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  • Title: Cadherin dysfunction in a human cancer cell line: possible involvement of loss of alpha-catenin expression in reduced cell-cell adhesiveness.
    Author: Shimoyama Y, Nagafuchi A, Fujita S, Gotoh M, Takeichi M, Tsukita S, Hirohashi S.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 1992 Oct 15; 52(20):5770-4. PubMed ID: 1394201.
    Abstract:
    A human lung cancer cell line, PC 9, was analyzed to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of dysfunction of cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion in cancer. Although PC 9 cells strongly expressed E-cadherin at the cell membrane, which was indistinguishable immunochemically from functional E-cadherin, they did not show tight cell-cell adhesion and had reduced E-cadherin-mediated aggregation activity. Immunoprecipitation with E-cadherin and Western blot analysis revealed that PC 9 cells did not express alpha-catenin, a cadherin-associated protein, suggesting that this was the cause of the cadherin dysfunction in the cell line. In addition, Northern and Southern blot analyses disclosed homozygous deletion of part of the alpha-catenin gene, which might have resulted in the loss of alpha-catenin expression in PC 9 cells.
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