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NHERF1, a novel GPER associated protein, increases stability and activation of GPER in ER-positive breast cancer

Meng, Ran, Qin, Qiong, Xiong, Ying, Wang, Yan, Zheng, Junfang, Zhao, Yuan, Tao, Tao, Wang, Qiqi, Liu, Hua, Wang, Songlin, Jiang, Wen Guo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3283-1111 and He, Junqi 2016. NHERF1, a novel GPER associated protein, increases stability and activation of GPER in ER-positive breast cancer. Oncotarget 7 (34) , pp. 54983-54997. 10.18632/oncotarget.10713

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Abstract

G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) plays an important role in mediating the effects of estradiol. High levels of GPER have been implicated to associate with the malignant progress of invasive breast cancer (IBC). However, the mechanisms by which GPER protein levels were regulated remain unclear. In this study, PDZ protein Na+/H+ exchanger regulatory factor (NHERF1) was found to interact with GPER in breast cancer cells. This interaction was mediated by the PDZ2 domain of NHERF1 and the carboxyl terminal PDZ binding motif of GPER. NHERF1 was demonstrated to facilitate GPER expression at post-transcriptional level and improve GPER protein stability by inhibiting the receptor degradation via ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in a GPER/NHERF1 interaction-dependent manner. In addition, GPER protein levels are positively associated with NHERF1 protein levels in a panel of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer cells. Furthermore, analysis of clinical IBC data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) showed no significant difference in GPER mRNA levels between ER-positive IBC and normal breast tissues. However, gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) showed that GPER signaling is ultra-activated in ER-positive IBC when compared with normal and its activation is positively associated with NHERF1 mRNA levels. Taken together, our findings identify NHERF1 as a new binding partner for GPER and its overexpression promotes protein stability and activation of GPER in ER-positive IBC. Our data indicate that regulation of GPER stability by NHERF1 may contribute to GPER-mediated carcinogenesis in ER-positive IBC.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: Impact Journals LLC
ISSN: 1949-2553
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 23 November 2016
Date of Acceptance: 12 June 2016
Last Modified: 02 May 2023 11:09
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/93388

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