In vitro, SREBP1 over-expressed in colon cancer cell lines HT29 promoted angiogenesis in endothelial cells, increased ROS levels, phosphorylation of NF-κB-p65 and increases MMP7 expression.
Immunoblot analysis of downstream effectors of β-catenin (c-Myc/p27 and MMP7) in ARHGAP17 overexpressing colon cancer cells and metastatic tumors within the lung also validated the GSEA result.
Syndecan-2 cytoplasmic domain up-regulates matrix metalloproteinase-7 expression via the protein kinase Cγ-mediated FAK/ERK signaling pathway in colon cancer.
Our data suggest that a novel TF/FVIIa/MAPK/c-Fos/MMP-7 axis plays an important role in modulating the invasion of colon cancer cells and blockage of this pathway holds promise to treat colon cancer metastasis.
Oxaliplatin-induced MMP7 up-regulation is differentially achieved in colon cancer cell lines, as a result of EGFR and β-catenin cross-talk on MMP7 gene transcription.
Matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP7), a metallohydrolase involved in the development of several cancers, is downregulated in the Apc(Min/+) colon cancer mouse model following sulindac treatment.
The expression pattern of these sPLA2s appeared to be linked respectively to the overexpression of interleukin-8, defensin alpha6, survivin and matrilysin, and downregulation of SFRP-1 and RLPA-1, all these genes being associated to colon cancer.
In this review, we summarize the staging system, the most critical genetic and epigenetic alterations, the pleiotropic effects of MMP-7, the controversial roles of Hedgehog signaling, the intriguing involvement of thymosin beta-4, and the possible contribution of the putative colon (cancer) stem cells in CRC tumorigenesis.
Interestingly, a subset of genes whose expression is characteristic of Paneth cells, i.e. the defensins and matrilysin, were highly overexpressed in colon cancers.
We conducted a large-scale analysis of beta-catenin and MMP-7 expression in human colon cancer to determine the potential clinical importance of these molecules.
These results demonstrate that the antisense oligonucleotide AS-1 inhibits matrilysin activities in a sequence-specific manner and suggest that AS-1 has the potential to be used as an anti-metastatic agent in an in vivo experimental model of colon cancer.
Only one of the lymph nodes that were histologically-positive, but negative by matrilysin assay was from a patient with colon cancer in which matrilysin was not detected.
Matrilysin, which is a member of the matrix metalloproteinase family and is implicated in colon cancer invasion, is expressed in human colon adenocarcinoma-derived SW1116 cells.