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. 2004 Jun;49(6):982-9.
doi: 10.1023/b:ddas.0000034558.78747.98.

The bile acid nuclear receptor FXR and the bile acid binding protein IBABP are differently expressed in colon cancer

Andrea De Gottardi  1 , Fethi Touri, Christoph A Maurer, Anne Perez, Olivier Maurhofer, Giovanni Ventre, Craig L Bentzen, Eric J Niesor, Jean-François Dufour
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The bile acid nuclear receptor FXR and the bile acid binding protein IBABP are differently expressed in colon cancer

Andrea De Gottardi et al. Dig Dis Sci. 2004 Jun.

Abstract

Bile acids have been implicated in the development of colorectal cancers. We investigated the expression of the transcription factor regulated by bile acids, farnesoid X receptor (FXR), as well as other components of this pathway in human colorectal tumors and cell lines. The most significant changes were a decrease in FXR mRNA levels in adenomas (5-fold average) and carcinomas (10 fold average) and an increase in peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-gamma (2-fold average). FXR was not expressed in undifferentiated colon adenocarcinoma SW480 cells and metastasis derived SW620 cells. In Caco-2 and HT-29 cells, the level of FXR expression increased with the degree of differentiation. Intestinal bile acid binding protein was activated by chenodeoxycholic acid and the synthetic FXR agonist GW4064 in Caco-2 and HT-29 but not in SW cells unless FXR was transfected. The down-regulation of the nuclear receptor FXR in colon cancer might be of clinical and pharmacological importance.

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