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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

Nucleolar and Coiled-Body Phosphoprotein 1 Is Associated With Stemness and Represents a Potential Therapeutic Target in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.

Sisi Chen, Ying Li, Muyao Wu, Lian Xue, Jianyu Zhu, Mi Wu, Qiuting Zhang, Guangchun He, Guifei Li, Shujun Fu and 2 more

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. 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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Sisi ChenKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Ying LiKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Muyao WuKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Lian XueKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Jianyu ZhuKey Laboratory of Translational Cancer Stem Cell Research, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
Mi WuKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Qiuting ZhangKey Laboratory of Translational Cancer Stem Cell Research, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
Guangchun HeKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Guifei LiKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Shujun FuKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Chanjuan ZhengKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Xiyun DengKey Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, Departments of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Hunan Normal University School of Medicine, Changsha, China.
Hunan Normal University · CN

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Abstract

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive subtype of breast cancer and lacks approved specific targeted therapies. One of the major reasons why TNBC is difficult to treat is the high proportion of cancer stem cells within the tumor tissue. Nucleolus is the location of ribosome biogenesis which is frequently overactivated in cancer cells and overactivation of ribosome biogenesis frequently drives the malignant transformation of cancer. Nucleolar and coiled-body phosphoprotein 1 (NOLC1) is a nucleolar protein responsible for nucleolus organization and rRNA synthesis and plays an important role in ribosome biogenesis. However, the correlation of NOLC1 expression with patient prognosis and its value as a therapeutic target have not been evaluated in TNBC. In the current study, based on bioinformatics analysis of the online databases, we found that the expression of NOLC1 was higher in breast cancer tissues than normal tissues, and NOLC1 was expressed at a higher level in TNBC than other subtypes of breast cancer. GSEA analysis revealed that stemness-related pathways were significantly enriched in breast cancer with high NOLC1 gene expression. Further analyses using gene expression profiling interactive analysis 2 (GEPIA2), tumor immune estimation resource (TIMER) and search tool for retrieval of interacting genes/proteins (STRING) demonstrated that NOLC1 was significantly associated with stemness in both all breast cancer and basal-like breast cancer/TNBC patients at both gene and protein levels. Knockdown of NOLC1 by siRNA decreased the protein level of the key stemness regulators MYC and ALDH and inhibited the sphere-forming capacity in TNBC cell line MDA-MB-231. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses demonstrated that NOLC1 was an independent risk factor for overall survival in breast cancer. PrognoScan and Kaplan-Meier plotter analyses revealed that high expression of NOLC1 was associated with poor prognosis in both all breast cancer and TNBC patients. Further immunohistochemical analysis of breast cancer patient samples revealed that TNBC cells had a lower level of NOLC1 in the nucleus compared with non-TNBC cells. These findings suggest that NOLC1 is closely associated with the stemness properties of TNBC and represents a potential therapeutic target for TNBC.

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nucleolar and coiled-body phosphoprotein 1ribosome biogenesisstemnesstargeted cancer therapytriple-negative breast cancer

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