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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 22, Issue 10, Pages 4875-4885Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.13752
Keywords
Colorectal cancer; MUC2; mucin; O-glycosylation; Tn antigen
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81572825, 81672338]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [7172083]
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Aberrant O-glycosylation is frequently observed in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, but it is unclear if it contributes intrinsically to tumorigenesis. Here, we investigated the biological consequences of aberrant O-glycosylation in CRC. We first detected the expression profile of Tn antigen in a serial of human CRC tissues and then explored the genetic and biosynthetic mechanisms. Moreover, we used a human CRC cell line (LS174T), which express Tn antigen, to assess whether aberrant O-glycosylation can directly promote oncogenic properties. It showed that Tn antigen was detected in around 86% human primary and metastatic CRC tissues. Bio-functional investigations showed that T-synthase and Cosmc were both impaired in cancer tissues. A further analysis detected an occurrence of hypermethylation of Cosmc gene, which possibly caused its loss-of-function and a consequent inactive T-synthase. Transfection of LS174T cells with WT Cosmc restored mature O-glycosylation, which subsequently down-regulated cancer cell proliferation, migration and apoptotic-resistant ability. Significantly, the expression of MUC2, a heavily O-glycosylated glycoprotein that plays an essential role in intestinal function, was uniformly reduced in human CRC tissues as well as in LS174T cells. These data suggest that aberrant O-glycosylation contributes to the development of CRC through direct induction of oncogenic properties in cancer cells.
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