Xu Wenbo, Bhatia Sonam, Sahin Yunus, Spector David L
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, United States.
Mol Cancer Res. 2025 Jun 30. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-24-1143.
We identified a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), LINC01235, with significant enrichment in luminal progenitor (LP)-like cells in triple negative breast cancer organoids and cell lines. Antisense-mediated knockdown or genetic knockout of LINC01235 in TNBC cell lines led to a decline in cell proliferation and adversely impacted the ability to form organoids. A comprehensive co-expression analysis, leveraging TCGA data, revealed a distinct correlation between LINC01235 expression and the expression of NFIB, a neighboring gene encoding a transcription factor. Subsequent CRISPR knockout or ASO-mediated knockdown studies demonstrated an upstream regulatory role of LINC01235 over NFIB. Moreover, our investigations demonstrated that LINC01235 regulates the NOTCH pathway through NFIB, and ChIRP-qPCR results indicated the direct binding of LINC01235 to the NFIB promoter. Our findings demonstrate that LINC01235 positively regulates NFIB transcription, which in turn modulates the NOTCH pathway, influencing LP-like cell proliferation in breast cancer progression. This study highlights a pivotal role of LINC01235 in TNBC and its potential as a therapeutic target. Implications: This study demonstrates the central role of LINC01235 as an upstream positive regulator of NFIB and the NOTCH signaling pathway to induce the production of luminal progenitor-like cells in TNBC.
我们鉴定出一种长链非编码RNA(lncRNA),即LINC01235,在三阴性乳腺癌类器官和细胞系的管腔祖细胞(LP)样细胞中显著富集。在三阴性乳腺癌细胞系中,反义介导的LINC01235敲低或基因敲除导致细胞增殖下降,并对形成类器官的能力产生不利影响。利用TCGA数据进行的全面共表达分析揭示了LINC01235表达与NFIB(一个编码转录因子的邻近基因)表达之间的独特相关性。随后的CRISPR敲除或ASO介导的敲低研究证明了LINC01235对NFIB的上游调控作用。此外,我们的研究表明LINC01235通过NFIB调节NOTCH通路,ChIRP-qPCR结果表明LINC01235与NFIB启动子直接结合。我们的研究结果表明,LINC01235正向调节NFIB转录,进而调节NOTCH通路,影响乳腺癌进展过程中LP样细胞的增殖。这项研究突出了LINC01235在三阴性乳腺癌中的关键作用及其作为治疗靶点的潜力。意义:本研究证明了LINC01235作为NFIB和NOTCH信号通路的上游正调节因子在诱导三阴性乳腺癌中产生管腔祖细胞样细胞方面的核心作用。