Journal
TRANSLATIONAL ANDROLOGY AND UROLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AME PUBL CO
DOI: 10.21037/tau-20-1411
Keywords
Seminoma; m6A methylation; autophagy; chemosensitivity; METTL3
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81571432, 81372181]
- New Xiangya Talent Project of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University [20180305]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2019JJ80097]
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The research revealed that METTL3, through m6A methylation, enhances autophagy and chemoresistance in seminoma cells. ATG5 was identified as a potential target for METTL3-mediated autophagy promotion.
Background: Our previous work shows Autophagy enhanced resistance to cisplatin in seminoma. The expression of the N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methyltransferases METTL3 was significantly increased in the cisplatin-resistant TCam-2 cell line of seminoma. We aimed to investigate the role of m6A methylation in autophagy and the chemosensitivity of seminoma cells. Methods: Plasmid and siRNA were used to overexpress and knockdown METTL3. Autophagy was detected by western blot and immunofluorescence, respectively. The expression of downstream targets of METTL3 was detected by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and western blot, and the m6A level of them was detected by MeRIP-qPCR. Chemosensitivity of the TCam-2 cell line was identified through MTT assay. Results: Upon METTL3 overexpression, autophagy of TCam-2 cell line was enhanced and its sensitivity to cisplatin was decreased. The use of autophagy inhibitors 3-methyladenine (3-MA) could reverse the protective effect of METTL3 on TCam-2 cells. We found that the up-regulation of METTL3 could increase the m6A modification level of ATG5 transcript, thus increased expression of ATG5. Moreover, knockdown of ATG5 reduced METTL3-induced autophagy, suggesting that ATG5 was a potential target for METTL3 to promote autophagy. Conclusions: In summary, our research unveiled the unique mechanism by which m6A methylation regulates autophagy and chemosensitivity of the TCam-2 cell line and METTL3 was a potential target to overcome the cisplatin resistance of seminoma.
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