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Copyright © 2008 by the Society for Endocrinology Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5A/B in prostate and breast cancers
Department of Cancer Biology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, 233 South 10th Street, BLSB 309, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
(Correspondence should be addressed to M T Nevalainen; Email: marja.nevalainen{at}jefferson.edu)
Protein kinase signaling pathways, such as Janus kinase 2-Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5A/B (JAK2-STAT5A/B), are of significant interest in the search for new therapeutic strategies in both breast and prostate cancers. In prostate cancer, the components of the JAK2-STAT5A/B signaling pathway provide molecular targets for small-molecule inhibition of survival and growth signals of the cells. At the same time, new evidence suggests that the STAT5A/B signaling pathway is involved in the transition of organ-confined prostate cancer to hormone-refractory disease. This implies that the active JAK2-STAT5A/B signaling pathway potentially provides the means for pharmacological intervention of clinical prostate cancer progression. In addition, active STAT5A/B may serve as a prognostic marker for identification of those primary prostate cancers that are likely to progress to aggressive disease. In breast cancer, the role of STAT5A/B is more complex. STAT5A/B may have a dual role in the regulation of malignant mammary epithelium. Data accumulated from mouse models of breast cancer suggest that in early stages of breast cancer STAT5A/B may promote malignant transformation and enhance growth of the tumor. This is in contrast to established breast cancer, where STAT5A/B may mediate the critical cues for maintaining the differentiation of mammary epithelium. In addition, present data suggest that activation of STAT5A/B in breast cancer predicts favorable clinical outcome. The dual nature of STAT5A/B action in breast cancer makes the therapeutic use of STAT5 A/B more complex.
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) was originally identified in the mouse mammary gland (Schmitt-Ney et al. 1991) and it was further characterized in the mouse system (Schmitt-Ney et al. 1992a,b, Wakao et al. 1992) before a ‘mammary gland factor’ (MGF) was cloned from sheep mammary gland. MGF was identified as the signaling protein that mediates the effects of prolactin (PRL) (Gouilleux et al. 1994, Wakao et al. 1994). It soon became clear that MGF had a significant sequence homology with the members of the STAT transcription factor family, and MGF was renamed STAT5 (Gouilleux et al. 1994, 1995a,b, Wakao et al. 1994). Later, another isoform of STAT5 was discovered in the mammary gland (Liu et al. 1995, 1996a, Lin et al. 1996), which was encoded by a separate gene. This STAT5 homolog was named STAT5B, whereas the original MGF carried the name STAT5A. Further studies revealed that STAT5B was a crucial signaling protein mediating the biological effects of growth hormone (GH), while the key function of STAT5A was to transduce the signals initiated by PRL receptors. In parallel with these significant findings, it was realized that STAT5A/B becomes activated by phosphorylation on a tyrosine residue (Gouilleux et al. 1994, Liu et al. 1995, 1996a). Concurrently, the PRL receptor-associated tyrosine kinase, Janus kinase 2 (JAK2), was discovered (Rui et al. 1994). At the same time as the components of the PRL receptor-JAK2-STAT5A/B signaling pathway were identified, understanding of PRL as a classical peptide hormone underwent significant changes. Specifically, it was realized that PRL, which is known as a pituitary hormone secreted by the cells in the anterior lobe of the hypophysis, is actually produced as a local growth factor both in normal and malignant prostate (Nevalainen et al. 1997a,b, Li et al. 2004, Dagvadorj et al. 2007) and mammary glands (Ginsburg & Vonderhaar 1995). It was known that PRL has both mitogenic and secretory effects on breast epithelial cells. Unexpectedly, PRL was found to be a significant mitogen and survival factor for prostate epithelial cells as well (Nevalainen et al. 1991, 1997b, Wennbo et al. 1997, Kindblom et al. 2002, 2003). Autocrine PRL in prostate and breast tissue became important findings, since local production of PRL provided an explanation as to why the results of studies trying to link breast or prostate cancer incidence or progression with the circulating PRL levels yielded controversial results. Potential molecular mechanisms and factors, in addition to pituitary and autocrine GH and PRL underlying the constitutive activation of STAT5A/B signaling pathway in prostate and breast cancers will be discussed. Furthermore, involvement of STAT5A/B signaling pathway in the regulation of growth and progression of prostate and breast cancers will be reviewed. Structure and function of STAT5A/B proteins The STAT family of transcription factors has seven members (STAT1, STAT2, STAT3, STAT4, STAT5A, STAT5B, and STAT6) that are all encoded by separate genes (Darnell et al. 1994, Zhong et al. 1994b). The STAT proteins are likely to have diverged from a single gene through several consecutive duplications into three genetic loci. Specifically, in humans, the STAT genes map to three chromosomal regions (Copeland et al. 1995): STAT3, STAT5A, and STAT5B map to chromosome 17 (bands q11-1 to q22); STAT1 and STAT4 map to chromosome 2 (bands q12 to q33) (Yamamoto et al. 1997, Haddad et al. 1998); and STAT2 and STAT6 map to chromosome 12 (bands q13 to q14-1) (Leek et al. 1997, Goureau et al. 2001; Table 1). Differential splicing and proteolytic processing further increase the diversity of STAT function in cells (Haddad et al. 1998, Ihle 2001). In the mouse, Stat1 and Stat4 are located on chromosome 1 (band 1 C1.1) (Schindler et al. 1992, Yamamoto et al. 1994); Stat2 and Stat6 are on chromosome 10 (band 10 D3) (Fu et al. 1992, Quelle et al. 1995); and Stat3, Stat5a, and Stat5b map to chromosome 11 (band 11 D) (Zhong et al. 1994a, Copeland et al. 1995, Shi et al. 1996, Levy et al. 1998; Table 1).
STATs are proteins of 750-900 amino acids (90-115 kDa) with five structurally and functionally conserved domains that allow the transduction of ligand-specific signals (Schindler & Darnell 1995). The 94 kDa STAT5A (human, 794 amino acids; mouse, 793 amino acids) and 92 kDa STAT5B (human, 787 amino acids; mouse 786 aa) are distinct, but highly homologous isoforms (Mui et al. 1994, Liu et al. 1995, 1996a) (Table 1). Both carry five domains (Table 2) that are structurally and functionally conserved with other STAT proteins and allow the transduction of ligand-specific signals (Schindler & Darnell 1995) (Fig. 1). There is a unique stretch of 20 and 8 amino acids at the C-terminus of STAT5A and STAT5B respectively. The domain of STAT5A/B that is most highly conserved with other STAT proteins is the SH2 domain (aa 593-670, Table 1) that mediates both receptor-specific recruitment and Stat dimerization (Stocklin et al. 1996) through the phosphorylated tyrosine residue of one STAT5 to the SH2 domain of another (Wakao et al. 1994, Welte et al. 1994). The central DNA-binding domain (DBD, aa 332-583) of STAT5A/B is another conserved domain that allows binding of STAT5A/B to consensus GAS (  -interferon activation sequence) sites (TTC(C/T)N(G/A)GAA) within gene regulatory elements (Decker et al. 1991, Horvath et al. 1995, Soldaini et al. 2000). The linker domain (aa 475-592) of STATs, named based on crystallographic studies, in fact overlaps in function with the DBD (Yang et al. 2002). Site-directed mutagenesis of the STAT1 linker domain resulted in a mutant dimer that binds and dissociates from DNA more rapidly than the wild-type protein (Yang et al. 2002). The N-terminal domain of STAT5A/B (aa 1-126) stabilizes interactions between two STAT dimers to form tetramers. STAT5-DNA interaction, particularly at adjacent non-consensus STAT5-binding sites, is reinforced by tetramerization that enhances transcriptional activation of weak promoters (Horvath et al. 1995, Meyer et al. 1997, John et al. 1999, Soldaini et al. 2000). Homodimers of STAT5A and STAT5B were found to share similar binding specificities for half palindromes that are spaced 3 bp apart (Soldaini et al. 2000, Ehret et al. 2001). The non-redundant functions of STAT5A and STAT5B during development are likely due to their cell type-specific expression or due to the interactions of their divergent C-terminus with different co-regulators rather than a result of differences in DNA-binding specificity (Ehret et al. 2001). Tetrameric binding is made possible by tandemly linked GAS (gamma - interferon activation sequence) motifs with non-consensus motifs that are optimally spaced 6 bp apart (Soldaini et al. 2000).
The glycosylation on threonine 92 of STAT5 is found to enhance interaction with the co-activator of transcription CREB-binding protein (CBP; Gewinner et al. 2004). Adjacent to the N-terminus of STAT5A/B is the coiled-coil domain (aa 138-330), consisting of a four-helix bundle (Soldaini et al. 2000) (Fig. 1; Table 2), which facilitates multiple protein-protein interactions crucial for transcriptional regulation by interacting with chaperones (Xu et al. 2004), with Nmi, which helps the recruitment of co-activators (Zhu et al. 1999), and with co-repressors (Nakajima et al. 2001, Maurer et al. 2002). The transcriptional activation domain in the C-terminus of STAT5A/B (STAT5A, aa 722-794; STAT5B, aa 727-787) is the most variable region and interacts with critical co-activators, including the p300/CBP-associated co-activator NcoA-1 (Litterst et al. 2003), centrosomal P4.1-associated protein (Peng et al. 2002), P100 (Paukku et al. 2003) and Oct-1 (Magne et al. 2003, Litterst et al. 2005). In contrast to other STAT transcription factors that have a narrow activation profile, STAT5A and STAT5B transduce signals triggered by multiple ligands (Table 3). In addition to being activated by PRL (Kazansky et al. 1999), STAT5A/B are activated by interleukin-2 (IL-2; Hou et al. 1995), IL-3 (Mui et al. 1995), IL-5 (Mui et al. 1995)), and IL-7 (Foxwell et al. 1995), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (Barahmand-pour et al. 1995, Mui et al. 1995), insulin (Wartmann et al. 1996), erythropoietin (Wakao et al. 1994, Gouilleux et al. 1995b, Pallard et al. 1995b), thrombopoietin (Pallard et al. 1995a), and GH (Gouilleux et al. 1995b, Galsgaard et al. 1996) (Table 3).
Initially, insight into the distinct roles of STAT5A/B in mediating biological responses was gleaned mainly from gene targeting studies, which revealed that the phenotypes of Stat5a/b knockout (KO) mice are not fully functionally redundant. Stat5a-null female mice are defective in PRL-dependent mammary gland development (Liu et al. 1997), whereas Stat5a-null male mice exhibit defective prostate epithelium (Nevalainen et al. 2000). By contrast, Stat5b-null mice fail to respond effectively to GH (Udy et al. 1997, Teglund et al. 1998) and are severely anemic, indicating defective hematopoiesis due to impaired response to hematopoietins (Socolovsky et al. 1999). In Stat5a/b double KO mice, lymphoid development and differentiation were impaired (Yao et al. 2006). In addition, T-cell receptor -rearrangement and peripheral CD8+T-cell survival were abrogated in the absence of Stat5a/b (Yao et al. 2006). The Jak-STAT5A/B signaling cascade STAT5A/B-activating cytokine receptors do not typically posses tyrosine kinase activity that is provided by receptor-associated cytoplasmic proteins from the JAK family (Darnell 1997, Ihle 2001, Schindler 2002). In mammalian cells, there are four JAK proteins (120-130 kDa), JAK1, JAK2, JAK3, and TYK2 (tyrosine kinase 2) (Darnell 1997, Ihle 2001, Aaronson & Horvath 2002, Levy & Darnell 2002), which are, except for JAK3, ubiquitously expressed (Leonard & O'Shea 1998). JAK proteins have seven highly homologous domains. Located at the carboxyl terminus, the JAK homology domain 1 (JH1) has the kinase activity. Directly upstream of JH1 is the JH2 pseudokinase domain that resembles JH1 but has a negative regulatory function. The domains that mediate association with cytokine receptors are JH3-JH7 at the amino-terminus of JAKs, which constitute a four-point-one, ezrin, radixin, moesin domain (Schindler & Darnell 1995, Darnell 1997, Ihle 2001, Aaronson & Horvath 2002, Levy & Darnell 2002, Schindler 2002). The primary JAK protein that activates STAT5A/B is JAK2 (Gouilleux et al. 1994). Ligand-induced receptor dimerization brings two JAK2 molecules into close proximity allowing them to phosphorylate specific tyrosine motifs of the receptor and activate each other (Fig. 2). STAT5A/B and other signaling molecules that recognize these tyrosine motifs, typically through their SH2 domains, are recruited to the docking sites. This is followed by rapid phosphorylation of a conserved tyrosine residue in the C-terminus of STAT5A/B by JAK2. Phosphorylation of the tyrosine residues Y694 and Y699 (identical in human and mouse) activates STAT5A and STAT5B respectively, leading them to homo- or heterodimerize through a phosphotyrosine-SH2 domain (Becker et al. 1998, Chen et al. 1998). A variety of protein kinases phosphorylate STATs on serine residues, allowing additional signaling pathways to potentiate the primary STAT-activating stimulus (Decker & Kovarik 2000). By contrast, phosphorylation of the serine residues, S726 (human)/S725 (mouse) on STAT5A (Beuvink et al. 2000) and S731 (human)/S730 (mouse) on STAT5B, may inhibit the transcriptional activity of STAT5 (Kirken et al. 1997a,b, Yamashita et al. 2001).
Phosphorylated STAT5 dimers translocate from the cytoplasm into the nucleus, where they bind to the 8-10 bp inverted repeat consensus, TTC(C/T)N(G/A)GAA, referred to as the GAS element ( -interferon activation sequence) (Decker et al. 1991, Horvath et al. 1995, Soldaini et al. 2000). Recent reports support the notion that nuclear and cytoplasmic pools of unphosphorylated STAT proteins, including STAT5A/B, shuttle freely at high exchange rates in the absence of cytokine activation (Meyer et al. 2002, Zeng et al. 2002, Marg et al. 2004, Vinkemeier 2004, Reich & Liu 2006). While non-phosphorylated STATs cycle between the cytoplasm and nucleus, the translocation of dimerized STAT proteins has been suggested to be an active, energy-dependent process (Vinkemeier 2004, Reich & Liu 2006) and utilize components of Ran-dependent nuclear import machinery (Sekimoto et al. 1996, 1997). The karyopherin importin-b (p97) has been identified as the carrier that transports importin complexed with STATs into the nuclear compartment. Intriguing recent evidence suggests that unphosphorylated STATs may be able to bind to DNA in association with other transcription factors (Chatterjee-Kishore et al. 2000, Yang et al. 2005, 2007b).
Negative regulators of STAT5 signaling A third mechanism for the down-regulation of signaling by STAT5 proteins involves cytokine-inducible suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins (Alexander & Hilton 2004). There are eight members of the SOCS family, including cytokine-inducible SH2 (CIS domain protein) and SOCS-1 to -7. These proteins are all structurally related and they possess a central SH2 domain and a conserved C-terminal motif, termed the SOCS box (Alexander & Hilton 2004). The SOCS proteins also appear to target signal transducers for proteasomal destruction (Zhang et al. 1999, Kamizono et al. 2001, Ungureanu et al. 2002). SOCS are rapidly induced by activated STATs and act to block the cytokine signal by direct inhibition of JAKs (SOCS-1) and by competitive binding to tyrosine phosphorylated receptors so as to exclude further binding of signaling proteins such as STAT5, or by both mechanisms (Ram & Waxman 1999, Alexander & Hilton 2004). The caveolin-1 (CAV-1) gene maps to chromosome 7q31.1 and encodes a 21-24 kDa integral membrane protein of caveolae, plasma membrane invaginations that are involved in vesicular transport, cholesterol homeostasis, signal transduction, and cell transformation (Williams & Lisanti 2005). The CAV-1 scaffolding domain shares homology with the SOCS pseudosubstrate domain, suggesting a negative regulatory function in the JAK/STAT5 signaling pathway. Indeed, CAV-1 was found to inhibit the kinase activity of JAK2 and suppress JAK2/STAT5A signaling (Park et al. 2001, Jasmin et al. 2006).
Transcription factor STAT5A/B regulates the viability of prostate cancer cells The understanding of the importance and function of transcription factor STAT5A/B in normal and malignant prostate tissues has been obtained from the analysis of Stat5a KO mice, studies in human prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo, and from the TRAMP (transgenic adrenocarcinoma of mouse prostate) mouse model of prostate cancer. Originally, STAT5A and STAT5B were identified as the key signaling proteins activated by PRL in both normal and malignant prostate tissues (Ahonen et al. 2002, Li et al. 2004). PRL, in turn, had been shown to be an autocrine mitogen and survival factor for androgen-deprived prostate cells (Ahonen et al. 1999). In determining the role of STAT5A/B in the growth of normal prostate epithelium, the first step was the analysis of the phenotype of Stat5a KO mice (Nevalainen et al. 2000). These studies revealed that the prostate epithelium of Stat5a-null mice was defective. Specifically, the prostate epithelium in Stat5a-/- mice was characterized by acinar cyst formation, local disorganization, and shedding of the epithelial cells to the glandular lumini (Nevalainen et al. 2000). The deformed prostate acini were filled with desquamated, granular epithelial cells embedded in dense, coagulated secretory material inside the broken acini (Nevalainen et al. 2000). The defective prostate tissue architecture in Stat5a-/- mice did not show increased prostate size or morphological hallmarks of epithelial hyperplasia. These results implied that STAT5A is not likely to mediate growth inhibition of prostate epithelium. Presently, no reports of prostate phenotypes of Stat5b or Stat5a/b double KO mice exist. Analysis of the prostate phenotype of Stat5b or Stat5a/b double KO mice would be essential for more complete understanding of the importance of STAT5A/B for the integrity and maintenance of normal prostate epithelium. This is because the prostate phenotype of Stat5a-null mice may have been undermined by redundant functions of other STAT family proteins, particularly STAT5B (Liu et al. 1998b, Nevalainen et al. 2002). Specifically, in the mammary glands of Stat5a-/- mice, STAT5B compensated for the lack of Stat5a after multiple pregnancies (Liu et al. 1998b, Nevalainen et al. 2002). Likewise, in the prostates of Stat5a-deficient mice, STAT5B may have compensated for the lack of STAT5A. Furthermore, the loss of Stat5a stemmed from a germ line mutation of the Stat5a gene and, therefore, allowed sufficient time for STAT5B to functionally offset the loss of STAT5A throughout the development of the mice. Based on these facts, more specific results on the significance of STAT5A/B in growth regulation of normal prostate epithelium would be obtained from the studies that utilize conditional prostate-specific targeting of Stat5a or Stat5b or Stat5a/b. Transcription factor STAT5A/B is highly critical for the viability of human prostate cancer cells in culture. Moreover, STAT5A/B is crucial for the regulation of prostate tumor growth in vivo. The novel concept of STAT5A/B being a prostate cell growth-controlling protein is supported by the reports from several different groups. First, Ahonen et al. (2003) showed that inhibition of STAT5A/B in STAT5-positive human prostate cancer cells by adenoviral expression of a dominant-negative mutant of STAT5A/B induced massive apoptotic death of the cells as determined by cell morphology, cell viability assays, DNA fragmentation, and activation of caspase-3 and caspase-9. The demonstration of the vital contribution of STAT5A/B to the viability of prostate cancer cells was later confirmed by the studies in the TRAMP mouse prostate cancer model (Kazansky et al. 2003). In the TRAMP mouse prostate tumor cell lines, inhibition of STAT5A/B by inducible expression of a carboxy terminal-truncated STAT5B mutant decreased the growth of the cells in soft agar and tumor formation in nude mice. For further validation of STAT5A/B as a therapeutic target protein for prostate cancer, recent work from the Nevalainen Laboratory (Dagvadorj et al. 2008) established the critical role of STAT5A/B for human prostate xenograft tumor growth in nude mice. The study also demonstrated that, regardless of the methodological approach, STAT5 inhibition in all STAT5-positive human prostate cancer cells resulted in massive cell death. In addition, CYCLIN-D1 and BCL-XL were identified as target genes of STAT5A/B in human prostate cancer cells (Dagvadorj et al. 2008). What remains unclear so far is the individual role of STAT5A versus STAT5B in the maintenance of growth regulation of prostate cancer cells. Moreover, identification of the molecular mechanisms underlying rapid apoptosis of prostate cancer cells upon STAT5A/B inhibition should be investigated, as it may reveal additional therapeutic target proteins for prostate cancer. Active STAT5A/B in clinical progression of prostate cancer STAT5A/B is constitutively activated in human prostate cancer cells, but not in the epithelium of adjacent normal prostate glands (Ahonen et al. 2003). Moreover, activation of STAT5A/B is associated with high-grade prostate cancer (Li et al. 2004). The distribution of active STAT5A/B in clinical prostate cancers of different histological grades was first demonstrated in a study that analyzed STAT5A/B activation in 114 paraffin-embedded prostate cancer samples (Li et al. 2004). Examination of tissue microarrays of an independent set of 357 prostate cancer patients further confirmed that activation of STAT5A/B associated with high Gleason grades of prostate cancer (Li et al. 2005). Active STAT5A/B in primary prostate tumors predicted an early recurrence of prostate cancer after the initial treatment of prostate cancer in the patient (Li et al. 2005). This finding further supported the concept of involvement of STAT5A/B in clinical progression of prostate cancer. Most importantly, active STAT5A/B remained an independent prognostic marker of early disease recurrence even if only prostate cancers of intermediate Gleason grades were analyzed (Li et al. 2005). It is therefore possible that the presence of active STAT5A/B in primary prostate cancers of intermediate histological grade is associated with progressive disease and would serve as a prognostic marker for the identification of prostate cancer patients who would benefit from a more aggressive therapeutic intervention. Future studies should determine the distribution of active STAT5A versus STAT5B in prostate cancers of different histological grades and assess the individual prognostic value of STAT5A versus STAT5B in prostate cancer. The ideal material for such studies would be primary prostate cancer specimens from patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy but have not received adjuvant therapies, since they may affect the activation of STAT5A/B. Because active STAT5A/B promotes the growth of prostate cancer cells and active STAT5A/B in primary prostate cancer predicted early disease recurrence, which is often hormone-refractory cancer, the contribution of STAT5A/B to androgen-independent growth of prostate cancer is an important open question. Hormone-refractory prostate cancer is characterized by continued expression of the androgen receptor (AR) and androgen-regulated genes, suggesting that the AR signaling pathway remains active despite low levels of circulatory androgens (Isaacs & Isaacs 2004). Recently, the Nevalainen Laboratory (Tan et al. 2008) demonstrated that the active STAT5A/B signaling pathway increased transcriptional activity of AR in prostate cancer cells. Ligand-bound AR, in turn, increases transcriptional activity of STAT5A/B. AR expression is known to persist in hormone-refractory prostate cancer. Similar to AR, STAT5A/B was shown to be in the active state in 95% of hormone-refractory clinical human prostate cancers (Tan et al. 2008). The functional synergism between STAT5A/B and AR in prostate cancer cells was demonstrated to involve direct physical interaction between the two. Intriguingly, liganded AR was shown to enhance nuclear localization of STAT5A/B and active STAT5 promoted nuclear translocation of AR (Tan et al. 2008). These findings are important because STAT5A/B and AR are both transcription factors that inhibit apoptosis and promote the growth of prostate cancer cells (Fig. 2). Specifically, promotion of AR transcriptional activity by STAT5A/B in the presence of low levels of androgens may contribute to androgen-independent growth of prostate cancer. AR, in turn, by promoting transcriptional activity of STAT5A/B, may critically support the viability of prostate cancer cells in growth conditions where prostate cancer cells would normally undergo apoptosis. Among outstanding questions are the molecular mechanisms underlying the co-action between STAT5A/B and AR, the effect of STAT5A/B-AR synergy on prostate tumor growth in vivo and the STAT5 interaction with mutated liganded AR by non-testicular androgens. Pathways leading to constitutive activation of STAT5A/B in prostate cancer cells The molecular mechanisms underlying constitutive activation of STAT5A/B in primary and hormone-refractory human prostate cancer are presently unclear. Such mechanisms may involve autocrine PRL (Nevalainen et al. 1997a,b, Li et al. 2004; Fig. 2). Specifically, PRL is one of the predominant peptide factors presently known to activate JAK2-STAT5A/B in normal and malignant prostate epithelia (Ahonen et al. 2002, Li et al. 2004, Dagvadorj et al. 2007). PRL promotes proliferation and survival of prostate cells, and PRL is produced locally by normal prostate epithelium and prostate cancer (Nevalainen et al. 1991, 1996, 1997a,b, Wennbo et al. 1997, Ahonen et al. 1999, Kindblom et al. 2002, 2003, Dagvadorj et al. 2007). Analysis of clinical human prostate cancer specimens showed that PRL protein expression is associated with a high histological grade of human prostate cancer (Li et al. 2004). Autocrine PRL in prostate cancer may be one of the factors responsible for the constitutive activation of STAT5A/B in human prostate cancer. It has been shown that JAK2 is the predominant kinase that activates STAT5A/B in prostate cancer cells (Li et al. 2004). Activating mutations of JAK2 have been recently described in hematopoietic malignancies resulting in constitutive activation of STAT5 (Baxter et al. 2005). Such JAK2 mutations may also occur in advanced prostate cancer. A third potential mechanism for the high abundance of STAT5A/B in prostate cancer is the amplification of STAT5A/B genes. This is particularly important since the STAT5A/B genes are located on chromosome 17 (Clark et al. 2003) that is frequently altered in both incidental and hereditary prostate cancers (Gillanders et al. 2004). Chromosome 17q showed allelic imbalance in prostate cancer (Latil et al. 1994, Bova & Isaacs 1996, Alers et al. 2000, Kasahara et al. 2002, Wolter et al. 2002a,b, Verhage et al. 2003, von Knobloch et al. 2004), and gains in chromosome 17q were detected in five studies (Bova & Isaacs 1996, Alers et al. 2000, Kasahara et al. 2002, Wolter et al. 2002a,b). Moreover, three large studies linked a prostate cancer susceptibility gene to chromosome 17q (17q22) (Lange et al. 2003, Gillanders et al. 2004, Zuhlke et al. 2004), suggesting involvement of genes in this region in an inherited form of prostate cancer. STAT5A/B might also be activated by tyrosine kinases such as Src (Silva 2004, Yu & Jove 2004), Bcr-Abl (de Groot et al. 1999), or Tel-JAK (Schwaller et al. 2000). Although GH, a principal activator of STAT5B in a number of tissues, might be involved in activating STAT5A/B in malignant prostate epithelium (Chopin et al. 2002, Halmos et al. 2002, Letsch et al. 2003, Weiss-Messer et al. 2004, Stangelberger et al. 2005, Wang et al. 2005), there is presently no evidence of direct effects of GH on the stimulation of prostate cancer cell growth. Negative regulators of STAT5A/B signaling in prostate cancer Constitutive activation of STAT5A/B in malignant prostate epithelium may result from the loss of STAT5A/B phosphatases or inhibitory proteins of STAT5A/B (PIAS, CAV-1). STAT proteins are inactivated by both cytoplasmic and nuclear PTPs, such as SHP-1, SHP-2, CD45, cytosolic PTP, PTP1B, and a nuclear phosphatase, TCPTP (Aoki & Matsuda 2000, 2002, Shuai & Liu 2003). However, studies on direct regulation of STAT5A/B activation by tyrosine phosphatases in prostate cancer cells have not been reported. Nevertheless, expression of the tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 has been detected in both PC-3 and LNCaP prostate cancer cells (Zapata et al. 2002). SHP-1 is also expressed in normal human prostate, benign prostate hyperplasia, and well-differentiated prostate cancer, but is undetectable in poorly differentiated advanced prostate cancer (Zapata et al. 2002). The PIAS family of proteins are localized within the nucleus and function as constitutive repressors of STAT activity (Chung et al. 1997, Shuai 2000, Schmidt & Muller 2003). In addition, PIAS1, PIAS3 (Junicho et al. 2000, Gross et al. 2001, Wang & Banerjee 2004), and PIAS-like proteins Zimp7 (Huang et al. 2005) and Zimp10 (Sharma et al. 2003) have been shown to function as co-activators to AR-mediated transcription in human prostate epithelial cells, while PIASy acts as a co-repressor of AR (Junicho et al. 2000, Gross et al. 2001). Importantly, the only member of the PIAS family that has been shown to interact with STAT5A/B is PIAS3. Specifically, the repressive action of PIAS3 on STAT5-mediated transcription was shown in CHO and lymphoid cells (Rycyzyn & Clevenger 2002), but not in prostate cells. PIAS3 is expressed in prostate cancer tissues and cell lines (Gross et al. 2001, Wang & Banerjee 2004). Moreover, PIAS3 acts as a co-regulator of AR-regulated transcription in LNCaP cells, and its expression is enhanced in response to DHT (dihydrotestosterone) treatment (Junicho et al. 2000, Gross et al. 2001). PIAS1 expression, in turn, has been shown to be 33% higher in primary prostate cancers compared with normal prostates, but this overexpression did not correlate with the Gleason score as determined by in situ hybridization of PIAS1mRNA (Li et al. 2002). Another study showed that PIAS1 expression is significantly lower in hormone-refractory prostate tumors than in untreated prostate tumors (Linja et al. 2004). However, interaction and the effects of PIAS1 on STAT5A/B activity in prostate cancer cells remain unclear. PIAS1 has been shown to act as an E3 ligase for AR (Nishida & Yasuda 2002), enhance the transcriptional activity of AR in LNCaP cells (Gross et al. 2001), and inhibit STAT1-mediated transcription (Liu et al. 1998a). In contrast to PIAS1 and PIAS3, PIASy has been shown to interact with AR and act as an inhibitor of AR in prostate cancer cell without interfering with the DNA binding of AR (Gross et al. 2001). Additional studies on the interaction of PIAS proteins with STAT5A/B- and STAT5A/B-regulated gene transcription in prostate cancer cells would give more insight into how this interaction contributes to prostate cancer progression. A comparison of SOCS expression in three prostate cancer cell lines (LNCaP, PC-3, and DU145) with a normal prostate cell line (RWPE-1) showed that the expression levels of SOCS-1, SOCS-3, SOCS-5, and CIS genes in PC-3 and DU145 cells are significantly lower than in the normal RWPE prostate cells. On the other hand, in LNCaP cells the expression of SOCS-1, SOCS-3, SOCS-5, and CIS genes were at levels comparable with RWPE cells (Evans et al. 2007). These results indicate that SOCS genes are not silenced in all prostate cancer cells. It remains to be determined whether the SOCS proteins directly regulate the JAK2-STAT5A/B pathway in human prostate cancer cells (Neuwirt et al. 2007) and, therefore, would contribute to constitutive activation of STAT5A/B in clinical prostate cancer. In mammary epithelial cells, CAV-1 has been shown to repress JAK2-STAT5A/B signaling pathway (Park et al. 2002, Jasmin et al. 2006). In prostate cancer, overexpression of CAV-1 has been associated with higher Gleason score, positive surgical margins, metastasis to lymph nodes, aggressive PSA (prostate specific antigen) recurrence, and a higher likelihood of disease recurrence in patients treated with radical prostatectomy (Yang et al. 1999, Tahir et al. 2006, Karam et al. 2007). Moreover, it has been suggested recently that CAV-1 mediates angiogenesis during prostate cancer progression (Yang et al. 2007a). In the CAV-1 deficient human prostate cancer cell line, LNCaP, the overexpression of CAV-1 stimulated cell proliferation and promoted tumor growth in nude mice (Bartz et al. 2008). To date, there are no studies on the interaction of CAV-1 expression and JAK2/STAT5 signaling pathway in human prostate cancer cells. In summary, little is presently known about how changes in the expression patterns of negative regulatory proteins of STAT5A/B signaling contribute to the constitutive activation of STAT5A/B in advanced prostate cancer.
STAT5A/B regulation of normal mammary gland The present understanding of the role of STAT5A/B in the regulation of normal mammary gland has been obtained for the most part from studies using murine mammary gland as a model system. Before and after the onset of puberty and during the reproductive cycle, the mouse mammary gland undergoes major morphological changes. Signals from steroid hormones, lactogenic hormones, and peptide growth factors all coordinate the expansion and differentiation of the alveolar compartment of the mouse mammary gland during the reproductive cycle (Hennighausen & Robinson 2005). Throughout all the stages of mammary gland development, the expression of STAT5A/B proteins is detected in the breast epithelium with a minor increase during the final stages of pregnancy and the onset of lactation (Kazansky et al. 1995, Liu et al. 1995). Of the two homologs of STAT5, STAT5A is more abundant in mammary epithelial cells than STAT5B (Liu et al. 1997). In contrast to the relatively steady expression pattern of STAT5A/B proteins, the kinetics of STAT5 tyrosine phosphorylation correlates with the developmental profile of the mammary gland and the activation of milk protein genes (Liu et al. 1995, 1996b, Nevalainen et al. 2002). In late pregnancy and early lactation, marked stimulation in STAT5 phosphorylation occurs, followed by a decrease during the involution phase of the post-lactational mammary gland (Liu et al. 1995, 1996b, Nevalainen et al. 2002). In addition to PRL, STAT5A/B is also activated in mouse mammary gland by GH or epidermal growth factor (EGF). However, while PRL activates STAT5A/B uniformly in the mammary epithelium, GH, and EGF activate STAT5A/B only in a subset of epithelial cells, and the main targets of GH and EGF in mouse mammary gland are mammary stromal cells (Gallego et al. 2001, Nevalainen et al. 2002). Creation of Stat5a-null mice revealed a specific role for STAT5A in the mouse mammary gland during the reproductive cycle (Liu et al. 1997). The inactivation of Stat5a gene in mice by homologous recombination showed disrupted mammary gland development and a failure to lactate. Specifically, the postpartum lobulo-alveolar outgrowth was reduced and the alveolar lumina in the mammary gland failed to terminally differentiate (Liu et al. 1997). The mice developed otherwise normally and were indistinguishable from their wild-type litter mates in size, weight, and fertility (Liu et al. 1997). Interestingly, in the non-pregnant murine mammary gland, STAT5A/B is basally active within the ductal compartment (Nevalainen et al. 2002). However, the key functions of PRL-STAT5 signaling during pregnancy and lactation are located to the alveolar compartment of the gland (Horseman et al. 1997, Ormandy et al. 1997). These findings are in line with the results of the analysis of mice lacking two alleles of the PRL receptor in mammary epithelial cells that exhibited normal morphogenesis of the ducts of the mammary glands but lacked milk-producing alveoli (Brisken et al. 1999, Miyoshi et al. 2001). Further studies using transgenic mice overexpressing the native ovine STAT5A (94% identical to mouse STAT5A) in the mammary glands showed that STAT5A promoted lobulo-alveolar development and delayed the onset of apoptosis (Iavnilovitch et al. 2002). This suggested that STAT5A is a survival factor for terminally differentiated non-malignant mammary epithelial cells. Collectively, these studies demonstrated that STAT5A is the principal mediator of lobulo-alveolar differentiation and expansion in mice during pregnancy, as well as the key mediator of lactogenic signaling. Moreover, transcriptionally active STAT5A critically promotes the viability and survival of terminally differentiated alveolar mammary epithelial cells.
Stat5b-null mice demonstrated a decreased lobulo-alveolar development, albeit a less severe phenotype than that of the Stat5a-null mice, with lactation unimpeded. The key function of STAT5B is to mediate the effects of GH, as Stat5b-null mice failed to respond effectively to GH (Udy et al. 1997, Teglund et al. 1998) and had severe anemia suggesting defective hematopoiesis due to impaired response to hematopoietins (Socolovsky et al. 1999). KO of both Stat5a and Stat5b, in turn, is perinatally lethal and the mice had severely impaired lymphoid development and differentiation. Absence of STAT5A/B also abrogated T-cell receptor STAT5A/B in tumorigenesis of rodent mammary gland Present evidence suggests that STAT5A/B promotes tumorigenesis of rodent mammary gland. In a study using the rat mammary gland as a model, Shan et al. (2004) examined the immunohistochemical expression and activation of STAT5A in a panel of rat mammary gland carcinomas induced by the chemical carcinogens, 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene and 2-amino-1-methyl-6 phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine, to assess the percentage of cells in carcinomas and preneoplastic lesions showing tyrosine phosphorylated and nuclear localized STAT5A. Nuclear immunostaining of STAT5A was detected in 65% of carcinomas, while STAT5A in control normal mammary gland tissue was cytosolic. STAT5A immunostaining patterns (cytoplasmic or nuclear) were compared with proliferating cell nuclear antigen immunostaining, tumor differentiation, nuclear grade, mitotic activity, and tumor size. The results indicated that intense nuclear immunostaining for STAT5A was associated with high-grade rat mammary gland carcinomas and STAT5A immunostaining was detected in intraductal proliferating cells and in ductal carcinomas in situ (Shan et al. 2004). The effect of STAT5A on mouse mammary gland carcinogenesis has been tested in several different mouse breast cancer models. First, the effect of hemizygous loss of Stat5a was determined in a SV40-T antigen transgenic mouse model of mammary cancer. The breeding of WAP-TAg mice to mice carrying germ line hemizygous deletions of the Stat5a allele generated mice with reduced levels of STAT5A without altering mammary gland development or transgene expression levels. In comparison with mice carrying two wild-type Stat5a alleles, hemizygous loss of the Stat5a allele demonstrated a modest decrease in the number of tumor-bearing mice. Moreover, the tumors were smaller and the tumor formation was delayed (Ren et al. 2002). In another mouse breast cancer model system, Stat5a-null females exhibited delayed transforming growth factor--induced tumorigenesis (Humphreys & Hennighausen 2000). Third, a recent study by Oakes et al. (2007) suggested that PRL receptor deficiency may prevent early progression of mammary gland neoplasia to invasive carcinoma. However, it is unclear so far whether this inhibition of mammary gland cancer progression would be due to the lack of JAK2/STAT5 signaling or inhibition of other PRL receptor-activated signal transduction pathways. Cav-1, in turn, which inhibits JAK2-STAT5 signaling (Park et al. 2002), has been shown to affect mammary tumor formation in mice (Sotgia et al. 2006b). The mammary glands of Cav-1 KO mice expressed a hyperactive JAK2-STAT5 pathway and developed hyperplastic, well-differentiated mammary tumors (Sotgia et al. 2006b). An interesting recent study reported that overexpression of wild-type or constitutively active Stat5a in a transgenic mouse model promoted the occurrence of sporadic mammary cancers. Specifically, mammary-directed expression of wild-type Stat5a or constitutively active Stat5a developed well-differentiated micropapillary and papillary adenocarcinomas after latency periods of 8-12 months. Unexpectedly, mammary-directed overexpression of a carboxyl terminal-truncated STAT5 was able to promote mammary gland adenocarcinoma development in mice (Iavnilovitch et al. 2004). This result was surprising because C-terminally truncated STAT5A is transcriptionally inactive, and thus acts as a dominant-negative variant of STAT5A/B inhibiting endogenous STAT5A/B. Of note, the mammary gland adenocarcinomas in these mice were less well differentiated than carcinomas that occurred in wild-type or constitutively active STAT5 expressing transgenic mice (Iavnilovitch et al. 2004). Further observation showed that the expression of the carboxy terminally truncated Stat5 in the mammary glands of transgenic mice inhibits cell proliferation during pregnancy, delays onset of milk secretion, and induces apoptosis upon involution (Iavnilovitch et al. 2006). In another study, Eilon et al. (2007) reported that in transgenic mice overexpressing Stat5 or a constitutively activated Stat5 variant, mammary tumorigenesis occurred more frequently in multiparous females compared with their age-matched virgin counterparts. The fact that mammary tumorigenesis was more frequent in multiparous females may be due to the use β-lactoglobulin gene promoter, which is a PRL-inducible promoter, to drive the expression of Stat5. The role of STAT5A/B in differentiation of malignant mammary epithelial cells is supported by the studies conducted in HC11 cells that are well-differentiated mouse mammary cancer cells. Specifically, inhibition of PRL-JAK2 signaling blocked cell differentiation and induced a hyperproliferative phenotype characterized by increased mitotic rate, reduced apoptosis, and reduced contact inhibition (Xie et al. 2002). In conclusion, several lines of evidence suggest that STAT5A/B may promote mammary gland tumorigenesis in rat and mice. The results of several independent studies suggest that STAT5A/B may also affect differentiation of mouse mammary gland carcinomas. However, it is unclear at this point to what extent the observed phenotypes in these studies with somewhat conflicting results were affected by crossing different mouse strains with one another. STAT5A/B signaling pathway in human breast cancer Activation of STAT5A/B in human breast cancer has been shown to positively correlate with the differentiation status of the tumor. In one study, STAT5A/B was found to be constitutively active in 76% of human breast tumors (n=83) and the authors observed a positive correlation between tumor differentiation and active STAT5A (Cotarla et al. 2004). No association of active STAT5 was found with recognized prognostic indicators such as lymph node metastases, tumor size, ploidy, percentage of cells in S-phase, estrogen receptor (ER), ErbB2, or nuclear localized p21. In another study, STAT5A/B activation in primary breast cancer (n=1100) was found to predict favorable clinical outcome (Nevalainen et al. 2004). This study describes a gradual inactivation of STAT5A/B during metastatic progression of human breast cancer, with less than 20% of metastases exhibiting active STAT5. Importantly, loss of tyrosine phosphorylated STAT5A/B in the primary tumor of patients with lymph node-negative breast cancer was associated with an eightfold increased risk of death from breast cancer (Nevalainen et al. 2004). In multivariate analyses, STAT5A/B was an independent prognostic factor in node-negative breast cancer when other markers, including age, ER, progesterone receptor, HER2, (human epidermal growth factor receptor-2) tumor size, and grade were included. Subsequent studies focusing on histological differentiation of breast cancer and STAT5A/B activation confirmed that STAT5A/B levels positively correlated with breast cancer differentiation in the material of 517 cases (Yamashita et al. 2006). Moreover, high STAT5A/B levels predicted better response to endocrine therapy and longer survival after relapse than tumors that were STAT5A/B negative (Yamashita et al. 2006). Interestingly, examination of secretory carcinomas for the presence of STAT5A by immunohistochemistry showed that STAT5A was expressed at a high level in secretory carcinomas (11 invasive and 7 in situ, including 4 cases with both), but was absent in in situ or invasive ductal carcinomas and apocrine breast metaplasias (Strauss et al. 2006). Moreover, STAT5A was not expressed in other specialized histological types of breast carcinomas such as mucinous or clear cell carcinomas (Strauss et al. 2006). The authors suggested that STAT5A/B expression in the secretory breast carcinomas may be due to the secretory changes occurring in the cells. In addition, the levels of STAT5A were reported to be reduced in breast cancers in general compared with STAT5A levels in normal luminal breast epithelial cells (Bratthauer et al. 2006). The favorable prognosis associated with active STAT5A/B may be a result of reduced metastatic dispersal of breast cancer cells from the primary tumor caused by STAT5A/B. Specifically, STAT5A/B had an invasion-suppressive role in human breast cancer cells (Sultan et al. 2005) as determined by cell clustering assays, E-cadherin expression, matrix metalloproteinase secretion, cell migration, and invasion assays (Sultan et al. 2005). On the other hand, hypoxia, a common consequence of solid tumor growth in breast cancer or other cancers, was reported to activate STAT5A/B and increase its transcriptional activity and binding to the GAS element in breast cancer cells (Joung et al. 2005, Lee et al. 2006). In addition, inhibition of STAT5A/B by adenoviral expression of a dominant-negative STAT5 mutant in T47D cells was described to cause apoptosis of the cells (Yamashita et al. 2003, 2004). These studies, however, did not include critical controls for the cytopathic effects of adenovirus, and therefore it is difficult to interpret the results. In conclusion, further studies are needed to determine whether STAT5A/B is not only a promoter of differentiation of breast cancer, but also a survival factor for established human breast tumors. Negative regulation of STAT5 signaling in breast cancer The molecular mechanisms underlying constitutive activation of STAT5A/B in clinical human breast cancer are presently unclear. First, the down-regulation of STAT5A/B phosphorylation during breast cancer progression to metastatic disease could be due to decreased STAT5A/B protein expression caused by genetic or epigenetic changes occurring in breast cancer cells. Second, STAT5A/B phosphorylation may be reduced because of increased expression or activation of phosphatases that dephosphorylate STAT5A/B. Both TCPTP and PTP1B were shown to form a complex with and dephosphorylate STAT5A/B, resulting in inactivation of STAT5A/B-mediated gene expression in mammary epithelial cells (Aoki & Matsuda 2000, 2002). Analysis of SHP-1 expression in 72 primary breast cancers showed a 2- to 12-fold increase in 58% of the samples compared with normal breast epithelial cells (Yip et al. 2000). No reports on the distribution of TCPTP or PTP1B protein expression in human breast cancers of different histological grades exist to date. Third, changes in the expression levels of PIAS proteins may result in reduced transcriptional activity of STAT5A/B in high-grade breast cancer. PIAS3 has been shown to inhibit PRL-induced STAT5A/B-mediated transactivation of the β-casein promoter (Rycyzyn et al. 2000). This inhibitory interaction between PIAS3 and STAT5A/B activity was disrupted by increasing amounts of a complex formed by intra-nuclear PRL and the peptidyl prolyl isomerase cyclophilin B, suggesting an indirect regulatory role of nuclear PRL on STAT5A/B transcriptional activity (Rycyzyn & Clevenger 2002). Elevated expression levels of SOCS-1, SOCS-2, SOCS-3, and CIS were found in breast carcinomas and breast cancer cell lines compared with normal breast tissue and cell lines (Raccurt et al. 2003). In another study, the mRNA expression levels of SOCS-1, SOCS-2, SOCS-3, CIS, and the STAT5-induced growth factor, insulin-like growth factor-I, were examined by RT-PCR followed by immunohistochemical analysis of SOCS-2 protein expression (Haffner et al. 2007). SOCS-2 expression level was inversely correlated with histopathological grade of breast cancer. Moreover, high SOCS-2 expression were found in ER-positive tumors and correlated with higher survival rates. The mammary glands of Cav-1 null mice showed premature lactation, with accelerated development of the lobulo-alveolar compartment and hyperactivation of the JAK2/STAT5A signaling compared with the mammary gland of normal mice (Park et al. 2002). Cav-1-/- mammary epithelia were hyperproliferative in vivo, with dramatic increases in terminal end bud areas and mammary ductal thickness as well as increases in bromodeoxyuridine incorporation, extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 hyperactivation, and up-regulation of Stat5a and Cyclin-D1. Consistent with these findings, loss of Cav-1 dramatically exacerbated mammary lobulo-alveolar hyperplasia in Cyclin-D1 transgenic mice, whereas overexpression of Cav-1 caused reversal of this phenotype (Williams et al. 2006). However, the role of CAV-1 human cancers has been controversial (Lee et al. 1998, Hurlstone et al. 1999, Chen et al. 2004, Sagara et al. 2004, Williams & Lisanti 2005). CAV-1 is believed to be a tumor suppressor gene (Williams & Lisanti 2005, Sotgia et al. 2006a) based on the high frequency of deletions of 7q31 in human cancers (Lee et al. 2002), the presence of CAV-1 gene promoter methylation (Engelman et al. 1999), and inactivating gene mutation (Hayashi et al. 2001). By contrast, other reports suggest that CAV-1 may behave as an oncogene in breast (Hurlstone et al. 1999, Van den Eynden et al. 2006, Pinilla et al. 2006) and prostate (Thompson et al. 1999, Timme et al. 2000) cancers. Reduced CAV-1 expression in breast carcinomas has been reported in several independent studies (Chen et al. 2004, Park et al. 2005). In another study, mRNA levels of CAV-1 were analyzed in breast cancer tissues by RT-PCR and showed that the down-regulation of CAV-1 mRNA levels in breast cancer tissues compared with normal tissues and correlated positively with tumor size and negative ER status (Sagara et al. 2004) A comparison of CAV-1 expression in normal breast tissues, benign lesions, breast cancer precursors, metastatic, and invasive breast cancers using a combination of immunofluorescence, ultrastructural analysis, and immunohistochemistry showed preferential CAV-1 expression in myoepithelial cells (MECs), fibroblasts, and endothelial cells in normal breast tissue (Savage et al. 2007). CAV-1 was found to be expressed in 90% metaplastic breast carcinomas and in 9.4% invasive breast carcinomas, and, importantly, the expression of CAV-1 in the latter group was associated with basal-like immunophenotype, shorter disease free, and lower survival based on univariate analysis. Targeting STAT5A/B activation There are multiple levels at which STAT5A/B function could be targeted in cells. These include STAT5A/B gene expression, STAT5A/B recruitment to a receptor, STAT5A/B tyrosine phosphorylation, STAT5A/B dimerization, STAT5A/B nuclear translocation, STAT5A/B DNA binding, and its interaction with other transcriptional co-regulators. Down-regulation of STAT5A/B expression by RNA interference in both mammary epithelial cells and prostate cancer cells (Dagvadorj et al. 2008) has been performed successfully. SH2 domain-binding phosphotyrosyl peptides or peptidomimetics that have been used to selectively inhibit STAT3 dimerization (Turkson et al. 2001, 2004) could be applied to inhibit STAT5A/B receptor recruitment and dimerization. In addition, decoy oligonucleotides that mimic STAT5A/B-binding sites could theoretically sequester STAT5 from its target genes and inhibit DNA binding as shown by the inhibition of CYCLIN-D1 protein expression in NRK-49F kidney cells (Guh et al. 2001). Furthermore, peptide aptamers selected from combinatorial peptide libraries could potentially be used to block STAT5 dimerization or DNA binding (Nagel-Wolfrum et al. 2004). Another approach to inhibit STAT5A/B would be a disruption of transcriptional activation of STAT5 by the expression of a truncated dominant negative variant that lacks the C-terminal transactivation domain (Ahonen et al. 2003, Dagvadorj et al. 2008). The involvement of human autocrine PRL in activating the JAK2/STAT5A/B signaling pathway in breast and prostate epithelial cells inspired the development of hPRL antagonists such as G129R-PRL (Llovera et al. 2000) that may have potential for therapeutic use (Dagvadorj et al. 2007). Finally, identification of pharmacological small-molecule lead compounds that would disrupt STAT5A/B dimerization or DNA binding would be critical for the development of conventional pharmaceuticals for the inhibition of STAT5A/B.
Transcription factor STAT5A/B is constitutively active in human prostate and breast cancers. In prostate cancer, activation of STAT5A/B is associated with high histological grade of clinical prostate cancer, and activation of STAT5A/B in primary prostate cancer may predict early disease recurrence. Moreover, STAT5A/B functionally interacts with AR in prostate cancer cells. Importantly, STAT5A/B is highly critical for the viability of human prostate cancer cells and therefore presents a potential therapeutic target protein for high-grade prostate cancer (Table 4).
In breast cancer, the role of STAT5A/B is more complex (Table 4). In mouse models of breast cancer, STAT5A/B promotes tumor formation. By contrast, activation of STAT5A/B in human breast cancer is a robust predictor of favorable clinical outcome, and STAT5A/B inhibits metastatic behavior of human breast cancer cells. Moreover, expression of active STAT5A/B is lost during histological dedifferentiation of human breast cancer. It is therefore possible that STAT5A/B has a dual role in breast cancer. STAT5A/B may promote the growth of the early malignant lesions, whereas it may maintain differentiation of established breast cancer. It is also possible that the role of STAT5A/B in mouse mammary gland regulation is different from that in humans. The specific and possibly different roles of STAT5A versus STAT5B in the regulation of breast cancer cells are not yet clear and some of the conflicting data may have resulted from the analysis of STAT5A and STAT5B collectively in the majority of the studies carried out to date. Finally, little is known about STAT5A/B activation and regulation in human breast cancer stem cells and how STAT5A/B activation in different cell types of the human breast translates into the effect of STAT5A/B on growth promotion versus differentiation of breast cancer.
We would like to thank Ms Jacqueline Lutz for her help in designing the graphs. This work was supported by the American Cancer Society (RSG-04-196-01-MGO), DOD Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Grants (W81XWH-05-01-0062, W81XWH-06-01-0076, W81XWH-07-01-0411), and NIH NCI grant (1RO1CA113580-01A1). The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest that would prejudice the impartiality of this scientific work.
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