Abstract
Metastasis and invasion occur in the majority of epithelial ovarian carcinoma at diagnosis. To delineate the molecular signature in ovarian cancer invasion, we established and characterized a human ovarian endometrioid carcinoma (EC) cell line OVTW59-P0 and its invasion-related sublines (P1-P4, in the order of increasing invasive activity). P4 showed faster migration and larger xenograft formation with metastasis than P0. By microarray analysis of different gene expression among P0-P4 sublines, one group of gene was found negatively correlated with cancer invasion. Among these genes, IGFBP-3 was identified as one of the most remarkably suppressed gene that showed lower gene expression in P4 than P0. Re-expression of IGFBP-3 in P4 effectively inhibited cell migration, invasion and metastasis, but did not affect cell proliferation. In 35 patients with EC tumors, low IGFBP-3 expression correlated clinically with higher tumor grade, advanced stage and poor survival. Our results provide evidence and indicate that IGFBP-3 plays an important role as an invasion-metastasis suppressor in ovarian EC.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2137-2147 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Oncogene |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 15 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 3 2008 |
Keywords
- Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3
- Invasion
- Ovarian endometrioid carcinoma
- Suppressor
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics
- Cancer Research