Stress Chaperone Mortalin Contributes to Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition and Cancer Metastasisopen access
- Authors
- Na, Youjin; Kaul, Sunil C.; Ryu, Jihoon; Lee, Jung-Sun; Ahn, Hyo Min; Kaul, Zeenia; Kalra, Rajkumar S.; Li, Ling; Widodo, Nashi; Yun, Chae-Ok; Wadhwa, Renu
- Issue Date
- May-2016
- Publisher
- AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
- Citation
- CANCER RESEARCH, v.76, no.9, pp.2754 - 2765
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CANCER RESEARCH
- Volume
- 76
- Number
- 9
- Start Page
- 2754
- End Page
- 2765
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/5601
- DOI
- 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-15-2704
- ISSN
- 0008-5472
- Abstract
- Mortalin/mthsp70 (HSPA9) is a stress chaperone enriched in many cancers that has been implicated in carcinogenesis by promoting cell proliferation and survival. In this study, we examined the clinical relevance of mortalin upregulation in carcinogenesis. Consistent with high mortalin expression in various human tumors and cell lines, we found that mortalin overexpression increased the migration and invasiveness of breast cancer cells. Expression analyses revealed that proteins involved in focal adhesion, PI3K-Akt, and JAK-STAT signaling, all known to play key roles in cell migration and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), were upregulated in mortalinexpressing cancer cells. We further determined that expression levels of the mesenchymal markers vimentin (VIM), fibronectin (FN1), beta-catenin (CTNNB1), CK14 (KRT14), and hnRNP-K were also increased upon mortalin overexpression, whereas the epithelial markers E-cadherin (CDH1), CK8 (KRT8), and CK18 (KRT18) were downregulated. Furthermore, shRNA-mediated and pharmacologic inhibition of mortalin suppressed the migration and invasive capacity of cancer cells and was associated with a diminished EMT gene signature. Taken together, these findings support a role for mortalin in the induction of EMT, prompting further investigation of its therapeutic value in metastatic disease models.
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