Ma Qian, Yang Ying, Feng Duiping, Zheng Shuai, Meng Ran, Fa Pengyan, Zhao Chunjuan, Liu Hua, Song Ran, Tao Tao, Yang Longyan, Dai Jie, Wang Songlin, Jiang Wen G, He Junqi
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China.
Core Facilities Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China.
Oncotarget. 2015 Nov 3;6(34):35851-65. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.5323.
Gliomas are the most common primary brain malignancies and are associated with a poor prognosis. Here, we showed that the PDZ domain-containing protein membrane-associated guanylate kinase inverted 3 (MAGI3) was downregulated at the both mRNA and protein levels in human glioma samples. MAGI3 inhibited proliferation, migration, and cell cycle progression of glioma cells in its overexpression and knockdown studies. By using GST pull-down and co-immunoprecipitation assays, we found that MAGI3 bound to β-catenin through its PDZ domains and the PDZ-binding motif of β-catenin. MAGI3 overexpression inhibited β-catenin transcriptional activity via its interaction with β-catenin. Consistently, MAGI3 overexpression in glioma cells C6 suppressed expression of β-catenin target genes including Cyclin D1 and Axin2, whereas MAGI3 knockdown in glioma cells U373 and LN229 enhanced their expression. MAGI3 overexpression decreased growth of C6 subcutaneous tumors in mice, and inhibited expression of β-catenin target genes in xenograft tumors. Furthermore, analysis based on the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) glioma dataset showed association of MAGI3 expression with overall survival and tumor grade. Finally, we demonstrated negative correlation between MAGI3 expression and activity of Wnt/β-catenin signaling through GSEA of three public glioma datasets and immunohistochemical staining of clinical glioma samples. Taken together, these results identify MAGI3 as a novel tumor suppressor and provide insight into the pathogenesis of glioma.
神经胶质瘤是最常见的原发性脑恶性肿瘤,预后较差。在此,我们发现含PDZ结构域的蛋白膜相关鸟苷酸激酶倒置3(MAGI3)在人神经胶质瘤样本中的mRNA和蛋白水平均下调。在过表达和敲低研究中,MAGI3抑制了神经胶质瘤细胞的增殖、迁移和细胞周期进程。通过谷胱甘肽S-转移酶(GST)下拉实验和免疫共沉淀实验,我们发现MAGI3通过其PDZ结构域与β-连环蛋白及其PDZ结合基序结合。MAGI3过表达通过与β-连环蛋白相互作用抑制其转录活性。同样,在神经胶质瘤细胞C6中过表达MAGI3可抑制包括细胞周期蛋白D1(Cyclin D1)和轴抑制蛋白2(Axin2)在内的β-连环蛋白靶基因的表达,而在神经胶质瘤细胞U373和LN229中敲低MAGI3则增强了这些基因的表达。MAGI3过表达可减少小鼠C6皮下肿瘤的生长,并抑制异种移植肿瘤中β-连环蛋白靶基因的表达。此外,基于基因表达综合数据库(GEO)神经胶质瘤数据集的分析表明,MAGI3表达与总生存期和肿瘤分级相关。最后,通过对三个公开的神经胶质瘤数据集进行基因集富集分析(GSEA)以及对临床神经胶质瘤样本进行免疫组织化学染色,我们证明了MAGI3表达与Wnt/β-连环蛋白信号通路活性呈负相关。综上所述,这些结果确定MAGI3为一种新型肿瘤抑制因子,并为神经胶质瘤的发病机制提供了见解。