PUBLICATION
AEG-1 knockdown in colon cancer cell lines inhibits radiation-enhanced migration and invasion in vitro and in a novel in vivo zebrafish model
- Authors
- Gnosa, S., Capodanno, A., Murthy, R.V., Ejby Jensen, L.D., Sun, X.F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-161113-12
- Date
- 2016
- Source
- Oncotarget 7(49): 81634-81644 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- MTDH, colon cancer, radiation, transwell migration and invasion, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/genetics
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/metabolism*
- Cell Movement/radiation effects*
- Colonic Neoplasms/genetics
- Colonic Neoplasms/metabolism
- Colonic Neoplasms/pathology
- Colonic Neoplasms/radiotherapy*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Gene Knockdown Techniques*
- HCT116 Cells
- Humans
- Matrix Metalloproteinase 9/metabolism
- Neoplasm Invasiveness
- RNA Interference
- Radiation Tolerance*
- Signal Transduction/radiation effects
- Transfection
- Zebrafish/embryology
- PubMed
- 27835571 Full text @ Oncotarget
Citation
Gnosa, S., Capodanno, A., Murthy, R.V., Ejby Jensen, L.D., Sun, X.F. (2016) AEG-1 knockdown in colon cancer cell lines inhibits radiation-enhanced migration and invasion in vitro and in a novel in vivo zebrafish model. Oncotarget. 7(49):81634-81644.
Abstract
Background Radiotherapy is a well-established anti-cancer treatment. Although radiotherapy has been shown to significantly decrease the local relapse in rectal cancer patients, the rate of distant metastasis is still very high. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether AEG-1 is involved in radiation-enhanced migration and invasion in vitro and in a novel in vivo zebrafish model.
Results Migration and invasion were decreased in all the AEG-1 knockdown cell lines. Furthermore, we observed that radiation enhanced migration and invasion, while AEG-1 knockdown abolished this effect. The results from the zebrafish embryo model confirmed the results obtained in vitro. MMP-9 secretion and expression were decreased in AEG-1 knockdown cells.
Materials and methods We evaluated the involvement of AEG-1 in migration and invasion and, radiation-enhanced migration and invasion by Boyden chamber assay in three colon cancer cell lines and respective stable AEG-1 knockdown cell lines. Furthermore, we injected those cells into zebrafish embryos and evaluated the amount of disseminated cells into the tail.
Conclusion AEG-1 knockdown inhibits migration and invasion, as well as radiation-enhanced invasion both in vitro and in vivo. We speculate that this is done via the downregulation of the intrinsic or radiation-enhanced MMP-9 expression by AEG-1 in the cancer cells. This study also shows, for the first time, that the zebrafish is a great model to study the early events in radiation-enhanced invasion.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
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