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Downregulation of iNOS/NO Promotes Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer

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MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH
卷 21, 期 2, 页码 102-114

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AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-22-0509

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Metastasis is the main cause of death in patients with colorectal cancer. The study found that iNOS downregulation induces the EMT program and promotes metastasis in colorectal cancer. The reduced expression of iNOS may serve as a potential therapeutic target for patients with colorectal cancer.
Metastasis is the major cause of cancer-related death in patients with colorectal cancer. Although inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) is a crucial regulator of cancer development and progression, its roles in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the path-ogenesis of metastatic colorectal cancer have not been fully inves-tigated. Primary colorectal cancer and liver metastatic tissue speci-mens were analyzed showing 90% of liver metastatic colorectal cancer with reduced expressions of iNOS compared with 6% of primary colorectal cancer. The Cancer Genome Atlas database analyses via cBioPortal reveal that mRNA expression of iNOS negatively correlated with selected EMT markers in colorectal cancer in a cancer type-dependent manner. The transcriptomic profiling (RNA sequencing data) indicates that iNOS knockdown in SW480 colorectal cancer cells induced an EMT program with upregulated expression of selected stem-cell markers. iNOS knockdown did not alter E-cadherin mRNA expression but re-localized it from mem-brane to cytoplasm through iNOS-GATA4-Crb2-E-cadherin path-way. iNOS knockdown induced a change in cell morphology, and promoted cell invasion and migration in vitro, and metastasis in vivo. Implications: iNOS downregulation-induced pathway networks mediate the EMT program and metastasis. As an EMT inducer, the reduced-iNOS may serve as a potential therapeutic target for patients with colorectal cancer.

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