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Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway

BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence has demonstrated that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are implicated in cancer progression. However, the aberrant expression and biological functions of circRNAs in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (cRCC) remain largely elusive. METHOD: Differentially expressed circRNAs in cR...

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Autores principales: Xu, Zhipeng, Chen, Shuqiu, Liu, Ruiji, Chen, Hui, Xu, Bin, Xu, Weizhang, Chen, Ming
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9284792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35840930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12943-022-01607-8
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author Xu, Zhipeng
Chen, Shuqiu
Liu, Ruiji
Chen, Hui
Xu, Bin
Xu, Weizhang
Chen, Ming
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Chen, Shuqiu
Liu, Ruiji
Chen, Hui
Xu, Bin
Xu, Weizhang
Chen, Ming
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description BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence has demonstrated that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are implicated in cancer progression. However, the aberrant expression and biological functions of circRNAs in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (cRCC) remain largely elusive. METHOD: Differentially expressed circRNAs in cRCC were filtered via bioinformatics analysis. Aberrant circPOLR2A expression was validated in cRCC tissues and cell lines via qRT-PCR. Sanger sequencing was used to identify the backsplicing site of circPOLR2A. In vitro and in vivo functional experiments were performed to evaluate the role of circPOLR2A in cRCC malignancy. RNA pull-down, mass spectrometry, RIP, FISH and immunofluorescence assays were used to identify and validate the circPOLR2A-interacting proteins. Ubiquitination modification and interaction between proteins were detected via Co-IP and western blotting. The m6A modification in circPOLR2A was validated by the meRIP assay. RESULTS: Bioinformatics analysis revealed that circPOLR2A was highly expressed in cRCC tissues and metastatic cRCC tissues. CircPOLR2A expression was associated with tumor size and TNM stage in cRCC patients. In vitro and in vivo functional assays revealed that circPOLR2A accelerated cRCC cell proliferation, migration, invasion and angiogenesis, while inhibiting apoptosis. Further mechanistic research suggested that circPOLR2A could interact with UBE3C and PEBP1 proteins, and that UBE3C could act as a specific ubiquitin E3 ligase for the PEBP1 protein. The UBE3C/circPOLR2A/PEBP1 protein-RNA ternary complex enhanced the UBE3C-mediated ubiquitination and degradation of the PEBP1 protein which could inactivate the ERK signaling pathway. Rescue experiments revealed that the PEBP1 protein was the functional downstream target of circPOLR2A. Furthermore, m6A modification in circPOLR2A was confirmed, and the m6A reader YTHDF2 could regulate circPOLR2A expression. CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated that circPOLR2A modulated the UBE3C-mediated ubiquitination and degradation of the PEBP1 protein, and further activated the ERK pathway during cRCC progression and metastasis. The m6A reader, YTHDF2, regulated circPOLR2A expression in cRCC. Hence, circPOLR2A could be a potential target for the diagnosis and treatment of cRCC. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12943-022-01607-8.
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spelling pubmed-92847922022-07-16 Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway Xu, Zhipeng Chen, Shuqiu Liu, Ruiji Chen, Hui Xu, Bin Xu, Weizhang Chen, Ming Mol Cancer Research BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence has demonstrated that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are implicated in cancer progression. However, the aberrant expression and biological functions of circRNAs in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (cRCC) remain largely elusive. METHOD: Differentially expressed circRNAs in cRCC were filtered via bioinformatics analysis. Aberrant circPOLR2A expression was validated in cRCC tissues and cell lines via qRT-PCR. Sanger sequencing was used to identify the backsplicing site of circPOLR2A. In vitro and in vivo functional experiments were performed to evaluate the role of circPOLR2A in cRCC malignancy. RNA pull-down, mass spectrometry, RIP, FISH and immunofluorescence assays were used to identify and validate the circPOLR2A-interacting proteins. Ubiquitination modification and interaction between proteins were detected via Co-IP and western blotting. The m6A modification in circPOLR2A was validated by the meRIP assay. RESULTS: Bioinformatics analysis revealed that circPOLR2A was highly expressed in cRCC tissues and metastatic cRCC tissues. CircPOLR2A expression was associated with tumor size and TNM stage in cRCC patients. In vitro and in vivo functional assays revealed that circPOLR2A accelerated cRCC cell proliferation, migration, invasion and angiogenesis, while inhibiting apoptosis. Further mechanistic research suggested that circPOLR2A could interact with UBE3C and PEBP1 proteins, and that UBE3C could act as a specific ubiquitin E3 ligase for the PEBP1 protein. The UBE3C/circPOLR2A/PEBP1 protein-RNA ternary complex enhanced the UBE3C-mediated ubiquitination and degradation of the PEBP1 protein which could inactivate the ERK signaling pathway. Rescue experiments revealed that the PEBP1 protein was the functional downstream target of circPOLR2A. Furthermore, m6A modification in circPOLR2A was confirmed, and the m6A reader YTHDF2 could regulate circPOLR2A expression. CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated that circPOLR2A modulated the UBE3C-mediated ubiquitination and degradation of the PEBP1 protein, and further activated the ERK pathway during cRCC progression and metastasis. The m6A reader, YTHDF2, regulated circPOLR2A expression in cRCC. Hence, circPOLR2A could be a potential target for the diagnosis and treatment of cRCC. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12943-022-01607-8. BioMed Central 2022-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9284792/ /pubmed/35840930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12943-022-01607-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Xu, Zhipeng
Chen, Shuqiu
Liu, Ruiji
Chen, Hui
Xu, Bin
Xu, Weizhang
Chen, Ming
Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway
title Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway
title_full Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway
title_fullStr Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway
title_full_unstemmed Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway
title_short Circular RNA circPOLR2A promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the UBE3C-induced ubiquitination of PEBP1 and, thereby, activating the ERK signaling pathway
title_sort circular rna circpolr2a promotes clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by facilitating the ube3c-induced ubiquitination of pebp1 and, thereby, activating the erk signaling pathway
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9284792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35840930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12943-022-01607-8
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