Ⅰ. Background/ Objectives
Lung cancer is one of the mose common cancer in Korea and is the reading cause of cancer death in men and women. It is crucial of exploring better prognostic markers to improve clinical treatment of patient with lung cancer...
Ⅰ. Background/ Objectives
Lung cancer is one of the mose common cancer in Korea and is the reading cause of cancer death in men and women. It is crucial of exploring better prognostic markers to improve clinical treatment of patient with lung cancer. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the role of Trap220 as a prognostic factor of lung cancer and to determine the molecular mechanism of lung cancer progression.
Ⅱ. Methods
- Immunohitochemistry of Trap220 in the lung cancer tissues of Korean lung cancer patients who underwent surgical resection at Dong-A university medical cancer. Association between Trap220 expression and the clinicopathologic characters were analyzed.
- Development of Trap220 knockdown system and generation of Trap220 knockdown cell using lung cancer cell line. Cell growth, migration and invasion potential of Trap220-deficient cells were examined.
- Determination of Trap220 knockdown in tumor generation and metastasis using nude mouse xenograft model.
- Idenficiation of Trap220 target genes by gene expression profiling and exploring the signal network for Trap220.
Ⅲ. Results
1) Trap220 expression in lung cancer patient tissue and correation with clinicopathologic characteristics
- In 260 lung cancer patient tissues, Trap220 expression was weak in about 70% of lung cancer tissues. The tumors with low Trap220 expression were larger in size and showed more metastasis and low survival.
2) Generation of Trap220-deficient cells and determining cell growth, migration and invasion.
- Trap220 knockdown system was successfully developed usign Trap220 shRNA and Trap220-deficient cells were generated in two human lung cancer cell lines, A549 and H1299. Although cell growth was slightly decreased after Trap220 knockdown, cell migration and invsion potential, however, were significantly increased upon Trap220 knockdown.
3) The role of Trap220 in tumorigenesis and metastasis
- While tumor size was not changed upon Trap220 knockdown in nude mice xenograft model, Trap220 knockdown greatly increased the formation of daughter tumor, metastasis from primary tumor. Tumor metastasis in in vivo metastasis experiment was also significantly increased upon Trap220 knockdown.
4) Exporing Trap220 target genes and the signal network
- The gene expression profiling of Trap220 knockdown cells revealed that the levels for cell growth-related genes were decreased. However, many invasion and metastasis-related genes were increased upon Trap220 knockdown. Their reduction was confirmed by real-time PCR.
Ⅳ. Conclusion/ Expected contribution
Our finding revealed that Trap220 plays an important role in the development and progression of lung cancer. Low Trap220 was correlated with poorer prognosis and poorer overall surval in lung cancer patient. Thus, Trap220 can be used as an novel clinical marker for predicting the prognosis for lung cancer. Informations from this study could contribute to understand molecular mechanism for the development and progression for lung cancer and to develop the effective strategies for lung cancer treatment.