ArticleCell death & disease2021
Colorectal cancer cell intrinsic fibroblast activation protein alpha binds to Enolase1 and activates NF-κB pathway to promote metastasis.
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- Targeting Kupffer Cell Enolase 1 Attenuates Liver Inflammation and Injury in Hemorrhagic Shock.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Elastin as a Novel Extracellular Matrix From Aberrant HDAC4 Expression in PDGF-BB-Induced Orbital Fibroblasts From Graves' Ophthalmopathy Patients.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Effects of FAP+ fibroblasts on cell proliferation migration and immunoregulation of esophageal squamous carcinoma cells through the CXCL12/CXCR4 axis.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2025Article
- Regulation of cancer-associated fibroblasts for enhanced cancer immunotherapy using advanced functional nanomedicines: an updated review.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2025Review
- Fibroblast Activation Protein-α Expression in Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Shows the Poor Survival of Colorectal Cancer via Immune-Mediated Pathways : Implications of FAP in Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Link Immune Dysregulation to Adverse Survival in Colorectal Cancer.Annals of surgical oncology · 2025Article
- Enhanced efficacy of dual chimeric antigen receptor-T cells targeting programmed death-ligand 1 and cancer-associated fibroblasts in colorectal cancerCytoJournal · 2025Article
- Injured Cardiac Tissue-Targeted Delivery of TGFβ1 siRNA by FAP Aptamer-Functionalized Extracellular Vesicles Promotes Cardiac Repair.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Article
- Role of ENO1 and its targeted therapy in tumors.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Targeting FAP-positive chondrocytes in osteoarthritis: a novel lipid nanoparticle siRNA approach to mitigate cartilage degeneration.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2024Article
- Cancer-Associated Fibroblast Proteins as Potential Targets against Colorectal Cancers.Cancers · 2024Article
- Versatile function of NF-ĸB in inflammation and cancer.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2024Review
- Metabolic Recoding of NSUN2-Mediated mAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- A comprehensive multi-omics analysis identifies a robust scoring system for cancer-associated fibroblasts and intervention targets in colorectal cancer.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Targeting FAPActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2024Article
- The Role and Application of Fibroblast Activating Protein.Current molecular medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAP) is a marker of cancer-associated fibroblast, which is also expressed in cancer epithelial cells. However, the role of FAP in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells remains to be elucidated. Here we investigate the expression pattern of FAP in CRC tissues and cells to prove that FAP is upregulated in CRC cells. Loss- of and gain-of-function assays identified FAP promotes migration and invasion instead of an effect on cell proliferation. Microarray assays are adopted to identify the different expressed genes after FAP knockdown and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) is used to exploit the involved signaling pathway. Our works reveal FAP exerts a function dependent on NF-κB signaling pathway and FAP expression is associated with NF-κB signaling pathway in clinical samples. Our work shows FAP is secreted by CRC cells and soluble FAP could promote metastasis. To investigate the mechanism of FAP influencing the NF-κB signaling pathway, LC/MS is performed to identify the proteins interacting with FAP. We find that FAP binds to ENO1 and activates NF-κB signaling pathway dependent on ENO1. Blocking ENO1 could partially reverse the pro-metastatic effect mediated by FAP. We also provide evidences that both FAP and ENO1 are associated with CRC stages, and high levels of FAP and ENO1 predict a poor survival in CRC patients. In summary, our work could provide a novel mechanism of FAP in CRC cells and a potential strategy for treatment of metastatic CRC.
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