Journal
MOLECULAR MEDICINE REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 4250-4258Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2015.3974
Keywords
hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatocyte growth factor; DNA methylation; tumor suppressor gene
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81172286, 81372618]
- '973' Program [2013CB910803]
- National Key Sci-Tech Special Project of China [2012ZX10002-011-005c]
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the one of most common malignant tumors. The tumor microenvironment has a role in not only supporting growth and survival of tumor cells, but also triggering tumor recurrence and metastasis. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), one of the important growth factors in the tumor microenvironment, has an important role in angiogenesis, tumorigenesis and regeneration. However, the exact mechanism by which HGF regulates HCC initiation and development via epigenetic reprogramming has remained elusive. The present study focused on the epigenetic modification and target tumor-suppressive genes of HGF treatment in HCC. Expression profiling and DNA methylation array were performed to investigate the function of HGF and examine global genomic DNA methylation changes, respectively. Integrated analysis of gene expression and DNA methylation revealed potential tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) in HCC. The present study showed the multiple functions of HGF in tumorous and non-tumorous pathways and global genomic DNA methylation changes. HGF treatment upregulated the expression of DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1). Overexpression of DNMT1 in HCC patients correlated with the malignant potential and poor prognosis of HCC. Furthermore, integration analysis of gene expression and DNA methylation changes revealed novel potential tumor suppressor genes TSGs including MYOCD, PANX2 and LHX9. The present study has provided mechanistic insight into epigenetic repression of TSGs through HGF-induced DNA hypermethylation.
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