SALL4 advances the proliferation and tumor cell stemness of colon cancer cells through the transcription and regulation of ROBO2

作者全名："Jiang, Yahui; Tang, Yunhao"

作者地址："[Jiang, Yahui; Tang, Yunhao] Chongqing Med Univ, Affiliated Hosp 2, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, Chongqing, Peoples R China; [Tang, Yunhao] Chongqing Med Univ, Affiliated Hosp 2, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, 74 linjiang Rd, Chongqing 400010, Peoples R China"

通信作者："Tang, YH (通讯作者)，Chongqing Med Univ, Affiliated Hosp 2, Dept Gastrointestinal Surg, 74 linjiang Rd, Chongqing 400010, Peoples R China."

来源：NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS

ESI学科分类：BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

WOS号：WOS:001057802300001

JCR分区：Q4

影响因子：1.1

年份：2023

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文献类型：Article; Early Access

关键词：SALL4; ROBO2; proliferation; cell cycle; cell stemness; colon cancer

摘要："SALL4 is a transcription factor highly expressed in diverse cancers and is implicated in the development of cancer. SALL4 has been implied to play a cancer-promoting role in colon cancer (CC), but the molecular mechanism remains unclear. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assay and dual-luciferase assay were conducted to verify the binding relationship of SALL4 and ROBO2. qRT-PCR detected the mRNA expression levels of SALL4 and ROBO2, and the flow cytometry analyzed the cell cycle distribution. Western blot examined SALL4 expression, and cell cycle/cell stemness-related proteins. The impact of SALL4 and ROBO2 on the proliferation capacity of cells and tumor cell stemness was elucidated by MTT, colony formation, and sphere-forming assays. SALL4 and ROBO2 were up-regulated in CC, and SALL4 could activate the transcription of ROBO2. Down-regulated SALL4 was able to significantly restrain the proliferation capacity of CC cells and arrest the cell cycle in G0/G1 phase by repressing the expression of cyclin B, cyclin E, and cyclin D1. Besides, the rescue assay results indicated that up-regulated ROBO2 could reverse the repressive impact of down-regulated SALL4 on the proliferation of CC cells and accelerate the progression of the cell cycle, thus promoting the sphere-forming of tumor stem cells. SALL4 advanced the proliferation of CC and cell stemness through direct activation of ROBO2 expression, implied the novel mechanism of SALL4 in CC, and pointed out that SALL4/ROBO2 axis was likely to be a potential target for clinical treatment of CC."

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