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Loss of RhoB Expression in Human Lung Cancer Progression

¹ Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U563, Department of Therapeutic Innovation and Molecular Oncology. Claudius Regaud Institute, Toulouse, France; ² Drug Discovery Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Departments of Interdisciplinary Oncology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; and ³ G. Daste, Department of Pathology, Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France

Purpose: RhoB is a low molecular weight GTPase belonging to the Ras protein superfamily. Whereas most Rho proteins have been shown to have a positive role in proliferation and malignant transformation, the specific role of RhoB appears more divergent. We reported previously that RhoB inhibits cell proliferation in various human cancer cells. Here, we studied the specific role played by RhoB in human lung cancer.

Experimental Design: We analyzed the expression of RhoB protein by immunostaining in human lung tissues ranging from normal to invasive carcinoma from different histological types in two large independent studies of, respectively, 94 and 45 samples. We then studied the cellular effect of RhoB overexpression in a model of lung cancer (A549, adenocarcinoma) and tumorigenicity in nude mice.

Results: We showed in both studies that RhoB protein was expressed in normal lung and decreased dramatically through lung cancer progression (P < 0.01). Interestingly, RhoB expression was lost in 96% of invasive tumors and reduced by 86% in poorly differentiated tumors compared with the nonneoplastic epithelium. Moreover, the loss of expression of RhoB correlated significantly with tumor stage and proliferative index, whereas no correlation was found between RhoB and p53 or Bcl-2 expression. We then showed that ectopic expression of RhoB in lung cancer cell line A549 suppressed cell proliferation, anchorage-independent growth, and xenograft tumor growth in nude mice.

Conclusions: RhoB loss of expression occurs very frequently in lung carcinogenesis, reinforcing its putative tumor suppressive activity, and raising the value of its potential use in cancer therapy.

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