Project description:The incidence of TP53 loss-of-function in hepatocellular carcinoma is very high. In order to clarify the gene expression differences induced by the changes of TP53 gene, we used two human hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines, SK-HEP-1 and Hep 3B with TP53 knockdown or overexpression for RNA sequencing . SK-HEP-1 is a TP53 wild-type hepatocellular carcinoma cell line. Thus, we knockdown TP53 in SK-HEP-1. Hep 3B is a TP53 loss-of-function hepatocellular carcinoma cell line. Thus, we overexpress TP53 in Hep 3B. Results of RNA-seq analysis showed the differences after knocking-down or overexpressing TP53.
Project description:In this study, we demonstrated that mitochondrial respiratory defect enhanced NFE2L1 transcription via reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated STAT3 activation and the up-expressed NFE2L1 increased hepatoma cell invasiveness by inducing syntaxin 12 (STX12) expression. Bioinformatic analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas Liver Hepatocellular carcinoma (TCGA-LIHC) open database showed that NFE2L1 expression is strongly positively correlated with STX12 expression and, furthermore, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-related core genes were significantly upregulated in the tumors expressing both NFE2L1 and STX12. The effect of NFE2L1/STX12 axis on lung metastasis of hepatoma cell was proved in nude mice model. Collectively, our results indicate that NFE2L1 was a key mitochondrial retrograde signaling-mediated primary gene product to enhance hepatoma cell invasiveness via STX12 expression
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks sixth among the most common malignancies and fourth in mortality among all kinds of cancers in the world. Recent advances in early diagnosis and therapeutics have led to improved survival of HCC patients, but the recurrence and metastasis are still main reasons for the poor prognosis and high mortality of HCC. Many researches on the mechanism of HCC deterioration have uncovered the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) as a major trigger for HCC metastasis and invasion.In this study, in order to systematically investigate the dynamic site-specific glycosylation alterations associated with the EMT process of HCC, two hepatoma cell lines SMMC-7721 and HepG2 were treated using HGF and the cell proteins were harvested at six treatment time points. Using TMT-labeling, solid phase extraction and mass spectrometry, we not only detailly profiled N-glycoproteome of both cell lines at site-specific glycosylation level, but also dynamically quantified those intact glycopeptides among six increasing HGF-treated time points. By dynamically quantifying enriched glycopeptides and proteins among six HGF-treated time points in two cell lines, we identified 20 up-regulated intact glycopeptides during the process of EMT, with the majority changed at the glycosylation level instead of protein expression level. The site-specific glycosylation change of those glycoproteins was related to the process of EMT, which was further verified by a series of molecular biology methods, mass spectrometry, and migration and invasion assay in vitro.