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Ashouri S, Khujin MH, Kazemi M, Kheirollahi M. Effect of teicoplanin on the expression of c-myc and c-fos proto-oncogenes in MCF-7 breast cancer cell line. Adv Biomed Res 2016; 5:172. [PMID: 28028512 PMCID: PMC5156965 DOI: 10.4103/2277-9175.190984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Accepted: 06/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Background: Teicoplanin is a member of vancomycin-ristocetin family of glycopeptide antibiotics. It mediated wound healing by increasing neovascularization possibly through activation of MAP kinase signaling pathway. The aim of this study is an evaluation of c-myc and c-fos genes expression after treatment of cells by teicoplanin and determines whether this glycopeptide antibiotic exerts its proliferation effects by influencing the expression of these genes. Hence, this study was designed to elucidate one possible mechanism underlying teicoplanin effects on cell proliferation using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Materials and Methods: Breast cancer cell line, MCF-7, was cultured, and three different concentrations of teicoplanin were added to the plates. We measured the cell proliferation rate by MTT assay. After cell harvesting, total RNA was extracted to synthesize single-stranded cDNA. Real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed, and the data were analyzed. Results: It was observed that the level of c-fos and c-myc genes’ expressions was decreased at all three different concentrations of teicoplanin. Conclusion: it could be concluded that although teicoplanin is considered as an enhancing cell growth and proliferation, but probably its effect is not through MAP kinase signaling pathway or perhaps even has inhibitory effect on the expression of some genes such as c-myc and c-fos in this pathway. Hence, the mechanism of action of teicoplanin for increasing cell propagation, through cell signaling pathways or chromosomal abnormalities, remains unclear, and further studies should be conducted.
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- Saeideh Ashouri
- Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pediatric Inherited Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pediatric Inherited Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pediatric Inherited Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Pediatric Inherited Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Lu J, Wang W, Xu M, Li Y, Chen C, Wang X. A global view of regulatory networks in lung cancer: An approach to understand homogeneity and heterogeneity. Semin Cancer Biol 2016; 42:31-38. [PMID: 27894849 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2016.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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A number of new biotechnologies are used to identify potential biomarkers for the early detection of lung cancer, enabling a personalized therapy to be developed in response. The combinatorial cross-regulation of hundreds of biological function-specific transcription factors (TFs) is defined as the understanding of regulatory networks of molecules within the cell. Here we integrated global databases with 537 patients with lung adenocarcinoma (ADC), 140 with lung squamous carcinoma (SCC), 9 with lung large-cell carcinoma (LCC), 56 with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), and 590 without cancer with the understanding of TF functions. The present review aims at the homogeneity or heterogeneity of gene expression profiles among subtypes of lung cancer. About 5, 136, 52, or 16 up-regulated or 19, 24, 122, or 97down-regulated type-special TF genes were identified in ADC, SCC, LCC or SCLC, respectively. DNA-binding and transcription regulator activity associated genes play a dominant role in the differentiation of subtypes in lung cancer. Subtype-specific TF gene regulatory networks with elements should be an alternative for diagnostic and therapeutic targets for early identification of lung cancer and can provide insightful clues to etiology and pathogenesis.
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- Jiapei Lu
- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
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Belguise K, Cherradi S, Sarr A, Boissière F, Boulle N, Simony-Lafontaine J, Choesmel-Cadamuro V, Wang X, Chalbos D. PKCθ-induced phosphorylations control the ability of Fra-1 to stimulate gene expression and cancer cell migration. Cancer Lett 2016; 385:97-107. [PMID: 27816489 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2016.10.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Revised: 10/20/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The AP-1 transcription factor Fra-1 is aberrantly expressed in a large number of cancers and plays crucial roles in cancer development and progression by stimulating the expression of genes involved in these processes. However, the control of Fra-1 transactivation ability is still unclear and here we hypothesized that PKCθ-induced phosphorylation could be necessary to obtain a fully active Fra-1 protein. Using MCF7 stable cells overexpressing equivalent levels of unphosphorylated Fra-1 or PKCθ-phosphorylated Fra-1, we showed that PKCθ-induced phosphorylation of Fra-1 was crucial for the stimulation of MMP1 and IL6 expression. Consistently, we found a significant positive correlation between PRKCQ (coding for PKCθ) and MMP1 mRNA expression levels in human breast cancer samples. PKCθ-induced phosphorylations, in part at T217 and T227 residues, strongly and specifically increased Fra-1 transcriptional activity through the stimulation of Fra-1 transactivation domain, without affecting JUN factors. More importantly, these phosphorylations were required for Fra-1-induced migration of breast cancer cells and phosphorylated Fra-1 expression was enriched at the invasion front of human breast tumors. Taken together, our findings indicate that PKCθ-induced phosphorylation could be important for the function of Fra-1 in cancer progression.
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- Karine Belguise
- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France; INSERM, U1194, Montpellier, F-34298, France; Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34090, France; Institut de Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France.
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France; INSERM, U1194, Montpellier, F-34298, France; Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34090, France; Institut de Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France; INSERM, U1194, Montpellier, F-34298, France; Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34090, France; Institut de Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- Unité de Recherche Translationnelle, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- Département de Biopathologie, CHU Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34295, France
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- Unité de Recherche Translationnelle, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France
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- LBCMCP, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062, Toulouse, France
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- LBCMCP, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062, Toulouse, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France; INSERM, U1194, Montpellier, F-34298, France; Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34090, France; Institut de Cancérologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, F-34298, France.
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Higgins MJ, Serrano A, Boateng KY, Parsons VA, Phuong T, Seifert A, Ricca JM, Tucker KC, Eidelman AS, Carey MA, Kurt RA. A Multifaceted Role for Myd88-Dependent Signaling in Progression of Murine Mammary Carcinoma. BREAST CANCER-BASIC AND CLINICAL RESEARCH 2016; 10:157-167. [PMID: 27812285 PMCID: PMC5084708 DOI: 10.4137/bcbcr.s40075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Revised: 07/10/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Previous data obtained in our laboratory suggested that there may be constitutive signaling through the myeloid differentiation primary response gene 88 (Myd88)-dependent signaling cascade in murine mammary carcinoma. Here, we extended these findings by showing that, in the absence of an added Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonist, the myddosome complex was preformed in 4T1 tumor cells, and that Myd88 influenced cytoplasmic extracellular signal–regulated kinase (Erk)1/Erk2 levels, nuclear levels of nuclear factor-kappaB (NFκB) and signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5), tumor-derived chemokine (C–C motif) ligand 2 (CCL2) expression, and in vitro and in vivo tumor growth. In addition, RNA-sequencing revealed that Myd88-dependent signaling enhanced the expression of genes that could contribute to breast cancer progression and genes previously associated with poor outcome for patients with breast cancer, in addition to suppressing the expression of genes capable of inhibiting breast cancer progression. Yet, Myd88-dependent signaling in tumor cells also suppressed expression of genes that could contribute to tumor progression. Collectively, these data revealed a multifaceted role for Myd88-dependent signaling in murine mammary carcinoma.
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- Mary J Higgins
- Department of Biology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
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Ivanović V, Dedović-Tanić N, Milovanović Z, Lukić S, Nikolić S, Baltić V, Stojiljković B, Demajo M, Mandušić V, Dimitrijević B. Case with triple-negative breast cancer shows overexpression of both cFOS and TGF-β1 in node-positive tissue. Per Med 2016; 13:523-530. [PMID: 29754549 DOI: 10.2217/pme-2016-0032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present herein a case report style article on a rare advanced triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patient with 6-month disease-free interval, and 10-month overall survival. Our results demonstrate that the poor clinical outcome of this patient was associated with pronounced, more than fivefold higher, overexpression of both cFOS and TGF-β1 proteins in its metastatic nodal tissue extracts, when compared with the values of the two non-TNBC controls (with 'zero' disease-free interval and overall survival). This original observation suggests, for the first time, that both the cFOS and TGF-β1 may be considered as a pair of biomarkers for an early assessment of poor prognosis for TNBC patients. The possible clinical implication of this observation is discussed.
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- Vesna Ivanović
- Department for Radiobiology & Molecular Genetics, Institute of Nuclear Sciences 'Vinča', University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department for Radiobiology & Molecular Genetics, Institute of Nuclear Sciences 'Vinča', University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute of Oncology & Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute of Oncology & Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department for Radiobiology & Molecular Genetics, Institute of Nuclear Sciences 'Vinča', University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department for Radiobiology & Molecular Genetics, Institute of Nuclear Sciences 'Vinča', University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department for Radiobiology & Molecular Genetics, Institute of Nuclear Sciences 'Vinča', University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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The Fra-1-miR-134-SDS22 feedback loop amplifies ERK/JNK signaling and reduces chemosensitivity in ovarian cancer cells. Cell Death Dis 2016; 7:e2384. [PMID: 27685628 PMCID: PMC5059884 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2016.289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 08/04/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The Fra-1 transcription factor is frequently upregulated in multiple types of tumors. Here we found that Fra-1 promotes miR-134 expression. miR-134 activates JNK and ERK by targeting SDS22, which in turn induces Fra-1 expression and leads to miR-134 upregulation. In addition, miR-134 augmented H2AX S139 phosphorylation by activating JNK and promoted non-homologous end joining (NHEJ)-mediated DNA repair. Therefore, ectopic miR-134 expression reduced chemosensitivity in ovarian cancer cells. Furthermore, miR-134 promotes cell proliferation, migration and invasion of ovarian cancer cells, and enhances tumor growth in vivo. Of particular significance, both Fra-1 and miR-134 are upregulated in ovarian cancer tissues, and Fra-1 and miR-134 expression is positively correlated. High levels of miR-134 expression were associated with a reduced median survival of ovarian cancer patients. Our study revealed that a Fra-1-miR-134 axis drives a positive feedback loop that amplifies ERK/JNK signaling and reduces chemosensitivity in ovarian cancer cells.
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Filipović J, Joksić G, Vujić D, Joksić I, Mrasek K, Weise A, Liehr T. First molecular-cytogenetic characterization of Fanconi anemia fragile sites in primary lymphocytes of FA-D2 patients in different stages of the disease. Mol Cytogenet 2016; 9:70. [PMID: 27625703 PMCID: PMC5020439 DOI: 10.1186/s13039-016-0280-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2016] [Accepted: 08/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Fanconi anemia (FA) is a chromosomal instability syndrome characterized by increased frequency of chromosomal breakages, chromosomal radial figures and accelerated telomere shortening. In this work we performed detailed molecular-cytogenetic characterization of breakpoints in primary lymphocytes of FA-D2 patients in different stages of the disease using fluorescent in situ hybridization. RESULTS We found that chromosomal breakpoints co-localize on the molecular level with common fragile sites, whereas their distribution pattern depends on the severity of the disease. Telomere quantitative fluorescent in situ hybridization revealed that telomere fusions and radial figures, especially radials which involve telomere sequences are the consequence of critically shortened telomeres that increase with the disease progression and could be considered as a predictive parameter during the course of the disease. Sex chromosomes in FA cells are also involved in radial formation indicating that specific X chromosome regions share homology with autosomes and also could serve as repair templates in resolving DNA damage. CONCLUSIONS FA-D2 chromosomal breakpoints co-localize with common fragile sites, but their distribution pattern depends on the disease stage. Telomere fusions and radials figures which involve telomere sequences are the consequence of shortened telomeres, increase with disease progression and could be of predictive value.
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- Jelena Filipović
- Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Mike Petrovica Alasa 12-14, Belgrade, 11001 Serbia
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- Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Mike Petrovica Alasa 12-14, Belgrade, 11001 Serbia
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- Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia, "Dr Vukan Cupic", Radoja Dakica 6, Belgrade, 11070 Serbia
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- Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Mike Petrovica Alasa 12-14, Belgrade, 11001 Serbia
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Kollegiengasse 10, Jena, D-07743 Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Kollegiengasse 10, Jena, D-07743 Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University, Kollegiengasse 10, Jena, D-07743 Germany
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Giuliano A, Swift R, Arthurs C, Marote G, Abramo F, McKay J, Thomson C, Beltran M, Millar M, Priestnall S, Dobson J, Costantino-Casas F, Petrou T, McGonnell IM, Davies AJ, Weetman M, Garden OA, Masters JR, Thrasivoulou C, Ahmed A. Quantitative Expression and Co-Localization of Wnt Signalling Related Proteins in Feline Squamous Cell Carcinoma. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0161103. [PMID: 27559731 PMCID: PMC4999089 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2016] [Accepted: 07/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Feline oral squamous cell carcinoma (FOSCC) is an aggressive neoplasm in cats. Little is known about the possible molecular mechanisms that may be involved in the initiation, maintenance and progression of FOSCC. Wnt signalling is critical in development and disease, including many mammalian cancers. In this study, we have investigated the expression of Wnt signalling related proteins using quantitative immunohistochemical techniques on tissue arrays. We constructed tissue arrays with 58 individual replicate tissue samples. We tested for the expression of four key Wnt/ß-catenin transcription targets, namely Cyclin D1 (CCND1 or CD1), FRA1, c-Myc and MMP7. All antibodies showed cross reactivity in feline tissue except MMP7. Quantitative immunohistochemical analysis of single proteins (expressed as area fraction / amount of tissue for normal vs tumor, mean ± SE) showed that the expression of CD1 (3.9 ± 0.5 vs 12.2 ± 0.9), FRA1 (5.5 ± 0.6 vs 16.8 ± 1.1) and c-Myc (5.4 ± 0.5 vs 12.5 ± 0.9) was increased in FOSCC tissue by 2.3 to 3 fold compared to normal controls (p<0.0001). By using a multilabel, quantitative fluorophore technique we further investigated if the co-localization of these proteins (all transcription factors) with each other and in the nucleus (stained with 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole, DAPI) was altered in FOSCC compared to normal tissue. The global intersection coefficients, a measure of the proximity of two fluorophore labeled entities, showed that there was a significant change (p < 0.01) in the co-localization for all permutations (e.g. CD1/FRA1 etc), except for the nuclear localization of CD1. Our results show that putative targets of Wnt signalling transcription are up-regulated in FOSCC with alterations in the co-localization of these proteins and could serve as a useful marker for the disease.
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- Antonio Giuliano
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Services, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom
- Division of Surgery, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Prostate Cancer Research Center at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Services, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom
- Division of Surgery, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- IDEXX Laboratories Ltd., Grange House, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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- Dundee Imaging Facility, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Dundee Imaging Facility, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pathology and Pathogen Biology, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Prostate Cancer Research Center at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Services, The Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Surgery, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, The Centre for Cell and Molecular Dynamics, Rockefeller Building, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Prostate Cancer Research Center at the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
- Division of Surgery, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Wang S, Xu X, Xu F, Meng Y, Sun C, Shi L, Zhao E. Combined Expression of c-jun, c-fos, and p53 Improves Estimation of Prognosis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Invest 2016; 34:393-400. [PMID: 27558649 DOI: 10.1080/07357907.2016.1217422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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To identify the prognostic value of c-jun, c-fos, and p53 in oral cancer, we examined the impact of immunohistochemical expression of these markers on tumor progression in 157 oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). We found that c-jun or c-fos was significantly associated with lymph node metastasis, and coexpression of c-jun/c-fos, or c-jun/c-fos/p53 were significantly associated with lymph node metastasis, poor differentiation and clinical stage. The coexpression of c-jun/c-fos/p53 was identified as independent prognostic factors for overall survival. Simultaneous coexpression of these markers in OSCCs might prove to be a useful indicator for differentiation of low and high-risk patients.
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- Shan Wang
- a Department of Oral Pathology , Hospital of Stomatology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University , Harbin , China
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- b Department of Oral Medicine , Heilongjiang Nursing College , Harbin , China
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- a Department of Oral Pathology , Hospital of Stomatology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University , Harbin , China
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- a Department of Oral Pathology , Hospital of Stomatology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University , Harbin , China
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- a Department of Oral Pathology , Hospital of Stomatology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University , Harbin , China
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- a Department of Oral Pathology , Hospital of Stomatology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University , Harbin , China
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- a Department of Oral Pathology , Hospital of Stomatology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University , Harbin , China
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Monteleone F, Vitale M, Caratù G, D'Ambrosio C, Di Giovanni S, Gorrese M, Napolitano F, Romano MF, Del Vecchio L, Succoio M, Scaloni A, Zambrano N. Inhibition of PID1/NYGGF4/PCLI1 gene expression highlights its role in the early events of the cell cycle in NIH3T3 fibroblasts. J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem 2016; 31:45-53. [PMID: 27535298 DOI: 10.1080/14756366.2016.1217855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The PID1/NYGGF4/PCLI1 gene encodes for a protein with a phosphotyrosine-binding domain, which interacts with the lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1. Previous work by us and others suggested a function of the gene in cell proliferation of NIH3T3 fibroblasts and 3T3-L1 pre-adipocytes. The molecular characterization of PCLI1 protein, ectopically expressed in NIH3T3 fibroblasts, revealed two phosphorylation sites at Ser154 and Ser165. In order to clarify the functions of this gene, we analyzed the effects of its downregulation on cellular proliferation and cell cycle progression in NIH3T3 cell cultures. Downregulation of PID1/NYGGF4/PCLI1 mRNA levels by short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) elicited decreased proliferation rate in mammalian cell lines; cell cycle analysis of serum-starved, synchronized NIH3T3 fibroblasts showed an increased accumulation of shRNA-interfered cells in the G1 phase. Decreased levels of FOS and MYC mRNAs were accordingly associated with these events. The molecular scenario emerging from our data suggests that PID1/NYGGF4/PCLI1 controls cellular proliferation and cell cycle progression in NIH3T3 cells.
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- a CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate , Napoli , Italy.,b Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Napoli , Italy , and.,c Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, ISPAAM - National Research Council , Naples , Italy
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- a CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate , Napoli , Italy.,b Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Napoli , Italy , and
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- c Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, ISPAAM - National Research Council , Naples , Italy
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- b Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Napoli , Italy , and
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- b Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Napoli , Italy , and
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- a CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate , Napoli , Italy.,b Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Napoli , Italy , and
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- a CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate , Napoli , Italy.,b Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Napoli , Italy , and
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- c Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, ISPAAM - National Research Council , Naples , Italy
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- a CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate , Napoli , Italy.,b Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II , Napoli , Italy , and
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Abnormal expression of FOSB correlates with tumor progression and poor survival in patients with gastric cancer. Int J Oncol 2016; 49:1489-1496. [DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2016.3661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Jeyapalan JN, Doctor GT, Jones TA, Alberman SN, Tep A, Haria CM, Schwalbe EC, Morley ICF, Hill AA, LeCain M, Ottaviani D, Clifford SC, Qaddoumi I, Tatevossian RG, Ellison DW, Sheer D. DNA methylation analysis of paediatric low-grade astrocytomas identifies a tumour-specific hypomethylation signature in pilocytic astrocytomas. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2016; 4:54. [PMID: 27229157 PMCID: PMC4882864 DOI: 10.1186/s40478-016-0323-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Low-grade gliomas (LGGs) account for about a third of all brain tumours in children. We conducted a detailed study of DNA methylation and gene expression to improve our understanding of the biology of pilocytic and diffuse astrocytomas. Pilocytic astrocytomas were found to have a distinctive signature at 315 CpG sites, of which 312 were hypomethylated and 3 were hypermethylated. Genomic analysis revealed that 182 of these sites are within annotated enhancers. The signature was not present in diffuse astrocytomas, or in published profiles of other brain tumours and normal brain tissue. The AP-1 transcription factor was predicted to bind within 200 bp of a subset of the 315 differentially methylated CpG sites; the AP-1 factors, FOS and FOSL1 were found to be up-regulated in pilocytic astrocytomas. We also analysed splice variants of the AP-1 target gene, CCND1, which encodes cell cycle regulator cyclin D1. CCND1a was found to be highly expressed in both pilocytic and diffuse astrocytomas, but diffuse astrocytomas have far higher expression of the oncogenic variant, CCND1b. These findings highlight novel genetic and epigenetic differences between pilocytic and diffuse astrocytoma, in addition to well-described alterations involving BRAF, MYB and FGFR1.
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- Jennie N Jeyapalan
- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Pathology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105-3678, USA
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- Department of Pathology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105-3678, USA.
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK.
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c-Fos is a proto-oncogene involved in diverse cellular functions. Its deregulation has been associated to abnormal development and oncogenic progression. c-fos−/− mice are viable but present a reduction in their body weight and brain size. We examined the importance of c-Fos during neocortex development at 13.5, 14.5 and 16.5 days of gestation. At E14.5, neocortex thickness, apoptosis, mitosis and expression of markers along the different stages of Neural Stem Progenitor Cells (NSPCs) differentiation in c-fos−/− and wild-type mice were analyzed. A ∼15% reduction in the neocortex thickness of c-fos−/− embryos was observed which correlates with a decrease in the number of differentiated cells and an increase in apoptosis at the ventricular zone. No difference in mitosis rate was observed, although the mitotic angle was predominantly vertical in c-fos−/− embryos, suggesting a reduced trend of NSPCs to differentiate. At E13.5, changes in differentiation markers start to be apparent and are still clearly observed at E16.5. A tendency of more AP-1/DNA complexes present in nuclear extracts of cerebral cortex from c-fos−/− embryos with no differences in the lipid synthesis activity was found. These results suggest that c-Fos is involved in the normal development of NSPCs by means of its AP-1 activity.
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Wu J, Ivanov AI, Fisher PB, Fu Z. Polo-like kinase 1 induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and promotes epithelial cell motility by activating CRAF/ERK signaling. eLife 2016; 5:e10734. [PMID: 27003818 PMCID: PMC4811775 DOI: 10.7554/elife.10734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2015] [Accepted: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) is a key cell cycle regulator implicated in the development of various cancers, including prostate cancer. However, the functions of PLK1 beyond cell cycle regulation remain poorly characterized. Here, we report that PLK1 overexpression in prostate epithelial cells triggers oncogenic transformation. It also results in dramatic transcriptional reprogramming of the cells, leading to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stimulation of cell migration and invasion. Consistently, PLK1 downregulation in metastatic prostate cancer cells enhances epithelial characteristics and inhibits cell motility. The signaling mechanisms underlying the observed cellular effects of PLK1 involve direct PLK1-dependent phosphorylation of CRAF with subsequent stimulation of the MEK1/2-ERK1/2-Fra1-ZEB1/2 signaling pathway. Our findings highlight novel non-canonical functions of PLK1 as a key regulator of EMT and cell motility in normal prostate epithelium and prostate cancer. This study also uncovers a previously unanticipated role of PLK1 as a potent activator of MAPK signaling.
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- Jianguo Wu
- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
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- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
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- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
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- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
- VCU Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, United States
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Al-Hebshi NN, Li S, Nasher AT, El-Setouhy M, Alsanosi R, Blancato J, Loffredo C. Exome sequencing of oral squamous cell carcinoma in users of Arabian snuff reveals novel candidates for driver genes. Int J Cancer 2016; 139:363-72. [PMID: 26934577 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.30068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The study sought to identify genetic aberrations driving oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) development among users of shammah, an Arabian preparation of smokeless tobacco. Twenty archival OSCC samples, 15 of which with a history of shammah exposure, were whole-exome sequenced at an average depth of 127×. Somatic mutations were identified using a novel, matched controls-independent filtration algorithm. CODEX and Exomedepth coupled with a novel, Database of Genomic Variant-based filter were employed to call somatic gene-copy number variations. Significantly mutated genes were identified with Oncodrive FM and the Youn and Simon's method. Candidate driver genes were nominated based on Gene Set Enrichment Analysis. The observed mutational spectrum was similar to that reported by the TCGA project. In addition to confirming known genes of OSCC (TP53, CDKNA2, CASP8, PIK3CA, HRAS, FAT1, TP63, CCND1 and FADD) the analysis identified several candidate novel driver events including mutations of NOTCH3, CSMD3, CRB1, CLTCL1, OSMR and TRPM2, amplification of the proto-oncogenes FOSL1, RELA, TRAF6, MDM2, FRS2 and BAG1, and deletion of the recently described tumor suppressor SMARCC1. Analysis also revealed significantly altered pathways not previously implicated in OSCC including Oncostatin-M signalling pathway, AP-1 and C-MYB transcription networks and endocytosis. There was a trend for higher number of mutations, amplifications and driver events in samples with history of shammah exposure particularly those that tested EBV positive, suggesting an interaction between tobacco exposure and EBV. The work provides further evidence for the genetic heterogeneity of oral cancer and suggests shammah-associated OSCC is characterized by extensive amplification of oncogenes.
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- Nezar Noor Al-Hebshi
- Department of Preventive Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Oncology and Pharmacogenomics, Beijing Genome Institute (BGI), Shenzhen, Republic of China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Sana'a University, Yemen
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- Substance Abuse Research Center (SARC), Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Substance Abuse Research Center (SARC), Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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Zhang H, Liang C, Hou X, Wang L, Zhang D. Study of the combined treatment of lung cancer using gene-loaded immunomagnetic albumin nanospheres in vitro and in vivo. Int J Nanomedicine 2016; 11:1039-50. [PMID: 27042059 PMCID: PMC4801199 DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s98519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Combination therapy for lung cancer has garnered widespread attention. Radiation therapy, gene therapy, and molecular targeted therapy for lung cancer have certain effects, but the disadvantages of these treatment methods are evident. Combining these methods can decrease their side effects and increase their curative effects. In this study, we constructed a pYr-ads-8-5HRE-cfosp-iNOS-IFNG plasmid (a gene circuit that can express IFNγ), which is a gene circuit, and used that plasmid together with C225 (cetuximab) to prepare gene-loaded immunomagnetic albumin nanospheres (IMANS). Moreover, we investigated the therapeutic effects of gene-loaded IMANS in combination with radiation therapy on human lung cancer in vitro and in vivo. The results showed that this gene circuit was successively constructed and confirmed that the expression of INFγ was increased due to the gene circuit. Gene-loaded IMANS combined with radiation therapy demonstrated improved results in vitro and in vivo. In conclusion, gene-loaded IMANS enhanced the efficacy of combination therapy, solved problems related to gene transfer, and specifically targeted lung cancer cells.
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- Hao Zhang
- Department of Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, Medical School of Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Devices, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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Castillo Sanchez R, Gomez R, Perez Salazar E. Bisphenol A Induces Migration through a GPER-, FAK-, Src-, and ERK2-Dependent Pathway in MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer Cells. Chem Res Toxicol 2016; 29:285-95. [PMID: 26914403 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5b00457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is an industrial synthetic chemical utilized in the production of numerous products including food and beverage containers. Humans are exposed to BPA during ingestion of contaminated water and food because it can leach from polycarbonate containers, beverage cans, and epoxy resins. BPA has been related with the development of several diseases including breast cancer. However, the signal transduction pathways mediated by BPA and its role as a promoter of migration and invasion in breast cancer cells remain to be investigated. Here, we demonstrate that BPA promotes migration, invasion, and an increase in the number of focal contacts in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells. Moreover, MDA-MB-231 cells express GPER, and BPA promotes migration through a GPER-dependent pathway. BPA also induces activation of FAK, Src, and ERK2, whereas migration induced by BPA requires the activity of these kinases. In addition, BPA induces an increase on AP-1- and NFκB-DNA binding activity through an Src- and ERK2-dependent pathway. In conclusion, our findings demonstrate, that BPA induces the activation of signal transduction pathways, which mediate migration, AP-1/NFκB-DNA binding activity, and an invasion process in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells.
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- Rocio Castillo Sanchez
- Departamento de Toxicologia, ‡Departamento de Biologia Celular, Cinvestav-IPN , Mexico D.F., Mexico
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- Departamento de Toxicologia, ‡Departamento de Biologia Celular, Cinvestav-IPN , Mexico D.F., Mexico
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- Departamento de Toxicologia, ‡Departamento de Biologia Celular, Cinvestav-IPN , Mexico D.F., Mexico
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Chen TM, Czerwiec FS, Puett D. Steroidogenesis and early response gene expression in MA-10 Leydig tumor cells following heterologous receptor down-regulation and cellular desensitization. Biochem Biophys Rep 2016; 5:305-312. [PMID: 26878066 PMCID: PMC4748167 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2016.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Leydig tumor cell line, MA-10, expresses the luteinizing hormone receptor, a G protein-coupled receptor that, when activated with luteinizing hormone or chorionic gonadotropin (CG), stimulates cAMP production and subsequent steroidogenesis, notably progesterone. These cells also respond to epidermal growth factor (EGF) and phorbol esters with increased steroid biosynthesis. In order to probe the intracellular pathways along with heterologous receptor down-regulation and cellular desensitization, cells were preincubated with EGF or phorbol esters and then challenged with CG, EGF, dibutryl-cyclic AMP, and a phorbol ester. Relative receptor numbers, steroid biosynthesis, and expression of the early response genes, JUNB and c-FOS, were measured. It was found that in all cases but one receptor down-regulation and decreased progesterone production were closely coupled under the conditions used; the exception involved preincubation of the cells with EGF followed by addition of CG where the CG-mediated stimulation of steroidogenesis was considerably lower than the level of receptor down-regulation. In a number of instances JUNB and c-FOS expression paralleled the decreases in receptor number and progesterone production, while in some cases these early response genes were affected little if at all by the changes in receptor number. This finding may indicate that even low levels of activated signaling kinases, e.g. protein kinase A, protein kinase C, or receptor tyrosine kinase, may suffice to yield good expression of JUNB and c-FOS, or it may suggest alternative pathways for regulating expression of these two early response genes. Leydig tumor cells respond to hCG, cAMP, EGF, and phorbol esters with increased steroidogenesis. These same agents increase expression of the early response genes JUNB and c-FOS. Down-regulation of EGF receptors reduced hCG receptors and steroidogenesis. Desensitization of the PKC pathway reduced hCG receptors and steroidogenesis. Often expression of JUNB and c-FOS paralleled receptor loss, but not always.
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- Tsuey-Ming Chen
- Department of Biology, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Road, Houston, TX 77004, USA
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- Otsuka Pharmaceutical, 2440 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Mason Farm Drive, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
- Corresponding author.
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Morrissey MA, Jayadev R, Miley GR, Blebea CA, Chi Q, Ihara S, Sherwood DR. SPARC Promotes Cell Invasion In Vivo by Decreasing Type IV Collagen Levels in the Basement Membrane. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1005905. [PMID: 26926673 PMCID: PMC4771172 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2015] [Accepted: 02/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Overexpression of SPARC, a collagen-binding glycoprotein, is strongly associated with tumor invasion through extracellular matrix in many aggressive cancers. SPARC regulates numerous cellular processes including integrin-mediated cell adhesion, cell signaling pathways, and extracellular matrix assembly; however, the mechanism by which SPARC promotes cell invasion in vivo remains unclear. A main obstacle in understanding SPARC function has been the difficulty of visualizing and experimentally examining the dynamic interactions between invasive cells, extracellular matrix and SPARC in native tissue environments. Using the model of anchor cell invasion through the basement membrane (BM) extracellular matrix in Caenorhabditis elegans, we find that SPARC overexpression is highly pro-invasive and rescues BM transmigration in mutants with defects in diverse aspects of invasion, including cell polarity, invadopodia formation, and matrix metalloproteinase expression. By examining BM assembly, we find that overexpression of SPARC specifically decreases levels of BM type IV collagen, a crucial structural BM component. Reduction of type IV collagen mimicked SPARC overexpression and was sufficient to promote invasion. Tissue-specific overexpression and photobleaching experiments revealed that SPARC acts extracellularly to inhibit collagen incorporation into BM. By reducing endogenous SPARC, we also found that SPARC functions normally to traffic collagen from its site of synthesis to tissues that do not express collagen. We propose that a surplus of SPARC disrupts extracellular collagen trafficking and reduces BM collagen incorporation, thus weakening the BM barrier and dramatically enhancing its ability to be breached by invasive cells.
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- Meghan A Morrissey
- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Multicellular Organization Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics,Yata, Mishima, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Iwatsuki M, Matsuoka M. Fluoride-induced c-Fos expression in MC3T3-E1 osteoblastic cells. Toxicol Mech Methods 2016; 26:132-8. [DOI: 10.3109/15376516.2015.1129570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Mamiko Iwatsuki
- Department of Hygiene and Public Health I, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Hygiene and Public Health I, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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Jung SK, Ha SJ, Jung CH, Kim YT, Lee HK, Kim MO, Lee MH, Mottamal M, Bode AM, Lee KW, Dong Z. Naringenin targets ERK2 and suppresses UVB-induced photoaging. J Cell Mol Med 2016; 20:909-19. [PMID: 26861188 PMCID: PMC4831363 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.12780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2015] [Accepted: 12/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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A number of natural phytochemicals have anti‐photoaging properties that appear to be mediated through the inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase‐1 (MMP‐1) expression, but their direct target molecule(s) and mechanism(s) remain unclear. We investigated the effect of naringenin, a major flavonoid found in citrus, on UVB‐induced MMP‐1 expression and identified its direct target. The HaCaT human skin keratinocyte cell line and 3‐dimensional (3‐D) human skin equivalent cultures were treated or not treated with naringenin for 1 hr before exposure to UVB. The mechanism and target(s) of naringenin were analysed by kinase assay and multiplex molecular assays. Dorsal skins of hairless mice were exposed to UVB 3 times per week, with a dose of irradiation that was increased weekly by 1 minimal erythema dose (MED; 45 mJ/cm2) to 4 MED over 15 weeks. Wrinkle formation, water loss and water content were then assessed. Naringenin suppressed UVB‐induced MMP‐1 expression and AP‐1 activity, and strongly suppressed UVB‐induced phosphorylation of Fos‐related antigen (FRA)‐1 at Ser265. Importantly, UVB irradiation‐induced FRA1 protein stability was reduced by treatment with naringenin, as well as with a mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MEK) inhibitor. Naringenin significantly suppressed UVB‐induced extracellular signal‐regulated kinase 2 (ERK2) activity and subsequently attenuated UVB‐induced phosphorylation of p90RSK by competitively binding with ATP. Constitutively active MEK (CA‐MEK) increased FRA1 phosphorylation and expression and also induced MMP‐1 expression, whereas dominant‐negative ERK2 (DN‐ERK2) had opposite effects. U0126, a MEK inhibitor, also decreased FRA1 phosphorylation and expression as well as MMP‐1 expression. The photoaging data obtained from mice clearly demonstrated that naringenin significantly inhibited UVB‐induced wrinkle formation, trans‐epidermal water loss and MMP‐13 expression. Naringenin exerts potent anti‐photoaging effects by suppressing ERK2 activity and decreasing FRA1 stability, followed by down‐regulation of AP‐1 transactivation and MMP‐1 expression.
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- Sung Keun Jung
- The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN, USA.,Division of Functional Food Research, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam, Korea
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- Division of Functional Food Research, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam, Korea
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- Division of Functional Food Research, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam, Korea
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- Division of Functional Food Research, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam, Korea
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- College of Pharmacy, Gachon University, Incheon, Korea
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- The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN, USA
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- The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN, USA.,China-US (Henan) Hormel Cancer Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN, USA
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- WCU Biomodulation Major, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.,Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, Seoul National University, Suwon, Korea.,Research Institute of Bio Food Industry, Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Pyeongchang, Korea
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- The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN, USA
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Iskit S, Schlicker A, Wessels L, Peeper DS. Fra-1 is a key driver of colon cancer metastasis and a Fra-1 classifier predicts disease-free survival. Oncotarget 2015; 6:43146-61. [PMID: 26646695 PMCID: PMC4791222 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Fra-1 (Fos-related antigen-1) is a member of the AP-1 (activator protein-1) family of transcription factors. We previously showed that Fra-1 is necessary for breast cancer cells to metastasize in vivo, and that a classifier comprising genes that are expressed in a Fra-1-dependent fashion can predict breast cancer outcome. Here, we show that Fra-1 plays an important role also in colon cancer progression. Whereas Fra-1 depletion does not affect 2D proliferation of human colon cancer cells, it impairs growth in soft agar and in suspension. Consistently, subcutaneous tumors formed by Fra-1-depleted colon cancer cells are three times smaller than those produced by control cells. Most remarkably, when injected intravenously, Fra-1 depletion causes a 200-fold reduction in tumor burden. Moreover, a Fra-1 classifier generated by comparing RNA profiles of parental and Fra-1-depleted colon cancer cells can predict the prognosis of colon cancer patients. Functional pathway analysis revealed Wnt as one of the central pathways in the classifier, suggesting a possible mechanism of Fra-1 function in colon cancer metastasis. Our results demonstrate that Fra-1 is an important determinant of the metastatic potential of human colon cancer cells, and that the Fra-1 classifier can be used as a prognostic predictor in colon cancer patients.
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- Sedef Iskit
- Department of Molecular Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Huang SC, Zhang L, Sung YS, Chen CL, Krausz T, Dickson BC, Kao YC, Agaram NP, Fletcher CDM, Antonescu CR. Frequent FOS Gene Rearrangements in Epithelioid Hemangioma: A Molecular Study of 58 Cases With Morphologic Reappraisal. Am J Surg Pathol 2015; 39:1313-21. [PMID: 26135557 DOI: 10.1097/pas.0000000000000469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Epithelioid hemangioma (EH) is a unique benign vasoformative tumor composed of epithelioid endothelial cells. Although a small subset of EHs with atypical features harbor ZFP36-FOSB fusions, no additional genetic abnormalities have been found to date in the remaining cases. On the basis of a novel FOS-LMNA gene fusion identified by RNA sequencing in an index case of a skeletal EH with typical morphology, we sought to investigate the prevalence of FOS rearrangement in a large cohort of EHs. Thus 57 additional EH cases lacking FOSB rearrangements were studied for FOS gene abnormalities by fluorescence in situ hybridization, and results were correlated with morphologic appearance and clinical presentation. The EHs were subclassified as typical (n=25), cellular (n=21), and angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) (n=12) variants. The ALHE was defined as an EH with a vascular "blow-out" pattern associated with a variable degree of inflammation. There were 17 (29%) cases bearing FOS gene rearrangements among 58 cases tested, including 12 male and 5 female patients, with a mean age of 42 years. Most FOS-rearranged EHs occurred in the bone (10) and soft tissue (6), whereas only 1 case was cutaneous. The predominant anatomic site was the extremity (12), followed by trunk (3), head and neck (1), and penis (1). The incidence of FOS rearrangement was significantly higher in bone (59%, P=0.006) and lower in head and neck (5%, P=0.009). Twelve of the FOS-rearranged cases were cellular EH (P=0.001) associated with moderate mitotic activity (2 to 5/10 HPF) and milder inflammatory background. All 12 ALHE cases lacked FOS gene abnormalities, suggesting different pathogenesis. In conclusion, FOS rearrangement was present in a third of EHs across different locations and histologic variants; however, it was more prevalent in cellular EH and intraosseous lesions, compared with those in skin, soft tissue, and head and neck. This genetic abnormality can be useful in challenging cases, to distinguish cellular EHs from malignant epithelioid vascular tumors. These results also suggest that dysregulation of the FOS family of transcription factors through chromosomal translocation is as a key event in the tumorigenesis of EH except for the ALHE variant.
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- Shih-Chiang Huang
- *Department of Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taoyuan ∥Department of Pathology, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan †Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY ‡Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL ¶Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA §Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Lv Z, Fan J, Zhang X, Huang Q, Han J, Wu F, Hu G, Guo M, Jin Y. Integrative genomic analysis of interleukin-36RN and its prognostic value in cancer. Mol Med Rep 2015; 13:1404-12. [PMID: 26676204 DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2015.4667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Interleukin (IL)-36RN, previously known as IL1-F5 and IL-1δ, shares a 360-kb region of chromosome 2q13 with members of IL-1 systems. IL-36RN encodes an anti-inflammatory cytokine, IL-36 receptor antagonist (IL-36Ra). In spite of IL-36Ra showing the highest homology to IL-1 receptor (IL-1R) antagonist, it differs from the latter in aspects including its binding to IL-lRrp2 but not to IL-1R1. IL-36RN is mainly expressed in epithelial cells and has important roles in inflammatory diseases. In the present study, IL-36RN was identified in the genomes of 27 species, including human, chimpanzee, mouse, horse and dolphin. Human IL-36RN was mainly expressed in the eye, head and neck, fetal heart, lung, testis, cervix and placenta; furthermore, it was highly expressed in bladder and parathyroid tumors. Furthermore, a total of 30 single nucleotide polymorphisms causing missense mutations were determined, which are considered to be the causes of various diseases, such as generalized pustular psoriasis. In addition, the link between IL-36RN and the prognosis of certain cancer types was revealed through meta-analysis. Tumor-associated transcriptional factors c-Fos, activator protein-1, c-Jun and nuclear factor κB were found to bind to the upstream region in the IL-36RN gene. This may indicate that IL-36RN is involved in tumorigenesis and tumor progression through the regulation of tumor-associated transcriptional factors. The present study identified IL-36RN in various species and investigated the associations between IL-36RN and cancer prognosis, which would determine whether IL-36RN drove the evolution of the various species with regard to tumorigenesis.
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Key Laboratory of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Health, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, P.R. China
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Sun Y, Ye C, Guo X, Wen W, Long J, Gao YT, Shu XO, Zheng W, Cai Q. Evaluation of potential regulatory function of breast cancer risk locus at 6q25.1. Carcinogenesis 2015; 37:163-168. [PMID: 26645718 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgv170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/29/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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In a genome-wide association study conducted among Chinese women, we identified the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2046210 at 6q25.1 for breast cancer risk. To explore a potential regulatory role for this risk locus, we measured expression levels of nine genes at the locus in breast cancer tissue and adjacent normal tissue samples obtained from 67 patients recruited in the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study. We found that rs2046210 had a statistically significant association with the expression levels of the AKAP12 and ESR1 genes in adjacent normal breast tissues. Women who carry the AA/AG risk genotypes had higher expressions of these two genes compared to those who carry G/G genotypes (P = 0.02 and 0.04 for the AKAP12 and ESR1, respectively). However, no significant differences of SNP rs2046210 with gene expression levels were found in tumor tissues. In The Cancer Genome Atlas samples, the AA/AG risk genotypes of SNP rs2046210 were associated with a significantly higher expression level of the AKAP12 gene and a lower level of the ESR1 gene in tumor tissue. Functional analysis using ENCODE data revealed that SNP rs7763637, which is in strong linkage disequilibrium with SNP rs2046210, is likely a potential functional variant, regulating the AKAP12 gene. Taken together, these results from our study suggest that the association between the 6q25.1 locus and breast cancer risk may be mediated through SNPs that regulate expressions of the AKAP12 gene.
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- Yaqiong Sun
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.,Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China and
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- Division of Epidemiology , Department of Medicine , Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville , TN, 37203 , USA
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- Division of Epidemiology , Department of Medicine , Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville , TN, 37203 , USA
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- Division of Epidemiology , Department of Medicine , Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville , TN, 37203 , USA
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- Division of Epidemiology , Department of Medicine , Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville , TN, 37203 , USA
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- Department of Epidemiology , Shanghai Cancer Institute , Shanghai , China
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- Division of Epidemiology , Department of Medicine , Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville , TN, 37203 , USA
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- Division of Epidemiology , Department of Medicine , Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville , TN, 37203 , USA
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- Division of Epidemiology , Department of Medicine , Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center , Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville , TN, 37203 , USA
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Selective participation of c-Jun with Fra-2/c-Fos promotes aggressive tumor phenotypes and poor prognosis in tongue cancer. Sci Rep 2015; 5:16811. [PMID: 26581505 PMCID: PMC4652185 DOI: 10.1038/srep16811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) is most aggressive head and neck cancer often associated with HR-HPV infection. The role of AP-1 which is an essential regulator of HPV oncogene expression and tumorigenesis is not reported in tongue cancer. One hundred tongue tissue biopsies comprising precancer, cancer and adjacent controls including two tongue cancer cell lines were employed to study the role of HPV infection and AP-1 family proteins. An exclusive prevalence (28%) of HR-HPV type 16 was observed mainly in well differentiated tongue carcinomas (78.5%). A higher expression and DNA binding activity of AP-1 was observed in tongue tumors and cancer cell lines with c-Fos and Fra-2 as the major binding partners forming the functional AP-1 complex but c-Jun participated only in HPV negative and poorly differentiated carcinoma. Knocking down of Fra-2 responsible for aggressive tongue tumorigenesis led to significant reduction in c-Fos, c-Jun, MMP-9 and HPVE6/E7 expression but Fra-1 and p53 were upregulated. The binding and expression of c-Fos/Fra-2 increased as a function of severity of tongue lesions, yet selective participation of c-Jun appears to promote poor differentiation and aggressive tumorigenesis only in HPV negative cases while HPV infection leads to well differentiation and better prognosis preferably in nonsmokers.
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Tumor Restrictive Suicide Gene Therapy for Glioma Controlled by the FOS Promoter. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0143112. [PMID: 26571389 PMCID: PMC4646428 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Effective suicide gene delivery and expression are crucial to achieving successful effects in gene therapy. An ideal tumor-specific promoter expresses therapeutic genes in tumor cells with minimal normal tissue expression. We compared the activity of the FOS (FBJ murine osteosarcoma viral oncogene homolog) promoter with five alternative tumor-specific promoters in glioma cells and non-malignant astrocytes. The FOS promoter caused significantly higher transcriptional activity in glioma cell lines than all alternative promoters with the exception of CMV. The FOS promoter showed 13.9%, 32.4%, and 70.8% of the transcriptional activity of CMV in three glioma cell lines (U87, U251, and U373). Importantly, however, the FOS promoter showed only 1.6% of the transcriptional activity of CMV in normal astrocytes. We also tested the biologic activity of recombinant adenovirus containing the suicide gene herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) driven by the FOS promoter, including selective killing efficacy in vitro and tumor inhibition rate in vivo. Adenoviral-mediated delivery of the HSV-tk gene controlled by the FOS promoter conferred a cytotoxic effect on human glioma cells in vitro and in vivo. This study suggests that use of the FOS-tk adenovirus system is a promising strategy for glioma-specific gene therapy but still much left for improvement.
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Lu S, Yang Y, Du Y, Cao LL, Li M, Shen C, Hou T, Zhao Y, Wang H, Deng D, Wang L, He Q, Zhu WG. The transcription factor c-Fos coordinates with histone lysine-specific demethylase 2A to activate the expression of cyclooxygenase-2. Oncotarget 2015; 6:34704-17. [PMID: 26430963 PMCID: PMC4741484 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.5474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Accepted: 09/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is overexpressed in a variety of human epithelial cancers, including lung cancer, and is highly associated with a poor prognosis and a low survival rate. Understanding how COX-2 is regulated in response to carcinogens will offer insight into designing anti-cancer strategies and preventing cancer development. Here, we analyzed COX-2 expression in several human lung cancer cell lines and found that COX-2 expression was absent in the H719 and H460 cell lines by a DNA methylation-independent mechanism. The re-expression of COX-2 was observed after 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) treatment in both cell lines. Further investigation found that H3K36 dimethylation was significantly reduced near the COX-2 promoter because histone demethylase 2A (KDM2A) was recruited to the COX-2 promoter after TPA treatment. In addition, the transcription factor c-Fos was found to be required to recruit KDM2A to the COX-2 promoter for reactivation of COX-2 in response to TPA treatment in both the H719 and H460 cell lines. Together, our data reveal a novel mechanism by which the carcinogen TPA activates COX-2 expression by regulating H3K36 dimethylation near the COX-2 promoter.
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- Shaoli Lu
- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Etiology, Peking University School of Oncology and Beijing Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Center of Medical and Health Analysis, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing Key Laboratory of Protein Posttranslational Modifications and Cell Function, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
- Peking University-Tsinghua University Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing 100751, China
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LIU XUEJIAN, MA YONGZHEN, YANG WENCHUAN, WU XIA, JIANG LIHUA, CHEN XIANGLI. Identification of therapeutic targets for breast cancer using biological informatics methods. Mol Med Rep 2015; 12:1789-95. [PMID: 25824986 PMCID: PMC4464090 DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2015.3565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 11/25/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The present study aimed to investigate the modular mechanisms underlying breast cancer and identify potential targets for breast cancer treatment. The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between breast cancer and normal cells were assessed using microarray data obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Gene ontology (GO) and pathway enrichment analyses were performed in order to investigate the functions of these DEGs. Subsequently, the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed using the Cytoscape software. The identified subnetworks were further analyzed using the Molecular Complex Detection plugin. In total, 571 genes (241 upregulated and 330 downregulated genes) were found to be differentially expressed between breast cancer and normal cells. The GO terms significantly enriched by DEGs included cell adhesion, immune response and extracellular region, while the most significant pathways included focal adhesion and complement and coagulation cascade pathways. The PPI network was established with 273 nodes and 718 edges, while fibronectin 1 (FN1, degrees score, 39), interleukin 6 (IL6; degree score, 96) and c-Fos protein (degree score, 32) were identified as the hub proteins in subnetwork 2. These dysregulated genes were found to be involved in the development of breast cancer. The FN1, IL6 and FOS genes may therefore be potential targets in the treatment of breast cancer.
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- Department of Oncology, The People’s Hospital of Linyi Economic and Technological Development Zone, Linyi, Shandong 276023, P.R. China
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- Department of Histological Embryology, Shandong Medical College, Linyi, Shandong 276000, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The People’s Hospital of Linyi Economic and Technological Development Zone, Linyi, Shandong 276023, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The People’s Hospital of Linyi Economic and Technological Development Zone, Linyi, Shandong 276023, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The People’s Hospital of Linyi Economic and Technological Development Zone, Linyi, Shandong 276023, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, The People’s Hospital of Linyi Economic and Technological Development Zone, Linyi, Shandong 276023, P.R. China
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Electroacupuncture Ameliorates the Coronary Occlusion Related Tachycardia and Hypotension in Acute Rat Myocardial Ischemia Model: Potential Role of Hippocampus. EVIDENCE-BASED COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 2015. [PMID: 26221181 PMCID: PMC4499623 DOI: 10.1155/2015/925987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Mechanisms for electroacupuncture (EA) in disease treatments are still enigmatic. Here, we studied whether hippocampus was involved in the protection of EA stimulation on myocardial ischemia injury. Acute myocardial ischemia (AMI) model was produced. EA stimulation at heart meridian from Shenmen (HT7) to Tongli (HT5) was applied to rats 3 times a day for continuous three days. Coronary occlusion related tachycardia and hypotension, indicated by heart rate, mean arterial pressure, and rate pressure product, were apparently impaired after AMI injury. By contrast, EA stimulating could ameliorate the impairments of heart function (P < 0.05). Interestingly, lesion of CA1 region of hippocampus abolished the protection of EA. Neuronal activity in CA1 area was affected by AMI. As evidenced, cell counts, cell types, and frequency of the discharged neurons were facilitated after AMI, while EA stimulation attenuated the abnormalities. Furthermore, c-Fos expression was significantly facilitated in CA1 area after AMI, which was reduced by EA stimulation. Correlations were established between c-Fos expression and cell counts of discharged neurons, as well as between heart function and cell counts of discharged neurons. Taken together, EA stimulation at heart meridian protects against heart dysfunction induced by AMI possibly through suppressing the neuronal activity in CA1 region.
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van IJzendoorn DGP, de Jong D, Romagosa C, Picci P, Benassi MS, Gambarotti M, Daugaard S, van de Sande M, Szuhai K, Bovée JVMG. Fusion events lead to truncation of FOS in epithelioid hemangioma of bone. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2015; 54:565-74. [PMID: 26173738 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.22269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Revised: 05/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Epithelioid hemangioma of bone is a locally aggressive vascular neoplasm. It can be challenging to diagnose because of the wide histological spectrum, which can make it difficult to differentiate from other vascular neoplasms such as epithelioid hemangioendothelioma or epithelioid angiosarcoma. COBRA-FISH karyotyping identified a balanced t(3;14) translocation. Transcriptome sequencing of the index case and two other epithelioid hemangiomas revealed a recurrent translocation breakpoint involving the FOS gene, which was fused to different partners in all three cases. The break was observed in exon 4 of the FOS gene and the fusion event led to the introduction of a stop codon. In all instances, the truncation of the FOS gene would result in the loss of the transactivation domain (TAD). Using FISH probes we found a break in the FOS gene in two additional cases, in none of these cases a recurrent fusion partner could be identified. In total, FOS was split in 5/7 evaluable samples. We did not observe point mutations leading to early stop codons in any of the 10 cases where RNA was available. Detection of FOS rearrangement may be a useful diagnostic tool to assist in the often difficult differential diagnosis of vascular tumors of bone. Our data suggest that the translocation causes truncation of the FOS protein, with loss of the TAD, which is thereby a novel mechanism involved in tumorigenesis.
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, Hospital Vall D'hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Orthopaedic Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy
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- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Orthopaedic Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy
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- Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, Orthopaedic Rizzoli Institute, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Qu F, Xiang Z, Wang F, Zhang Y, Tong Y, Li J, Zhang Y, Yu Z. A novel molluscan Fos gene with immune defense function identified in the Hong Kong oyster, Crassostrea hongkongensis. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2015; 51:194-201. [PMID: 25841657 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2015.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2015] [Revised: 03/27/2015] [Accepted: 03/28/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The transcription factor Fos is a member of one of the best-studied AP-1 sub-families and has been implicated in a wide variety of biological processes, including the regulation of apoptosis, immune responses and cytokine production. In this report, a novel mollusk Fos (referred to as ChFos) gene was cloned and characterized from the Hong Kong oyster, Crassostrea hongkongensis. The deduced ChFos protein sequence comprised 333 amino acids and shared significant homology with invertebrate homologs. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that ChFos clusters with Fos from Crassostrea gigas and Crassostrea ariakensis. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis revealed that ChFos mRNA was broadly expressed in all tested tissues and during different stages of the oyster's embryonic and larval development. In addition, the expression of ChFos mRNA was significantly up-regulated under challenge with microorganisms (Vibrio alginolyticus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs: LPS, PGN and polyI:C). Moreover, fluorescence microscopy showed that ChFos protein is localized in the nucleus in HEK293T cells. Reporter assays suggested that ChFos may act as an efficient transcription activator in the regulation of AP-1-responsive gene expression through interaction with ChJun. Overall, this study presents the first experimental evidence of the presence and functional characteristics of Fos in mollusks, which reveals its involvement in host protection against immune challenge in the oyster.
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- Fufa Qu
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, China.
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Small-molecule inhibitors of ERK-mediated immediate early gene expression and proliferation of melanoma cells expressing mutated BRaf. Biochem J 2015; 467:425-38. [PMID: 25695333 DOI: 10.1042/bj20131571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Constitutive activation of the extracellular-signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1/2) are central to regulating the proliferation and survival of many cancer cells. The current inhibitors of ERK1/2 target ATP binding or the catalytic site and are therefore limited in their utility for elucidating the complex biological roles of ERK1/2 through its phosphorylation and regulation of over 100 substrate proteins. To overcome this limitation, a combination of computational and experimental methods was used to identify low-molecular-mass inhibitors that are intended to target ERK1/2 substrate-docking domains and selectively interfere with ERK1/2 regulation of substrate proteins. In the present study, we report the identification and characterization of compounds with a thienyl benzenesulfonate scaffold that were designed to inhibit ERK1/2 substrates containing an F-site or DEF (docking site for ERK, FXF) motif. Experimental evidence shows the compounds inhibit the expression of F-site containing immediate early genes (IEGs) of the Fos family, including c-Fos and Fra1, and transcriptional regulation of the activator protein-1 (AP-1) complex. Moreover, this class of compounds selectively induces apoptosis in melanoma cells containing mutated BRaf and constitutively active ERK1/2 signalling, including melanoma cells that are inherently resistant to clinically relevant kinase inhibitors. These findings represent the identification and initial characterization of a novel class of compounds that inhibit ERK1/2 signalling functions and their potential utility for elucidating ERK1/2 and other signalling events that control the growth and survival of cancer cells containing elevated ERK1/2 activity.
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Kokoroishi K, Nakashima A, Doi S, Ueno T, Doi T, Yokoyama Y, Honda K, Kanawa M, Kato Y, Kohno N, Masaki T. High glucose promotes TGF-β1 production by inducing FOS expression in human peritoneal mesothelial cells. Clin Exp Nephrol 2015; 20:30-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s10157-015-1128-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 05/22/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Xia LZ, Yin ZH, Ren YW, Shen L, Wu W, Li XL, Guan P, Zhou BS. The relationship between LAPTM4B polymorphisms and cancer risk in Chinese Han population: a meta-analysis. SPRINGERPLUS 2015; 4:179. [PMID: 25932367 PMCID: PMC4408309 DOI: 10.1186/s40064-015-0941-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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LAPTM4B is a newly cloned gene that shows an active role in many solid tumors progression in substantial researches, mainly through the autophage function. Accumulated studies have been conducted to determine the association of LAPTM4B polymorphism with cancer risk. While the results are inconsistent, we conducted the meta-analysis to determine the strength of the relationship. Results showed that allele*2 carriers exhibited a significantly increased risk of cancer development with comparison to allele*1 homozygote (for *1/2, OR = 1.55, 95% CI 1.367-1.758; for *2/2, OR = 2.093, 95%CI 1.666-2.629; for *1/2 + *2/2, OR = 1.806, 95%CI 1.527-2.137). We also observed a significant association between *2/2 homozygote and cancer risk with comparison to allele*1 containing genotypes (OR = 1.714, 95%CI 1.408-2.088). Allele*2 is a risk factor for cancer risk (OR = 1.487, 95%CI 1.339-1.651). Stratified analysis by tumor type exhibits the significant association of this genetic variants with various cancers. In conclusion, LAPTM4B polymorphism is associated with cancer risk and allele*2 is a risk factor.
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- Ling-Zi Xia
- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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- China Medical University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shenyang, Peoples R China ; University of Liaoning Province, Key Laboratory of Cancer Etiology & Intervent, Shenyang, Peoples R China
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Bojovic O, Panja D, Bittins M, Bramham CR, Tjølsen A. Time course of immediate early gene protein expression in the spinal cord following conditioning stimulation of the sciatic nerve in rats. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0123604. [PMID: 25860146 PMCID: PMC4393234 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Long-term potentiation induced by conditioning electrical stimulation of afferent fibers is a widely studied form of synaptic plasticity in the brain and the spinal cord. In the spinal cord dorsal horn, long-term potentiation is induced by a series of high-frequency trains applied to primary afferent fibers. Conditioning stimulation (CS) of sciatic nerve primary afferent fibers also induces expression of immediate early gene proteins in the lumbar spinal cord. However, the time course of immediate early gene expression and the rostral-caudal distribution of expression in the spinal cord have not been systematically studied. Here, we examined the effects of sciatic nerve conditioning stimulation (10 stimulus trains, 0.5 ms stimuli, 7.2 mA, 100 Hz, train duration 2 s, 8 s intervals between trains) on cellular expression of immediate early genes, Arc, c-Fos and Zif268, in anesthetized rats. Immunohistochemical analysis was performed on sagittal sections obtained from Th13- L5 segments of the spinal cord at 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 h post-CS. Strikingly, all immediate early genes exhibited a monophasic increase in expression with peak increases detected in dorsal horn neurons at 2 hours post-CS. Regional analysis showed peak increases at the location between the L3 and L4 spinal segments. Both Arc, c-Fos and Zif268 remained significantly elevated at 2 hours, followed by a sharp decrease in immediate early gene expression between 2 and 3 hours post-CS. Colocalization analysis performed at 2 hours post-CS showed that all c-Fos and Zif268 neurons were positive for Arc, while 30% and 43% of Arc positive neurons were positive for c-Fos and Zif268, respectively. The present study identifies the spinal cord level and time course of immediate early gene (IEGP) expression of relevance for analysis of IEGPs function in neuronal plasticity and nociception.
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- Ognjen Bojovic
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, 5009 Bergen, Norway
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Kou Y, Zhang S, Chen X, Hu S. Gene expression profile analysis of colorectal cancer to investigate potential mechanisms using bioinformatics. Onco Targets Ther 2015; 8:745-52. [PMID: 25914544 PMCID: PMC4399548 DOI: 10.2147/ott.s78974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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This study aimed to explore the underlying molecular mechanisms of colorectal cancer (CRC) using bioinformatics analysis. Using GSE4107 datasets downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus, the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened by comparing the RNA expression from the colonic mucosa between 12 CRC patients and ten healthy controls using a paired t-test. The Gene Ontology (GO) functional and pathway enrichment analyses of DEGs were performed using the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) software followed by the construction of a protein–protein interaction (PPI) network. In addition, hub gene identification and GO functional and pathway enrichment analyses of the modules were performed. A total of 612 up- and 639 downregulated genes were identified. The upregulated DEGs were mainly involved in the regulation of cell growth, migration, and the MAPK signaling pathway. The downregulated DEGs were significantly associated with oxidative phosphorylation, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Moreover, FOS, FN1, PPP1CC, and CYP2B6 were selected as hub genes in the PPI networks. Two modules (up-A and up-B) in the upregulated PPI network and three modules (d-A, d-B, and d-C) in the downregulated PPI were identified with the threshold of Molecular Complex Detection (MCODE) Molecular Complex Detection (MCODE) score ≥4 and nodes ≥6. The genes in module up-A were significantly enriched in neuroactive ligand–receptor interactions and the calcium signaling pathway. The genes in module d-A were enriched in four pathways, including oxidative phosphorylation and Parkinson’s disease. DEGs, such as FOS, FN1, PPP1CC, and CYP2B6, may be used as potential targets for CRC diagnosis and treatment.
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- Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China ; Department of General Surgery, Shuguang Hospital Baoshan Branch, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurology, Shuguang Hospital Baoshan Branch, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Shuguang Hospital Baoshan Branch, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of General Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic of China
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Kumar A, Hussain S, Yadav IS, Gissmann L, Natarajan K, Das BC, Bharadwaj M. Identification of human papillomavirus-16 E6 variation in cervical cancer and their impact on T and B cell epitopes. J Virol Methods 2015; 218:51-8. [PMID: 25800725 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2015.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2014] [Revised: 12/26/2014] [Accepted: 03/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) is the most important risk factor for development of cervical cancer. The intra-type variations of HPV have different biological and pathological consequences with respect to disease progression. In the present study, six major Indian variants were experimentally identified in E6 gene of HPV-16 and showed their impact on immunogenicity by in silico methods. Four different phylogenetic lineages were observed in sequences including European (E) prototype, European variant, Asian and American Asian variant classes and complete absence of African phylogenetic lineages. On the prediction of B- and T-cell epitopes, 18 and 23 potent epitopes for MHC-II alleles, 10 potent MHC-I and 15 B-cell epitopes in each reference and variant sequence were identified. Interestingly, the presence of variation H78Y and L83V result in creation of four new epitopes for the HLA-DQA1*0101/DQB1*0501. Out of 15 B-cell predicted epitopes, three most potent epitopes were identified in both reference and variant sequence. Notably the amino acid stretch from amino acid 16-60 and 76-94 are very important for the immunological properties of E6 protein because these regions contain majority of the predicted epitopes. In future, this could control the cervical cancer by targeting these amino acid stretches for the development of HPV-16 vaccine.
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- Anoop Kumar
- Division of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (ICMR), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India; Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi (North Campus), New Delhi, India
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- Division of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (ICMR), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Division of Genome Modification and Carcinogenesis, German Cancer Center, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi (North Campus), New Delhi, India
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- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi (North Campus), New Delhi, India
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- Division of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (ICMR), Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Expression of c-fos was associated with clinicopathologic characteristics and prognosis in pancreatic cancer. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120332. [PMID: 25789763 PMCID: PMC4366380 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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It has long been regarded that pancreatic cancer (PC) is a life-threatening malignant tumor. Thus, much attention has been paid for factors, especially relative molecules, predictive for prognosis of PC. However, c-fos expression in PC was less investigated. In addition, its association with clinicopathologic variables and prognosis remains unknown. In the present study, expression of c-fos was detected by tissue microarray-based immunohistochemical staining in cancer and adjacent tissues from 333 patients with PC. The staining results were correlated with clinicopathologic parameters and overall survival. Furthermore, prognostic significance of c-fos in subsets of PC was also evaluated. It was shown that low expression of c-fos was more often in cancer than in adjacent tissues of PC (P<0.001). Besides, high cancerous c-fos expression was significantly associated with tumor site and T stage, whereas peri-neural invasion was of a borderline significant relevance. Log-rank test revealed that high expression of c-fos in cancer tissues was a significant marker of poor overall survival, accompanied by some conventional clinicopathologic variables, such as sex, grade, peri-neural invasion, T and N stages. More importantly, cancerous c-fos expression was identified as an independent prognosticator in multivariate analysis. Finally, the prognostic implication of c-fos expression was proven in four subsets of patients with PC. These data suggested that c-fos expression was of relationships with progression and dismal prognosis of PC.
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Oliveira-Ferrer L, Kürschner M, Labitzky V, Wicklein D, Müller V, Lüers G, Schumacher U, Milde-Langosch K, Schröder C. Prognostic impact of transcription factor Fra-1 in ER-positive breast cancer: contribution to a metastatic phenotype through modulation of tumor cell adhesive properties. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2015; 141:1715-26. [PMID: 25666264 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-015-1925-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 01/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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PURPOSE The transcription factor Fos-related antigen-1 (Fra-1) has been described to affect the morphology, motility and invasive potential of breast cancer cells. Since tumor cell adhesion plays an essential role in the metastatic process, especially for extravasation from blood vessels, we investigated the influence of Fra-1 on breast cancer cell interactions with the endothelium. METHODS Using Fra-1-overexpressing MCF7 [weakly invasive, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive] and MDA MB231 (strongly invasive, ER-negative) cells, we performed dynamic cell flow adhesion assays on surfaces coated with E-selectin or with human pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells. RESULTS We found a significant increased adhesion of Fra-1-overexpressing MCF7 cells to E-selectin but also to activate endothelial cells, whereas the MDA MB231 cell line showed moderate enhanced cell rolling and tethering on both coated surfaces. These different adhesion behaviors corresponded to an up-regulation of various adhesion-related proteins such as CD44 and integrin α5 in Fra-1-overexpressing MCF7 cells measured by microarray analysis and flow cytometry in comparison with no deregulation of key adhesion molecules observed in Fra-1-overexpressing MDA MB231 cells. In line with these results and based on cDNA microarray data of breast cancer patients (n = 197), high Fra-1 expression significantly correlates with shorter overall survival and higher rate of lung metastasis in ER-positive breast cancer patients (n = 130), but has no impact on the prognosis of patients with ER-negative tumors. CONCLUSION Thus, in addition to its pro-invasive and pro-migratory effect, Fra-1 might influence the metastatic potential of breast cancer cells by changing the expression of adhesion molecules, resulting in increased adherence to endothelial cells under flow conditions.
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- L Oliveira-Ferrer
- Department of Gynecology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, Bldg. N27, 20246, Hamburg, Germany,
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Xiao S, Zhou Y, Yi W, Luo G, Jiang B, Tian Q, Li Y, Xue M. Fra-1 is downregulated in cervical cancer tissues and promotes cervical cancer cell apoptosis by p53 signaling pathway in vitro. Int J Oncol 2015; 46:1677-84. [PMID: 25651840 DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2015.2873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Cervical cancer is a potentially preventable disease; however, it is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. Cervical cancer is thought to develop through a multistep process involving virus, tumor suppressor genes, proto-oncogenes and immunological factors. It is known that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is necessary but insufficient to cause malignancy. At present, the etiology of cervical carcinoma remains poorly understood. In this study, we found that the expression of FOS-like antigen-1 (Fra-1) gene was downregulated in cervical cancer compared with the adjacent non-cancerous tissues by RT-qPCR, immunohistochemistry (IHC) and western blotting techniques. To uncover the effect of Fra-1 on cervical cancer, we tested and confirmed that Fra-1 significantly inhibited the proliferation of HeLa cells by MMT assays in vitro. At the same time, overexpression of Fra-1 promoted apoptosis of HeLa cells. To explore the possible mechanism of Fra-1 in cervical cancer, we tested the expression levels of key molecules in p53 signaling pathway by western blotting technology. The results showed that p53 was downregulated in cervical cancer compared with the adjacent non-cancerous tissues, but MDM2 proto-oncogene, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase (MDM2) was upregulated in cervical cancer. In vitro, the p53 was upregulated and MDM2 was downregulated in HeLa cells with Fra-1 overexpression. In summary, our results suggested that Fra-1 expression is low in cervical cancer tissues and promotes apoptosis of cervical cancer cells by p53 signaling pathway.
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- Songshu Xiao
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Cancer Research Institute, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410078, P.R. China
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- Cancer Research Institute, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410078, P.R. China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China
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Hirata H, Hinoda Y, Shahryari V, Deng G, Nakajima K, Tabatabai ZL, Ishii N, Dahiya R. Long Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Promotes Aggressive Renal Cell Carcinoma through Ezh2 and Interacts with miR-205. Cancer Res 2015; 75:1322-31. [PMID: 25600645 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-14-2931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 457] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2014] [Accepted: 12/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Recently, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) have emerged as new gene regulators and prognostic markers in several cancers, including renal cell carcinoma (RCC). In this study, we investigated the contributions of the lncRNA MALAT1 in RCC with a specific focus on its transcriptional regulation and its interactions with Ezh2 and miR-205. We found that MALAT1 expression was higher in human RCC tissues, where it was associated with reduced patient survival. MALAT1 silencing decreased RCC cell proliferation and invasion and increased apoptosis. Mechanistic investigations showed that MALAT1 was transcriptionally activated by c-Fos and that it interacted with Ezh2. After MALAT1 silencing, E-cadherin expression was increased, whereas β-catenin expression was decreased through Ezh2. Reciprocal interaction between MALAT1 and miR-205 was also observed. Lastly, MALAT1 bound Ezh2 and oncogenesis facilitated by MALAT1 was inhibited by Ezh2 depletion, thereby blocking epithelial-mesenchymal transition via E-cadherin recovery and β-catenin downregulation. Overall, our findings illuminate how overexpression of MALAT1 confers an oncogenic function in RCC that may offer a novel theranostic marker in this disease.
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- Hiroshi Hirata
- Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Oncology and Laboratory Medicine, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan
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- Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Urology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Urology, Toho University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Urology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
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O'Leary KA, Shea MP, Schuler LA. Modeling prolactin actions in breast cancer in vivo: insights from the NRL-PRL mouse. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 846:201-20. [PMID: 25472540 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12114-7_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Elevated exposure to prolactin (PRL) is epidemiologically associated with an increased risk of aggressive ER+ breast cancer. To understand the underlying mechanisms and crosstalk with other oncogenic factors, we developed the NRL-PRL mouse. In this model, mammary expression of a rat prolactin transgene raises local exposure to PRL without altering estrous cycling. Nulliparous females develop metastatic, histotypically diverse mammary carcinomas independent from ovarian steroids, and most are ER+. These characteristics resemble the human clinical disease, facilitating study of tumorigenesis, and identification of novel preventive and therapeutic approaches.
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- Kathleen A O'Leary
- Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA,
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Eifler TT, Shao W, Bartholomeeusen K, Fujinaga K, Jäger S, Johnson JR, Luo Z, Krogan NJ, Peterlin BM. Cyclin-dependent kinase 12 increases 3' end processing of growth factor-induced c-FOS transcripts. Mol Cell Biol 2015; 35:468-78. [PMID: 25384976 PMCID: PMC4272423 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01157-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2014] [Revised: 10/07/2014] [Accepted: 11/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Transcriptional cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) regulate RNA polymerase II initiation and elongation as well as cotranscriptional mRNA processing. In this report, we describe an important role for CDK12 in the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-induced c-FOS proto-oncogene expression in mammalian cells. This kinase was found in the exon junction complexes (EJC) together with SR proteins and was thus recruited to RNA polymerase II. In cells depleted of CDK12 or eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A3 (eIF4A3) from the EJC, EGF induced fewer c-FOS transcripts. In these cells, phosphorylation of serines at position 2 in the C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II, as well as levels of cleavage-stimulating factor 64 (Cstf64) and 73-kDa subunit of cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor (CPSF73), was reduced at the c-FOS gene. These effects impaired 3' end processing of c-FOS transcripts. Mutant CDK12 proteins lacking their Arg-Ser-rich (RS) domain or just the RS domain alone acted as dominant negative proteins. Thus, CDK12 plays an important role in cotranscriptional processing of c-FOS transcripts.
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- Tristan T Eifler
- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, QB3, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, QB3, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, QB3, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Shan J, Donelan W, Hayner JN, Zhang F, Dudenhausen EE, Kilberg MS. MAPK signaling triggers transcriptional induction of cFOS during amino acid limitation of HepG2 cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2014; 1853:539-48. [PMID: 25523140 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2014.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 11/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Amino acid (AA) deprivation in mammalian cells activates a collection of signaling cascades known as the AA response (AAR), which is characterized by transcriptional induction of stress-related genes, including FBJ murine osteosarcoma viral oncogene homolog (cFOS). The present study established that the signaling mechanism underlying the AA-dependent transcriptional regulation of the cFOS gene in HepG2 human hepatocellular carcinoma cells is independent of the classic GCN2-eIF2-ATF4 pathway. Instead, a RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK cascade mediates AAR signaling to the cFOS gene. Increased cFOS transcription is observed from 4-24 h after AAR-activation, exhibiting little or no overlap with the rapid and transient increase triggered by the well-known serum response. Furthermore, serum is not required for the AA-responsiveness of the cFOS gene and no phosphorylation of promoter-bound serum response factor (SRF) is observed. The ERK-phosphorylated transcription factor E-twenty six-like (p-ELK1) is increased in its association with the cFOS promoter after activation of the AAR. This research identified cFOS as a target of the AAR and further highlights the importance of AA-responsive MAPK signaling in HepG2 cells.
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- Jixiu Shan
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610.
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Regression analysis of combined gene expression regulation in acute myeloid leukemia. PLoS Comput Biol 2014; 10:e1003908. [PMID: 25340776 PMCID: PMC4207489 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 09/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Gene expression is a combinatorial function of genetic/epigenetic factors such as copy number variation (CNV), DNA methylation (DM), transcription factors (TF) occupancy, and microRNA (miRNA) post-transcriptional regulation. At the maturity of microarray/sequencing technologies, large amounts of data measuring the genome-wide signals of those factors became available from Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). However, there is a lack of an integrative model to take full advantage of these rich yet heterogeneous data. To this end, we developed RACER (Regression Analysis of Combined Expression Regulation), which fits the mRNA expression as response using as explanatory variables, the TF data from ENCODE, and CNV, DM, miRNA expression signals from TCGA. Briefly, RACER first infers the sample-specific regulatory activities by TFs and miRNAs, which are then used as inputs to infer specific TF/miRNA-gene interactions. Such a two-stage regression framework circumvents a common difficulty in integrating ENCODE data measured in generic cell-line with the sample-specific TCGA measurements. As a case study, we integrated Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) data from TCGA and the related TF binding data measured in K562 from ENCODE. As a proof-of-concept, we first verified our model formalism by 10-fold cross-validation on predicting gene expression. We next evaluated RACER on recovering known regulatory interactions, and demonstrated its superior statistical power over existing methods in detecting known miRNA/TF targets. Additionally, we developed a feature selection procedure, which identified 18 regulators, whose activities clustered consistently with cytogenetic risk groups. One of the selected regulators is miR-548p, whose inferred targets were significantly enriched for leukemia-related pathway, implicating its novel role in AML pathogenesis. Moreover, survival analysis using the inferred activities identified C-Fos as a potential AML prognostic marker. Together, we provided a novel framework that successfully integrated the TCGA and ENCODE data in revealing AML-specific regulatory program at global level. Recent studies from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) showed that most Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patients lack DNA mutations, which can potentially explain the tumorigenesis, and motivated a systematic approach to elucidate aberrant molecular signatures at the transcriptional and epigenetic levels. Using recently available data from two large consortia namely Encyclopedia of DNA Elements and TCGA, we developed a novel computational model to infer the regulatory activities of the expression regulators and their target genes in AML samples. Our analysis revealed 18 regulators whose dysregulation contributed significantly to explaining the global mRNA expression changes. Encouragingly, the inferred activities of these regulatory features followed a consistent pattern with cytogenetic phenotypes of the AML patients. Among these regulators, we identified microRNA hsa-miR-548p, whose regulatory relationships with leukemia-related genes including YY1 suggest its novel role in AML pathogenesis. Additionally, we discovered that the inferred activities of transcription factor C-Fos can be used as a prognostic marker to characterize survival rate of the AML patients. Together, we demonstrated an effective model that can integrate useful information from a large amount of heterogeneous data to dissect regulatory effects. Furthermore, the novel biological findings from this study may be constructive to future experimental research in AML.
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Fu J, Cheng L, Wang Y, Yuan P, Xu X, Ding L, Zhang H, Jiang K, Song H, Chen Z, Ye Q. The RNA-binding protein RBPMS1 represses AP-1 signaling and regulates breast cancer cell proliferation and migration. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2014; 1853:1-13. [PMID: 25281386 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2014.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Revised: 09/14/2014] [Accepted: 09/23/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The activator protein-1 (AP-1) transcription factor complex plays a crucial role in tumor growth and progression. However, how AP-1 transcriptional activity is repressed is not fully understood. Here, we show that RNA-binding protein with multiple splicing 1 (RBPMS1) physically and functionally interacts with AP-1 in vitro and in vivo. The RNA-recognition motif (RRM) and C-terminus of the RBPMS1 isoforms RBPMS1A and RBPMS1C, but not RBPMS1B, interacted with cFos, a member of the AP-1 family that dimerizes with cJun to stimulate AP-1 transcriptional activity. RBPMS1 did not associate with Jun proteins. RBPMS1A and RBPMS1C bound to the basic leucine zipper (bZIP) domain of cFos that mediates dimerization of AP-1 proteins. In addition, RBPMS1A-C interacted with the transcription factor Smad3, which was shown to interact with cJun and increase AP-1 transcriptional activity. RBPMS1 inhibited c-Fos or Smad3-mediated AP-1 transactivation and the expression of AP-1 target genes known to be the key regulators of cancer growth and progression, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and cyclin D1. Mechanistically, RBPMS1 blocks the formation of the cFos/cJun or Smad3/cJun complex as well as the recruitment of cFos or Smad3 to the promoters of AP-1 target genes. In cultured cells and a mouse xenograft model, RBPMS1 inhibited the growth and migration of breast cancer cells through c-Fos or Smad3. These data suggest that RBPMS1 is a critical repressor of AP-1 signaling and RBPMS1 activation may be a useful strategy for cancer treatment.
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- Jie Fu
- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Shandong, China
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- Fujian Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Fujian, China
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- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, The Affiliated First Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fujian, China.
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- Department of Medical Molecular Biology, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing, China.
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Liu J, Yan J, Zhou C, Ma Q, Jin Q, Yang Z. miR-1285-3p acts as a potential tumor suppressor miRNA via downregulating JUN expression in hepatocellular carcinoma. Tumour Biol 2014; 36:219-25. [PMID: 25230788 DOI: 10.1007/s13277-014-2622-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 09/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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In the world, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common and most lethal cancers. Currently, standard therapy for unresectable HCC is a local-regional therapy with transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE). In this study, we sought to assess whether plasma circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) can be used to predict the prognosis of HCC patients receiving the TACE treatment. Firstly, we systematically examined TACE therapeutic effectiveness-related circulating miRNAs through miRNA Profiling Chips. As a result, we identified 19 circulating miRNAs to be significantly differentially expressed between the TACE-response group and the TACE-nonresponse group. In the second stage, we performed quantitative analyses of these candidate miRNAs in additional HCC patients treated with TACE and validated two of the aforementioned 19 miRNAs (miR-1285-3p and miR-4741) as candidate biomarkers for predicting prognosis of TACE. Interestingly, we found that miR-1285-3p could directly repress JUN oncogene expression in HCC cells, indicating miR-1285-3p could act as a potential tumor suppressor. In conclusion, our data indicate that circulating miR-1285-3p and miR-4741 was predictive of response to TACE therapy in HCC.
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- Jibing Liu
- Department of Intervention Surgery, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, 250117, Jinan, Shandong Province, China,
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Moquet-Torcy G, Tolza C, Piechaczyk M, Jariel-Encontre I. Transcriptional complexity and roles of Fra-1/AP-1 at the uPA/Plau locus in aggressive breast cancer. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:11011-24. [PMID: 25200076 PMCID: PMC4176185 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Plau codes for the urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), critical in cancer metastasis. While the mechanisms driving its overexpression in tumorigenic processes are unknown, it is regulated by the AP-1 transcriptional complex in diverse situations. The AP-1 component Fra-1 being overexpressed in aggressive breast cancers, we have addressed its role in the overexpression of Plau in the highly metastatic breast cancer model cell line MDA-MB231 using ChIP, pharmacological and RNAi approaches. Plau transcription appears controlled by 2 AP-1 enhancers located -1.9 (ABR-1.9) and -4.1 kb (ABR-4.1) upstream of the transcription start site (TSS) of the uPA-coding mRNA, Plau-001, that bind Fra-1. Surprisingly, RNA Pol II is not recruited only at the Plau-001 TSS but also upstream in the ABR-1.9 and ABR-4.1 region. Most Pol II molecules transcribe short and unstable RNAs while tracking down toward the TSS, where there are converted into Plau-001 mRNA-productive species. Moreover, a minority of Pol II molecules transcribes a low abundance mRNA of unknown function called Plau-004 from the ABR-1.9 domain, whose expression is tempered by Fra-1. Thus, we unveil a heretofore-unsuspected transcriptional complexity at Plau in a reference metastatic breast cancer cell line with pleiotropic effects for Fra-1, providing novel information on AP-1 transcriptional action.
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- Gabriel Moquet-Torcy
- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 1, 5 Bd Henry IV, 34967 Montpellier cedex 2, France
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- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 1, 5 Bd Henry IV, 34967 Montpellier cedex 2, France
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- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 1, 5 Bd Henry IV, 34967 Montpellier cedex 2, France
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- Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France Université Montpellier 1, 5 Bd Henry IV, 34967 Montpellier cedex 2, France
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Systematic expression profiling analysis identifies specific microRNA-gene interactions that may differentiate between active and latent tuberculosis infection. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2014; 2014:895179. [PMID: 25276827 PMCID: PMC4167957 DOI: 10.1155/2014/895179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/01/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common cause of death from infectious diseases. About 90% of those infected are asymptomatic—the so-called latent TB infections (LTBI), with a 10% lifetime chance of progressing to active TB. To further understand the molecular pathogenesis of TB, several molecular studies have attempted to compare the expression profiles between healthy controls and active TB or LTBI patients. However, the results vary due to diverse genetic backgrounds and study designs and the inherent complexity of the disease process. Thus, developing a sensitive and efficient method for the detection of LTBI is both crucial and challenging. For the present study, we performed a systematic analysis of the gene and microRNA profiles of healthy individuals versus those affected with TB or LTBI. Combined with a series of in silico analysis utilizing publicly available microRNA knowledge bases and published literature data, we have uncovered several microRNA-gene interactions that specifically target both the blood and lungs. Some of these molecular interactions are novel and may serve as potential biomarkers of TB and LTBI, facilitating the development for a more sensitive, efficient, and cost-effective diagnostic assay for TB and LTBI for the Taiwanese population.
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