High levels of secreted frizzled-related protein 1 correlate with poor prognosis and promote tumourigenesis in gastric cancer
High levels of secreted frizzled-related protein 1 correlate with poor prognosis and promote tumourigenesis in gastric cancer
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高水平的分泌型卷曲相关蛋白 1 与不良预后相关并促进胃癌肿瘤发生
DOI:
10.1016/j.ejca.2013.07.011
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发表时间:
2013-11-01
影响因子:
8.4
通讯作者:
Liu, Bingya
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作者:
Qu, Ying;Ray, Partha S.;Liu, Bingya
Background: Secreted frizzled-related protein 1 (sFRP1), Wnt signalling regulator, can positively or negatively regulate tumourigenesis and progression. We sought to determine the clinical relevance and the role of sFRP1 in gastric cancer development and progression.Methods: We investigated the sFRP1 protein expression levels and its clinicopathological correlations using 85 cases of human gastric samples with survival information (JWCI cohort). mRNA levels of sFRP1 and coexpressed genes were analysed using 131-sample cDNA microarray data (Ruijin cohort). The effects of sFRP1 alteration were investigated using cell proliferation, colony formation, migration, and invasion and xenograft models.Results: We show that sFRP1 is overexpressed in some human cancers and is significantly associated with lymph node metastasis and decreased overall survival in gastric cancer patients. Using gastric cancer cell models, we demonstrate that sFRP1 overexpression is correlated with the activation of TGF beta (transforming growth factor-beta) signalling pathway and thereby induces cell proliferation, epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and invasion. Conversely, sFRP1 knockdown shows the opposite effects. Furthermore, sFRP1 overexpression promotes tumourigenesis and metastasis in a xenograft model.Conclusion: Our studies demonstrate that sFRP1 is a biomarker for aggressive subgroups of human gastric cancer and a prognostic biomarker for patients with poor survival. Our data provide insight into a crosstalk between Wnt and TGF beta pathways which underlies gastric cancer development and progression. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.