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ArticleCell death & disease2018

PLOD3 promotes lung metastasis via regulation of STAT3.

Jeong-Hwa Baek, Hong Shik Yun, Gyoo Taik Kwon, Ju-Young Kim, Chang-Woo Lee, Jie-Young Song, Hong-Duck Um, Chang-Mo Kang, Jong Kuk Park, Jae-Sung Kim and 2 more

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jeong-Hwa BaekDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Hong Shik YunDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Gyoo Taik KwonDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Ju-Young KimDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Chang-Woo LeeDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, 440-746, Korea.
Jie-Young SongDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Hong-Duck UmDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Chang-Mo KangDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Jong Kuk ParkDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.
Jae-Sung KimDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8017-4515
Eun Ho KimDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea. eh140149@kirams.re.kr.
Sang-Gu HwangDivision of Radiation Biomedical Research, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, 01812, Korea. sgh63@kcch.re.kr.
Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences · KRSungkyunkwan University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Procollagen-lysine, 2-oxoglutarate 5-dioxygenase (PLOD3), a membrane-bound homodimeric enzyme, hydroxylates lysyl residues in collagen-like peptides; however, its role in lung cancer is unknown. This study aimed to investigate the role of PLOD3 as a pro-metastatic factor and to elucidate the underlying mechanism. First, we experimentally confirmed the release of PLOD3 in circulation in animal models, rendering it a potential serum biomarker for lung cancer in humans. Thereafter, we investigated the effects of PLOD3 overexpression and downregulation on cancer cell invasion and migration in vitro and in vivo, using human lung cancer cell lines and a mouse tumor xenograft model, respectively. Further, PLOD3 levels were determined in lung tissue samples from lung cancer patients. Functional analyses revealed that PLOD3 interacts with STAT3, thereby expressing matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9) and with urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) to enhance tumor metastasis. PLOD3 and the STAT3 pathway were significantly correlated in the metastatic foci of lung cancer patients; PLOD3-STAT3 levels were highly correlated with a poor prognosis. These results indicate that PLOD3 promotes lung cancer metastasis in a RAS-MAP kinase pathway-independent manner. Therefore, secreted PLOD3 serves as a potent inducer of lung cancer metastasis and a potential therapeutic target to enhance survival in lung cancer.

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AnimalsCell Line, TumorCell MovementCell ProliferationGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHeterograftsHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateLung NeoplasmsMatrix Metalloproteinase 2Matrix Metalloproteinase 9MiceNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisProcollagen-Lysine, 2-Oxoglutarate 5-DioxygenaseProtein BindingMatrix Metalloproteinase 2Matrix Metalloproteinase 9Procollagen-Lysine, 2-Oxoglutarate 5-DioxygenaseSTAT3 protein, humanSTAT3 Transcription FactorUrokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator

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PMID30442941
PMCPMC6237925
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