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Screening and identification of anoikis-resistant gene UBCH7 in esophageal cancer cells

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  • 1. Department of Histology and Embryology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China 2. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100021, China

Received date: 2011-10-18

  Revised date: 2011-12-10

  Online published: 2012-02-25

Abstract

Anoikis is a kind of programmed cell death induced by loss of extracellular matrix (ECM) adhesion, which is one of key factors for homestasis. Resistance to anoikis is required for tumor cell metastasis. We have previously shown several anoikis-resistance genes in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). In order to find novel anoikis-resistant genes in ESCC, we constructed retroviral cDNA library using total RNA from ESCC cell lines. NIH 3T3 cells, which are sensitive to anoikis, were infected with the library constructed. The cells were cultured in soft agar, and the clones which can survive in detached states were selected. The cDNAs inserted into the anoikis-resistant NIH3T3 clones were amplified using retroviral specific primers. Sequencing analysis showed that a cDNA fragment inserted into the anoikis-resistant clone contains full coding sequence (ORF) of human UBCH7/UBE2L3 gene. By infection with retrovirus encoding UBCH7 ORF (pMSCV-UBCH7), forced expression of UBCH7 increased the anoikis-resistance of NIH3T3 cells. More importantly, knockdown of UBCH7 expression by siRNA transfection reduced the anoikis-resistant ability of esophageal cancer MLuC1 cells. The data suggest that UBCH7/UBE2L3 gene would be involved in anoikis-resistance in ESCC.

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YANG Yang, WANG Bo-Shi, WANG Xiao-Min, ZHANG Yu, WANG Ming-Rong, JIA Xue-Mei . Screening and identification of anoikis-resistant gene UBCH7 in esophageal cancer cells[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2012 , 34(2) : 190 -197 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2012.00190

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