Journal
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 119, Issue 8, Pages 7022-7031Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.26912
Keywords
autophagy; Beclin-1; colon cancer; epithelial-mesenchymal transition
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [81070362, 81172470, 81372629, 81772627]
- Nature Science Foundation of Hunan Province [2015JC3021, 2016JC2037]
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Activation of autophagy significantly affects cancer cell behaviors, such as proliferation, differentiation, and invasiveness. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) as an initial step of malignant transformation of cancer cells was linked to the activation of autophagy, but the detailed molecular mechanisms are still unknown. The present study investigates the effects of Beclin-1, a key molecule involved in activation of autophagy, on EMT of colon cancer cells. The normal colon epithelia cell line of CCD-18Co and six colon cancer cell lines with different expression levels of Beclin-1 were used in this study. The activation of autophagy and EMT markers of cancer cells were monitored by Western blotting and quantitative real-time PCR assay in the presence or absence of rapamycin (autophagy activator) and 3-MA (autophagy inhibitor). The expression of Beclin-1 in selected cell lines was modulated using small interfering RNA, and consequentially EMT markers, and cancer cell behaviors including migration and invasion, were also explored. Activation or inhibition of autophagy in colon cancer cells had positive or negative impacts on the expression of EMT markers and malignant behaviors such as cell migration and invasion. Knockdown of beclin-1 by siRNA apparently inhibited the activation of autophagy induced by rapamycin, consequentially resulted in suppression of EMT and attenuation of invasiveness of colon cancer cells. The results in this study demonstrated an association between activation of autophagy and EMT in colon cancer cells. The results showed suppression of Beclin-1 expression significantly reduced EMT and invasive behaviors in colon cancer cells.
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