Liao Xiao-Hong, Zhang Ye, Dong Wen-Jie, Shao Zhi-Min, Li Da-Qiang
Shanghai Cancer Center and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Department of Oncology, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Oncotarget. 2017 Jun 16;8(58):97941-97954. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.18556. eCollection 2017 Nov 17.
MORC family CW-type zinc finger 2 (MORC2) is a newly identified chromatin remodeling protein with emerging roles in the regulation of DNA damage response and gene transcription, but its mechanistic role in breast cancer development and progression remains unexplored. Here, we show that MORC2 promoted breast cancer invasion and metastasis and these effects depended on a proline-rich domain (PRD) within its carboxy-terminal region spanning residues 601-734. Induced expression of wild-type MORC2 did not significantly affect cell proliferation and cell-cycle progression, but promoted breast cancer cell migration and invasion and metastatic lung colonization . The PRD domain was dispensable for the protein stability and subcellular localization of MORC2, but depletion of the PRD domain substantially suppressed MORC2-mediated migration, invasion, and metastasis. Proteomic and biochemical analyses further demonstrated that wild-type MORC2, but not PRD deletion mutant, interacted with catenin delta 1 (CTNND1), a cadherin-associated protein that participates in tumor invasion and metastasis. Moreover, knockdown of endogenous CTNND1 by short hairpin RNAs suppressed the migratory and invasive potential of MORC2-expressing cells. Taken together, these results suggest that MORC2 promotes breast cancer invasion and metastasis through its PRD domain-mediated interaction with CTNND1.
MORC家族CW型锌指蛋白2(MORC2)是一种新发现的染色质重塑蛋白,在DNA损伤反应和基因转录调控中发挥着越来越重要的作用,但其在乳腺癌发生发展中的作用机制仍未被探索。在此,我们表明MORC2促进乳腺癌的侵袭和转移,且这些作用依赖于其羧基末端区域(跨越第601至734位残基)内的富含脯氨酸结构域(PRD)。野生型MORC2的诱导表达对细胞增殖和细胞周期进程没有显著影响,但促进了乳腺癌细胞的迁移、侵袭以及肺转移定植。PRD结构域对于MORC2的蛋白质稳定性和亚细胞定位并非必需,但缺失PRD结构域会显著抑制MORC2介导的迁移、侵袭和转移。蛋白质组学和生化分析进一步表明,野生型MORC2而非PRD缺失突变体与连环蛋白δ1(CTNND1)相互作用,CTNND1是一种参与肿瘤侵袭和转移的钙黏蛋白相关蛋白。此外,通过短发夹RNA敲低内源性CTNND1可抑制表达MORC2的细胞的迁移和侵袭潜能。综上所述,这些结果表明MORC2通过其PRD结构域介导的与CTNND1的相互作用促进乳腺癌的侵袭和转移。