Abstract

For women in the United States, epithelial ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecological cancer and a leading cause of death. Women who carry mutations in the BRCA1 gene are at a high risk for development of sporadic ovarian cancers. In these cancers, BRCA1 dysfunction is common, and silencing of genes in the BRCA1 pathway is apparently involved in their development. BRCA1 and its isoform, BRCA1a, are nuclear-cytoplasm shuttling proteins, tDut the trafficking pathway that is deregulated in ovarian cancers, resulting in cytoplasmic localization of BRCA1, is currently unknown. We have found that wild-type nuclear BRCA1 and BRCA1a proteins inhibit growth of ovarian cancer cells; these proteins bind the nuclear chaperone, Ubc9, and degrade ER-alpha. In contrast, BRCA1/BRCA1a proteins with a cancer-causing C61G mutation or with the Ubc9 binding-site K109R mutation are mis-localized to the cytoplasm and have impaired capacity to inhibit growth of these cells.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Specialized Center--Cooperative Agreements (U54)
Project #
5U54CA118948-07
Application #
8555475
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1-SRLB-Y (O1))
Project Start
2005-09-30
Project End
2016-08-31
Budget Start
2012-09-01
Budget End
2013-08-31
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$24,593
Indirect Cost
$8,780

  Institution

Name
University of Alabama Birmingham
Department
Type
DUNS #
063690705
City
Birmingham
State
AL
Country
United States
Zip Code
35294

  Publications

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Akinyemiju, Tomi; Moore, Justin Xavier; Judd, Suzanne E et al. (2018) Pre-diagnostic biomarkers of metabolic dysregulation and cancer mortality. Oncotarget 9:16099-16109
Moore, Justin Xavier; Akinyemiju, Tomi; Wang, Henry E (2017) Pollution and regional variations of lung cancer mortality in the United States. Cancer Epidemiol 49:118-127
Wang, Chiung-Min; Wang, Raymond X; Liu, Runhua et al. (2017) Jun Dimerization Protein 2 Activates Mc2r Transcriptional Activity: Role of Phosphorylation and SUMOylation. Int J Mol Sci 18:
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Williams, Samuel K; Braxton, Joanne M; Gosdin, Melissa et al. (2017) Evidence-Based Care for the Elderly: Uses of ""the Grandmother Principle"". J Health Care Poor Underserved 28:7

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