Transcription factor AP2alpha (TFAP2a) regulates differentiation and proliferation of neuroblastoma cells

Johannes H. Schulte; Jutta Kirfel; Soyoung Lim; Alexander Schramm; Nicolaus Friedrichs; Hedwig E. Deubzer; Olaf Witt; Angelika Eggert; Reinhard Buettner

doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2008.05.039

Transcription factor AP2alpha (TFAP2a) regulates differentiation and proliferation of neuroblastoma cells

Johannes H. Schulte^*, Jutta Kirfel, Soyoung Lim, Alexander Schramm, Nicolaus Friedrichs, Hedwig E. Deubzer, Olaf Witt, Angelika Eggert, Reinhard Buettner

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Abstract

Neuroblastoma, the most common extracranial solid tumour of childhood, is derived from neural crest progenitor cells. The TFAP2a transcription factor regulates neural crest patterning. We analysed TFAP2a protein expression in 97 primary neuroblastic tumors and report that TFAP2a was strongly expressed in poorly differentiated neuroblastomas. TFAP2a expression in tumor cells of differentiated neuroblastic tumors was below detection. TFAP2a was strongly expressed in 4 of 6 neuroblastoma cell lines tested, and TFAP2a siRNA mediated knock down in SH-EP cells reduced proliferation and induced a more differentiated phenotype associated with an increase in the expression of the differentiation marker neurotensin.

Original language	English
Journal	Cancer Letters
Volume	271
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	56-63
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0304-3835
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2008.05.039
Publication status	Published - 18.11.2008

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We thank Francoise Halley, Theresia Walter and Birte Sönnichsen (Cenix BioScience GmbH, Dresden, Germany) for performing the siRNA experiments; Sabine Dreesmann for excellent technical assistance; Kathy Astrahantseff for critical reading of the manuscript as well as Barbara Hero and the German Neuroblastoma Study Group for providing clinical data. A.E., O.W. and A.S. were supported by grants from the National Genome Research Network (NGFN), R.B. was supported by a grant from the DFG.

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