Key result
CD155 expression enhances the serum-induced proliferation of ras-mutated cells, an effect that appears to require its cytoplasmic immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif.
CD155 enhances the proliferation of ras-mutated cells, suggesting a role in oncogenic Ras-mediated cell growth.
No immediate clinical implications; leaves open CD155 validation as a therapeutic target in human cancers.
Stimulation of the CD155/poliovirus receptor, which localizes in the cell-matrix and at cell-cell junctions, inhibits cell adhesion and enhances cell migration. Necl-5, a mouse homolog of CD155, is implicated in the formation of adherence junctions. Recently, Necl-5 has also been found to enhance cell proliferation via the stimulation of serum and platelet-derived growth factor through the Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK signaling pathway. In our present study, we find that CD155 significantly enhances the serum-induced cell proliferation of NIH3T3 cells which have been transformed by an oncogenic Ras (V12Ras-NIH3T3), but not the parental cells. CD155 expression in V12Ras-NIH3T3 cells is also found to upregulate cyclin D2, downregulate p27(Kip1) and shorten the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle. An inhibitor of focal adhesion kinase does not reduce this CD155-mediated enhancement of V12Ras-NIH3T3 cell proliferation. The expression of CD155DeltaCP, which lacks the cytoplasmic region including the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM), has a reduced ability to enhance the serum responsiveness of V12Ras-NIH3T3 cells, suggesting that the ITIM might be required for this effect of CD155. In addition, the overexpression of exogenous CD155 enhances the serum responsiveness of HT1080 cells, which harbor a mutant N-ras gene. On the other hand, siRNA-induced knockdown of endogenous CD155 and/or CD155DeltaCP expression significantly repress the serum responsiveness of DLD-1 cells, which express endogenous CD155 and harbor a mutant K-ras gene, suggesting that this mutant may function in a dominant negative manner. Taken together, our present data suggest that CD155, at least in part, enhances the proliferation of ras-mutated cells.
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Kono et al. (2007) studied ras-mutated cells. CD155/poliovirus receptor expression vs. Parental cells or CD155 knockdown was evaluated on Cell proliferation. CD155 expression enhances the serum-induced proliferation of ras-mutated cells, an effect that appears to require its cytoplasmic immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif.
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