RRC ID 68763
著者 Sun F, Liu Y, Gong T, Pan Q, Xiang T, Zhao J, Tang Y, Chen H, Han Y, Song M, Huang Y, Li H, Chen Y, Yang C, Yang J, Wang Q, Li Y, He J, Weng D, Peng R, Xia J.
タイトル Inhibition of DTYMK significantly restrains the growth of HCC and increases sensitivity to oxaliplatin.
ジャーナル Cell Death Dis
Abstract Most patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are in the middle or advanced stage at the time of diagnosis, and the therapeutic effect is limited. Therefore, this study aimed to verify whether deoxythymidylate kinase (DTYMK) increased in HCC and was an effective therapeutic target in HCC. The findings revealed that the DTYMK level significantly increased and correlated with poor prognosis in HCC. However, nothing else is known, except that DTYMK could catalyze the phosphorylation of deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) to form deoxythymidine diphosphate (dTDP). A number of experiments were performed to study the function of DTYMK in vitro and in vivo to resolve this knowledge gap. The knockdown of DTYMK was found to significantly inhibit the growth of HCC and increase the sensitivity to oxaliplatin, which is commonly used in HCC treatment. Moreover, DTYMK was found to competitively combine with miR-378a-3p to maintain the expression of MAPK activated protein kinase 2 (MAPKAPK2) and thus activate the phospho-heat shock protein 27 (phospho-HSP27)/nuclear factor NF-kappaB (NF-κB) axis, which mediated the drug resistance, proliferation of tumor cells, and infiltration of tumor-associated macrophages by inducing the expression of C-C motif chemokine ligand 5 (CCL5). Thus, this study demonstrated a new mechanism and provided a new insight into the role of mRNA in not only encoding proteins to regulate the process of life but also regulating the expression of other genes and tumor microenvironment through the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) mechanism.
巻・号 12(12)
ページ 1093
公開日 2021-11-18
DOI 10.1038/s41419-021-04375-3
PII 10.1038/s41419-021-04375-3
PMID 34795209
PMC PMC8602592
MeSH Animals Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use* Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / drug therapy* Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / mortality Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / pathology Humans Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy* Liver Neoplasms / mortality Liver Neoplasms / pathology Mice Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase / metabolism* Oxaliplatin / pharmacology Oxaliplatin / therapeutic use* Survival Analysis
IF 6.304
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 HuH-7(RCB1366)