5-Aza-2′-deoxycytidine advances EMT of breast cancer cells by demethylating Sipa1 promoter-proximal elements
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- 11 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Company of Biologists in Journal of Cell Science
- Vol. 133 (9)
- https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.236125
Abstract
Human breast cancer cells exhibit considerable diversity in the methylation status of genomic DNA CpGs that regulate metastatic transcriptome networks. In this study, we identified human Sipa1 promoter-proximal elements that contained a CpG island and demonstrated that the methylation status of the CpG island was inversely correlated with SIPA1 protein expression in cancer cells. 5-Aza-2′-deoxycytidine (5-Aza-CdR), a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor, promoted the expression of Sipa1 in the MCF7 breast cancer cells with a low level of SIPA1 expression. On the contrary, in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells with high SIPA1 expression levels, hypermethylation of the CpG island negatively regulated the transcription of Sipa1. In addition, the epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) was reversed after knocking down Sipa1 in MDA-MB-231 cells. However, the EMT was promoted in MCF7 cells with over-expression of SIPA1 or treated with 5-Aza-CdR. Taken together, hypomethylation of the CpG island in Sipa1 promoter-proximal elements could enhance SIPA1 expression in breast cancer cells, which could facilitate EMT of cancer cells, possibly increasing a risk of cancer cell metastasis in individuals treated with 5-Aza-CdR.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2017YFE0129100)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81872154)
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