Women's Reproductive Health Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.
Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310006, Zhejiang, China.
Oncogene. 2022 Aug;41(35):4145-4158. doi: 10.1038/s41388-022-02411-w. Epub 2022 Jul 22.
Wide metastasis contributes to a high death rate in ovarian cancer, and understanding of the molecular mechanism helps to find effective targets for metastatic ovarian cancer therapy. It has been found that phospholipase A2-activating protein (PLAA) is inactivated in some cancers, but its role in cancer metastasis remains unknown. Here, we found that PLAA was significantly downregulated in ovarian cancer highly metastatic cell lines and patients, and the low expression of PLAA was associated with poorer prognosis and high-risk clinicopathological features of patients. PLAA inhibited the migration and invasion of ovarian cancer cells and metastasis of transplanted tumor in the orthotopic xenograft mouse model. Meanwhile, PLAA inhibited metastasis of ovarian cancer by inhibiting transient receptor potential channel canonical 3 (TRPC3)-mediated the intracellular Ca level. Mechanistically, PLAA inhibited methyltransferase-like 3 (METTL3) expression through the ubiquitin-mediated degradation, and METTL3 stabilized TRPC3 mRNA expression via N6-methyladenosine (mA) modification. Our study verified the function and mechanism of the PLAA-METTL3-TRPC3 axis involved in ovarian cancer metastasis, with a view to providing a potential therapeutic approach for ovarian cancer.
广泛转移导致卵巢癌死亡率高,了解其分子机制有助于找到转移性卵巢癌治疗的有效靶点。已经发现,磷脂酶 A2 激活蛋白 (PLAA) 在一些癌症中失活,但它在癌症转移中的作用尚不清楚。在这里,我们发现 PLAA 在卵巢癌高转移细胞系和患者中显著下调,PLAA 的低表达与患者预后不良和高风险临床病理特征相关。PLAA 抑制了卵巢癌细胞的迁移和侵袭以及原位异种移植小鼠模型中转移瘤的转移。同时,PLAA 通过抑制瞬时受体电位通道经典型 3 (TRPC3) 介导的细胞内 Ca 水平来抑制卵巢癌的转移。在机制上,PLAA 通过泛素介导的降解抑制甲基转移酶样 3 (METTL3) 的表达,METTL3 通过 N6-甲基腺苷 (mA) 修饰稳定 TRPC3 mRNA 的表达。本研究验证了 PLAA-METTL3-TRPC3 轴在卵巢癌转移中的功能和机制,以期为卵巢癌提供一种潜在的治疗方法。