ArticleCancer medicine2018
Prognostic value of association of OCT4 with LEF1 expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and their impact on epithelial-mesenchymal transition, invasion, and migration.
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- High expression of LEF1 correlates with poor prognosis in solid tumors, but not blood tumors: a meta-analysis.Bioscience reports · 2020Pooled it
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- KRT15 identified by scRNA-Seq and machine learning as stemness regulator and prognostic biomarker in ESCC.iScience · 2026Article
- Unlocking the Role of OCT4 in Cancer Lineage Plasticity: A Cross-Cancer Perspective with an Emphasis on Prostate Cancer.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- SMARCB1-deficient poorly differentiated testicular carcinoma: a case report.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Immunohistochemical Investigation into Protein Expression Patterns of FOXO4, IRF8 and LEF1 in Canine Osteosarcoma.Cancers · 2024Article
- SOX2 and OCT4 mediate radiation and drug resistance in pancreatic tumor organoids.Cell death discovery · 2024Article
- LncRNA GAS5 regulates the Wnt/β-catenin pathway through the miR-18a-5p/AXIN2/GSK3β axis to inhibit the proliferation and migration of bladder cancer cells.Carcinogenesis · 2022Article
- Effect of the Age-Adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index on the Survival of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients after Radical Esophagectomy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- lncRNA OXCT1-AS1 Promotes Metastasis in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer by Stabilizing LEF1,BioMed research international · 2021Article
- The Role and Specific Mechanism of OCT4 in Cancer Stem Cells: A Review.International journal of stem cells · 2020Review
- Transplantation of hMSCs Genome Edited with LEF1 Improves Cardio-Protective Effects in Myocardial Infarction.Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2020Article
- Synthetic and immunological studies on the OCT4 immunodominant motif antigen-based anti-cancer vaccine.Cancer biology & medicine · 2020Article
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- MiR-34a-5p Inhibits Proliferation, Migration, Invasion and Epithelial-mesenchymal Transition in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Targeting LEF1 and Inactivation of the Hippo-YAP1/TAZ Signaling Pathway.Journal of Cancer · 2020Article
- Expression and Prognostic Value of Id-4 in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.OncoTargets and therapy · 2020Article
- LEF1/Id3/HRAS axis promotes the tumorigenesis and progression of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.International journal of biological sciences · 2020Article
- The transcription factor LEF1 promotes tumorigenicity and activates the TGF-β signaling pathway in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2019Article
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Abstract
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is a malignant disease with poor prognosis. Because of early metastasis prior to diagnosis and therapeutic resistance, ESCC has become one of the leading causes of cancer-related death. Here, we investigated the clinicopathological significance of the association of octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (OCT4) with lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1 (LEF1) expression and the potential molecular mechanism in the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), invasion, and migration of ESCC. The expression of OCT4 and LEF1 was detected via immunohistochemistry analysis. High levels of LEF1 expression were observed in 95 ESCC specimens and were obviously associated with aberrant clinicopathological features and poor patient prognosis. Our previous study showed that OCT4 expression level is elevated in ESCC, and statistical analysis showed that the elevated expression of OCT4 and LEF1 in ESCC was significantly associated with histologic grade, lymph node metastasis, TNM stage, and poor patient prognosis. The specific inhibition of OCT4 expression via a lentivirus encoding OCT4-shRNA (LV-shOCT4) in Eca109 cells led to decreased levels of OCT4 and LEF1 in vitro. Additionally, we applied a rescue strategy by infecting LV-shOCT4 Eca109 cells with a LEF1 overexpression plasmid (p-LEF1) and detected changes in EMT, migration, and invasion. Unsurprisingly, the p-LEF1 group exhibited greater EMT, invasion, and migration than did the LV-shOCT4 and negative control groups. This study demonstrates for the first time the relationship between OCT4 and LEF1 expression. The combination of high expression of OCT4 and LEF1 was associated with clinicopathological features of atypical patients, and this combination might be an ideal prognostic factor in ESCC. OCT4 positively regulated LEF1 expression, and LEF1 mediated the effects of OCT4 in cancer cell EMT, invasion, and migration. The data presented here suggest that the inhibition of OCT4-LEF1 signaling may be a new therapeutic target for the treatment of ESCC.
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