期刊
BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
卷 472, 期 -, 页码 393-403出版社
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20150213
关键词
beta-catenin; gastric cancer; HOXB5; invasion; migration
资金
- National R&D Program for Cancer Control, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea [0720570]
HOX (homeobox) genes encode a family of transcriptional regulators, which have an important role in morphogenesis and differentiation during embryonic development. Their deregulated expression is involved in the carcinogenesis of many human solid tumours. In the present study, we show that HOXB5 mRNA was significantly overexpressed in gastric cancer tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. HOXB5-up-regulated cancer cells showed increased invasion and migration activity, but no change in proliferation activity, whereas HOXB5-downregulated cells showed decreased invasion and migration activity. Up-regulation of HOXB5 resulted in up-regulation of beta-catenin, whereas inhibition of HOXB5 expression by siRNA led to the down-regulation of beta-catenin. Moreover, a significant correlation between HOXB5 and CTNNB1 (beta-catenin) mRNA expression was detected in gastric cancer tissues. Furthermore, we found that HOXB5 binds directly to the CTNNB1 promoter region and activates the transcriptional expression of beta-catenin, as well as its downstream target genes, encoding cyclin D1 and c-Myc, leading to an increase in the invasion and migration activity of human gastric cancer cells. Thus HOXB5 may be an important regulator of the Wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway, thereby contributing to gastric cancer progression and metastasis.
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