Recent studies on the role of two opposite axes of angiotensinogen metabolism - ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme)/ANGII/AT1R (angiotensin receptor type 1) and ACE-2/ANG 1-7/MAS (mitochondrial assembly) - indicate their importance in tumor growth and invasion, but studies describing the metabolic pathways in breast cancer and the role of newer angiotensins, such as ANG 1-12, remain lacking.
This article for the first time reports the impact of Ang1-9 and Ang3-7 on viability and proliferation, migration and invasion of epithelial prostate cells.
Wound closure assay and Transwell assay showed that upregulated or downregulated Ang-1 and Ang-2 expression promoted or reduced cervical cancer cell lines migration and invasion, respectively.
Moreover, multivariate analysis revealed that high expression of Ang-1 was an independent risk factor for lymph node metastasis (P < 0.001, odds ratio [OR] = 62.113) and lymphovascular invasion (P = 0.027, OR 4.405).
Overexpression and knockdown of PODX respectively reversed and enhanced the inhibitory effects of Ang-(1-7) on the expression/activity of matrix metalloproteinase-9 and cell invasion and proliferation in GBM cells.