Loss of scinderin decreased expression of epidermal growth factor receptor and promoted apoptosis of castration-resistant prostate cancer cells.
FEBS OPEN BIO(2018)
摘要
Most patients with prostate cancer will eventually develop the castration-resistant form characterised by metastasis. Cytoskeleton constituents, including F-actin, play important roles in maintaining epithelial integrity and their disruption is a major cause of cancer progression. We previously showed that scinderin (SCIN), an important regulator of F-actin organisation, is highly expressed in poorly differentiated cancer tissues. This study aimed to explore the mechanism of its regulation of cell proliferation. We discovered that SCIN knockdown significantly downregulated epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) protein expression, and inhibited epidermal growth factor (EGF)-mediated cell proliferation and activation of the downstream mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK)/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signalling pathway. Silencing of SCIN promoted apoptosis in two cell lines (PC-3 and DU145), inhibited B-cell lymphoma-extra-large (Bcl-xl) expression and activated caspase signalling. Furthermore, in vivo studies showed that SCIN deletion slowed tumour growth and decreased EGFR expression. Thus, we conclude that SCIN promotes prostate cancer cell survival by stabilising EGFR and MEK/ERK signalling.
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actin cytoskeleton,apoptosis,epidermal growth factor receptor,prostate cancer,scinderin
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