Lymphotoxin β receptor activation promotes mRNA expression of RelA and pro-inflammatory cytokines TNFα and IL-1β in bladder cancer cells.
MOLECULAR MEDICINE REPORTS(2017)
Abstract
The role of inflammation in tumorigenesis and development is currently well established. Lymphotoxin beta receptor (LT beta R) activation induces canonical and noncanonical nuclear factor (NF)-kappa B signaling pathways, which are linked to inflammation-induced carcinogenesis. In the present study, 5,637 bladder cancer cells were cultured and the activation of LT beta R was induced by functional ligand, lymphotoxin (LT) alpha 1 beta 2, and silencing with shRNA. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction was utilized to detect the mRNA expression levels of NF-kappa B family members RelA and RelB, cytokines including LT alpha, LT beta, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)alpha, TNF superfamily member 14, interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-1 beta, and proliferation-related genes including CyclinD1 and Survivin. The expression of phospho-p65 was determined by western blotting. Activation of LT beta R on bladder cancer 5,637 cells was demonstrated to upregulate the mRNA expression levels of the RELA proto-oncogene, RelA, by 2.5-fold compared with unstimulated cells, while no significant change was observed in the RELB proto-oncogene NF-kappa B member mRNA levels. Expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor (TNF) a and interleukin (IL)-1 beta mRNA levels were significantly increased nearly 5-fold and 1.5-fold, respectively, following LT beta R activation compared with unstimulated cells. The LT beta R-induced upregulation of RelA, TNF alpha and IL-1 beta was decreased by similar to 33, 27, and 26% respectively when LT beta R was silenced via short hairpin RNA. Activation of LT beta R had no effect on 5,637 cell growth, despite CyclinD1 and Survivin mRNA levels increasing by similar to 2.7 and 1.3-fold, respectively, compared with unstimulated cells. In conclusion, activation of LT beta R induced the expression of RelA mRNA levels. LT beta R activation might be an important mediator in promoting an inflammatory microenvironment in bladder cancer, via the upregulation of TNF alpha and IL-1 beta mRNA levels. LT beta R may be a potential therapeutic target for bladder cancer.
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Key words
bladder cancer cell,lymphotoxin beta receptor,nuclear factor-kappa B,cytokine,proliferation
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