Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer.
Protease-activated receptor 4 (PAR4), a member of G-protein coupled receptors family, was recently reported to exhibit decreased expression in gastric cancer and esophageal squamous cancer, yet increased expression during the progression of prostate cancer. Trefoil factor 2 (TFF2), a small peptide c...
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| author | Guoyu Yu Ping Jiang Yang Xiang Yong Zhang Zhu Zhu Chuanrao Zhang Siman Lee Wenhui Lee Yun Zhang |
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| description | Protease-activated receptor 4 (PAR4), a member of G-protein coupled receptors family, was recently reported to exhibit decreased expression in gastric cancer and esophageal squamous cancer, yet increased expression during the progression of prostate cancer. Trefoil factor 2 (TFF2), a small peptide constitutively expressed in the gastric mucosa, plays a protective role in restitution of gastric mucosa. Altered TFF2 expression was also related to the development of gastrointestinal cancer. TFF2 has been verified to promote cell migration via PAR4, but the roles of PAR4 and TFF2 in the progress of colorectal cancer are still unknown. In this study, the expression level of PAR4 and TFF2 in colorectal cancer tissues was measured using real-time PCR (n = 38), western blotting (n=38) and tissue microarrays (n = 66). The mRNA and protein expression levels of PAR4 and TFF2 were remarkably increased in colorectal cancer compared with matched noncancerous tissues, especially in positive lymph node and poorly differentiated cancers. The colorectal carcinoma cell LoVo showed an increased response to TFF2 as assessed by cell invasion upon PAR4 expression. However, after intervention of PAR4 expression, PAR4 positive colorectal carcinoma cell HT-29 was less responsive to TFF2 in cell invasion. Genomic bisulfite sequencing showed the hypomethylation of PAR4 promoter in colorectal cancer tissues and the hypermethylation in the normal mucosa that suggested the low methylation of promoter was correlated to the increased PAR4 expression. Taken together, the results demonstrated that the up-regulated expression of PAR4 and TFF2 frequently occurs in colorectal cancer tissues, and that overexpression of PAR4 may be resulted from promoter hypomethylation. While TFF2 promotes invasion activity of LoVo cells overexpressing PAR4, and this effect was significantly decreased when PAR4 was knockdowned in HT-29 cells. Our findings will be helpful in further investigations into the functions and molecular mechanisms of Proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) and Trefoil factor factors (TFFs) during the progression of colorectal cancer. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-089d6d7cd7aa4825812405d2ea7840412022-12-22T03:19:05ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01104e012267810.1371/journal.pone.0122678Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer.Guoyu YuPing JiangYang XiangYong ZhangZhu ZhuChuanrao ZhangSiman LeeWenhui LeeYun ZhangProtease-activated receptor 4 (PAR4), a member of G-protein coupled receptors family, was recently reported to exhibit decreased expression in gastric cancer and esophageal squamous cancer, yet increased expression during the progression of prostate cancer. Trefoil factor 2 (TFF2), a small peptide constitutively expressed in the gastric mucosa, plays a protective role in restitution of gastric mucosa. Altered TFF2 expression was also related to the development of gastrointestinal cancer. TFF2 has been verified to promote cell migration via PAR4, but the roles of PAR4 and TFF2 in the progress of colorectal cancer are still unknown. In this study, the expression level of PAR4 and TFF2 in colorectal cancer tissues was measured using real-time PCR (n = 38), western blotting (n=38) and tissue microarrays (n = 66). The mRNA and protein expression levels of PAR4 and TFF2 were remarkably increased in colorectal cancer compared with matched noncancerous tissues, especially in positive lymph node and poorly differentiated cancers. The colorectal carcinoma cell LoVo showed an increased response to TFF2 as assessed by cell invasion upon PAR4 expression. However, after intervention of PAR4 expression, PAR4 positive colorectal carcinoma cell HT-29 was less responsive to TFF2 in cell invasion. Genomic bisulfite sequencing showed the hypomethylation of PAR4 promoter in colorectal cancer tissues and the hypermethylation in the normal mucosa that suggested the low methylation of promoter was correlated to the increased PAR4 expression. Taken together, the results demonstrated that the up-regulated expression of PAR4 and TFF2 frequently occurs in colorectal cancer tissues, and that overexpression of PAR4 may be resulted from promoter hypomethylation. While TFF2 promotes invasion activity of LoVo cells overexpressing PAR4, and this effect was significantly decreased when PAR4 was knockdowned in HT-29 cells. Our findings will be helpful in further investigations into the functions and molecular mechanisms of Proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) and Trefoil factor factors (TFFs) during the progression of colorectal cancer.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395443?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Guoyu Yu Ping Jiang Yang Xiang Yong Zhang Zhu Zhu Chuanrao Zhang Siman Lee Wenhui Lee Yun Zhang Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer. PLoS ONE |
| title | Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer. |
| title_full | Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer. |
| title_fullStr | Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer. |
| title_short | Increased expression of protease-activated receptor 4 and Trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer. |
| title_sort | increased expression of protease activated receptor 4 and trefoil factor 2 in human colorectal cancer |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4395443?pdf=render |
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