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Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) up-regulates the estrogen-regulated cancer suppressor gene, protein tyrosine phosphatase gamma (PTPgama), in human breast cells. Anticancer Res 2006;26(1A):27-34

Date

02/16/2006

Pubmed ID

16475675

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-32144455086 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   23 Citations

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a naturally occurring compound found in ruminants products, has been shown to possess anticancer properties in vivo and in vitro. There are several CLA isomers in ruminant-produced foods, among which t10, c12-CLA and c9, t11-CLA are the most potent. Protein tyrosine phosphatase gamma (PTPgamma) has been implicated as a tumor suppressor gene in kidney and lung cancers. Our previous results indicated that estradiol-17beta (E2)-induced suppression of PTPgamma may play a role in mammary tumorigenesis.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The effects of t10, c12-CLA and c9, t11-CLA on PTPgamma mRNA expression in human breast epithelial cells and stromal cells, isolated from surgical specimens of mammoplasty and breast cancer patients, were detected and quantified by RT-PCR RESULTS: The PTPgamma mRNA expression was lower in cancer than in normal breast cells. Both t10, c12-CLA and c9, t11-CLA significantly (p < 0.05) increased the PTPgamma mRNA levels in primary cultured normal breast epithelial cells, normal breast stromal cells and breast cancer epithelial cells, but not in breast cancer stromal cells. t10, c12-CLA appeared to be the most active isomer in estrogen receptor a (ERalpha)-positive human breast cancer epithelial cells.

CONCLUSION: The results indicate that dietary CLA might serve as a chemo-preventive and chemo-therapeutic agent in human breast cancers by up-regulating the estrogen-regulated tumor suppressor gene, PTPgamma expression.

Author List

Wang LS, Huang YW, Sugimoto Y, Liu S, Chang HL, Ye W, Shu S, Lin YC

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Breast Neoplasms
Cell Line, Tumor
Epithelial Cells
Estrogen Receptor alpha
Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Genes, Tumor Suppressor
Humans
Linoleic Acids, Conjugated
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
RNA, Messenger
Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 5
Stromal Cells
Up-Regulation