Wnt5a secretion stimulated by the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor inhibits defective Wnt signaling in colon cancer cells
- 1 July 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
- Vol. 293 (1), G403-G411
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.00119.2007
Abstract
To understand the role of the colonic extracellular calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) in calcium chemoprotection against colon cancer, we activated the CaSR with 5 mM Ca2+ on HT-29 cells, an adenocarcinoma cell line. High Ca2+ stimulated the upregulation (as assessed by RT-PCR) and the secretion of Wnt5a (assessed by Western blot), a noncanonical Wnt family member. Inhibiting CaSR activity with a short interfering RNA (siRNA) duplex against the CaSR reduced CaSR protein and prevented the secretion of Wnt5a. Dominant negative CaSR (R185Q) or siRNA blocked the high Ca2+-mediated inhibition of the β-catenin reporter TOPflash. The CaSR/Wnt5a inhibition of β-catenin reporter was prevented by dominant negative ubiquitin ligase seven in absentia homolog 2 (Siah2). In low-calcium medium, overexpressing Wnt5a increased Siah2 amplicons and protein. Inducing the expression of full-length adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) prevented CaSRmediated increases of Siah2 and Wnt5a. Overexpressing the receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 2 (Ror2) increased Wnt5a and CaSR-mediated inhibition of TOPflash. Conditioned medium from Wnt5a-transfected cells added to HT-29 cells in low-Ca2+ medium inhibited the β-catenin reporter. This inhibition was blocked dose responsively by Frizzled-8/Fc chimeric antibody. Overexpression of Ror2 in HT-29 cells in low-Ca2+ medium increased the inhibition of β-catenin reporter caused by recombinant Wnt5a protein compared with addition of Wnt5a protein alone. Our findings demonstrate that APC status plays a key role as a determinant of Wnt5a secretion and suggest that CaSR-mediated secretion of Wnt5a will inhibit defective Wnt signaling in APC-truncated cells in an autocrine manner.Keywords
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