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Contribution of the R-Ras2 GTP-binding protein to primary breast tumorigenesis and late-stage metastatic disease

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  • Romain M. Larive

    (Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Present address: CNRS UMR5237, University of Montpellier 1 and 2, CRBM, 34000 Montpellier, France)

  • Giulia Moriggi

    (Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n)

  • Mauricio Menacho-Márquez

    (Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n)

  • Marta Cañamero

    (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), 3 Fernández Almagro Street, 28029 Madrid, Spain)

  • Enrique de Álava

    (Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Manuel Suriot Avenue, 41013 Sevilla, Spain)

  • Balbino Alarcón

    (Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa”, CSIC-Madrid Autonomous University)

  • Mercedes Dosil

    (Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    University of Salamanca)

  • Xosé R. Bustelo

    (Centro de Investigación del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n
    Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Salamanca, Campus Unamuno s/n)

Abstract

R-Ras2 is a transforming GTPase that shares downstream effectors with Ras subfamily proteins. However, little information exists about the function of this protein in tumorigenesis and its signalling overlap with classical Ras GTPases. Here we show, by combining loss- and gain-of-function studies in breast cancer cells, mammary epithelial cells and mouse models, that endogenous R-Ras2 has a role in both primary breast tumorigenesis and the late metastatic steps of cancer cells in the lung parenchyma. R-Ras2 drives tumorigenesis in a phosphatidylinostiol-3 kinase (PI3K)-dependent and signalling autonomous manner. By contrast, its prometastatic role requires other priming oncogenic signals and the engagement of several downstream elements. R-Ras2 function is required even in cancer cells exhibiting constitutive activation of classical Ras proteins, indicating that these GTPases are not functionally redundant. Our results also suggest that application of long-term R-Ras2 therapies will result in the development of compensatory mechanisms in breast tumours.

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  • Romain M. Larive & Giulia Moriggi & Mauricio Menacho-Márquez & Marta Cañamero & Enrique de Álava & Balbino Alarcón & Mercedes Dosil & Xosé R. Bustelo, 2014. "Contribution of the R-Ras2 GTP-binding protein to primary breast tumorigenesis and late-stage metastatic disease," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-14, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms4881
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4881
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