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The retinoblastoma protein (RB)-E2F1 pathway has a central role in regulating the cell cycle. Several PAX proteins (tissue-specific developmental regulators), including PAX8, interact with the RB protein, and thus regulate the cell cycle directly or indirectly. Here, we report that PAX8 expression is frequent in renal cell carcinoma, bladder, ovarian and thyroid cancer cell lines, and that silencing of PAX8 in cancer cell lines leads to a striking reduction in the expression of E2F1 and its target genes, as well as a proteasome-dependent destabilization of RB protein, with the RB1 mRNA level remaining unaffected. Cancer cells expressing PAX8 undergo a G(1)/S arrest and eventually senesce following PAX8 silencing. We demonstrate that PAX8 transcriptionally regulates the E2F1 promoter directly, and E2F1 transcription is enhanced after RB depletion. RB is recruited to the PAX8-binding site, and is involved in PAX8-mediated E2F1 transcription in cancer cells. Therefore, our results suggest that, in cancer, frequent and persistent expression of PAX8 is required for cell growth control through transcriptional activation of E2F1 expression and upregulation of the RB-E2F1 pathway.
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PMID:PAX8 promotes tumor cell growth by transcriptionally regulating E2F1 and stabilizing RB protein. 2160 87

Animal models have been extensively used in the study of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and have provided important insights into disease pathogenesis and drug development. However, the level of conservation of gene expression patterns of the orthologous genes between human and animal models was unclear. To address this issue, we compared the expression of orthologous genes in human and four models (rhesus, rat, mouse and dog), based on 42 normal heart samples with high quality gene expression data. The results show that the global expression profiles between animal model and human orthologous genes are highly preserved. The phylogenetic tree inferred from the gene expression profiles has similar topology to that of the species tree. However, differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between human and each model were identified and these four gene datasets are enriched with different molecular functions, including hormone-receptor binding and geranyl transferase activity. The 65 overlapped DEGs between four sets are involved in thyroid cancer, proteasome systems, aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis and GST (Glycine, Serine and Threonine) metabolism, of which functions are divergent between models and humans. In addition, 46.2% (30/65) of the communal genes have been experimentally proven to be associated with cardiovascular disease. Next, we constructed a co-expression network based on intra- and inter-species variation, to elucidate the altered network organization. It indicates that these DEGs evolved as modules rather than independently. The integrated heart transcriptome data should provide a valuable resource for the in-depth understanding of cardiology and the development of cardiovascular disease models.
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PMID:A systematic analysis of heart transcriptome highlights divergent cardiovascular disease pathways between animal models and humans. 2215 53

Proteasome inhibition may cause endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, which has been reported to be implicated in the antitumoral effects of proteasome inhibitors. CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein homologous protein (CHOP) is induced by a variety of adverse physiological conditions including ER stress and is involved in apoptosis. We have reported that distinct induction of CHOP contributes to the responsiveness of thyroid cancer cells to proteasome inhibitors. However, the mechanism underlying differential induction of CHOP by proteasome inhibitors in thyroid cancer cells has not been well characterized. In the current study, we characterized that proteasome inhibition primarily activated the amino acid response element 1 (AARE1) on the CHOP promoter. We also demonstrated that although proteasome inhibition caused similar accumulation of activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) in a panel of thyroid cancer cells, distinct amounts of ATF4 were recruited to the AARE1 element of CHOP promoter. In addition, we demonstrated that NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) was also implicated in the induction of CHOP by precluding the binding of ATF4 to the CHOP promoter. This study highlights the molecular mechanisms by which ATF4 and Nrf2 can control CHOP induction in thyroid cancer cells by proteasome inhibition.
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PMID:Implication of Nrf2 and ATF4 in differential induction of CHOP by proteasome inhibition in thyroid cancer cells. 2269 66

A novel approach to the development of a precise method of intraoperative diagnostics of thyroid cancer has been proposed on the basis of fundamental study of proteasomes in malignant tumors of mammals and human. The method is based on estimation of proteasome activity in small fragments of the tumor and adjacent tissues.
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PMID:[Diagnostics of thyroid cancer: limitations of the existing methods and perspectives for future developments]. 2573 77

Several studies have employed DNA microarrays to identify gene expression signatures that mark human ageing; yet the features underlying this complicated phenomenon remain elusive. We thus conducted a bioinformatics meta-analysis on transcriptomics data from human cell- and biopsy-based microarrays experiments studying cellular senescence or in vivo tissue ageing, respectively. We report that coregulated genes in the postmitotic muscle and nervous tissues are classified into pathways involved in cancer, focal adhesion, actin cytoskeleton, MAPK signalling, and metabolism regulation. Genes that are differentially regulated during cellular senescence refer to pathways involved in neurodegeneration, focal adhesion, actin cytoskeleton, proteasome, cell cycle, DNA replication, and oxidative phosphorylation. Finally, we revealed genes and pathways (referring to cancer, Huntington's disease, MAPK signalling, focal adhesion, actin cytoskeleton, oxidative phosphorylation, and metabolic signalling) that are coregulated during cellular senescence and in vivo tissue ageing. The molecular commonalities between cellular senescence and tissue ageing are also highlighted by the fact that pathways that were overrepresented exclusively in the biopsy- or cell-based datasets are modules either of the same reference pathway (e.g., metabolism) or of closely interrelated pathways (e.g., thyroid cancer and melanoma). Our reported meta-analysis has revealed novel age-related genes, setting thus the basis for more detailed future functional studies.
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PMID:Comparative Meta-Analysis of Transcriptomics Data during Cellular Senescence and In Vivo Tissue Ageing. 2597 47

Oxygen-regulated protein 150 (ORP150) is an inducible ER chaperone by numerous cellular insults and sustains cellular viability. We have previously reported that ORP150 is differentially induced in a panel thyroid cancer cells and represents as an unwanted molecular consequence during exposure to proteasome inhibition. However, the molecular basis for induction of ORP150 by proteasome inhibitors in thyroid cancer cells remains unclear. In the current study, we found that -421/-307 and -243/+53 regions at the ORP150 gene were responsible for its transactivation by MG132 in thyroid cancer cells. Nrf2 directly transactivated the ORP150 gene by direct binding with the -421/-307 region. Nrf2 also indirectly activated OPR150 transcription via facilitating recruitment of ATF4 to the -243/+53 region. Collectively, this study highlights the molecular mechanism by which proteasome inhibition stimulates ORP150 expression via Nrf2 in thyroid cancer cells.
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PMID:Involvement of Nrf2 in proteasome inhibition-mediated induction of ORP150 in thyroid cancer cells. 2670 Apr 59

In this study, we have investigated the antiproliferative effect of quercetin on human papillary thyroid cancer cells and determined the apoptotic mechanisms underlying its actions. We have used different concentrations of quercetin to induce apoptosis and measured cell viability. Apoptosis and cell cycle analysis was determined by flow cytometry using Annexin V and propidium iodide. Finally, we have measured changes in caspase-3 and cleaved poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) protein expression levels as hallmarks of apoptosis and Hsp90 protein expression level as a marker of proteasome activity in treated and control cells. Quercetin treatment of human papillary thyroid cancer cells resulted in decreased cell proliferation and increased rate of apoptosis by caspase activation. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that quercetin induces cancer cell apoptosis by downregulating the levels of Hsp90. In conclusion, we have shown that quercetin induces downregulation of Hsp90 expression that may be involved in the decrease of chymotrypsin-like proteasome activity which, in order, induces inhibition of growth and causes cell death in thyroid cancer cells. Thus, quercetin appears to be a promising candidate drug for Hsp90 downregulation and apoptosis of thyroid cancer cells.
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PMID:Quercetin-Induced Cell Death in Human Papillary Thyroid Cancer (B-CPAP) Cells. 2705 71

Proteasome inhibitors are promising antitumor drugs with preferable cytotoxicity in malignant cells and have exhibited clinical efficiency in several hematologic malignancies. P53-dependent apoptosis has been reported to be a major mechanism underlying. However, apoptosis can also be found in cancer cells with mutant-type p53, suggesting the involvement of p53-independent mechanism. Tumor suppressor forkhead Box O3 is another substrate of proteasomal degradation, which also functions partially through inducing apoptosis. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of proteasome inhibition on the expression and activity of forkhead Box O3 in thyroid cancer cells. Using flow cytometry, western blot, immunofluorescence staining and quantitative RT-PCR assays, we assessed proteasome inhibitor MG132-induced apoptosis in thyroid cancer cells and its effect on the expression and activity of forkhead Box O3. The resulted showed that MG132 induced significant apoptosis, and caused the accumulation of p53 protein in both p53 wild-type and mutant-type thyroid cancer cell lines, whereas the proapoptotic targets of p53 were transcriptionally upregulated only in the p53 wild-type cells. Strikingly, upon MG132 administration, the accumulation and nuclear translocation of transcription factor forkhead Box O3 as well as transcriptional upregulation of its proapoptotic target genes were found in thyroid cancer cells regardless of p53 status. Cell apoptosis was enhanced by ectopic overexpression while attenuated by silencing of forkhead Box O3. Altogether, we demonstrated that proteasome inhibitor MG132 induces thyroid cancer cell apoptosis at least partially through modulating forkhead Box O3 activity.
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PMID:Proteasome inhibitor MG132 induces thyroid cancer cell apoptosis by modulating the activity of transcription factor FOXO3a. 2822 Mar 48

Poly r(C) binding protein (PCBP) 1 or heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) E1 is a RNA binding protein that plays a vital role in a wide variety of biological processes. PCBP1 has been shown to function as a tumor suppressor by negatively regulating translation of pro-metastatic proteins in different cancers. Loss of PCBP1 expression or its Akt2-mediated phosphorylation at serine 43 residue has both been indicated to de-repress its regulation of EMT inducer proteins. Our previous work has established that PCBP1 functions as a tumor suppressor in thyroid cancer, where its translation is inhibited by microRNA-490-3p. Here we show that thyroid cancer patients can be divided into 2 cohorts based on miR-490-3p expression and PCBP1 mRNA expression-one cohort with high PCBP1 mRNA expression and basal miR-490-3p expression and a second cohort with low PCBP1 mRNA expression and high miR-490-3p expression. However, PCBP1 protein expression is also downregulated in the cohort with high PCBP1 mRNA expression, with expression levels similar to what is observed in patients with the low PCBP1 mRNA expression. Our analysis shows that PCBP1 mRNA is actively translated in patients with high PCBP1 mRNA expression, but that the protein is post translationally degraded by the proteasome machinery. Our results thus elucidate a novel mechanism responsible for down regulation of PCBP1 expression in thyroid cancer. It will be important in future to identify the mechanism that causes degradation of PCBP1 protein and to identify if similar mechanisms are active in other tumors characterized by low PCBP1 protein expression.
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PMID:Poly r(C) binding protein (PCBP) 1 expression is regulated at the post-translation level in thyroid carcinoma. 2833 99

Thyroid cancer patients with high miR-490-3p inhibit translation of PCBP1 mRNA, whereas in patients with low miR-490-3p PCBP1 mRNA expression is high; however, the resultant protein is targeted for degradation through the proteasome. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the molecular mechanism that regulates post-translation degradation of poly r(C) binding protein (PCBP) 1 expression in thyroid cancer cells. Mass spectrometric analysis of PCBP1 immunoprecipitates from MG-132 treated TPC1 cells revealed a list of ubiquitin ligases associated with PCBP1. RNAi-mediated silencing of the candidate ubiquitin ligases revealed that knockdown of the ubiquitin ligase UBE4A stabilized PCBP1 in TPC1 cells. Concurrent overexpression of the candidate ubiquitin ligases in the normal thyroid epithelial cell line Nthy-ori 3-1 confirmed that ubiquitin conjugation factor E4 A (UBE4A) is the ubiquitin ligase that is degrading PCBP1. Coimmunoprecipitation of HA-tagged PCBP1 in TPC1 cells cotransfected with FLAG-UBE4A revealed robust polyubiquitinated smear of PCBP1, thus confirming UBE4A as the ubiquitin ligase of PCBP1. UBE4A expression mimicked PCBP1 mRNA expression in thyroid cancer patients and was inversely correlated to PCBP1 protein expression. Low UBE4A expression level was associated with a better prognosis in thyroid cancer patients. Our data reveal a post-translational regulatory mechanism of regulating PCBP1 expression in thyroid cancer cells.
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PMID:Poly r(C) binding protein (PCBP) 1 expression is regulated by the E3 ligase UBE4A in thyroid carcinoma. 2896 76


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