June 2017
Volume 58, Issue 8
Open Access
ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2017
PKC-delta as a Survival Regulator in Uveal Melanoma
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Bradley Gao
    Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • Mercy Kibe
    Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • Kelley Yuan
    Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • Hans E Grossniklaus
    Ophthalmology, Emory University, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • Matthew W Wilson
    Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
    Surgery, St. Jude Childrens Research Institute, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • Vanessa Marie Morales
    Ophthalmology, Hamilton Eye Institute, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
    Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, UTHSC, Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   Bradley Gao, None; Mercy Kibe, None; Kelley Yuan, None; Hans Grossniklaus, None; Matthew Wilson, None; Vanessa Morales, None
  • Footnotes
    Support  Research to Prevent Blindness, West Cancer Center Medical Student Fellowship, West Cancer Center Research Grant
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2017, Vol.58, 3960. doi:
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      Bradley Gao, Mercy Kibe, Kelley Yuan, Hans E Grossniklaus, Matthew W Wilson, Vanessa Marie Morales; PKC-delta as a Survival Regulator in Uveal Melanoma. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(8):3960.

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Abstract

Purpose : Our laboratory focuses on uveal melanoma (UM), the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults. Previously, we found the expression of phosphorylated PKC-delta (pPKC-d) higher in eyes with UM compared to healthy ones. Inhibition of paxillin, a cytoskeletal adaptor protein, reduced the phosphorylation status of PKC-d in UM cell lines. While paxillin inhibition in the past have shown promise in the treatment of primary and metastatic cancer, paxillin is an ubiquitous protein, which makes it difficult to translate into a targeted drug therapy. Because of the co-localization of PKC-d with paxillin, we investigated the effects of pharmacological inhibition and RNA interference of PKC-d in UM cell lines.

Methods : We performed RNA interference experiments in Mel270 (primary cell line) and OMM2.5 (metastatic cell line) targeting PKCD. As for our controls, we used scrambled siRNA. Transduced cells were examined for morphological changes, mRNA expression and Western blot. As a pharmacological inhibitor, we used rottlerin, a high specific PKC-d inhibitor.

Results : Silencing of PKCD was confirmed by qPCR and by Western blot analyses. In the cell culture, we observed an increase in apoptosis in the treated group when compared to our controls. Western Blot analysis exhibited a significant down-regulation of AKT and a significant increase in Caspase-3. Similar results were achieved when rottlerin was used.

Conclusions : Our results suggest that direct targeting of PKC-d have similar results to paxillin inhibition. We expect this targeted therapy could have less undesirable clinical effects compared to the inhibition of an ubiquitous molecule such as paxillin.

This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.

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