sincalide and Nasopharyngeal-Neoplasms

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a highly invasive epithelial malignant tumor with unique geographical and ethnic distribution characteristics. NPC is mostly found in south China and Southeast Asia, and its treatment mainly depends on radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, NPC is usually found in the late stage, and local recurrence and distant metastasis are common, leading to poor prognosis. The receptor tyrosine kinase AXL is up-regulated in various tumors and it is involved in tumor proliferation, migration, invasion, and other processes, which are associated with poor prognosis of tumors. This study aims to detect the expression of AXL in NPC cell lines and tissues, and to investigate its biological function of AXL and the underlying molecular mechanisms in regulation of NPC.. The expression levels of AXL in normal nasopharyngeal epithelial tissues and NPC tissues were analyzed by GSE68799, GSE12452, and GSE53819 data sets based on Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database was used to analyze the relationship between AXL and prognosis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). The indicators of prognosis included overall survival (OS), disease-free interval (DFI), disease-specific survival (DSS), and progression-free interval (PFI). Western blotting assay was used to detect the AXL protein expression levels in normal nasopharyngeal epithelial cell line and NPC cell lines. Immunohistochemical method was used to detect AXL expression levels in normal nasopharyngeal epithelial tissues and NPC tissues. Cell lines with stable AXL knockdown were established by infecting 5-8F and Fadu cells with lentivirus interference vector, and cell lines with stable AXL overexpression were established by infecting C666-1 and HK-1 cells with lentivirus expression vector. Real-time PCR and Western blotting were used to detect the efficiency of knockdown and overexpression in stable cell lines. The effects of AXL knockdown or overexpression on proliferation, migration, and invasion of NPC cells were detected by CCK-8, plate colony formation, and Transwell assays, and the effect of AXL knockdown on tumor growth in nude mice was detected by subcutaneous tumor formation assay. The sequence of AXL upstream 2.0 kb promoter region was obtained by UCSC online database. The PROMO online database was used to predict AXL transcription factors with 0% fault tolerance, and the JASPAR online database was used to predict the binding sites of ETS1 to AXL. Real-time PCR and Western blotting were used to detect the effect of ETS1 on AXL protein and mRNA expression. The AXL upstream 2.0 kb promoter region was divided into 8 fragments, each of which was 250 bp in length. Primers were designed for 8 fragments. The binding of ETS1 to AXL promoter region was detected by chromatin immuno-precipitation (ChIP) assay to determine the direct regulatory relationship between ETS1 and AXL. Rescue assay was used to determine whether ETS1 affected the proliferation, migration, and invasion of NPC cells through AXL.. Bioinformatics analysis showed that AXL was highly expressed in NPC tissues (. AXL is highly expressed in NPC cell lines and tissues, which can promote the malignant progression of NPC, and its expression is regulated by transcription factor ETS1.

Topics: Animals; Cell Line, Tumor; Cell Movement; Cell Proliferation; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; Mice; Mice, Nude; Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms; RNA, Messenger; Sincalide; Transcription Factors

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a squamous cell carcinoma. LncRNA CTBP1-AS2 (CTBP1-AS2) has effects on tumor cell growth. This study explored the mechanism of CTBP1-AS2 on NPC cells.. CTBP1-AS2 expressions in immortalized nasopharyngeal epithelial (NP69) and 6 human NPC cells were detected by RT-qPCR and SUNE-1/CNE-1 cells with relative high/low expressions were selected. Cell proliferation and apoptosis were detected by CCK-8, colony formation assays, and flow cytometry. The binding sites between CTBP1-AS2 and miR-140-5p and miR-140-5p and BMP2 were predicted, and the binding relationships were verified by dual-luciferase assay. BMP2 level was detected by Western blot. miR-140-5p was silenced, or BMP2 was overexpressed in SUNE-1 cells with si-CTBP1-AS2 to study the effects of miR-140-5p and BMP2 on CTBP1-AS2 silencing-inhibited malignant behaviors.. CTBP1-AS2 was upregulated in NPC cells. CTBP1-AS2 silencing suppressed NPC cell proliferation and promoted apoptosis. CTBP1-AS2 silencing in SUNE-1 cells raised miR-140-5p expression and repressed BMP2 level. CTBP1-AS2 overexpression in CNE-1 cells suppressed miR- 140-5p expression and elevated BMP2 levels.. In mechanism, miR-140-5p overexpression decreased BMP2 levels, reduced NPC cell proliferation, and promoted apoptosis. miR-140-5p knockdown or BMP2 overexpression enhanced NPC cell proliferation and inhibited apoptosis, thus restoring NPC cell malignant behaviors inhibited by silencing CTBP1-AS2.. CTBP1-AS2 decreased miR-140-5p-induced BMP2 inhibition via functioning as a ceRNA of miR-140-5p and promoted BMP2 expression, thereby promoting NPC cell proliferation and suppressing apoptosis.

Topics: Alcohol Oxidoreductases; Apoptosis; Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2; Cell Line, Tumor; Cell Proliferation; DNA-Binding Proteins; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic; Humans; MicroRNAs; Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma; Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms; RNA, Long Noncoding; Sincalide