Calcium/calmodulin‑dependent protein kinase II enhances metastasis of human gastric cancer by upregulating nuclear factor‑κB and Akt‑mediated matrix metalloproteinase‑9 production
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- Published online on: August 28, 2014 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2014.2525
- Pages: 2459-2464
Abstract
Introduction
Gastric cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide (1). Cancer metastasis is the leading cause of cancer treatment failure and is chiefly responsible for the poor prognosis of patients with gastric cancer (2). The biological mechanisms of metastasis appear to involve a complex array of genetic alterations, including changes in the expression of adhesion molecules (such as, integrins and cadherins), proteolytic enzymes (such as, matrix metalloproteinases) and signaling pathway components [such as, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and Akt] (3). However, the molecular mechanisms involved in gastric cancer remain unclear. Therefore, examining the biological mechanisms underlying gastric cancer metastasis and developing a novel effective therapeutic target for gastric cancer treatment remains critical.
Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a multifunctional serine/threonine protein kinase with wide distribution and multiple substrates in mammalian cells (4,5). CaMKII is composed of a combination of four enzyme isoforms (α, β, γ or δ), and each subunit contains a catalytic domain, a regulatory domain (including an auto-inhibitory region) and a calmodulin-binding region (6). In resting cells, CaMKII is a dodecameric holoenzyme that auto-inhibits catalytic activity via the auto-inhibitory domain. Binding of calcium/calmodulin to CaMKII relieves its auto-inhibition, resulting in Ca2+-independent CaMKII activation and phosphorylation of the Thr 286 site to sustain CaMKII activity (7). CaMKII inhibitors have been used to investigate CaMKII function, specifically several CaMKII inhibitors (including chemically synthesized KN-62 and KN-93) and endogenous inhibitory proteins (e.g. CaMKIINα and CaMKIINβ derived from humans and mice). KN-62 and KN-93 inhibit CaMKII phosphorylation by interfering with calcium/calmodulin binding (8,9), thereby suppressing CaMKII activity. Endogenous inhibitory proteins CaMKIINα and CaMKIINβ interact with activated CaMKII and directly inhibit CaMKII activity (10,11).
CaMKII is involved in numerous different physiological and pathological cellular processes (12,13). Multiple studies have identified CaMKII to be important for cancer cell control by regulating cell cycle progression, cellular apoptosis and proliferation (8–11). For example, KN-62 and KN-93 induce cancer cell cycle arrest (8,9). The endogenous inhibitors hCaMKIINα and hCaMKIINβ suppress tumor cell growth by inducing cell cycle arrest and apoptosis (10,11). In addition, CaMKII has been reported to be required for prostate cancer cell survival (14). Accumulating evidence suggests that CaMKII is involved in the regulation of cell migration (15–19); specifically, it enhances vascular smooth muscle migration after injury and stress (15–17). CaMKII is also required for ghrelin-induced glioma cell migration (18) and ClC-3-induced glioma invasion (19), suggesting that CaMKII is associated with cancer cell migration and invasion. However, the function of CaMKII in gastric cancer cell metastasis remains to be elucidated.
The present study investigated the function of CaMKII in gastric cancer cell metastasis and the underlying molecular mechanisms.
Materials and methods
Reagents and cell culture
KN-62 and PDTC were purchased from Calbiochem (San Diego, CA, USA). Dimethylsulfoxide was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). The primary antibodies against β-actin (sc-8432; mouse monoclonal IgG1), MMP-9 (sc-12759; mouse monoclonal IgG1), IKBα (sc-203; rabbit polyclonal IgG), phospho (p)-IKBα (sc-8404; mouse monoclonal IgG2b), CaMKII (sc-9035; rabbit polyclonal IgG) and p-CaMKIIα (Thr 286) (sc-12886-R; rabbit polyclonal IgG) were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Four human gastric cancer cell lines (MKN28, GBC-SD, BGC-803 and SGC-7901) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA, USA). The cells were cultured in RPMI-1640 (Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) at 37°C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere.
Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) analysis of MMP9 mRNA expression
Total cellular RNA was extracted using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen Life Technologies) according to manufacturer instructions. Single strand cDNA was synthesized from 2 mg total RNA with the Superscript II system (Life Technologies, Rockville, MD, USA) using an oligo(dT)12–18 primer (Invitrogen Life Technologies). The primer sequences were as follows: 5′-TGTACCGCTATGGTTACACTCG-3′ and 5′-GGCAGGGACAGTTGCTTCT-3′ for human MMP9; and 5′-TGGAGAAAATCTGGCACCACACC-3′ and 5′-GATGGGCACAGTGTGGGTGACCC-3′ for actin (as a control gene). Primers were synthesized by Sangon Corporation (Shanghai, China). The synthesis of cDNA was checked by qRT-PCR using the actin primers. PCR consisted of denaturing (95°C for 15 sec), annealing (56°C for 30 sec), and extension (72°C for 30 sec) for 30 cycles using a PCR system (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA).
Tissue processing and protein extraction
The surgically resected gastric cancer tissues were collected from 20 gastric cancer patients (including, 10 non-metastatic cancer tissues and 10 metastatic cancer tissues with lymph nodes or vessels) from the Department of Oncology at Changzheng Hospital, the Second Military Medical University (Shanghai, China). The samples were acquired following obtaining informed consent from the patients. All of the experimental procedures were approved by the Institute Research Ethics Committee at the Second Military Medical University. All of the fresh specimens were washed three times with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and dissected, and the protein was extracted from cell lysates with cell lysis buffer (Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., Boston, MA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Western blot analysis
Protein concentration was measured by the Bicinchoninic Acid protein assay reagent kit (Pierce, Rockford, IL, USA). The protein (50 μg) from gastric cancer cells and tissue samples were resolved with 10% SDS-PAGE and subjected to western blot analysis. The blots were probed with the specific primary antibodies (1:1,000) followed by the appropriate horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (1:2,000; Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Beverly, MA, USA). The bands were visualized with SuperSignal West Femto chemiluminescent reagents (Pierce Biotechnology, Inc., Rockford, IL, USA).
Construct of constitutively active CaMKII and cell transfection
Constitutively active CaMKII expression plasmid was cloned with PCR cloning and mutation (H282 is mutated H282R). Flag-tagged expression vectors of H282R were constructed and transfected into BGC-803 using Jetpei (Polyplus Transfection, Illkirch, France) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. cDNA encoding constitutively active human CaMKIIα (His282 mutated to Arg, H282R) was amplified by PCR. Primer were: 5′-GGCATCCCTGCATGGGCAGAC-3′ and 5′-ACGGTGGAGCGGTGCGAGAT-3′. PCR was performed by denaturing the reaction mixture at 94°C for 2 min, followed by 32 cycles (1 min at 94°C, 1 min at 58°C and 1 min at 72°C).The amplification product was inserted into the Flag-tagged expression vectors (Invitrogen Life Technologies), and transfected into BGC 803 using Jetpei (Polyplus Transfection) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Migration and invasion assay
Transwell polycarbonate membranes and Matrigel-coated invasion chambers (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA) were used to determine the effect of CaMKII on cell migration and invasion, respectively. The BGC-803 and SGC-7901 cells were starved with free medium, and 5×104 cells were suspended in RPMI-1640 medium with KN-62 (10 μm) and added to the upper chamber. The lower chamber was filled with 500 μl of media containing 10% FBS. Following 24 h culture, non-migrated or non-invasive cells were scraped from the upper side of the Transwell membrane filter inserts with a cotton-tipped swab. Migrated/invasive cells on the lower side were stained with crystal violet and counted. The number of migrated/invaded cells were counted in three independent high powered fields (x20) readings with a light microscope (DFC420C; Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany).
Measurement of MMP-9 production by ELISA
The production of MMP-9 in the culture supernatants was quantified with ELISA (R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions, as described previously (20).
Nuclear factor (NF)-κB activation assay
The cells were co-transfected with a mixture of NF-κB luciferase reporter plasmid, pRL-TK-Renilla-luciferase plasmid and the appropriate additional constructs or KN-62 for 24 h. Total DNA was equalized with an empty control vector. Luciferase activity was measured with a dual-luciferase reporter assay system (Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The data were normalized for transfection efficiency by measuring firefly luciferase activity and comparing it with that of Renilla luciferase.
Statistical analysis
Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation and compared using Student’s t-test. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.
Results
CaMKII promotes gastric cancer cell migration and invasion
The mechanisms underlying cancer metastasis involve multiple factors and the alteration of various genes. To investigate the role of CaMKII on the regulation of gastric cancer cells, constitutively active CaMKII (H282 mutated to R) expression plasmid with Flag-tagged H282R, was constructed by PCR. Firstly, when observing the effects of CaMKII on gastric cancer growth via a 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay, it was noted that H282R overexpression accelerated BGC-803 cell proliferation compared with the mock transfected cells. Also, the inhibition of CaMKII activity by KN-62 significantly suppressed cell growth compared with the control (Fig. 1A and B). Next, to assess the role of CaMKII in gastric cancer cell invasion and metastasis, it was observed that greater numbers of BGC-803 cells stably expressing H282R migrated to the opposite sides of the filters compared with the control cells treated with KN-62 (Fig. 1C). Similarly, greater numbers of BGC-803 cells stably expressing H282R invaded the matrigel compared with the control cells (Fig. 1D). Therefore, CaMKII was able to promote gastric cancer metastasis.
CaMKII enhances MMP-9 production of gastric cancer cells
MMP-9 is known to have a crucial role in cancer cell metastasis (21,22), thus, it was investigated whether MMP-9 was involved in CaMKII-mediated promotion of migration and invasiveness. Firstly, the MMP-9 expression in KN-62-treated gastric cancer cells was measured and it was observed that the inhibition of CaMKII activity by KN-62 decreased MMP-9 expression in a time-dependent manner and peaked following treatment for 16 h as measured by PCR (Fig. 2A). Immunoblotting assays confirmed that KN-62 decreased the MMP-9 expression at the protein level (Fig. 2B). In addition, MMP-9 was released from KN-62-treated cells according to ELISA. MMP-9 production was decreased in KN-62-treated BGC-803 cells compared with the controls (Fig. 2C). Therefore, CaMKII inhibition suppressed MMP-9 expression and production.
CaMKII enhances NF-κB transcription and Akt activation, thereby promoting MMP-9 production
Several signaling pathways participate in cancer metastasis, including MAPK, phosphoinositide 3-phospate (PI3K)-Akt and NF-κB. CaMKII was recently demonstrated to be a central regulator of NF-κB activation in lymphocytes (23). To examine whether CaMKII affects NF-κB transcription activity in gastric cancer cells, phosphorylated IKBα, total IKBα and active NF-κB (p-p65) levels were measured by western blot analysis. As demonstrated in Fig. 3A, KN-62 decreased IKBα and p65 phosphorylation, and increased IKBα in BGC-803 cells. Using a luciferase reporter assay, it was identified that NF-κB transcription activation was inhibited by KN-62 (Fig. 3B). In addition, Akt activation was suppressed in KN-62-treated BGC-803 cells (Fig. 3A). Therefore, CaMKII increased NF-κB transcription and Akt activation in gastric cancer cells.
NF-κB is a key transcription factor for MMP-9 expression in physiological and pathological conditions (24), it was therefore important to examine whether NF-κB is involved in CaMKII-mediated upregulation of MMP-9 expression. It was identified that the overexpression of H282R increased MMP-9 production, and that PDTC, a specific NF-κB inhibitor, partly inhibited the H282R-mediated upregulation of MPP-9 production (Fig. 3C). It was also investigated whether Akt is involved in CaMKII-mediated upregulation of MMP-9 expression, it was identified that wortmanin, a specific Akt inhibitor, decreased H282R-mediated upregulation of MPP-9 production (Fig. 3D). Therefore, CaMKII upregulated MMP-9 in gastric cancer cells and this was dependent on NF-κB and Akt activation.
CaMKII activity was enhanced in metastatic gastric cancer
Next, the activation of CaMKII in gastric cancer tissues was observed. It was noted that 70% of the cases of gastric cancer with metastasis, including lymph node and/or lymphatic vessel metastasis, had higher CaMKII phosphorylation (at Thr286) compared with 20% of the cases of non-metastatic cancer (Fig. 4A). Next, CaMKII phosphorylation in diverse gastric cancer cell lines, which have greater capability of invasiveness was examined. The CaMKII phosphorylation was increased in four higher metastatic gastric cancer cell lines (MNK28, GBC-SD, BGC-803 and SGC-7901; Fig. 4B). These findings further confirm that CaMKII may be involved in gastric cancer metastasis and therefore targeting this kinase may represent a strategy for preventing gastric cancer metastasis.
Discussion
Cancer metastasis is an obstacle to cancer therapy and a leading cause of mortality for gastric cancer patients (2). To overcome and improve treatment outcomes, understanding the biological mechanisms of gastric cancer metastasis is required. To the best of our knowledge, the present study demonstrates for the first time that CaMKII promotes gastric cancer metastasis by upregulating NF-κB/Akt-dependent MMP-9 production.
To investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying pro-gastric cancer metastatic properties of CaMKII, MMP-9, a classic metastatic-prompting gene implicated in numerous types of human cancer for its ability to cleave various extracellular matrix molecules, was examined (25,26). CaMKII has been reported to regulate MMP-9 activity, as conferred by the evidence that CaMKII promotes MMP-9 expression in cardiomyocytes (27) and promotes vascular smooth muscle migration via the regulation of MMP-9 activity (15). In the present study, inhibition of CaMKII decreased MMP-9 expression and production, and the overexpression of H282R or constitutively activate CaMKII, increased MMP-9 production, which was consistent with the results of previous studies (15,27). Furthermore, CaMKII activity was observed to be increased in samples of metastatic gastric cancer, which also confirms the pro-metastatic biological function of CaMKII. Therefore, CaMKII enhances gastric cancer cell metastasis by increasing MMP-9 expression and production.
MMP-9 production is regulated by multiple signaling pathways (28–30). Previous studies have demonstrated that NF-κB is a key regulator of MMP-9 (31). The present data indicate that CaMKII upregulated MMP-9 expression, and inhibition of NF-κB activation eliminated CaMKII-mediated MMP-9 production. This suggests that CaMKII increased MMP-9 expression by enhancing NF-κB activation. A binding site for NF-κB has been reported to be the promoter of the MMP-9 gene, contributing to MMP-9 expression (32), a concept that supports the present findings that NF-κB-dependent CaMKII-mediated MMP-9 expression patterns. In addition, these data demonstrate that CaMKII-mediated MMP-9 expression was partly dependent on Akt activation. However, Further studies are required to elucidate the details of this regulatory mechanism
In conclusion, CaMKII enhanced gastric cancer cell metastasis by upregulating NF-κB-/Akt-dependent MMP-9 production. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that demonstrates that CaMKII is able to regulate gastric cancer metastasis. These data provide the theoretical basis for the development of CaMKII inhibitors to treat gastric cancer metastasis.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Dr Guanzhen Yu (Department of Pathology, Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China) for providing the gastric cancer specimens and technique assistance. The authors would also like to thank the Letpub group for providing language aid. This study was supported by a grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 31070789).
Abbreviations:
CaMKII |
calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II |
MAPK |
mitogen-activated protein kinase |
NF-κB |
nuclear factor-κB |
MMP |
matrix metalloproteinase |
MTT |
3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide |
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