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Modulator of Apoptosis 1 (MOAP-1) is a highly regulated tumor suppressor protein

ABSTRACT: Modulator of apoptosis 1 (MOAP-1) is a BH3-like protein that plays key roles in both the intrinsic and extrinsic modes of cell death or apoptosis. It is an integral partner to the tumor suppressor Ras association domain family 1A (RASSF1A) and functions to activate the Bcl-2 family pro-apoptotic protein Bax. Although RASSF1A is now considered a bona fide tumor suppressor protein, the role of MOAP-1 as a tumor suppressor is yet to be determined. In this study, we present several lines of evidence from cancer databases, immnoblotting of cancer cells, proliferation and xenograft assays to demonstrate the role of MOAP-1 as a tumor suppressor. MOAP-1 overexpressed tumors display upregulation of multiple genes including several pro-apoptotic members that may influence the role of MOAP-1 in cell death. Frequent loss of MOAP-1 expression, in at least some cancers, appears to be attributed to enhanced proteasomal degradation. The loss of RASSF1A is an early marker of tumorigenesis and we speculate that the additional loss of function of MOAP-1 may be a second âhitâ to functionally compromise the RASSF1A/MOAP-1 death receptor dependent pathway and drive tumorigensis. RNA was isolated mouse xenographs generated with the HCT116 cell line transfected with wild type Myc-tagged MOAP-1, empty Vector or the Myc-tagged MOAP-1 mutants K278R or K264R in triplicate. Pairwise gene expression differences were compared the two samples. Features selected had more than 1.5-fold up-or down-regulated (P values of >05, unpaired Studentâs t-test).

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Kathryn Graham

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-43990 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Modulator of apoptosis 1 (MOAP-1) is a tumor suppressor protein linked to the RASSF1A protein.

Law Jennifer J Salla Mohamed M Zare Alaa A Wong Yoke Y Luong Le L Volodko Natalia N Svystun Orysya O Flood Kayla K Lim Jonathan J Sung Miranda M Dyck Jason R B JR Tan Chong Teik CT Su Yu-Chin YC Yu Victor C VC Mackey John J Baksh Shairaz S

The Journal of biological chemistry 20150812 40

Modulator of apoptosis 1 (MOAP-1) is a BH3-like protein that plays key roles in cell death or apoptosis. It is an integral partner to the tumor suppressor protein, Ras association domain family 1A (RASSF1A), and functions to activate the Bcl-2 family pro-apoptotic protein Bax. Although RASSF1A is now considered a bona fide tumor suppressor protein, the role of MOAP-1 as a tumor suppressor protein has yet to be determined. In this study, we present several lines of evidence from cancer databases, ...[more]

PMID: 26269600

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Modulator of Apoptosis 1 (MOAP-1) is a highly regulated tumor suppressor protein

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Modulator of apoptosis 1 (MOAP-1) is a tumor suppressor protein linked to the RASSF1A protein.

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