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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 398, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2020.112401
Keywords
Bladder cancer; FAT10; Progression; EGFR/AKT; HK2
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81760460]
- Science and Technology Program of the Department of Health of Jiangxi Province [20192BAB2050263]
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FAT10 and HK2 proteins are significantly elevated in bladder cancer tissues compared to normal adjacent tissues, and FAT10 promotes bladder cancer progression by positively regulating HK2 levels.
The ubiquitin-like protein FAT10 and the hexokinase protein HK2 play vital regulatory roles in several cellular processes. However, the relationship between these two proteins and their role in the pathogenesis of bladder cancer are not well understood. Here, we found that FAT10 and HK2 protein levels were markedly higher in bladder cancer tissues than in normal adjacent tissues. In addition, RNAi-mediated silencing of FAT10 led to reduced HK2 levels and suppressed bladder cancer progression in vivo and in vitro. The results of our in vivo and in vitro experiments revealed that HK2 is critical for FAT10-mediated progression of bladder cancer. The current study demonstrated that FAT10 enhanced the progression of bladder cancer by positively regulating HK2 via the EGFR/AKT pathway. Based on our findings, FAT10 is believed to stabilize EGFR expression by modulating its degradation and ubiquitination. The results of the current study indicate that there is a correlation between FAT10 and HK2 in the progression of bladder cancer. In addition, we identified a new pathway that may be involved in the regulation of HK2. These findings implicate dysfunction of the FAT10, EGFR/AKT, and HK2 regulatory circuit in the progression of bladder cancer.
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