ArticleOncogene2016
Induction of the intestinal stem cell signature gene SMOC-2 is required for L1-mediated colon cancer progression.
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- A Necessary Role for Cyclin D2 Induction During Colon Cancer Progression Mediated by L1.Cells · 2024Article
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- An Increase in Mucin2 Expression Is Required for Colon Cancer Progression Mediated by L1.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- SMOC2 promotes aggressive behavior of fibroblast-like synoviocytes in rheumatoid arthritis through transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulating MYO1C.Cell death & disease · 2022Article
- Downregulation of the Tumor Suppressor TFF1 Is Required during Induction of Colon Cancer Progression by L1.Cancers · 2022Article
- SMOC2 promotes an epithelial-mesenchymal transition and a pro-metastatic phenotype in epithelial cells of renal cell carcinoma origin.Cell death & disease · 2022Article
- MethReg: estimating the regulatory potential of DNA methylation in gene transcription.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- Fibroblastic SMOC2 Suppresses Mechanical Nociception by Inhibiting Coupled Activation of Primary Sensory Neurons.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Robust Colonic Epithelial Regeneration and Amelioration of Colitis via FZD-Specific Activation of Wnt Signaling.Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Overactivation of Wnt-β-catenin signaling, including β-catenin-TCF target gene expression, is a hallmark of colorectal cancer (CRC) development. We identified the immunoglobulin family of cell-adhesion receptors member L1 as a β-catenin-TCF target gene preferentially expressed at the invasive edge of human CRC tissue. L1 can confer enhanced motility and liver metastasis when expressed in CRC cells. This ability of L1-mediated metastasis is exerted by a mechanism involving ezrin and the activation of NF-κB target genes. In this study, we identified the secreted modular calcium-binding matricellular protein-2 (SMOC-2) as a gene activated by L1-ezrin-NF-κB signaling. SMOC-2 is also known as an intestinal stem cell signature gene in mice expressing Lgr5 in cells at the bottom of intestinal crypts. The induction of SMOC-2 expression in L1-expressing CRC cells was necessary for the increase in cell motility, proliferation under stress and liver metastasis conferred by L1. SMOC-2 expression induced a more mesenchymal like phenotype in CRC cells, a decrease in E-cadherin and an increase in Snail by signaling that involves integrin-linked kinase (ILK). SMOC-2 was localized at the bottom of normal human colonic crypts and at increased levels in CRC tissue with preferential expression in invasive areas of the tumor. We found an increase in Lgr5 levels in CRC cells overexpressing L1, p65 or SMOC-2, suggesting that L1-mediated CRC progression involves the acquisition of a stem cell-like phenotype, and that SMOC-2 elevation is necessary for L1-mediated induction of more aggressive/invasive CRC properties.
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