Hunan Provincial Tumor Hospital and the Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China.
PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e56929. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056929. Epub 2013 Mar 5.
Little is known about the role of the host defensive protein short palate, lung and nasal epithelium clone 1 (SPLUNC1) in the carcinogenesis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Here we report that SPLUNC1 plays a role at a very early stage of NPC carcinogenesis. SPLUNC1 regulates NPC cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis through miR-141, which in turn regulates PTEN and p27 expression. This signaling axis is negatively regulated by the EBV-coded gene LMP1. Therefore we propose that SPLUNC1 suppresses NPC tumor formation and its inhibition by LMP1 provides a route for NPC tumorigenesis.
关于宿主防御蛋白短 palate、肺和鼻上皮克隆 1(SPLUNC1)在鼻咽癌(NPC)发生中的作用知之甚少。在这里,我们报告 SPLUNC1 在 NPC 癌变的早期阶段发挥作用。SPLUNC1 通过 miR-141 调节 NPC 细胞的增殖、分化和凋亡,进而调节 PTEN 和 p27 的表达。这个信号轴受 EBV 编码基因 LMP1 的负调控。因此,我们提出 SPLUNC1 抑制 NPC 肿瘤的形成,而 LMP1 的抑制为 NPC 肿瘤发生提供了一条途径。