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ACTA BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA SINICA
Volume 53, Issue 11, Pages 1484-1494Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/abbs/gmab129
Keywords
lung cancer; exosomes; lncRNA FOXD3-AS1; ELAVL1; 5-FU resistance; PI3K/Akt pathway
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81672273]
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In this study, we found that FOXD3-AS1 is upregulated in lung cancer tissues and cell lines, and enriched in lung cancer cell-derived exosomes. FOXD3-AS1 activates the PI3K/Akt pathway to promote lung cancer progression, providing a potential new strategy for lung cancer treatment.
Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) FOXD3-AS1 expression is upregulated in lung cancer; however, its effect and mechanism on 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) resistance remain unclear. In this study, we determined the effects of FOXD3-AS1-enriched exosomes derived from lung cancer cells on the proliferation, invasion, and 5-FU resistance of lung cancer cells. Online bioinformatics database analysis showed that FOXD3-AS1 was upregulated in lung cancer progression. Real-time quantitative PCR results confirmed that FOXD3-AS1 expression was upregulated in lung cancer tissues and cell lines, and FOXD3-AS1 was greatly enriched in lung cancer cell-derived exosomes. ELAV-like RNA-binding protein 1 (ELAVL1) was identified as an RNA-binding protein of FOXD3-AS1. The lung cancer cell-derived exosomes promoted A549 cell proliferation and invasion and inhibited apoptosis caused by 5-FU, and transfection of si-FOXD3-AS1 or si-ELAVL1 in exosome-incubated A549 cells reversed these effects. Moreover, exosome-incubated A549 cells were co-transfected with si-FOXD3-AS1 and pcDNA-ELAVL1, showing the same cell proliferation, invasion, and 5-FU resistance as those of A549 cells treated with lung cancer cell-derived exosomes alone. Mechanistic studies identified that lung cancer cell-derived exosomes activated the PI3K/Akt pathway, and transfection of si-FOXD3-AS1 or treatment with the PI3K inhibitor LY294002 reversed the activation of the PI3K/Akt axis induced by exosomes. In conclusion, our study revealed that lung cancer cell-derived exosomal FOXD3-AS1 upregulated ELAVL1 expression and activated the PI3K/Akt pathway to promote lung cancer progression. Our findings provide a new strategy for lung cancer treatment.
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