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JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 12, Issue 17, Pages 5345-5354Publisher
IVYSPRING INT PUBL
DOI: 10.7150/jca.60543
Keywords
Colorectal cancer; FHL1; RNA sequencing; Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [81874206]
- Shanghai Rising-Star Program [20QA1409300]
- Program for Young Eastern Scholar at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning
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This study found that low FHL1 expression is associated with poor patient survival in colorectal cancer. Experimental results indicate that FHL1 acts as a tumor suppressor in CRC, primarily by inhibiting cell proliferation through regulating the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway.
Purpose: This study aims to explore the FHL1 expression level in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, analyze its association with patient survival and investigate the role of FHL1 in CRC. Methods: We used secondary sequencing to profile mRNA expression in CRC tissue and corresponding adjacent normal tissue from four CRC patients. We focus on FHL1 and analyzed the association between its expression level and clinical indicators. Furthermore, we explored the functional role of FHL1 in colorectal cancer tumorigenesis by transfecting cells with siRNA or overexpression plasmids. Results: Hierarchical clustering revealed significantly differentially expressed mRNAs. FHL1 expression was significantly lower in CRC tissue than in adjacent normal tissue as well as in CRC cell lines relative to NCM460. Low FHL1 expression in CRC tissue correlated with poor patient survival. Our data demonstrated that overexpression of FHL1 inhibited the proliferation, colony formation potential, and expression of CdK4 and Cyclin D1, whereas ablating FHL1 promoted their proliferation and colony formation potential, suggesting that FHL1 acts as a tumor suppressor in CRC. Moreover, we showed that FHL1 inhibited the proliferation of colorectal cancer cells by negatively regulating the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway. Conclusion: FHL1 is a potential tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer, and regulation of the FHL1-Wnt/beta-catenin pathway may be part of its antitumor mechanism.
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