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Cyclosporine A and tacrolimus inhibit bladder cancer growth through down-regulation of NFATc1

Takashi Kawahara _, Eiji Kashiwagi, Hiroki Ide, Yi Li, Yichun Zheng, Yurina Miyamoto, George J. Netto, Hitoshi Ishiguro and Hiroshi Miyamoto

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Oncotarget. 2015; 6:1582-1593. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.2750

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Abstract

Takashi Kawahara1,2, Eiji Kashiwagi1, Hiroki Ide1, Yi Li2, Yichun Zheng1,2, Yurina Miyamoto2, George J. Netto1, Hitoshi Ishiguro1,2, Hiroshi Miyamoto1,2

1Departments of Pathology and Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

Correspondence to:

Hiroshi Miyamoto, e-mail: hmiyamo1@jhmi.edu

Keywords: bladder cancer, cyclosporine, NFAT, tacrolimus, tumor progression

Received: October 27, 2014     Accepted: November 15, 2014     Published: January 08, 2015

ABSTRACT

The functional role of nuclear factor of activated T-cells (NFAT), a key regulator of the immune response, in bladder cancer progression remains uncertain. In this study, we assessed biological significance of NFAT in human bladder cancer. Immunohistochemistry detected nuclear/cytoplasmic NFATc1 signals in 14 (21.5%)/34 (52.3%), respectively, of 65 muscle-invasive bladder carcinomas and showed that patients with nuclear NFATc1-positive tumor had a significantly higher risk of disease progression (P = 0.006). In bladder cancer cell lines, cyclosporine A (CsA) and tacrolimus (FK506), immunosuppressant drugs/non-selective NFAT inhibitors, attenuated NFATc1 expression and its nuclear translocation, NFAT transcriptional activity, and the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 and c-myc, downstream targets of NFATc1. NFAT inhibition via NFATc1-small interfering RNA (siRNA) or treatment with these NFAT inhibitors resulted in decreases in cell viability/colony formation, cell migration/invasion, and the expression/activity of MMP-2 and MMP-9, as well as an increase in apoptosis, in the parental/control lines. No significant additional inhibition in the viability and invasion of NFATc1-siRNA cells was seen. In xenograft-bearing mice, CsA and FK506 significantly retarded tumor growth. These results suggest that NFATc1 plays an important role in bladder cancer outgrowth. Thus, NFATc1 inactivation, especially using CsA and FK506, has the potential of being a therapeutic approach for bladder cancer.


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