B.S., Wayne State University
Ph.D., Wayne State University School of Medicine

office: Brody 7W-48A
telephone: 252-744-3247
e-mail: terriand@ecu.edu

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Research
Prostate cancer is the single most common form of non-skin cancer in men in the United States and is the focus of research in our laboratory. Because survival of the patient with prostatic carcinoma is related to the extent of tumor progression, our approach is to compare the behavior, and biochemical traits, of early-stage human prostate cancer cells to their counterparts from advanced and drug resistant stages of this disease. These studies have revealed that the progression to advanced prostate cancer is commonly associated with alterations in proteins that are intimately involved in signal transduction pathways. We recently introduced the first discovered signaling molecule that, by itself, has the potential to advance the recurrence of human prostate cancer. The protein is called protein kinase C-epsilon and we are now working to understand precisely how this signaling molecule works within these cells using in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo model systems. An incomplete list of the methods used in our experiments would include the use of transgene, antisense, genomic, proteomic, cytometric, and confocal methods of analysis.

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Selected Publications
Prekeris, R., M.W. Mayhew, B.J. Cooper, and D.M. Terrian. 1996. Identification and localization of an actin-binding motif that is unique to the epsilon isoform of protein kinase C and participates in the regulation of synaptic function. J. Cell Biol. 132: 77-90.

Prekeris, R. and D.M. Terrian. 1997. Brain myosin V is a synaptic vesicle-associated motor protein: evidence for a Ca2+-dependent interaction with the synaptobrevin-synaptophysin complex. J. Cell Biol. 137: 1589-1601.

Prekeris, R., R.M. Hernandez, M.W. Mayhew, M.K. White, and D.M. Terrian. 1998. Molecular analysis of the interactions between protein kinase C-ε and filamentous actin. J. Biol. Chem. 273: 26790-26798.

Rawls, S.M., J.F. McGinty, and D.M. Terrian. 1999. Presynaptic κ-opioid and muscarinic receptors inhibit the calcium-dependent component of evoked glutamate release from striatal synaptosomes. J. Neurochem. 73: 1058-1065.

Hernandez, R.M., G.G. Wescott, M.W. Mayhew, M.A. McJilton, and D.M. Terrian. 2001. Biochemical and morphogenic effects of the interaction between protein kinase C-epsilon and actin in vitro and in cultured NIH3T3 cells. J. Cell. Biochem. 83: 532-543.

Wu, D., T.L. Foreman, C.W. Gregory, M.A. McJilton, G.G. Wescott, O.H. Ford, R.F. Alvey, J.L. Mohler, and D.M. Terrian. 2002. Protein kinase C-epsilon has the potential to advance the recurrence of human prostate cancer. Cancer Res. 62: 2423-2429.

Tachado, S.D., M.W. Mayhew, G.G. Wescott, T.L. Foreman, C.D. Goodman, M.A. McJilton, and D.M. Terrian. 2002. Regulation of tumor invasion and metastasis in protein kinase C epsilon-transformed NIH3T3 fibroblasts. J. Cell. Biochem. 85: 785-797.

Wu, D. and D.M. Terrian. 2002. Regulation of caveolin-1 expression and secretion by a protein kinase C-epsilon signaling pathway in human prostate cancer cells. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 40449-40455.

Liu, L., E. Enright, P. Sun, S. Tsai, P. Mehta, D. Bechman, and D.M. Terrian. 2002. Inactivation of annexin II tetramer by S-nitrosoglutathione. Eur. J. Biochem. 269: 4277-4286.

Terrian, D.M. (Ed.). 2003. Cancer Cell Signaling: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey. 218:1-333.

McJilton, M.A., C.V. Sikes, G.G. Wescott, D. Wu, T.L. Foreman, C.W. Gregory, D.A. Weidner, O.H. Ford, A.M. Lasater, J.L. Mohler, and D.M. Terrian. 2003. Protein kinase Cε interacts with Bax and promotes survival of human prostate cancer cells. Oncogene. 22:7958-7968.

Wu, D., C.U. Thakore, G.G. Wescott, J.A. McCubrey, and D.M. Terrian. 2004. Integrin signaling links protein kinase C-epsilon to the protein kinase B/Akt survival pathway in recurrent prostate cancer cells. Oncogene 23: 8659-8672.

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Staff and Students
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