action remains mysterious. We have suggested APC positions the destruction complex at the appropriate subcellular location, facilitating βcat destruction. In this study, we directly tested APC's proposed roles in the nucleus or in precisely localizing the destruction complex by generating a series of APC2 variants to which we added tags relocalizing otherwise wild-type APC to different cytoplasmic locations. We tested these for function in human colon cancer cells and Drosophila embryos. Strikingly, all rescue Wnt regulation and down-regulate Wnt target genes in colon cancer cells, and most restore Wnt regulation in Drosophila embryos null for both fly APCs. These data suggest that APC2 does not have to shuttle into the nucleus or localize to a particular subcellular location to regulate Wnt signaling.


2008 ◽  
Vol 181 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser M. Rusan ◽  
Mark Peifer

You may have seen the bumper sticker “Eve was framed.” Thousands of years of being blamed for original sin and still many wonder, where's the evidence? Today, the tumor suppressor adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) may have the same complaint about accusations of a different type of CIN, chromosome instability. A series of recent papers, including three in this journal, propose that loss of APC function plays an important role in the CIN seen in many colon cancer cells. However, a closer look reveals a complex story that raises more questions than answers.


Oncotarget ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 7761-7772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Wen ◽  
Yongmei Liu ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Meng Li ◽  
Fuchun Guo ◽  
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