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N-terminal truncated carboxypeptidase E represses E-cadherin expression in lung cancer by stabilizing the Snail-HDAC complex.

ABSTRACT: The N-terminal truncated carboxypeptidase E (CPE?N) protein, an alternative splicing product of the carboxypeptidase E gene, has recently been recognized as an independent predictor for the recurrence and metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma. In this study, we showed that CPE?N may accelerate lung cancer invasion via an E-cadherin-dependent mechanism. In vitro experiments and in vivo bioluminescence imaging assay revealed CPE?N promoted the mobility and invasion of human lung cancer cells by suppressing endogenous expression of E-cadherin, a critical regulator for epithelial tissue homeostasis. Further mechanistic analyses revealed that CPE?N directly interacted with and stabilized the Snail/HDAC1/HDAC3 complex within the promoter region of the E-cadherin-encoding CDH1 gene. CPE?N overexpression led to a reduction of histone H3K9 acetylation and an increase of H3K9 and H3K27 trimethylation in the CHD1 gene promoter and ultimately inhibited E-cadherin transcription. In addition, correlations among CPE?N, E-cadherin expression and tumor progression in 195 cases of lung adenocarcinoma patients were analyzed. Higher nuclear expression of CPE?N was detected in patients with advanced stage of lung adenocarcinoma. Nuclear expression of CPE?N was negatively correlated with the cell membrane expression of E-cadherin. Collectively, our findings illustrated that CPE?N was involved in the transcriptional regulation of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition-related gene CDH1 and provide novel insights into CPE?N-associated lung cancer metastasis.

SUBMITTER: Sun J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136916 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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N-terminal truncated carboxypeptidase E represses E-cadherin expression in lung cancer by stabilizing the Snail-HDAC complex.

Sun Jing J Meng Dawei D Yu Tao T Li Feng F Zhang Guirong G Tian Xin X Zhao Nannan N Li Guimin G Li Lu L Wang Hongyue H Liu Yeqiu Y Meng Yiming Y Ma Yushu Y Wan Zhong Z Bao Jimin J Piao Haozhe H

American journal of cancer research 20200301 3

The N-terminal truncated carboxypeptidase E (CPEΔN) protein, an alternative splicing product of the carboxypeptidase E gene, has recently been recognized as an independent predictor for the recurrence and metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma. In this study, we showed that CPEΔN may accelerate lung cancer invasion via an E-cadherin-dependent mechanism. <i>In vitro</i> experiments and <i>in vivo</i> bioluminescence imaging assay revealed CPEΔN promoted the mobility and invasion of human lung cancer c ...[more]

PMID: 32266100

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Project description:Carboxypeptidase E (CPE), an exopeptidase involved in proneuropeptide processing, is also a neurotrophic factor, named neurotrophic factor-α1 (NF-α1) and has important roles in neuroprotection, stem cell differentiation, and neurite outgrowth, independent of enzymatic activity. Additionally, an N-terminal-truncated CPE/NF-α1 variant, (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN, proposed from bioinformatic analysis of GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD, USA) DNA sequences and encoding a 40-kDa protein, has been found to be exclusively expressed in embryonic neurons. To investigate the function of (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN in neurodevelopment, we first cloned (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN transcripts from an embryonic mouse brain. A rapid amplification of cDNA ends assay, DNA sequencing, and Northern blot revealed 1.9- and 1.73-kb transcripts, which encoded 47- and 40-kDa (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN proteins, respectively. Those proteins were expressed in embryonic mouse brain. Expression of the 2 (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN mRNAs surged at embryonic d 10.5, correlating with the time of neurogenesis in the developing brain and also at postnatal d 1. HT22 cells, a mouse hippocampal cell line, transduced with 40 kDa (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN up-regulated expression of genes involved in embryonic neurodevelopment: insulin-like growth factor binding protein 2 ( IGFBP2), death-associated protein 1, and ephrin A1, which regulate proliferation, programmed cell death, and neuronal migration, respectively. HT22 cells and embryonic cortical neurons overexpressing 40 kDa (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN exhibited enhanced proliferation, which was inhibited by IGFBP2 short interfering RNA treatment. Thus, 40 kDa (CPE/NF-α1)-ΔN has an important, enzymatically independent role in the regulation of genes critical for neurodevelopment.-Xiao, L., Yang, X., Sharma, V. K., Loh, Y. P. Cloning, gene regulation, and neuronal proliferation functions of novel N-terminal-truncated carboxypeptidase E/neurotrophic factor-αl variants in embryonic mouse brain.

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N-terminal truncated carboxypeptidase E represses E-cadherin expression in lung cancer by stabilizing the Snail-HDAC complex.

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N-terminal truncated carboxypeptidase E represses E-cadherin expression in lung cancer by stabilizing the Snail-HDAC complex.

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