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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2016

Starvation after Cobalt-60 γ-Ray Radiation Enhances Metastasis in U251 Glioma Cells by Regulating the Transcription Factor SP1.

Tuo Zhao, Hailong Wang, Hong Ma, Hao Wang, Bo Chen, Yulin Deng

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tuo ZhaoSchool of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. zhaotuobeijing@hotmail.com.
Hailong WangSchool of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. whailong1983@126.com.
Hong MaSchool of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. 04656@bit.edu.cn.
Hao WangSchool of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. wanghao5678@sina.cn.
Bo ChenSchool of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. h_chenbo@sina.com.
Yulin DengSchool of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. deng@bit.edu.cn.
Beijing Institute of Technology · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiation is of clinical importance during glioma therapy; however, vasculature damage is observed over the treatment course. This type of tissue damage might lead to starvation conditions, affecting tumor metastasis. To test this possibility, we compared starvation conditions in conjunction with radiation treatment to monitor metastatic ability in the U251 glioma cell line. Transcriptome, western blot, and immunofluorescence analyses were used to measure the RNA and protein expression changes of the U251 cells after various treatments. We found that starvation combined with radiation treatment yielded the most significant expression changes in metastasis-related factors compared to that in the control groups. In addition, a metastasis assay was used to directly measure the metastatic ability of the treated cells, which confirmed that the U251 cells treated with starvation combined with radiation possessed the highest metastatic ability. Furthermore, bioinformatics analysis demonstrated that SP1 represented a common transcription factor associated with changes in metastasis-related factors. Blocking SP1 activity by an inhibitor suppressed the starvation-plus-radiation treatment-mediated enhancement of U251 cell metastasis. Our study provides the first evidence that starvation caused by radiation might play a significant role in enhancing the ability of the glioma cell line U251 to metastasize via regulation of the transcription factor SP1.

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BrainBrain NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorCobalt RadioisotopesGamma RaysGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGliomaHumansNeoplasm MetastasisSp1 Transcription FactorStarvationCobalt RadioisotopesSp1 Transcription FactorgliomametastasisradiationstarvationU251 cell line

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PMID27058528
PMCPMC4848883
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