Uzor Simon, Porazinski Sean R, Li Ling, Clark Bethany, Ajiro Masahiko, Iida Kei, Hagiwara Masatoshi, Alqasem Abdullah A, Perks Claire M, Wilson Ian D, Oltean Sebastian, Ladomery Michael R
Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK.
Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ebonyi State University, P.M.B. 53, Abakaliki, Nigeria.
Sci Rep. 2021 Apr 12;11(1):7963. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86908-6.
Dysregulation of alternative splicing is a feature of cancer, both in aetiology and progression. It occurs because of mutations in splice sites or sites that regulate splicing, or because of the altered expression and activity of splice factors and of splice factor kinases that regulate splice factor activity. Recently the CDC2-like kinases (CLKs) have attracted attention due to their increasing involvement in cancer. We measured the effect of the CLK inhibitor, the benzothiazole TG003, on two prostate cancer cell lines. TG003 reduced cell proliferation and increased apoptosis in PC3 and DU145 cells. Conversely, the overexpression of CLK1 in PC3 cells prevented TG003 from reducing cell proliferation. TG003 slowed scratch closure and reduced cell migration and invasion in a transwell assay. TG003 decisively inhibited the growth of a PC3 cell line xenograft in nude mice. We performed a transcriptomic analysis of cells treated with TG003. We report widespread and consistent changes in alternative splicing of cancer-associated genes including CENPE, ESCO2, CKAP2, MELK, ASPH and CD164 in both HeLa and PC3 cells. Together these findings suggest that targeting CLKs will provide novel therapeutic opportunities in prostate cancer.
可变剪接失调是癌症在病因学和进展过程中的一个特征。它的发生是由于剪接位点或调控剪接的位点发生突变,或者是由于剪接因子以及调控剪接因子活性的剪接因子激酶的表达和活性发生改变。最近,类细胞周期蛋白依赖性激酶(CLKs)因其越来越多地参与癌症而受到关注。我们测定了CLK抑制剂苯并噻唑TG003对两种前列腺癌细胞系的影响。TG003降低了PC3和DU145细胞的增殖并增加了其凋亡。相反,PC3细胞中CLK1的过表达阻止了TG003降低细胞增殖。TG003减缓了划痕愈合,并在transwell实验中降低了细胞迁移和侵袭。TG003显著抑制了PC3细胞系在裸鼠体内的异种移植瘤生长。我们对用TG003处理的细胞进行了转录组分析。我们报告了在HeLa和PC3细胞中,包括CENPE、ESCO2、CKAP2、MELK、ASPH和CD164在内的癌症相关基因的可变剪接存在广泛且一致的变化。这些发现共同表明,靶向CLKs将为前列腺癌提供新的治疗机会。