期刊
CANCER BIOLOGY & MEDICINE
卷 18, 期 1, 页码 120-+出版社
CHINA ANTI-CANCER ASSOC
DOI: 10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2020.0105
关键词
ESCC; RECQL4; senescence; redox; DNA damage response
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81572785, 31771260, 81201750]
- Ministry of Science and Technology [2011CB966200]
- Excellent Young and Mid-Career Scientist Award of Shandong Province [BS2013YY023]
- Key Research Project of Shandong Province [2016GSF201072]
- Project of State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Soochow University [GZN1201804]
RECQL4 is highly expressed in ESCC and is associated with poor differentiation, enhanced invasion, and metastasis. It promotes cell proliferation and migration, regulates DNA damage, redox homeostasis, and cell survival.
Objective: RECQL4 (a member of the RECQ helicase family) upregulation has been reported to be associated with tumor progression in several malignancies. However, whether RECQL4 sustains esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) has not been elucidated. In this study, we determined the functional role for RECQL4 in ESCC progression. Methods: RECQL4 expression in clinical samples of FSCC was examined by immunohistochemistry. Cell proliferation, cellular senescence, the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), DNA damage, and reactive oxygen species in ESCC cell lines with RECQL4 depletion or overexpression were analyzed. The levels of proteins involved in the DNA damage response (DDR), cell cycle progression, survival, and the EMT were determined by Western blot analyses. Results: RECQL4 was highly expressed in tumor tissues when compared to adjacent non-tumor tissues in ESCC (P < 0.001) and positively correlated with poor differentiation (P = 0.011), enhanced invasion (P = 0.033), and metastasis (P = 0.048). RECQL4 was positively associated with proliferation and migration in ESCC cells. Depletion of RECQL4 also inhibited growth of tumor xenografts in vivo. RECQL4 depletion induced G0/G1 phase arrest and cellular senescence. Importantly, the levels of DNA damage and reactive oxygen species were increased when RECQL4 was depleted. DDR, as measured by the activation of ATM, ATR, CHK1, and CHK2, was impaired. RECQL4 was also shown to promote the activation of AKT, ERK, and NF-kappa B in ESCC cells. Conclusions: The results indicated that RECQL4 was highly expressed in ESCC and played critical roles in the regulation of DDR, redox homeostasis, and cell survival.
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