US20130183673A1 - New markers for the epithelial and proliferative or mesenchymal invasive phenotype of human neoplasias - Google Patents

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US20130183673A1 US13/816,339 US201013816339A US2013183673A1 US 20130183673 A1 US20130183673 A1 US 20130183673A1 US 201013816339 A US201013816339 A US 201013816339A US 2013183673 A1 US2013183673 A1 US 2013183673A1
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  • the present invention was granted a foreign filing license issued by the Ministero dello sviluppo economico UIBM, on the 30, Apr. 2010, Protocol number 40718.
  • the present invention relates to a new Ena/VASP protein isoform, uses thereof, diagnostic methods and kits comprising the same.
  • Carcinogenesis and progression of a tumour lesion are characterized by different gene expression patterns. These expression patterns are defined by different splice-variants and in particular, alternative splicing events frequently affect genes controlling the cytoskeleton organization in tumour cells (Wang G S, Cooper T A. 2007; Gardina P J et al. 2006).
  • Enabled/vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein are key regulatory molecules controlling cell shape, movement and in particular, actin organization. These proteins target the F-actin network and play an important role in cell migration in a number of cell types and organisms.
  • Ena/VASP proteins are characterized by a highly conserved N-ter EVH1 domain mediating intracellular localization, a central proline rich domain interacting with the G-actin binding protein profillin, SH3 and WW domains of signalling proteins and a C-Terminal EVH2 domain by which the Ena/VASP proteins tetramerize which also possess the functional F-actin binding domain.
  • Ena/VASP proteins are involved in actin based movement of cells such as fibroblasts (Bear J E et al. 2002) as well as in cell adhesion (Scott J A, et al. 2006).
  • Ena/VASP proteins can regulate distinct modes of actin organization at cadherin-adhesive contacts and a fine regulation of their expression is necessary for a correct actin network.
  • Mena is a member of Ena/VASP family which includes Mena, VASP and Evl, all key regulators of actin dynamics (Krause M, et al. 2003).
  • the analysis of the antibody repertoire specific for the molecules expressed by her autologous tumor of a long surviving breast cancer patient have allowed the isolation of the human ortholog of Mena (hMena) as a tumor antigen stimulating an antibody response in cancer patient and not in healthy donors (Di Modugno et al 2004).
  • Mena is up regulated in mouse and rat invasive breast cancer cells (Wang et al. 2004) and overexpressed in human breast cancer tissues where it represents an early marker of breast cancerogenesis (Di Modugno et al. 2006).
  • hMena+11a isoform includes an additional 21.aa peptide in the EVH2 domain of the protein, is phosphorylated following EGF and NRG1 treatment and characterizes the epithelial phenotype of breast cancer cell lines (Di Modugno F et al. 2007).
  • hMena11a isoform expression characterizes pancreatic cancer cell lines showing the epithelial marker E-Cadherin expression, EGFR dependency and sensibility to Erlotinib treatment (Pino M S et al. 2008; and patent WO2009150494).
  • This isoform expression has been recently reported to be regulated by Epithelial Splicing Regulatory Proteins 1 and 2 (ESRP1 and ESRP2), coordinators of an epithelial cell-type-specific splicing program (Warzecha C C et al. 2009).
  • hMena ⁇ v6 SEQ ID No 1
  • the mere sequence of the new isoform, without any further indication, has been published by the authors on GenBank, Accession n. EU255274 entry.
  • hMena ⁇ v6 cDNA encodes a protein of 533aa that lacks an internal peptide of 37aa located between the LERER and the Proline-rich region of hMena ( FIG. 1 ).
  • the inventors have found that the cells showing a migratory ability such as normal fibroblasts and mesenchymal invasive tumor cells express the new isoform variant of hMena, namely hMena ⁇ v6 or ⁇ v6 isoform of hMena in the present description.
  • the present description provides for the first time the use for diagnostic and medical purposes of said new variant, wherein said expression of said variant is analysed in combination with the hMena11a expression.
  • hMena ⁇ v6 expression together with hMena11a lack of expression are associated to migratory and invasive ability of cells and that hMena ⁇ v6 is alternatively expressed with respect to the hMena11 form, i.e. cells expressing hMena ⁇ v6 do not express hMena11a and vice versa.
  • hMena11a expression related to the expression hMena ⁇ v6 represents a powerful prognostic factor and usefully complements clinical parameters to accurately predict individual patient risk.
  • an object of the description is a method for predicting the proliferative or invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic lesion or of a neoplastic lesion comprising the step of
  • Object of the present invention is also a method for predicting the proliferative or invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic lesion or of a neoplastic lesion comprising the step of
  • a further object of the present description is a kit for predicting the proliferative or invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion comprising reagents for detecting the expression of hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 splicing variants in a biological sample of said pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion.
  • hMena ⁇ v6 isoform interacts with the other hMena isoforms and with other members of Ena/VASP family to form functional tetramers which regulate actin cytoskeleton dynamics Inhibition of hMena ⁇ v6 inclusion into the tetramers or exogeneous inclusion of hMena11a may change the function of the tetramer in terms of actin network and ultimately in the ability of the cell to invade.
  • the present invention also provide a method for the detection of antibodies specific for each hMena isoform from the sera of preneoplastic or neoplastic cancer patients, using recombinant proteins or peptides peculiar of each hMena isoforms new and/or available in the art and conventional ELISA tests.
  • the findings disclosed in the present application not only allow the prediction of the proliferative or invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic or of a neoplastic lesion, hence offering the advantage of defining an efficacious medical treatment since the early stage of the tumour development, but also prove the therapeutic effects of inhibitors or blockers of the hMena ⁇ v6 isoform, wherein the inhibition of either the expression or of the activity or of the oligomerisation of the hMena ⁇ v6 isoform directly inhibits the invasive behaviour of cells and tissues expressing said isoform.
  • FIG. 1 hMena ⁇ v6 isoform variant.
  • A Diagrammatic representation of hMena ⁇ v6 protein isoform. Protein domains are indicated with the enumeration of relative amino acids. Sequence and position of peptide V6, absent in hMena ⁇ v6 isoform is indicated.
  • RT-PCR performed with primers (MTC1f and MTC4r) flanking the region of alternative splicing on MDAMB231; BT549; MCF7 and SBT RNA.
  • primers MTC1f and MTC4r
  • PCR experiment was also done on the pcDNA3.1 vectors containing the three hMena variants. PCR products were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining.
  • FIG. 2 hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 are alternatively expressed and correlate with an epithelial or mesenchymal and phenotype respectively.
  • hMena11a All the breast and lung cancer cell lines expressing hMena11a show a concomitant expression of E-Cadherin. Conversely, the lack of hMena11a expression is always correlated with the absence of E-Cadherin the expression of the mesenchymal markers as N-Cadherin and the expression of hMena ⁇ v6 iso form.
  • FIG. 3 hMena ⁇ v6 is required for invasion of breast cancer cell lines.
  • Matrigel invasion assay performed on BT549 cells transfected with the indicated siRNA.
  • the ability of invasion has been measured during the last 24 h of transfection by the use of Matrigel coated transwell filters (BD Biosciences) toward a gradient of EGF or serum.
  • the assay was repeated three times each time performed in triplicate. Histograms represent the mean of invading cells counted in ten different fields ⁇ SD. Representative images are shown.
  • Inset Western blot analysis of lysates of BT549 cells collected following 72 h of siRNA transfection. The experiment reported in this figure demonstrates that the knock down of hMena isoforms in invasive breast tumor cells expressing hMena/hMenaDv6 significantly reduces the invasive behaviour of the cells.
  • FIG. 4 hMena ⁇ v6 transfection increases the invasive ability of breast tumor cells only in the absence of hMena11a.
  • Matrigel invasion assay performed on MDA-MB-231 (hMena11a negative, hMena/hMena ⁇ v6 positive), DAL (expressing an undetectable levels of hMena isoforms) and MCF7 (hMena/hMena11a positive, hMena ⁇ v6 negative) cells stably transfected with the empty vector or hMena ⁇ v6 toward serum.
  • the ability of invasion has been measured by the use of Matrigel coated transwell filters (BD Biosciences) toward a gradient of serum.
  • Results shown indicate that hMena ⁇ v6 overexpression increases the invasive behaviour of the hMena11a negative MDAMB231 and DAL cells, but has no effect on hMena11a positive MCF7 cells.
  • the assay was repeated three times each time performed in triplicate. Histograms represent the mean of invading cells counted in ten different fields ⁇ SD. Western blot analysis of lysates of transfected cells indicating the efficiency of hMenaDv6 transfection are shown on the top of the histograms.
  • FIG. 5 hMena 11a transfection inhibits invasion and directional migration of breast cancer cell lines and determine a dramatic reorganization of actin cytoskeleton.
  • FIG. 6 Characterization of hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 specific antibodies for immunohistochemical analysis. Pretreatment with specific peptide abolishes immunohistochemical reactivity of hMena isoforms' antibodies.
  • FIG. 7 Representative immunohistochemical analysis of consecutive sections of two invasive breast tumor tissues.
  • the case reported in panel A is positive for the staining with pan-hMena and expresses hMena11a, but is negative for hMenaDv6.
  • the case reported in panel B is positive for the staining with pan-hMena and expresses hMenaDv6, but is negative for hMena11a.
  • the tumour is an epithelial tumour.
  • the method for detecting both said splicing variants is carried out by detection of the corresponding protein by immunohistochemistry.
  • the detection of hMena splicing variants is carried out by detecting transcription products comprising SEQ ID 8 or fragments thereof and transcription products comprising the junction between exon 5 and 7 of hMena.
  • the present description discloses a method for predicting the proliferative or invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic lesion or of a neoplastic lesion comprising the step of
  • the present inventors have identified a new hMena splicing variant in a human breast cancer cell line with a mesenchymal phenotype.
  • Said splicing variant (GEN BANK NO EU255274) has been called the human Mena ⁇ v6 and is characterized, compared to hMena, by the lack of the internal exon 6 of 111 nucleotides ( FIG. 1 A).
  • the hMena ⁇ v6 has the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 coding for the protein isoform ⁇ v6 of SEQ ID NO:2 and lacks an internal peptide of 37 aa located between the LERER domain and the Pro-rich region of hMena.
  • Exon 6 spans from nucleotide 803 to nucleotide 813 included of SEQ ID No 6 coding hMena11a.
  • the sequence coding for hMena 11a is identical to hMena sequence up to nucleotide 1540.
  • the expression “invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic or of a neoplastic lesion” refers to pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesions comprising cells that tend to leave the primary tumor and to acquire migratory and invasive capabilities, spread and migrate form an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body.
  • pre neoplastic lesion refers to lesions preceding the formation of a malignant neoplasm, i.e. a lesion from which a malignant tumour is presumed to develop in a significant number of instances and that may or may not be recognizable clinically or by microscopic changes in the affected tissue, i.e. a condition that tends to become malignant but does not necessarily do so.
  • neoplastic lesion refers to a lesion pertaining to a neoplasm or a neoplasia, i.e. an abnormal growth of cells, which may lead to a neoplasm, or tumor.
  • hMena11a is expressed in the cells showing an epithelial phenotype, i.e. cells expressing the major component of the epithelial adherent junctions E-Cadherin
  • hMena ⁇ v6 is only present in cells showing a migratory ability, such as fibroblasts and tumor cells, lacking E-Cadherin and hMena11a expression but expressing the mesenchymal marker N-Cadherin and or vimentin.
  • hMena ⁇ v6 expression is always correlated with the presence of hMena11a and the expression of markers such as E-Cadherin.
  • the neoplastic lesion can be a tumour originating from any tissue of the body;
  • the lesion can be a tumour selected from the group comprising: pancreatic, breast, colorectal, gastric, ovarian, lung, prostate, urothelial, head and neck, esophageal, skin tumour including melanoma.
  • Biological sample comprising lesion cells within the meaning of the invention means a specimen of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion tissue, pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion cells or blood free-circulating neoplastic cells collected from samples of body fluids such as blood, serum, lymphatic liquid.
  • the said biological samples may be obtained form subjects by standard techniques, such as biopsy, surgery or aspiration, well known to the person skilled in the art.
  • the method of the invention can also be carried out on blood samples of patients, in order to detect the presence of circulating tumour cells (CTC) i.e. cells of the neoplastic lesion that are freely circulating in blood.
  • CTC circulating tumour cells
  • Said cells in fact, can be detected in the peripheral blood of patients with a variety of solid cancers. Because of their very low frequency, these tumour cells are not easily detected using conventional cytology methods.
  • numerous groups have attempted to detect CTC of solid malignancies using the highly sensitive reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, which has been shown to be superior to conventional techniques.
  • the biological significance of CTC and the therapeutic relevance of their detection are still debated.
  • the method herein described allows identifying CTC of tumours that are proliferating or invasive thus enabling also researchers to further investigate the potential of identification and molecular characterization of the subset of CTC responsible for metastasis development.
  • the prognostic value of CTC would provide clinicians with a unique tool for better stratification of patients' risk and provide basic researchers with a new target for the development of novel therapeutic approaches.
  • the method of the invention advantageously enables the detection of a large group of CTC of different tumours.
  • the detection of said two splicing variants may be carried out at different stages of the expression process.
  • hMena variants either by detecting the expressed protein iso forms or by detecting the transcription products, namely the spliced transcript mRNA of hMena variants or alternatively the cDNA obtained by reverse transcription of said mRNA. Therefore, said detection can be carried out by detecting directly or indirectly either nucleotide sequences or amino acid sequences of hMena variants.
  • the hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 expression shall be normalized with respect to other proteins or transcription products whose expression does not change in proliferative or invasive/metastatic tumors. Examples of such controls include hMena isoform (88 kDa) and VASP.
  • Methods suitable for the detection are either qualitative or quantitative ones.
  • the detection of one or both said splicing variants is carried out identifying the protein variants by immunohistochemistry or immunocytochemistry.
  • immunohistochemistry or immunocytochemistry allows the localization of a target antigen in cells, tissues etc. by using an antibody and exploiting the specific antigen-antibody interaction. Therefore some suitable methods for the detection of hMena variants by direct cellular analysis with immunochemistry techniques are, for illustrative purposes, western blot, immunofluorescence techniques etc.
  • the immunohistochemistry is carried out directly on a tissue sample and as well known by the skilled person; all the stages of this technique are described in detail in most laboratory manuals.
  • the method according to the present invention may be carried out by using a polyclonal or a monoclonal antibody or an immunologically active fragment thereof specific for the isoform 11a of the hMena protein for hMena11a detection and a polyclonal or a monoclonal antibody or an immunologically active fragment thereof specific for the isoform ⁇ v6 of the hMena protein for hMena ⁇ v6 detection.
  • the polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies can be obtained by the skilled person following standard techniques, by way of example, by immunising rabbits, or mice, or other suitable animals so to obtain antibodies specific for the desired variants.
  • the animals can be immunised, by way of example, with an immunogenic peptide specific for hMena 11a, e.g. a peptide comprising or comprised in exon 11a of SEQ ID NO:9 or an antigenic portion of hMena11a SEQ ID NO:7 specific for hMena 11a or by conformational epitopes specific for the desired isoform.
  • the animals can be immunised, by way of example, with an immunogenic peptide specific for hMena ⁇ v6 e.g. with a peptide encoded by a fragment of SEQ ID NO 1 comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 or with an antigenic portion of SEQ ID NO:2 specific for hMena ⁇ v6 or with any suitable immunopeptide specific for hMena ⁇ v6 as the peptide of SEQ ID NO:3 or by conformational epitopes specific for the desired isoform.
  • an immunogenic peptide specific for hMena ⁇ v6 e.g. with a peptide encoded by a fragment of SEQ ID NO 1 comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 or with an antigenic portion of SEQ ID NO:2 specific for hMena ⁇ v6 or with any suitable immunopeptide specific for hMena ⁇ v6 as the peptide of SEQ ID NO:3 or by conformational epitopes specific for
  • said antibody or fragment thereof specific for the hMena11a isoform is specific for an epitope comprised in or consisting of SEQ ID NO 9 and said antibody or fragment thereof specific for the hMena ⁇ v6 isoform is specific for an epitope comprised in or consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO:3.
  • An effective polyclonal antibody for carrying out the methods herein described can be obtained by immunising rabbits with the antigen conjugated with a protein carrier such as for example KLH or BSA.
  • the immune sera thus obtained can be purified by affinity chromatography for example on Sepharose resin CnBr conjugated with the immunogenic peptide.
  • the immunogenic peptide used in affinity chromatography for purifying anti-hMena ⁇ v6 may be, by way of example, the peptide of SEQ ID NO: 4.
  • the anti-hMena11a or the hMena ⁇ v6 thus obtained will specifically recognise the hMena11a or the hMena ⁇ v6 isoform without cross reacting with other hMena isoforms.
  • Suitable monoclonal antibodies can be manufactured by ablating the spleen of animals immunised with the above described immunogens and by fusing the spleen cells with mieloma cells in order to form an hybridome that, once cultured, will produce the monoclonal antibody.
  • the antibody can be an IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG or IgM.
  • the IgA antibody can be an IgA1 or IgA2, the IgG can be an IgG1, IgG2, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3 or IgG4.
  • a combination of antibodies subtypes can be used.
  • the antibody can be a human, mouse, goat or rabbit antibody.
  • the antibodies can be humanised by using standard techniques of recombinant DNA known to the skilled person.
  • the term antibody encompasses whole antibodies and fragment thereof wherein the fragment specifically binds to one of the said hMena protein isoforms.
  • the fragment according to the present description can be, without being limited to it, a F(ab′)2 fragment, a Fab′ fragment or single chained antibodies.
  • Aptamers may also be used in order to detect the hMena protein isoforms.
  • Aptamers are single strand oligonucleotides that bind to a particular target molecule, such as a protein.
  • aptamers are functionally similar to antibodies.
  • Aptamers that bind a target molecule can be selected using, for example, the SELEX process or the like.
  • the reagent binding the hMena isoforms can be complexed with a detectable marker or alternatively be detectable itself by a second labelled reagent such as a second antibody.
  • the labelling can be carried out through many know techniques including but not limited to, peroxydase, chemoluminescence, radioactive markers.
  • the marker can be a non radioactive or a fluorescent marker such as biotin, fluorescein (FITC), acridine, carboxy-X-rhodamine and others known to the skilled person, that can be detected by means if fluorescence techniques or other image analysis techniques.
  • the marker can be a radioisotope emitting radiations such as, by way of example 35 S, 32 P, o 3 H.
  • the emitted radioactivity can be detected by means of know standard techniques, such as, by way of example, scintigraphy.
  • hMena splice variants can be also carried out at transcriptional level.
  • transcription products such as mRNA or the relative cDNA.
  • Protocols to obtain mRNA or cDNA from a sample comprising cells of interest are well known by the skilled person and furthermore they are described in detail in laboratory manuals and in commercially available kits for mRNA extraction and cDNA amplification.
  • the detection of transcription products may be carried out by any suitable method such as northern blot, microarray, PCR, Real-Time PCR, hybridization on solid support etc.
  • the detection of one or both said splicing variants is carried out by detecting transcription products comprising SEQ ID NO 8 or fragments thereof for the detection of the hMena11a variant and transcription products comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1 for the detection of the hMena ⁇ v6 variant.
  • the expression of the hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 splicing variants can be detected by nucleic acids hybridisation analysis using one or more probes hybridising in a specific manner with the mRNA or cDNA of said variants.
  • the detection is carried out by hybridising the mRNA or cDNA obtained from the sample with a labelled oligonucleotide comprising SEQ ID NO 8 and/or its complementary sequence or a fragment thereof and with another labelled oligonucleotide comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1 or and/or of their complementary nucleotides in the sequence complementary to SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the oligonucleotide may be DNA or RNA and may be prepared by a variety of techniques known to those skilled in the art, including, without limitation, restriction enzyme digestion of hMena variants, automated synthesis of oligonucleotides. It is clear that the skilled person, knowing the nucleotide sequences (SEQ ID NO 6 of hMena11a and the sequence of exon 11a SEQ ID NO 8 and SEQ ID NO 1 of hMena ⁇ v6 and the exact sequence of the exon 5 and exon 7 junction comprised between nucleotides 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1) will be capable, without use of inventive skill, to design probes suitable for carrying out the hybridization method.
  • the oligonucleotides for hybridisation may be vary in length form about 8 nucleotides to the entire sequence SEQ ID NO 8 for hMena 11a detection and may vary from nucleotides 797 to 807 (plus or minus one nucleotide per side) to a fragment of about 10-500 nucleotides of SEQ ID NO 1 comprising nucleotides 797-807 according to the specific hybridization technique used.
  • the length of the probe can be a length suitable for hybridisation. Suitable length can be between, by way of example, 500 and 10 nucleotides, such as about 400, 300, 200, 150, 100, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 nucleotides, as known to the skilled person.
  • the hybridization may be carried out by different methods such as northern blot (for RNA detection), southern blot (for cDNA detection), hybridization on a solid phase, i.e. on a solid support such as microtiter, microarray chip and the like.
  • the detection is due to a luminous signal in correspondence to the hybridization between the target molecules or fragments thereof and the corresponding probe.
  • a solid support such as microtiter, microarray chip and the like.
  • the detection of one of both hMena variants, when carrying out hybridization on solid support is due to the luminous signal (emitted by a fluorophore) in correspondence to the hybridization between the target molecule labelled and the corresponding probe bound on the support.
  • Each variant will be labelled with a different fluorophore in order to enable direct indentification of the variant expressed.
  • oligonucleotide probes are labelled in southern and northern blot techniques.
  • Protocols suitable for carrying out any of these hybridization techniques are described in details in laboratory manuals and the skilled person will be capable, without use of inventive skill, to carry out the detection of hMena variants according to this embodiment of the invention.
  • said detection is carried out by PCR by amplifying the mRNA or cDNA obtained from the sample with a primer pair amplifying SEQ ID 8 or a fragment thereof and with another primer pair amplifying a fragment of SEQ ID NO 1 comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the skilled person knowing the nucleotide sequences (SEQ ID NO 6, SEQ ID NO 8, SEQ ID NO 1, and sequence from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1) will be capable to design primers suitable for carrying out the amplification.
  • the primers may be labelled with detectable markers such as fluorophores and others known to the skilled person in order to identify the specific amplicons, by way of example, after an RT-PCR.
  • the detection of amplicons related to more than one variant, obtained by PCR carried out with unlabelled primers may be possible by designing, as well known to the skilled person, primers capable of amplifying sequences with a different number of nucleotides.
  • the obtained amplicons may be detected by their different migration pattern on electrophoresis gel.
  • the detection of the target sequence is based on to the study of melting curves so, indifferently from the method used for the revelation, the obtained amplicons may be of the same length.
  • the present description also provides a method for predicting the proliferative or invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic lesion or of a neoplastic lesion comprising the step of detecting in vitro or in vivo the presence of antibodies specific for hMena11a and antibodies specific for hMena ⁇ v6 isoforms of hMena in a body fluid sample.
  • the term antibody encompasses whole antibodies and fragment thereof specifically capable of binding to one of the said hMena protein isoforms or fragments thereof.
  • detectable antibodies useful for carring out the method above described are detectable antibodies capable of reconizing and specifically binding SEQ ID NO 2 or fragments thereof, SEQ ID NO 9, SEQ ID NO 7 or fragments thereof or SEQ ID NO 10.
  • Detecting the presence of antibodies specific for hMena11a and not of hMena ⁇ v6 isoforms in a body fluid sample indicates a proliferative behaviour of a pre neoplastic lesion or of a neoplastic lesion, whereas detecting the presence of antibodies specific for hMena ⁇ v6 and not of hMena11a indicates an invasive behaviour of said lesion.
  • said lesion is a neoplastic lesion and said lesion is selected from the group comprising: pancreatic, breast, colorectal, gastric, ovarian, lung, prostate, urothelial, head and neck, esophageal and skin tumours including melanoma.
  • the antibodies specific for said hMena isoforms can be deteteable in a body fluid sample.
  • Body fluids suitable for carring out the method above comprie blood, serum, breast milk, peritoneal fluid, pleural fluid, pericardial fuid, lymph.
  • the present description also discloses a kit for carrying out the method of the invention.
  • the kit herein described allows predicting the proliferative or invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion by detecting the expression of hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 isoforms in a biological sample of said pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion or cells thereof.
  • kit of the present description will comprise reagents suitable for the detection of both variants and optionally positive and negative controls.
  • the kit will comprise a polyclonal or a monoclonal antibody or an immunologically active fragment thereof specific for the isoform 11a of the hMena protein and a polyclonal or a monoclonal antibody or an immunologically active fragment thereof specific for the isoform ⁇ v6 of the hMena protein.
  • the antibody or antibodies of the kit can be aliquoted in one or more vials, in master solutions or ready-to-use solutions, they can be labelled in any of the above described manners.
  • the kit of the invention can further comprise the reagents suitable for the detection of said antibody. All the labelling options are well-known in the art and the detection protocols and reagents are also well known to the skilled person.
  • the antibody or fragment thereof specific for the hMena11a isoform is specific for an epitope comprised in SEQ ID NO 9 or any other epitope specific for hMena11a isoform, and wherein said antibody or fragment thereof specifically binds a protein having SEQ ID NO: 2 or any other epitope specific for the hMena ⁇ v6 isoform or a peptide having SEQ ID No 3
  • the kit can comprise a labelled oligonucleotide comprising SEQ ID 8 and/or its complementary sequence or a fragment thereof and another labelled oligonucleotide comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1 or and/or their complementary nucleotides in the sequence complementary to SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the probes can be designed in order to hybridise to the sense or the antisense strand, and will comprise a region of at least part of the sequence coding for hMena11a cDNA said region comprising SEQ ID NO 8 or a region of at least part of the sequence coding for hMenaA6 cDNA said region comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the labelling can be any suitable labelling indicated above.
  • the kit may hence further comprise reagents suitable for the detection of the labelled probe.
  • the kit can comprise a primer pair amplifying SEQ ID 8 or a fragment thereof and another primer pair amplifying a fragment of SEQ ID NO 1 comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the kit may further comprise further reagents suitable for the detection of the expression of hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 splicing variants such as buffers, supports, gels, membranes and others.
  • the kit of the present invention can comprise any and all reagents necessary for carrying out one or more of the detection methods described above.
  • Reagents may be one o more aliquots of suitable buffers (Tris buffer), dNTPs, Taq polymerase, MgCl 2 , reverse transcriptase, microarray, microtiter, gels, membranes, specific enzymes etc.
  • the kit of the present invention may be a partial kit which comprises only a part of the necessary reagents or enzymes an in this case the users may provide the remaining components.
  • the kit may comprise means for carrying out one or more methods described above.
  • the kit may include microtiter, solid suppor, precasting gels (electrophoresis gel, northern gel, southern gel) etc.
  • the kit may further comprise positive and/or negative control samples such as ready to use tissue or cell samples expressing hMena 11a or hMena ⁇ v6 fixed or fresh hMena isoform transfected or knock down tumor cells or tumor cell lysates and/or cDNA from cells and or tissues expressing hMena 11a or of hMena ⁇ v6.
  • the samples can be provided for both isoforms or for one of the two isoforms.
  • the presence of positives and/or negative controls will allow the user to verify the effectiveness of the reagents and the presence of a possible background signal in the detection assay.
  • the invention also provides a nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 coding for the ⁇ v6 isoform of hMena or fragments thereof said fragments comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1 or the complementary sequence of SEQ ID No 1 or of said fragments.
  • nucleotide sequences may be used as a diagnostic tool, for example, to identify, to determine the nature, the cause, the behaviour (proliferative or invasive behaviour) of a pre neoplastic lesion or of a neoplastic lesion.
  • Another embodiment of the invention is an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 coding for the ⁇ v6 isoform of hMena or fragments thereof comprising the amino acids from 267 to 270.
  • amino acid sequences as the corresponding nucleotide sequences, may be used as a diagnostic tool or for the preparation of isoform specific antibodies or aptamers.
  • An embodiment of the present invention is also a polyclonal or monoclonal antibody or fragments thereof specifically binding a protein having SEQ ID NO: 2 or an epitope specific for hMena ⁇ v6 isoform or a peptide having SEQ ID No 3.
  • Said polyclonal or monoclonal antibody or fragments thereof may be used as a medicament.
  • the expression “as a medicament” means, in present decription, that said antibody is capable to modify the functionality or oligomerization of hMena ⁇ v6 protein and then causing an alteration of actin cytoskeleton of the cell both in vivo and in vitro thus inhibiting its invasive behaviour.
  • the invention still further provides a siRNA specific for SEQ ID No 1 or a fragment thereof comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1 as a medicament.
  • RNA interference is a process by which double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is used to silence gene expression.
  • dsRNA double-stranded RNA
  • siRNAs small interfering RNAs
  • a single dsRNA is incorporated into a ribonucleoprotein complex known as RNA-induced silence complex (RISC).
  • RISC uses the antisense strand (or guide strand) of siRNA to identify mRNA molecules that are at least partially complementary to said siRNA strand, and then inhibits their translation. Therefore, the other siRNA strand, known as passenger strand or sense strand, is eliminated from the siRNA as it is partially homologus to the target mRNA.
  • RISC-mediated cleavege of mRNA having a sequene at least partially complementery to the guide strand leads to descrease in the steady level of that mRNA and of the corresponding protein encoded by this mRNA.
  • RISC can also descrease expression of a protein via translation repression without cleavage of mRNA molecule.
  • the present invention relates to the use of interfering RNA to inhibit or reduce the expression of hMena, in particular hMena ⁇ v6 splicing variant by either cleaving or repressing translation of hMena ⁇ v6 mRNA.
  • the skilled person in the art can readly deduce the mRNA sequence of hMena ⁇ v6 from the corresponding DNA sequence of SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the mRNA sequence is identical to the DNA sense strand sequence with “T” bases replaced with “U” bases. Therefore, the mRNA sequence of hMena is known from SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the siRNA has a sense strand identical to SEQ ID NO 1 or a fragment thereof comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1.
  • Suitable siRNAs for hMena ⁇ v6 can be designed using avaible design tools such as Ambion o Genscript programs freely available online at: http://www.ambion.com/techlib/misc/siRNA_finder.html http://www.genscript.com/design_center.html) or can be ordered to specialized commercial suppliers. Techiques for selecting suitable siRNA are provided by Tuschl, T et al. “The siRNA user guide” available on the Rockefeller University web site; and by other web-based design tools at, for example, Invitrogen, Integrated DNA Techologies, Genscript web site.
  • Designed siRNAs corresponding to the target molecule may be tested by measuring the mRNA levels or corresponding protein levels in the cells treated with said siRNAs, by techiniques well known to the skilled person such, for example, western blot, PCR etc.
  • a siRNA according to the present description for targeting hMena ⁇ v6 mRNA may be, by way of example, sense strand siRNA: UAUCAAGUGCUGGCAUUGUUU (Seq ID NO 17); Antisense strand siRNA: ACAAUGCCAGCACUUGAUAUU (Seq ID NO 18).
  • the antisense strand of siRNA may have between 80% up to 100% complementary, for example 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99% or 100% complementary, to the hMena ⁇ v6 mRNA sequence.
  • single strand interfering RNAs may be used in order to achieve the inhibition of hMena ⁇ v6 expression. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention are also ssRNAs that specifically hybridise to SEQ ID No 1 or a fragment thereof comprising nucleotides from 797 to 807 of SEQ ID NO 1.
  • the interference may be carried out by an expression vector having a coding sequence that is transcribed to produce one or more transcriptional products that produce double or single strand siRNA specific for hMena ⁇ v6 in the cells.
  • RNA hairpin RNA
  • shRNA hairpin RNA
  • siRNA includes all the embodiments above, double stranded, single stranded (ssRNA) and hairpin (shRNA) interfering RNAs suitable for silencing the expression of the desired gene.
  • hairpin RNAs for silencing in mammalian cells are described in McCaffrey at al. Nature 2002 (see below for detail).
  • Interfering RNAs may be synthetized chemically or expressend endogenously from viral or plasmid vectors or expression cassettes.
  • examples of commercially available plasmid-based expression vector include members of pSilencer series (Ambion, Austin Tex.) and pCpG-siRNA (InvivoGen, San Diego).
  • Viral vector for interfering RNA may be drived from varieties of virues including retrovirus, adenovirus, lentivirus, baculovirus and herpes virus.
  • Examples of commercially available viral vectors for interfering RNA include pSilencer adeno (Ambion, Austin Tex.) and pLenti6/BLOCK-iTTM-DEST (Invitrogen). Selections of plasmid or viral vector, methods for expressing interfering RNA from the vector are within the ordinary skills of one in the art.
  • Interfering RNAs may be different form the naturally-occurring RNA by the addition, deletion, substitution of one or more nucleotides.
  • Non-nucleotides material may be bound to siRNA in order to increase nuclease resistance, to improve cellular uptake, to enhance cellular targeting, to further improve stability.
  • mechanisms to delivery siRNA to the target molecules and cells include viral or plasmid vectors, liposomes, nanoparticels but also chemical modifications.
  • Liposomes and nanoparticles represent efficient delivery systems in vivo and in vitro.
  • Unmodified siRNA has a half-life of less than 1 hour in human plasma and siRNA is rapidly excreted by the kidneys.
  • Liposomes and nanoparticles can act as envelopes to protect the siRNA from metabolism and excretion, but can also carry specific molecules designed to target the siRNA to specific tissue types.
  • Liposomes made of cationic lipids sach as DOTAP (1,2-bis(oleoyloxy)-3,3-(trimethylammonium)propane), neutral lipids sach as DOPE (dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine) may be used to carry siRNA into cells.
  • Nanoparticles such as the cationic polymer, polyethyleneimine (PEI) may be used to successfully deliver siRNA to target cells.
  • PEI polyethyleneimine
  • examples of chemical modifications include a 3′ terminal biotin molecule, a peptide to known to have cell penetrating properties, or 3′ cholesterol conjugation. Furtheremore, it is possible to modify either the phosphate-sugar backbone or the nucleoside so, by way of example, the phosphodiester linkages of natural RNA may be modified to include at least one heteroatom (phosphotothioate, phosphoramidate etc).
  • trasfection reagents such as Lipofectamine, Lipofectin may be used.
  • any routine suitable method or chemical modification comprising in the art and known to the skilled person, for delivering and/or enhancing the ability of siRNA (dsRNAs, ssRNAs, hsRNA, espressin RNAi vector) to pass the cell membrane, and thus elict its biological activity, is part of the present description.
  • siRNA dsRNAs, ssRNAs, hsRNA, espressin RNAi vector
  • siRNA for example, formulated with liposomes can be associated with one or more ligands effective to bind to a specific surface cell protein on the target cell, thereby enhancing, in some case, uptake of the siRNA by the cells.
  • ligands suitable for targeting epithelial carcinoma.
  • siRNAs are used in a treatment for inhibiting the invasiveness of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion or cells thereof.
  • the polyclonal or monoclonal antibody binding hMena ⁇ v6 isoform protein may be used in a treatment for inhibiting of the invasiveness of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion or cells thereof.
  • said polyclonal or monoclonal antibody or fragments thereof specifically binding a protein having SEQ ID NO: 2 or a fragment thereof specific for hMena ⁇ v6 isoform or a peptide having SEQ ID No 3.
  • the invention still further provides a method for the inhibition of the invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion or cells thereof comprising the step of inhibiting the expression or the functionality or the oligomerisation of hMena ⁇ v6.
  • the method may involve intervention at DNA, RNA or protein level by using suitable inhibitors.
  • hMena ⁇ v6 isoform interacts with the other hMena isoforms and with other members of Ena/VASP family to form functional tetramers which regulate actin cytoskeleton dynamics
  • Inhibition of hMena ⁇ v6 inclusion into the tetramers or exogeneous inclusion of hMena11a may change the function of the tetramer in terms of actin network and ultimately in the ability of the cell to invade.
  • the inhibition of hMena ⁇ v6 may be achived by using for example, siRNAs, antibodies or aptamers, as described above. These inhibitors may be be added directly or indirectly on either a biological sample or lesion to be treated both in vitro and in vivo.
  • An embodiment of the present invention is also a pharmaceutical composition
  • a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one inhibitor of hMena ⁇ v6 expression or functionality or oligomerisation and at least a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or excipient.
  • composition according to the present invention may comprise inhibitors such as siRNAs and/or antibodies and/or aptamers specific for the hMena ⁇ v6 iso form.
  • composition will be formulated for delivering a therapeutically effective amount of said inhibitors to a target site.
  • composition comprising siRNAs within said siRNAs or salt thereof may be formulated, for example, in cationic or neutral lipids vehicles, liposomes, polymers, nanoparticles.
  • the administration may be carried out by any means suitable for delivering the siRNA to the target site known in the art.
  • siRNA may be administrated by electroporation, or by other suitable parental or enteral administration routes.
  • Suitable administration routes include intravascular administration; intra-tissue administration (e.g. intra-tumour or intra-lesion injection); direct application to the area or near the area of the target site; inhalation.
  • intra-tissue administration e.g. intra-tumour or intra-lesion injection
  • direct application to the area or near the area of the target site
  • inhalation e.g. intra-tumour or intra-lesion injection
  • the present pharmaceutical composition comprises the siRNAs of the invention (e.g. 0.1 to 90% in weight) or a phisiological accetable salt thereof, mixed with a phisiologically accettable carrier such as water, buffer, saline solution, glycine, hyaluronic acid, mannitol, lactose, glucose and the like.
  • a phisiologically accettable carrier such as water, buffer, saline solution, glycine, hyaluronic acid, mannitol, lactose, glucose and the like.
  • Said compositions also comprise pharmaceutical excipients and/or additives such as stabilizers, antioxidants, osmolality adjusting agents, pH adjusting agents.
  • Pharmaceutical composition comprising siRNAs can be also lyophilized
  • the pharmaceutical composition comprises an antibody capable of specifically binding (and inhibiting the functionality or the mere capability to oligomerise) the ⁇ v6 isoform of the hMena protein.
  • said antibody binds the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 coding for the ⁇ v6 isoform of hMena or fragments thereof comprising the amino acids from 267 to 270.
  • compositions comprising said antibody are prepared by mixing the antibody having the desire degree of purity with one or more pharmaceutical acceptable carrier and/or excipient and/or stabilizer.
  • Accetable carriers or excipients or stabilizers include buffer such as phosphate, citrate, and other organic acid, antioxidants such as ascorbic acid and methionine; preservatives; proteins such as serum albumin, gelatine; monosaccharides, disaccharides, glucose, mannose, dextrin, sorbitol.
  • buffer such as phosphate, citrate, and other organic acid, antioxidants such as ascorbic acid and methionine
  • preservatives proteins such as serum albumin, gelatine
  • monosaccharides, disaccharides, glucose, mannose, dextrin, sorbitol are well known to the skilled person that, without inventive skill, is capable to prepare a pharmaceutical composition according to the present invention.
  • the antibody may be entrapped in drug delivery system, for example, liposomes, nanoparticles, albumine microspheres in order to induce the internalization by target cells resulting in therapeutic efficative of the pharmaceutical composition.
  • composition comprising said antibody according to the present invention may be administred in any suitable administration way including parental, enteral, namely intramuscular, subcutaneous, intravenous, intraarterial, topic, nasal, buccal, etc administration.
  • Said composition will be formulated, dosed and administrated by the skilled person taking into account, for example, the target site to be reached, the clinical conditions of the patien to be treated.
  • the invention also provides a method for the screening of a candidate compound that inhibits the invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion or cells thereof comprising the step of contacting the compound with a cell line or tissue colture expressing the hMena ⁇ v6 isoform of hMena, wherein the reduction in the expression of said isoform or its displacement from Ena/VASP tetramers is indicative that the compound is a candidate compound for inhibiting the invasive behaviour of a pre neoplastic or neoplastic lesion or cells thereof.
  • the present invention also provides a method for the detection of antibodies specific for each hMena isoform from the sera of preneoplastic or neoplastic cancer patients. Presence of specific antibodies in the sera of patients may represent not only an early marker of cancerogenesis but also may help in the understanding the proliferative or invasive behaviour of the tumor, helping the clinicians in the correct choice of efficacious therapeutic treatment.
  • RT-PCR experiments on the breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231 with two primers designed on the human Mena coding sequence and possessing the ATG and the stop codon respectively were performed.
  • PCR products sequencing revealed that these cells express hMena (1713 nt) and in addition, a not yet described transcript of 1602 nucleotides from the ATG to the stop codon.
  • This sequence is identical to hMena, but lacks the internal exon 6 of 111 nucleotides, thus we named this splice variant hMena ⁇ v6 (GenBank, Accession: 1030575), SED ID NO 1.
  • hMena ⁇ v6cDNA encodes a protein of 533aa (SEQ ID 2) without an internal peptide of 37aa located between the LERER and the Proline-rich region of hMena ( FIG. 1 ). The absence of this peptide physically approaches, in the protein, the LERER domain with the pro-rich domain.
  • hMena ⁇ v6 Upon protein alignment, hMena ⁇ v6displays an identity of 88% with the 526aa Rattus norvegicus ENAH(NCBI Accession: AAH83927), being the majority of the divergences located in the LERER domain; 87% with the 513aa avenall from Gallus gallus (NCBI Accession: BAB18909) and 77% with the 535aa enabled protein from Xenopus laevis (NCBI Accession: AAW31125).
  • NCBI database does not include mouse or human complete sequences showing the lack of exon 6, but EST database revealed two mouse sequences, from embryonic stem cells (Accession: AV470522) and from mammary infiltrating ductal carcinoma (Accession: BI664046) and one human sequence from duodenal adenocarcinoma cell line (Accession: BF982593).
  • hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 are Alternatively Expressed and Correlate with an Epithelial and Mesenchymal Phenotype Respectively
  • two luminal breast cancer cell lines MCF7 and SBT express hMena11a and not hMena ⁇ v6, which is conversely present in basal breast cancer cells MDA-MB-231 and BT549, lacking the epithelial hMena11a isoform, suggesting that the hMena ⁇ v6 expression is peculiar of mesenchymal phenotype.
  • hMena11a and hMena ⁇ v6 correlate with an epithelial or mesenchymanl phenotype respectively ( FIG. 2 panel A).
  • Glyoma and melanoma are highly invasive forms of neoplasia, and we tested the hMena isoforms expression in 6 melanoma and 3 glioma cell lines (T98G, U87MG, U373).
  • Five out of six melanoma cell lines show hMena ⁇ v6 expression in concomitance with N-Cadherin (ME10538 shows a very faint hMena ⁇ v6 signal).
  • the only melanoma cell line (1007) expressing E-Cadherin doesn't express hMena ⁇ v6.
  • glioma cell lines tested are positive for hMena ⁇ v6 and negative for hMena11a as revealed by the use of anti-hMena11a antibody ( FIG. 2 panel A).
  • the hMena isoform (88 kDa) is always expressed with the exception of platelets, as detected by the pan-hMena Ab.
  • hMena11a expression identifies an epithelial cell phenotype.
  • ESRPs epithelial specific regulators proteins
  • FIG. 6 panel D Immunofluorescence analysis ( FIG. 6 panel D) show cytoskeletal changes following the exogeneous expression of hMena11a.
  • BT549 is evident a different pattern of actin organization in the transfected cells respect to the control.
  • the actin fibres network decorated with phalloidin assumes a cortical localization in the transfected cells. This pattern is similar to the one observed in hMena11a expressing luminal MCF7 cells, thus suggesting that hMena11a may be pivotal for the remodelling of peripheral actin filaments.
  • hMena11a overexpression and phosphorylation leads to increased p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation and cell proliferation as evidenced in hMena11a-transfected breast cancer cell lines.
  • MAPK mitogen-activated protein kinase
  • the two basal breast cancer cell lines (MDA-MB-231, BT549) expressing hMena ⁇ v6 and lacking hMena11a, show a stellate morphology and an invasive and migratory behaviour.
  • siRNA SMART pool si-ENAH, Dharmacon
  • hMena ⁇ v6 does not induce a migratory or invasive behaviour in the MCF7 cells expressing hMena11a as evaluated by wound healing (not shown) and invasion assays, thus suggesting that the presence of hMena11a plays a dominant anti-invasive role respect to the other hMena isoforms.
  • the following cell lines were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Rockville, Md.): MDAMB468, MDAMB361, T47D, SKBr3, MCF7, BT474, MDA-MB-231 and BT549 (breast cancer), A549, AE2, H1299, Calu3 (lung cancer), T98G, U87MG and U373 (glioma).
  • Other cell lines employed were: melanomas, 4405 and 1007 were developed in our laboratory from a primary melanoma lesion. DAL developed in our laboratory from the ascitic fluid of two breast cancer patients; normal human keratinocytes (NHK) and normal human fibroblasts (NHF) were kindly provided by Dr. A. Venuti (Regina Maria Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy) respectively; melanoma ME10538, VAS, 3046, 4405 and 1007 were kindly provided by Dr. A. Anichini (Istituto Tumori Milano, Italy)
  • the primers utilized contained the ATG and stop-codon of hMena, P1-ATG (5′-CACCATGAGTGAACAGAGTATC-3′) SEQ ID 11 and P8-stop (5′-CTGTTCCTCTATGCAGTATTTGAC-3′) SEQ ID 12.
  • PCR products were analyzed on a 1% agarose gel, excised from the gel and purified using a gel extraction kit (Qiagen, Crawley, UK).
  • DNA sequencing was performed by the Nucleic Acid Facility Service (Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata, Rome, Italy) with the use of an ABI PRISM 377-96 automated sequencer (Applied Biosystem).
  • hMena splice variants were detected by RT-PCR using MTC1f (5′-GCTGGAATGGGAGAGAGAGCGCAGAATATC-3′ SEQ ID 20) and MTC4r (GTCAAGTCCTTCCGTCTGGACTCCATTGGC-3′ SEQ ID 21) primers.
  • PCR reactions consisted of 30 cycles at a denaturation temperature of 94° C. (30 sec/cycle), an annealing and an extension temperature of 68° C. (2 min/cycle). PCR products were analyzed on a 1% agarose gel electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining.
  • the rabbit polyclonal antibody specific for the hMena11a isoform was developed against a 18-aa peptide (RDSPRKNQIVFDNRSYDS SEQ ID 10) of the 11a sequence peculiar of this isoform by the use of Primm Service (Primm srl, Milan, Italy).
  • Primm Service Primem Service (Primm srl, Milan, Italy).
  • the rabbit antiserum was then purified by two steps of affinity chromatography using peptides coded by the 5 and 6 exon junction or by the 6 and 7 exon junction (SEQ ID 4 and 5) in order to deplete the serum from the antibodies recognizing regions common to all the hMena isoforms.
  • the specific IgGs were then purified using the immunogenic peptide (SEQ ID 3) by affinity chromatography.
  • the specificity of the antibodies obtained was evaluated by Western blot on MCF7 (hMena11a positive hMena ⁇ v6 negative) and MDA-MB-231 (hMena11a negative, hMena ⁇ v6 positive) cells ( FIG.
  • Rat Tail Collagen Type 1 (BD Biosciences San Jose, Calif., USA) were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (EMS, Fort Washington, Pa., USA) for 15 minutes, permeabilized with 0.2% Triton X-100 in PBS. Following incubation with 1% (w/v) bovine serum albumin (Sigma, St.
  • Cells in exponential growth phase were plated in 6-well plates at a density of 3 ⁇ 10 5 cells/well. After 24 h cells were transfected with 1.5 ⁇ g/ml hMena+11a, hMena ⁇ v6 cDNA or with vector alone (pcDNA3) or with 100 nmol/L hMena-specific pooled siRNA duplexes (siENA SMART pool) or control non-specific siRNA (Dharmacon, Lafayette, Colo.) using LipofectAMINE 2000 reagent (Invitrogen) according to the protocol of the manufacturer. Stable transfectants were obtained by selecting transfected cells with 500 ⁇ g/ml of G418 (Invitrogen, Pisley, UK) in complete culture medium.

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