Abstract
Objective: Wnt family of secreted-type glycoproteins plays key role in carcinogenesis and embryogenesis. Signals of Wnts are transduced through seven-transmembrane-type Wnt receptors encoded by Frizzled (Fzd) genes to the beta-catenin - Tcf pathway, the c-Jun-N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway or the Ca2+-releasing pathway. Aberrant activation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway is associated with a variety of human cancers. In human breast cancer, evidence of beta-catenin accumulation implies that the canonical Wnt signaling pathway is active in over 50% of carcinomas.Methods: To examine if Wnt-1 signal is essential for cancer cell survival, we investigated the effect of Wnt-1 gene silencing in triggering of apoptosis in MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. Light microscopy, viability/cytotoxicity tests, flow cytometry, real-time PCR and western blotting were used for evaluation of the morphological features of cell death, percentage of apoptotic cells, Wnt-1 mRNA and protein level.Results: We found that in breast cancer cells overexpressing Wnt-1 siRNA anti-Wnt-1 induced apoptosis and caused changes in downstream proteins levels. Among treated cells there were 71% apoptotic cells in comparison to cells treated with scrambled siRNA (6%) and control cells (6%) after 48h (p
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