GPR137 inactivates Hippo signaling to promote gastric cancer cell malignancy

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As the fifth most common cancer in the world, gastric cancer (GC) ranks as the third major cause of cancer-related death globally. Although surgical resection and chemotherapy still remains the mainstay of potentially curative treatment for GC, chemotherapy resistance and adverse side effects limit their clinical applications. Thus, further investigation of the mechanisms of carcinogenesis in GC and discovery of novel biomarkers is of great concern. We herein report that the elevated expression of GPR137 is correlated with GC. Overexpression of GPR137 potentiates human gastric cancer AGS cell malignancy, including proliferation, migration, invasion, colony formation and xenograft growth in nude mice in vivo, whereas knockout of GPR137 by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing exerts the opposite effects. Mechanistically, GPR137 could bind to MST, the upstream kinases in Hippo pathway, which disrupts the association of MST with LATS, subsequently activating the transcriptional co-activators, YAP and TAZ, and thereby triggering the target transcription and the alterations in GC cell biological actions consequently. Therefore, our findings may provide with the evidence of developing a potentially novel treatment method with specific target for GC.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Biology direct - 19(2024), 1 vom: 02. Jan., Seite 3

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Jinlong [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Shouying [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Chao [VerfasserIn]

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EC 2.7.11.1
GPR137
Gastric cancer
Hippo
Journal Article
MST
Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Date Completed 03.01.2024

Date Revised 04.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13062-023-00449-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366544950