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LOX upregulates FAK phosphorylation to promote metastasis in osteosarcoma

Journal

GENES & DISEASES
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 254-266

Publisher

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2021.12.016

Keywords

Focal adhesion kinase; Lysyl oxidase; Metastasis; Osteosarcoma

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This study found that lysyl oxidase (LOX) expression was associated with cytoplasmic mislocalization of p27 in osteosarcoma. Higher LOX expression promoted cell proliferation, migration, and invasiveness, and resulted in pulmonary metastases. The upregulation of phospho-FAK was identified as the mechanism by which LOX promotes osteosarcoma metastasis. FAK inhibition may be a promising therapeutic strategy to reduce LOX-mediated metastasis in osteosarcoma.
Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor that commonly occurs in the pediatric population. Despite the use of chemotherapy and surgery, metastasis remains to be the leading cause of death in patients with osteosarcoma. We have previously reported that cytoplasmic mislocalization of p27 is associated with a poor outcome in osteosarcoma. In this study, we further show that lysyl oxidase (LOX) expression was associated with p27 mislocalization. LOX is an enigmatic molecule that acts as a tumor suppressor or a metastatic promoter; however, its role in osteosarcoma is still unclear. Hence, we performed both in vitro and in vivo analyses to dissect the role of LOX in osteosarcoma. The result of our survival analysis indicated that LOX expression significantly correlated with a poor outcome in osteosarcoma with or without controlling for the initial metastasis status (P < 0.05). Functionally, we found that higher LOX expression promoted osteosarcoma cell proliferation, migration, and invasiveness in vitro and produced a higher number of mice with pulmonary metastases in an orthotopic xenograft mouse model. Mechanistically, phospho-FAK was increased in osteosarcoma cells with high LOX expression. Our results further showed that FAK inhibition significantly reduced tumor cell proliferation and migration in vitro as well as LOX-mediated metastasis in mice. Together, our findings suggest that there is a novel link between p27 mislocalization and LOX expression. LOX plays a pivotal role in osteosarcoma metastasis by upregulating FAK phosphorylation. FAK inhibition may constitute a promising therapeutic strategy to reduce the development of metastasis in osteosarcoma with LOX overexpression.(c) 2022 The Authors. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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