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Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 4/stress- activated protein/ Erk kinase 1 ( MKK4/ SEK1), a prostate cancer metastasis suppressor gene encoded by human chromosome 17.

The introduction of a discontinuous approximately 70-cM portion of human chromosome 17 significantly suppresses the metastatic ability of AT6.1 rat prostate cancer cells without affecting tumorigenicity (M. A. Chekmareva et al., Prostate, 33: 271-280, 1997). We have recently demonstrated that AT6.1 cells containing the approximately 70-cM region (AT6.1-17-4 cells) escape from the primary tumor and arrest in the lung but are growth-inhibited unless the metastasis suppressor region is lost (M. A. Chekmareva et al., Cancer Res., 58: 4963-4969, 1998). A series of in vivo studies indicated that the observed growth inhibition was due to the effect of a gene(s) at the metastatic site (M. A. Chekmareva et al., Cancer Res., 58: 4963-4969, 1998). We have now identified the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 4/stress- activated protein/ Erk kinase 1 ( MKK4/ SEK1) gene as a candidate metastasis suppressor gene encoded by the approximately 70-cM region. AT6.1 cells were transfected with a MKK4/ SEK1 expression construct, and the cells were tested in standard spontaneous metastasis assays. Whereas the metastatic ability of the AT6.1-MKK4/ SEK1 cells was significantly reduced as compared with that of transfection controls, the growth rate of the primary tumors was not affected; the average tumor volume at day 29 after injection was approximately 2 cm. Furthermore, histological examination of the lungs of AT6.1-MKK4/ SEK1 tumor-bearing animals revealed that the suppression by MKK4/ SEK1 is due to an effect at the metastatic site, consistent with the phenotype conferred by the original approximately 70-cM chromosomal region. These studies implicate MKK4/ SEK1 as a metastasis suppressor gene encoded by human chromosome 17.[1]

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  1. Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 4/stress-activated protein/Erk kinase 1 (MKK4/SEK1), a prostate cancer metastasis suppressor gene encoded by human chromosome 17. Yoshida, B.A., Dubauskas, Z., Chekmareva, M.A., Christiano, T.R., Stadler, W.M., Rinker-Schaeffer, C.W. Cancer Res. (1999) [Pubmed]
 
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