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Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells

We previously reported that knock-down of tumor suppressor Pdcd4 (Programmed Cell Death 4) down-regulates E-cadherin expression and activates β-catenin/Tcf (T cell factor) dependent transcription in colon tumor cells. However, the underlying mechanism of these observations remains unknown. In this s...

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Autores principales: Wang, Qing, Sun, Zhen-Xiao, Allgayer, Heike, Yang, Hsin-Sheng
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19784072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/onc.2009.302
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author Wang, Qing
Sun, Zhen-Xiao
Allgayer, Heike
Yang, Hsin-Sheng
author_facet Wang, Qing
Sun, Zhen-Xiao
Allgayer, Heike
Yang, Hsin-Sheng
author_sort Wang, Qing
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description We previously reported that knock-down of tumor suppressor Pdcd4 (Programmed Cell Death 4) down-regulates E-cadherin expression and activates β-catenin/Tcf (T cell factor) dependent transcription in colon tumor cells. However, the underlying mechanism of these observations remains unknown. In this study, we demonstrated that knock-down of Pdcd4 down-regulates E-cadherin expression through elevated protein level of Snail. Over-expression of Pdcd4 up-regulates E-cadherin expression and inhibits β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription. We then showed that knock-down of E-cadherin activates β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription. Conversely, over-expression of E-cadherin in Pdcd4 knock-down cells inhibits β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription. In addition, Pdcd4 knock-down stimulates u-PAR and c-Myc expression, while u-PAR and c-Myc expression can be reversed by over-expressing E-cadherin in Pdcd4 knock-down cells. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we demonstrated that β-catenin/Tcf4 directly binds to the promoters of u-PAR and c-myc in Pdcd4 knock-down cells. Futhermore, knock-down of u-PAR or c-Myc inhibits invasion in Pdcd4 knock-down cells, suggesting that both u-PAR and c-Myc contribute to invasion induced by Pdcd4 knock-down. Taken together, our data demonstrated that elevated Snail expression by Pdcd4 knock-down leads to down-regulation of E-cadherin resulting in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and stimulating the expression of c-Myc and u-PAR, thus providing molecular explanation of how Pdcd4 suppresses tumor invasion.
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spelling pubmed-29206412010-08-12 Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells Wang, Qing Sun, Zhen-Xiao Allgayer, Heike Yang, Hsin-Sheng Oncogene Article We previously reported that knock-down of tumor suppressor Pdcd4 (Programmed Cell Death 4) down-regulates E-cadherin expression and activates β-catenin/Tcf (T cell factor) dependent transcription in colon tumor cells. However, the underlying mechanism of these observations remains unknown. In this study, we demonstrated that knock-down of Pdcd4 down-regulates E-cadherin expression through elevated protein level of Snail. Over-expression of Pdcd4 up-regulates E-cadherin expression and inhibits β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription. We then showed that knock-down of E-cadherin activates β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription. Conversely, over-expression of E-cadherin in Pdcd4 knock-down cells inhibits β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription. In addition, Pdcd4 knock-down stimulates u-PAR and c-Myc expression, while u-PAR and c-Myc expression can be reversed by over-expressing E-cadherin in Pdcd4 knock-down cells. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation, we demonstrated that β-catenin/Tcf4 directly binds to the promoters of u-PAR and c-myc in Pdcd4 knock-down cells. Futhermore, knock-down of u-PAR or c-Myc inhibits invasion in Pdcd4 knock-down cells, suggesting that both u-PAR and c-Myc contribute to invasion induced by Pdcd4 knock-down. Taken together, our data demonstrated that elevated Snail expression by Pdcd4 knock-down leads to down-regulation of E-cadherin resulting in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and stimulating the expression of c-Myc and u-PAR, thus providing molecular explanation of how Pdcd4 suppresses tumor invasion. 2009-09-28 2010-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2920641/ /pubmed/19784072 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/onc.2009.302 Text en Users may view, print, copy, download and text and data- mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use: http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms
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Wang, Qing
Sun, Zhen-Xiao
Allgayer, Heike
Yang, Hsin-Sheng
Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells
title Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells
title_full Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells
title_fullStr Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells
title_full_unstemmed Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells
title_short Down-regulation of E-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/Tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in Pdcd4 knock-down cells
title_sort down-regulation of e-cadherin is an essential event in activating β-catenin/tcf dependent transcription and expression of its target genes in pdcd4 knock-down cells
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19784072
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/onc.2009.302
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