ArticleOncology research2018
Transglutaminase 2 Promotes Migration and Invasion of Lung Cancer Cells.
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- Transglutaminase 2 regulates ovarian cancer metastasis by modulating the immune microenvironment.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- TGM2 regulated by transcription factor NR3C1 drives p38 MAPK-mediated tumor progression and immune evasion in lung squamous cell carcinoma.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- A pan-cancer analysis of the oncogenic and immunological roles of transglutaminase 1 (TGM1) in human cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- The Role of Transglutaminase 2 in Cancer: An Update.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Transglutaminase 2 in breast cancer metastasis and drug resistance.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- Shaping Oncogenic Microenvironments: Contribution of Fibronectin.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Review
- Fungal transglutaminase domain-containing proteins are involved in hyphal protection at the septal pore against wounding.Molecular biology of the cell · 2023Article
- Transglutaminase Type 2-MITF axis regulates phenotype switching in skin cutaneous melanoma.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
- Cell-Impermeable Inhibitors Confirm That Intracellular Human Transglutaminase 2 Is Responsible for the Transglutaminase-Associated Cancer Phenotype.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Molecular Basis of Transglutaminase-2 and Muscarinic Cholinergic Receptors in Experimental Myopia: A Target for Myopia Treatment.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Allosteric Activation of Transglutaminase 2 via Inducing an "Open" Conformation for Osteoblast Differentiation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Canonical and truncated transglutaminase-2 regulate mucin-1 expression and androgen independency in prostate cancer cell lines.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
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- Peptidic Inhibitors and a Fluorescent Probe for the Selective Inhibition and Labelling of Factor XIIIa Transglutaminase.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Construction of a predictive model for immunotherapy efficacy in lung squamous cell carcinoma based on the degree of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and molecular typing.Journal of translational medicine · 2022Article
- An initial assessment of the involvement of transglutaminase2 in eosinophilic bronchitis using a disease model developed in C57BL/6 mice.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The Biological and Biomechanical Role of Transglutaminase-2 in the Tumour Microenvironment.Cancers · 2021Review
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Abstract
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Given that the major threat of cancer is metastasis, delineation of the molecular mechanism underlying it would help devise therapeutic strategies. Transglutaminase 2 (TG2), belonging to the transglutaminase superfamily, is a versatile protein with enzymatic and nonenzymatic functions. It mainly localizes inside the cell, but also appears extracellularly. Recent findings have demonstrated the involvement of TG2 in cancer development. Here we examine the role of TG2 in metastasis of lung cancer using a lung cancer cell line CL1-0, which exhibits low invasiveness, and its invasive subline CL1-5. Our results show that CL1-5 cells express a higher amount of TG2 than CL1-0 cells. Overexpression of TG2 in CL1-0 enhances cell migration and invasion, and lowering TG2 expression in CL1-5 cells reduces their ability to do so. The transamidase activity of TG2 is not required since cells expressing the inactive TG2 mutant or treated with a TG2 inhibitor are still able to migrate and invade. TG2-stimulated migration and invasion are, at least in part, mediated by Rac, as inhibition of Rac activity suppresses cell migration and invasion. Lastly, exogenous application of recombinant TG2 protein to CL1-0 cells substantially augments cell migration and invasion, suggesting the significance of extracellular TG2 in promoting these events. Collectively, our results show that TG2 plays a positive role in cell migration and invasion, and this might help metastasis of lung cancer cells.
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