Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 6, Issue 22, Pages 18905-18920Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4305
Keywords
intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC); liver kinase B1 (LKB1); global transcriptional profiling; Wnt/beta-catenin; recurrence and metastasis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81472280]
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Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a rare and highly aggressive malignancy. In this study, we identified the presence of gene deletion and missense mutation leading to inactivation or underexpression of liver kinase B1 (LKB1) tumor suppressor and excluded the involvement of LKB1 gene hypermethylation in ICC tissues. Immunohistochemical analysis showed that LKB1 was underexpressed in a portion of 326 ICC tissues compared to their adjacent normal tissues. By statistical analysis underexpression of LKB1 in ICC tissues significantly correlated with poor survival and malignant disease characteristics in ICC patients. Moreover, we showed that knockdown of LKB1 significantly enhanced growth, migration, and invasion of three LKB1-competent ICC cell lines. Global transcriptional profiling analysis identified multiple malignancy-promoting genes, such as HIF-1 alpha, CD24, Talin1, Vinculin, Wnt5, and signaling pathways including Hedgehog, Wnt/beta-catenin, and cell adhesion as novel targets of LKB1 underexpression in ICC cells. Furthermore, knockdown of LKB1 gene expression dramatically enhanced Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in ICC cells, while an inverse correlation between LKB1 and nuclear beta-catenin was observed in ICC tissues. Our findings suggest a novel mechanism for ICC carcinogenesis in which LKB1 underexpression enhances multiple signaling pathways including Wnt/beta-catenin to promote disease progression.
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