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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND TARGETED THERAPY
卷 7, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41392-022-01057-0
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资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFA0112300, 2018YFC2000400]
- National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents [BX20190088]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82000817, 81773149, U2102203, 81830087, 82173014, 81872414, 81772847]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M662869, 182703, 230794]
- Yunnan Applied Basic Research Projects [202101AS070050, 202001AU070095, 2018FB134, 2019FB112, 202001AW070018]
- CAS Light of West China program [2021000006]
Metastasis is a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Surgical trauma and inflammation promote tumor cell metastasis. This study reveals that deficiency of HECTD3 reduces tumor metastasis by inhibiting tumor cell adhesion to endothelial cells.
Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer-related death. The interactions between circulating tumor cells and endothelial adhesion molecules in distant organs is a key step during extravasation in hematogenous metastasis. Surgery is a common intervention for most primary solid tumors. However, surgical trauma-related systemic inflammation facilitates distant tumor metastasis by increasing the spread and adhesion of tumor cells to vascular endothelial cells (ECs). Currently, there are no effective interventions to prevent distant metastasis. Here, we show that HECTD3 deficiency in ECs significantly reduces tumor metastasis in multiple mouse models. HECTD3 depletion downregulates expression of adhesion molecules, such as VCAM-1, ICAM-1 and E-selectin, in mouse primary ECs and HUVECs stimulated by inflammatory factors and inhibits adhesion of tumor cells to ECs both in vitro and in vivo. We demonstrate that HECTD3 promotes stabilization, nuclear localization and kinase activity of IKK alpha by ubiquitinating IKK alpha with K27- and K63-linked polyubiquitin chains at K296, increasing phosphorylation of histone H3 to promote NF-kappa B target gene transcription. Knockout of HECTD3 in endothelium significantly inhibits tumor cells lung colonization, while conditional knockin promotes that. IKK alpha kinase inhibitors prevented LPS-induced pulmonary metastasis. These findings reveal the promotional role of the HECTD3-IKK alpha axis in tumor hematogenous metastasis and provide a potential strategy for tumor metastasis prevention.
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