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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-37443-4
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- National Core Facility Program for Biotechnology [MOST 105-2319-B-400-002]
- National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan [06A1-MGPP09-014]
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 104-2320-B-039-055-MY3, MOST 104-2320-B-039-054-MY3, MOST 106-2320-B-039-059-]
- Ministry of Education, Taiwan [CMRC-CHM-7]
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Increased Crabp2 levels have been found in various types of cancer, and are associated with poor patients' survival. Although Crabp2 is found to be overexpressed in lung cancer, its role in metastasis of lung cancer is unclear. In this study, Crabp2 was overexpressed in high-metastatic C10F4 than low-metastatic lung cancer cells. Analysis of clinical samples revealed that high CRABP2 levels were correlated with lymph node metastases, poor overall survival, and increased recurrence. Knockdown of Crabp2 decreased migration, invasion, anoikis resistance, and in vivo metastasis. Crabp2 was co-immunoprecipitated with HuR, and overexpression of Crabp2 increased HuR levels, which promoted integrin beta 1/FAK/ERK signaling. Inhibition of HuR or integrin beta 1/FAK/ERK signaling reversed the promoting effect of Crabp2 in migration, invasion, and anoikis resistance. Knockdown of Crabp2 further inhibited the growth of cancer cells as compared with that by gemcitabine or irinotecan alone. The expression of Crabp2 in human lung tumors was correlated with stress marker CHOP. In conclusion, our findings have identified the promoting role of Crabp2 in anoikis resistance and metastasis. CRABP2 may serve as a prognostic marker and targeting CRABP2 may be exploited as a modality to reduce metastasis.
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