22 May 2020 : Laboratory Research
Upregulation of FAM3B Promotes Cisplatin Resistance in Gastric Cancer by Inducing Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
Chun Song1BCDEF, Chunning Duan1AG*DOI: 10.12659/MSM.921002
Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e921002
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Cisplatin (CDDP) remains one of the primary chemotherapeutic agents for gastric cancer patients. However, relapse and metastasis are common because of innate and acquired chemo-resistance. Family with sequence similarity 3 (FAM3) is a novel cytokine-like protein that has an important role in tumor progression, but little is known about the role of FAM3B in human gastric cancer CDDP resistance. In this study, we investigated the role of FAM3B in gastric cancer CDDP resistance and reveal the possible underlying mechanism.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: We firstly developed a CDDP-resistant gastric cell line AGS/CDDP by treating AGS cells to a continuous exposure of CDDP. The FAM3B levels were compared in these 2 cell lines by quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and western blotting. Cell viability, apoptosis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) related changes were detected after ectopic expression or interfering of FAM3B.
RESULTS: We found increased FAM3B expression in AGS/CDDP cells. FAM3B overexpression induced CDDP resistance in AGS cells. Conversely, FAM3B knockdown enhanced CDDP sensitivity of AGS/CDDP cells. Moreover, FAM3B induced EMT in gastric cancer cells by upregulating snail. Inhibition of snail reversed FAM3B-triggered EMT and CDDP resistance.
CONCLUSIONS: Upregulation of FAM3B triggered CDDP resistance in gastric cancer cells by inducing EMT in a snail-dependent manner, making FAM3B a promising therapeutic target to reverse gastric cancer chemo-resistance.
Keywords: Cisplatin, Cytokines, Neoplasm Proteins, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
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