Naturally Occurring Variants of Human Α9 Nicotinic Receptor Differentially Affect Bronchial Cell Proliferation and Transformation
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Isolation of polyadenilated mRNA from human immortalized bronchial epithelial cell line BEP2D revealed the presence of multiple isoforms of RNA coded by the CHRNA9 gene for α9 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR). BEP2D cells were homozygous for the rs10009228 polymorphism encoding for N442S amino acid substitution, and also contained mRNA coding for several truncated isoforms of α9 protein. To elucidate the biologic significance of the naturally occurring variants of α9 nAChR, we compared the biologic effects of overexpression of full-length α9 N442 and S442 proteins, and the truncated α9 variant occurring due to a loss of the exon 4 sequence that causes frame shift and early termination of the translation. These as well as control vector were overexpressed in the BEP2D cells that were used in the assays of proliferation rate, spontaneous vs. tobacco nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)-induced cellular transformation, and tumorigenicity in cell culture and mice. Overexpression of the S442 variant significantly increased cellular proliferation, and spontaneous and NNK-induced transformation. The N442 variant significantly decreased cellular transformation, without affecting proliferation rate. Overexpression of the truncated α9 significantly decreased proliferation and suppressed cellular transformation. These results suggested that α9 nAChR plays important roles in regulation of bronchial cell growth by endogenous acetylcholine and exogenous nicotine, and susceptibility to NNK-induced carcinogenic transformation. The biologic activities of α9 nAChR may be regulated at the splicing level, and genetic polymorphisms in CHRNA9 affecting protein levels, amino acid sequence and RNA splicing may influence the risk for lung cancer.
- University of California, Irvine United States
- University of California, San Francisco United States
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Male, epithelial-cells, susceptibility locus, Sequence Homology, Gene Expression, Mice, SCID, Receptors, Nicotinic, Cell Transformation, Nicotinic, Mice, Receptors, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Protein Isoforms, subunit, Aetiology, Lung, Cancer, Sequence Deletion, Heterologous, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Lung Cancer, Q, R, Biological Sciences, Tumor Burden, Amino Acid, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Medicine, alpha-7-nicotinic receptor, Biotechnology, Research Article, Nitrosamines, General Science & Technology, Science, Molecular Sequence Data, cholinergic system, SCID, Cell Line, Genetic, expression, Tobacco, Genetics, Animals, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Polymorphism, Cell Proliferation, Neoplastic, Transplantation, Polymorphism, Genetic, Tobacco Smoke and Health, Genetic Variation, Alternative Splicing, Amino Acid Substitution, congenital myasthenic syndrome, lung-cancer, activation, acetylcholine-receptor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Neoplasm Transplantation
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