Nuclear IQGAP1 promotes gastric cancer cell growth by altering the splicing of a cell-cycle regulon in co-operation with hnRNPM
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ABSTRACT: Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) play a decisive role in alternative splicing, regulating the cell proteome and contributing to human diseases. hnRNPs are nuclear proteins but it is still an open question where they localize in the nucleus and what determines their tethering to nuclear assemblies in response to signals. Here we report that IQGAP1, a cytosolic scaffold protein, localizes in the nucleus of gastric cancer cells acting as a tethering module for hnRNPM as well as other spliceosome components. The IQGAP1-hnRNPM interaction alters, among others, the alternative splicing of ANAPC10 and is required for the response of hnRNPM to heat-induced stress signals. Together, IQGAP1 and hnRNPM promote gastric cancer cell growth while their depletion leads to cell cycle arrest and halts tumour progression. We propose that IQGAP1 localizes in the nucleus and coordinates gastric tumour growth by recruiting, in response to stress-signals, spliceosome components that drive cell cycle progression.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE146283 | GEO | 2021/09/09
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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