Yang Liang, Cheng Xi, Ge Naijian, Guo Weixing, Feng Feiling, Wan Fuying
Radiation Center, East Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 201805, China.
Mini-Invasive Intervention Center, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200438, China.
Oncotarget. 2017 Jan 10;8(2):3104-3110. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.13621.
Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is the most common malignancy of the bile duct and patients with GBC have extremely poor prognoses. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are found to be dysregulated in a variety of cancers, including GBC. SPRY4-IT1 has been recently revealed as oncogenic regulator in many cancers. However, whether SPRY4-IT1 is involved in GBC progression remains largely unknown. To investigate the role of SPRY4-IT1 in GBC, we evaluated the expression SPRY4-IT1 in GBC tissues and cell lines, and investigated the effect of SPRY4-IT1 knockdown on cell proliferation, migration and invasion of GBC in vitro. Our result showed that SPRY4-IT1 was upregulated in GBC tissues. Further experiments revealed that SPRY4-IT1 knockdown significantly inhibited GBC cell proliferation. Furthermore, inhibitory effects of SPRY4-IT1 on cell migration and invasion were partly associated with EMT process. In conclusion, these data suggest that SPRY4-IT1 could be an oncogene for GBC, and may be served as a candidate target for new therapies in human GBC.
胆囊癌(GBC)是胆管最常见的恶性肿瘤,GBC患者的预后极差。长链非编码RNA(lncRNAs)在包括GBC在内的多种癌症中表达失调。SPRY4-IT1最近被揭示为许多癌症中的致癌调节因子。然而,SPRY4-IT1是否参与GBC进展在很大程度上仍不清楚。为了研究SPRY4-IT1在GBC中的作用,我们评估了SPRY4-IT1在GBC组织和细胞系中的表达,并研究了敲低SPRY4-IT1对GBC细胞体外增殖、迁移和侵袭的影响。我们的结果表明,SPRY4-IT1在GBC组织中上调。进一步的实验表明,敲低SPRY4-IT1可显著抑制GBC细胞增殖。此外,SPRY4-IT1对细胞迁移和侵袭的抑制作用部分与上皮-间质转化(EMT)过程有关。总之,这些数据表明,SPRY4-IT1可能是GBC的一个癌基因,并可能作为人类GBC新疗法的候选靶点。