scholarly journals Uronic acid pathway metabolites regulate mesenchymal transition and invasiveness in lung adenocarcinoma

Biotarget ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 19-19
Author(s):  
Yingxin Zhao ◽  
Allan R. Brasier
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Liu ◽  
Zuwei Yin ◽  
Linping Xu ◽  
Huaimin Liu ◽  
Lifeng Jiang ◽  
...  

AbstractLong noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play crucial roles in regulating a variety of biological processes in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). In our study, we mainly explored the functional roles of a novel lncRNA long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1426 (LINC01426) in LUAD. We applied bioinformatics analysis to find the expression of LINC01426 was upregulated in LUAD tissue. Functionally, silencing of LINC01426 obviously suppressed the proliferation, migration, epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT), and stemness of LUAD cells. Then, we observed that LINC01426 functioned through the hedgehog pathway in LUAD. The effect of LINC01426 knockdown could be fully reversed by adding hedgehog pathway activator SAG. In addition, we proved that LINC01426 could not affect SHH transcription and its mRNA level. Pull-down sliver staining and RIP assay revealed that LINC01426 could interact with USP22. Ubiquitination assays manifested that LINC01426 and USP22 modulated SHH ubiquitination levels. Rescue assays verified that SHH overexpression rescued the cell growth, migration, and stemness suppressed by LINC01426 silencing. In conclusion, LINC01426 promotes LUAD progression by recruiting USP22 to stabilize SHH protein and thus activate the hedgehog pathway.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ping Xu ◽  
Xiao Mo ◽  
Ruixue Xia ◽  
Long Jiang ◽  
Chengfei Zhang ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND: Potassium channels, encoded by more than seventy genes, are cell excitability transmembrane proteins and become evident to play essential roles in tumor biology. OBJECTIVE: The deregulation of potassium channel genes has been related to cancer development and patient prognosis. The objective of this study is to understand the role of potassium channels in lung cancer. METHODS: We examined all potassium channel genes and identified that KCNN4 is the most significantly overexpressed one in lung adenocarcinoma. The role and mechanism of KCNN4 in lung adenocarcinoma were further investigated by in vitro cell and molecular assay and in vivo mouse xenograft models. RESULTS: We revealed that the silencing of KCNN4 significantly inhibits cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and tumorigenicity of lung adenocarcinoma. Further studies showed that knockdown of KCNN4 promotes cell apoptosis, induces cell cycle arrested in the S phase, and is associated with the epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) process. Most importantly, we demonstrated that KCNN4 regulates the progression of lung adenocarcinoma through P13K/AKT and MEK/ERK signaling pathways. The use of inhibitors that targeted AKT and ERK also significantly inhibit the proliferation and metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma cells. CONCLUSIONS: This study investigated the function and mechanism of KCNN4 in lung adenocarcinoma. On this basis, this means that KCNN4 can be used as a tumor marker for lung adenocarcinoma and is expected to become an important target for a potential drug.


2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linqing Pan ◽  
Zhipeng Tang ◽  
Lina Pan ◽  
Ranran Tang

A previous study by our group indicted that overexpression of bromodomain PHD-finger transcription factor (BPTF) occurs in lung adenocarcinoma, and is closely associated with advanced clinical stage, higher numbers of metastatic lymph nodes, the occurrence of distant metastasis, low histological grade, and poor prognosis. Down-regulation of BPTF inhibited lung adenocarcinoma cell proliferation and promoted lung adenocarcinoma cell apoptosis. The purpose of this study is to identify valuable microRNAs (miRNAs) that target BPTF to modulate lung adenocarcinoma cell proliferation. In our results, we found that miR-3666 was notably reduced in lung adenocarcinoma tissues and cell lines. Using an miR-3666 mimic, we discovered that cell proliferation, migration, and invasiveness were suppressed by miR-3666 overexpression, but these were all enhanced when the expression of miR-3666 was reduced. Moreover, bioinformatics analysis using the TargetScan database and miRanda software suggested a putative target site in BPTF 3′-UTR. Furthermore, using a luciferase reporter assay, we verified that miR-3666 directly targets the 3′-UTR of BPTF. Using Western blot we discovered that overexpression of miR-3666 negatively regulates the protein expression of BPTF. Finally, we identified that the PI3K–AKT and epilthelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) signaling pathways were inhibited by miR-3666 overexpression in lung cancer cells. In conclusion, our data indicate that miR-3666 could play an essential role in cell proliferation, migration, and invasiveness by targeting BPTF and partly inhibiting the PI3K–AKT and EMT signaling pathways in human lung cancers.


Author(s):  
Weili Min ◽  
Liangzhang Sun ◽  
Burong Li ◽  
Xiao Gao ◽  
Shuqun Zhang ◽  
...  

EMT confers increased metastatic potential and the resistance to chemotherapies to cancer cells. However, the precise mechanisms of EMT-related chemotherapy resistance remain unclear. c-Src-mediated Caspase-8 phosphorylation essential for EMT in lung adenocarcinoma cell lines preferentially occurs in cells with the mesenchymal phenotype, resulting in chemoresistance to cisplatin plus paclitaxel inpatients with resectable lung adenocarcinoma and a significantly worse 5-year PFS. Cisplatin killed lung adenocarcinoma cells regardless of Caspase-8. Paclitaxel-triggered necroptosis in lung adenocarcinoma cells was dependent on the phosphorylation or deficiency of Caspase-8, during which FADD interacted with RIPK1 to activateRIPK1/RIPK3/MLKL signaling axis. Accompanied with c-Src-mediated Caspase-8 phosphorylation to trigger EMT, a novel lncRNA named lncCRLA was markedly upregulated and inhibited RIPK1-induced necroptosis by impairing RIPK1-RIPK3 interaction via binding to the intermediate domain of RIPK1. Dasatinib mitigated c-Src-mediated phosphorylation of Caspase-8-induced EMT and enhanced necroptosis in mesenchymal-like lung adenocarcinoma cells treated with paclitaxel, while c-FLIP knockdown predominantly sensitized the mesenchymal-like lung adenocarcinoma cells to paclitaxel+dasatinib. c-Src-Caspase-8 interaction initiates EMT and chemoresistance viaCaspase-8 phosphorylation and lncCRLA expression, to which the dasatinib/paclitaxel liposome+siFLIP regimen was lethal.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Tapan K. Maity ◽  
Karen E. Ross ◽  
Yue Qi ◽  
Constance M. Cultraro ◽  
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AbstractLung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. The treatment of lung cancer patients harboring mutant EGFR with orally administered EGFR TKIs has been a paradigm shift. Osimertinib and rociletinib are 3rd generation irreversible EGFR TKIs targeting the EGFR T790M mutation. Osimertinib is the current standard care for patients with EGFR mutations due to increased efficacy, lower side effects, and enhanced brain penetrance. Unfortunately, all patients develop resistance. Genomic approaches have primarily been used to interrogate resistance mechanisms. Here, we have characterized the proteome and phosphoproteome of a series of isogenic EGFR mutant lung adenocarcinoma cell lines that are either sensitive or resistant to these drugs. To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive proteomic dataset resource to date to investigate 3rd generation EGFR TKI resistance in lung adenocarcinoma. We have interrogated this unbiased global quantitative mass spectrometry dataset to uncover alterations in signaling pathways, reveal a proteomic signature of epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and identify kinases and phosphatases with altered expression and phosphorylation in TKI resistant cells. Decreased tyrosine phosphorylation of key sites in the phosphatase SHP2 suggests its inhibition resulting in inhibition of RAS/MAPK and activation of PI3K/AKT pathways. Furthermore, we performed anticorrelation analyses of this phosphoproteomic dataset with the published drug-induced P100 phosphoproteomic datasets from the Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program to predict drugs with the potential to overcome EGFR TKI resistance. We identified dactolisib, a PI3K/mTOR inhibitor, which in combination with osimertinib overcomes resistance both in vitro and in vivo.One Sentence SummaryGlobal quantitative proteome and phosphoproteome analyses to examine altered signaling pathways in isogenic 3rd generation EGFR TKI sensitive and resistant cells.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2258-2267
Author(s):  
Jin-Xing Zhang ◽  
Wei Yang ◽  
Jun-Zheng Wu ◽  
Chun Zhou ◽  
Sheng Liu ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1337-1351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Wang ◽  
Long Li ◽  
Ruijuan Guan ◽  
Danian Zhu ◽  
Nana Song ◽  
...  

Background/Aims: Extracellular ATP performs multiple important functions via activation of P2 receptors on the cell surface. P2Y receptors play critical roles in ATP evoked response in human lung adenocarcinoma cells (A549 cells). Emodin is an anthraquinone derivative originally isolated from Chinese rhubarb, possesses anticancer properties. In this study we examined the inhibiting effects of emodin on proliferation, migration and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by suppressing P2Y receptors-dependent Ca2+ increase and nuclear factor-κB (NF-KB) signaling in A549 cells. Methods: A549 cells were pretreated with emodin before stimulation with ATP for the indicated time. Then, intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) was measured by Fluo-8/AM staining. Cell proliferation and cell cycle progression were tested by CCK8 assay and flow cytometry In addition, wound healing and western blot were performed to determine cell migration and related protein levels (Bcl-2, Bax, claudin-1, NF-κB). Results: Emodin blunted ATP/UTP-induced increase of [Ca2+]i and cell proliferation concentration-dependently Meanwhile, it decreased ATP-induced cells accumulation in the S phase. Furthermore, emodin altered protein abundance of Bcl-2, Bax and claudin-1 and attenuated EMT caused by ATP. Such ATP-induced cellular reactions were also inhibited by a nonselective P2Y receptors antagonist, suramin, in a similar way to emodin. Besides, emodin could inhibit activation of NF-κB, thus suppressed ATP-induced proliferation, migration and EMT. Conclusion: Our results demonstrated that emodin inhibits ATP-induced proliferation, migration, EMT by suppressing P2Y receptors-mediated [Ca2+]i increase and NF-κB signaling in A549 cells.


Author(s):  
Taichi Matsubara ◽  
Tetsuzo Tagawa ◽  
Gouji Toyokawa ◽  
Takeshi Kamitani ◽  
Kazuki Takada ◽  
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