| Literature DB >> 27566398 |
Bin Zhou1, Hanxiang Zhan2, Lamtin Tin3, Shanglong Liu4, Jianwei Xu2, Yanan Dong3, Xiaoyu Li5, Liqun Wu3, Weidong Guo6.
Abstract
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is usually lethal because of late diagnosis and early metastasis. Analysis of data from online database showed that TUFT1 is highly expressed in liver metastases of PC, and was associated with shorter overall survival. However, the role of TUFT1 in PC remains unknown. In this study, we show for the first time that TUFT1 is overexpressed in PC tissues compared with adjacent normal pancreas tissues, and TUFT1 expression is significantly associated with lymph node metastasis and advanced PC stage (P <0.05). Depletion or overexpression of endogenous TUFT1 correspondingly inhibited or promoted PC cell migration and metastasis in vitro and in vivo, and affected expression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related proteins, E-cadherin and vimentin. We also provide evidence that TUFT1 induced EMT by altering the expression of Snail; that TUFT1 is associated with expression and activity of HIF1; and that TUFT1 might affect HIF1-Snail signaling in regulating EMT. Collectively, these results indicate that TUFT1 could be a novel diagnostic and therapeutic target for PC.Entities:
Keywords: EMT; Metastasis; Migration; Pancreatic cancer; TUFT1
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27566398 DOI： 10.1016/j.canlet.2016.08.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Lett ISSN： 0304-3835 Impact factor: 8.679