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ONCOGENE
卷 38, 期 20, 页码 3781-3793出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41388-019-0691-z
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- French Society for Dermatological Research (SRD)
- La Ligue Contre le Cancer (Comite Ardeche)
- association Vaincre le Melanome
Due to its high proclivity to metastasize, and despite the recent development of targeted and immune therapy strategies, melanoma is still the deadliest form of skin cancer. Therefore, understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying melanoma invasion remains crucial. We previously characterized Tspan8 for its ability to prompt melanoma cell detachment from their microenvironment and trigger melanoma cell invasiveness, but the signaling events by which Tspan8 regulates the invasion process still remain unknown. Here, we demonstrated that beta-catenin stabilization is a molecular signal subsequent to the onset of Tspan8 expression, and that, in turn, beta-catenin triggers the direct transcriptional activation of Tspan8 expression, leading to melanoma invasion. Moreover, we showed that beta-catenin activation systematically correlates with a high expression of Tspan8 protein in melanoma lesions from transgenic Nras; bcat* mice, as well as in deep penetrating naevi, a type of human pre-melanoma neoplasm characterized by a combined activation of beta-catenin and MAP kinase signaling. Overall, our data suggest that beta-catenin and Tspan8 are part of a positive feedback loop, which sustains a high Tspan8 expression level, conferring to melanoma cells the invasive properties required for tumor progression and dissemination.
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