Análise da expressão dos receptores purinérgicos P2X no câncer de bexiga

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Daniela de Oliveira
• Orientador(a): Morrone, Fernanda Bueno
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Medicina e Ciências da Saúde
• Departamento: Faculdade de Medicina
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: MEDICINA; FARMACOLOGIA MOLECULAR; NEOPLASIAS DA BEXIGA URINÁRIA; BIOQUÍMICA; BEXIGA - DOENÇAS
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/1776

The purinergic system can induce proliferation, differentiation and death on tumor cells. Different P2 purinergic receptors are involved in preventing the growth of these cells. Although the mechanisms are not completely known, they may represent interesting therapeutic targets to control tumors. The RT4 and T24 human tumor bladder cell lines have been used as low and high cancer malignancy phenotype models, respectively. Our research group has demonstrated that quercetin increases the ADP hydrolysis and inhibits ecto-5'-nucleotidase/ CD73, exerting an anti-proliferative effect on T24 cell lines. We also demonstrate that T24 cell lines expresses the purinergic enzymes CD39L4 and ecto-5'-nucleotidase / CD73, and have low hydrolytic activity of ATPase and ADPase in contrast to a high activity AMPase. These data suggest the involvement of the enzymes and purinergic receptors on progression the tumor of the bladder, as well as other tumor types. The objective of the present study was characterize the purinergic receptors P2X (1-7) expression profile on human bladder tumor cell lines and biopsies; and investigate the inflammatory genes that are up-regulated on high-grade human tumor bladder cells compared to low grade tumor bladder cells. Human bladder cells RT4 and T24 were obtained from the ATCC. Cells were cultured in DMEN and RPMI, respectively, supplemented with 10% of fetal bovine serum (FBS), under ideal conditions of cultivation Data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), followed by Tukey Kramer test. To confirm the relevance of P2X (1-7) receptors in bladder cancer, we have also assessed their expression in human biopsies. For this purpose, upon approval by the local ethics committee, specimens of bladder tumors and normal tissues were obtained from the same patients, who have been undergone surgical resection at the Hospital São Lucas/PUCRS. All samples were collected and rapidly frozen in -80ºC with RNA holder. Tissue specimens were ground and then sonicated in a TRIzol kit. The mRNA level was analyzed using RT-PCR analysis. Real-time PCR revealed that the mRNA expression of P2X purinergic receptors, particulary P2X4R was significantly up-regulated on both T24 and RT4 cell lines. Data from human bladder tumor biopsies comparing to bladder normal tissue, showed that P2X6 and P2X7 receptors appeared to be most often up-regulated on tumor tissues. Twelve inflammation related genes, CCL2, CCR2, TNF-α, MAPK3, IL-1β, IL-6, ADORA1, CD200, CD4, CHRNA4, EDNRA e ITGB2 were significantly up-regulated on the grade III bladder tumor cell line T24 when compared to grade I bladder tumor cell line RT4. Our results indicate that the inflammation genes overexpressed may play an important role in regulating urinary bladder cancer. We can conclude that P2X purinoreceptors and inflammation genes are differentially distributed among normal bladder, low and high tumor bladder, which could contribute to the different characteristics of these different types of cells.