LncRNA LTSCCAT promotes tongue squamous cell carcinoma metastasis via targeting the miR-103a-2-5p/SMYD3/TWIST1 axis
Open Access
- 1 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Cell Death & Disease
- Vol. 12 (2), 1-16
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-021-03415-2
Abstract
Abnormal expression of long-noncoding RNA is involved in the tumorigenesis and progression of various cancers, but the potential molecular regulatory mechanisms are unclear. Microbial flora and chronic inflammation, such as periodontitis, which is associated with oral cancer, affect the occurrence and progression of tumors. Accordingly, we stimulated the tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) cell lines CAL27 and SCC15 with a low concentration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Porphyromonas gingivalis (P.g) for 6 days and then performed LncRNA sequencing on P.g-LPS-treated CAL27 cells and untreated CAL27 cells. LTSCCAT was upregulated in P.g-LPS-treated CAL27 cells compared with untreated CAL27 cells. LTSCCAT induced epithelial–mesenchymal transition and promoted the invasion and metastasis of TSCC in vitro and in vivo. LncRNA LTSCCAT was upregulated in TSCC patients with periodontitis and was correlated with metastasis and poor prognosis. We predicted through an online database and confirmed by dual-luciferase reporter assays that LTSCCAT is a competitive endogenous RNA for the regulation of miR-103a-2-5p. Another dual-luciferase reporter assay confirmed that miR-103a-2-5p has a binding site at the 3′-UTR of the histone methylation transferase SMYD3 and inhibits its translation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments demonstrated that SMYD3 binds directly to the promoter region of TWIST1 and promotes its transcription, which is related to H3K4 trimethylation. The effect of pcDNA/LTSCCAT on expression was attenuated by miR-103a-2-5p mimics. The RF and SVM classifier predicts that LTSCCAT can bind to SMYD3, whereas the RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP) assay confirms that it cannot. In addition, we predicted the combination of LTSCCAT and SMYD3 through software, but the RIP assay confirmed that LTSCCAT could not be combined with SMYD3. For the first time, we showed that periodontitis promotes the invasion and metastasis of TSCC and clarified the molecular mechanism of LTSCCAT to promote invasion and metastasis of TSCC, providing a potential therapeutic target for clinical treatment of TSCC.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81502350, 81472521, 81402251, 81672676, 81772890, 81502350, 81502350)
- Guangdong Science and Technology Department (2016A030313352)
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