The mechanism and influence on the biological behavior of human high-metastatic large cell lung cancer cell lines with transfection of nm23-H1 gene

Abstract

Background and objective It has been confirmed that nm23-H1 gene is one of the tumor metastasis suppressor genes. Up to now, the exact mechanism of nm23-H1 gene is uncertian. The aim of this study is to compare the biological behavior changes among three human high-metastatic large cell lung cancer cell lines which transfected and untransfected nm23-H1 gene, and to study the mechanism of nm23-H1 gene supressing the metastasis. Methods Boyden Chamber and MTT method were used to detect the rates of invasion and proliferation among different human pulmonary carcinoma cells of transfected and untransfected nm23-H1 gene; meanwhile The three lung cancer cell lines were treated with PKC inhibitor Calphostin C, and the above measurements were also performed. Results The ability of invasion and proliferation of L9981 and L9981-PLXSN human high-metastatic large cell lung cancer cells,which lack of nm23-H1gene, was higher than that of L9981-nm23-H1 human high-metastatic large cell line, which transfected with nm23-H1gene (P0.05). After treated with PKC inhibitor Calphstin C，the invasion and proliferation ability of three lung cancer cell lines were obviously go down (P0.05). Conclusion Our data suggest that nm23-H1 gene can significantly inhibit the cell proliferation and invasion in L9981 lung cancer line. The effect of nm23-H1 might be correlated with downregulation of PKC signal transduction in human high-metastatic large cell lung cancer cell line.

Keywords

• nm23-H1
• Protein kinase C
• Lung neoplasms
• Invasion
• Metastasis