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ArticleCell death & disease2023

Specific intracellular retention of circSKA3 promotes colorectal cancer metastasis by attenuating ubiquitination and degradation of SLUG.

Jingwen Deng, Shaoxia Liao, Chaoyi Chen, Fengyan Han, Siqin Lei, Xuan Lai, Kehong Ye, Qizheng Han, Fang E, Chao Lu and 3 more

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Jingwen Deng *Department of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Shaoxia Liao *Department of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Chaoyi ChenDepartment of Colorectal Surgery and Oncology, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Intervention, Ministry of Education, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Fengyan HanDepartment of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Siqin LeiDepartment of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Xuan LaiDepartment of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Kehong YeDepartment of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Qizheng HanDepartment of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Fang EDepartment of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Chao LuDepartment of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA.
Maode LaiDepartment of Pathology, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 310058, Hangzhou, China.
Fanlong LiuDepartment of Colorectal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China. fanlong_liu@zju.edu.cn.
Honghe ZhangDepartment of Pathology and Women's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Research Unit of Intelligence Classification of Tumor Pathology and Precision Therapy, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU042), 310058, Hangzhou, China. honghezhang@zju.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5954-2857
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNZhejiang Chinese Medical University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University · CNUniversity of South Florida · USZhejiang University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our previous study demonstrated that tumor-suppressor circular RNAs (circRNAs) can be specifically secreted outside of colorectal cancer (CRC) cells within exosomes to maintain tumor cell fitness. However, whether tumor-driving circRNAs can be specifically retained in cells to facilitate tumor progression remains unknown. In this study, circRNA-seq showed that circSKA3 was significantly upregulated in CRC tissues but downregulated in serum samples from CRC patients. In addition, circSKA3 promoted CRC progression in vitro and in vivo and was retained in CRC cells via a specific cellmotif element. Interestingly, the cellmotif element was also the site of interaction of circSKA3 with SLUG, which inhibited SLUG ubiquitination degradation and promoted CRC epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Moreover, FUS was identified as a key circularization regulator of circSKA3 that bound to the key element. Finally, we designed and synthesized specific antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) targeting circularization and cellmotif elements, which repressed circSKA3 expression, abolished the SLUG-circSKA3 interaction, and further inhibited CRC EMT and metastasis in vitro and in vivo.

Indexed as

Colorectal NeoplasmsRNA, CircularCell Cycle ProteinsGenes, Tumor SuppressorHumansMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsUbiquitinationCell Cycle ProteinsMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsRNA, CircularSka3 protein, human

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PMID37973787
PMCPMC10654574
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