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Silencing of the HER2/neu gene by siRNA inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis in HER2/neu-overexpressing breast cancer cells

  • In eukaryotes, double-stranded (ds) RNA induces sequence-specific inhibition of gene expression referred to as RNA interference (RNAi). We exploited RNAi to define the role of HER2/neu in the neoplastic proliferation of human breast cancer cells. We transfected SK-BR-3, BT-474, MCF-7, and MDA-MB-468 breast cancer cells with short interfering RNA (siRNA) targeted against human HER2/neu and analyzed the specific inhibition of HER2/neu expression by Northern and Western blots. Transfection with HER2/neu-specific siRNA resulted in a sequence-specific decrease in HER2/neu mRNA and protein levels. Moreover, transfection with HER2/neu siRNA caused cell cycle arrest at G0/G1 in the breast cancer cell lines SKBR-3 and BT-474, consistent with a powerful RNA silencing effect. siRNA treatment resulted in an antiproliferative and apoptotic response in cells overexpressing HER2/neu, but had no influence in cells with almost no expression of HER2/neu proteins like MDA-MB-468 cells. These data indicate that HER2/neu function is essential for the proliferation of HER2/neuoverexpressing breast cancer cells. Our observations suggest that siRNA targeted against human HER2/neu may be valuable tools as anti proliferative agents that display activity against neoplastic cells at very low doses.

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Author:Timo Faltus, Juping YuanORCiDGND, Brigitte Zimmer, Andrea KrämerORCiDGND, Sibylle LoiblORCiDGND, Manfred KaufmannGND, Klaus StrebhardtORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-453099
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1593/neo.04313
ISSN:1476-5586
ISSN:1522-8002
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15720805
Parent Title (English):Neoplasia
Publisher:Stockton Press
Place of publication:Basingstoke
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2004
Year of first Publication:2004
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2018/01/02
Tag:HER2/neu; RNA interference; antiproliferative activity; apoptosis; siRNA
Volume:6
Issue:6
Page Number:10
First Page:786
Last Page:795
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HeBIS-PPN:426736532
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0