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CBX7 and HMGA1b proteins act in opposite way on the regulation of the SPP1 gene expression

Romina Sepe _, Umberto Formisano, Antonella Federico, Floriana Forzati, André Uchimura Bastos, Daniela D’ Angelo, Nunzio Antonio Cacciola, Alfredo Fusco and Pierlorenzo Pallante

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Oncotarget. 2015; 6:2680-2692. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.2777

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Abstract

Romina Sepe1, Umberto Formisano1, Antonella Federico1, Floriana Forzati1, André Uchimura Bastos1,2, Daniela D’Angelo1, Nunzio Antonio Cacciola1, Alfredo Fusco1,3, Pierlorenzo Pallante1

1Istituto per l’Endocrinologia e l’Oncologia Sperimentale (IEOS) “G. Salvatore”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), c/o Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche (DMMBM), Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, 80131 Naples, Italy

2Laboratório as Bases Genéticas dos Tumores da Tiroide, Disciplina de Genética, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, 04039-032 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

3Instituto Nacional de Câncer - INCA, 20230-130 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Correspondence to:

Pierlorenzo Pallante, e-mail: [email protected]

Alfredo Fusco, e-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: Osteopontin, CBX7, HMGA1b, NF-κB, thyroid carcinomas

Received: june 06, 2014     Accepted: November 18, 2014     Published: January 20, 2015

ABSTRACT

Several recent studies have reported the Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 member CBX7 as a tumor-suppressor gene whose expression progressively decreases in different human carcinomas in relation with tumor grade, malignant stage and poor prognosis. We have previously demonstrated that CBX7 is able to inhibit the expression of the SPP1 gene, encoding the chemokine osteopontin that is over-expressed in cancer and has a critical role in cancer progression.

Here, we have analyzed the mechanism by which CBX7 regulates the SPP1 gene expression. We show that the SPP1 transcriptional regulation mechanism involves the CBX7-interacting protein HMGA1b, that acts as a positive regulator of the SPP1 gene. In fact, we demonstrate that, in contrast with the transcriptional activity of CBX7, HMGA1b is able to increase the SPP1 expression by inducing the activity of its promoter. Moreover, we show that CBX7 interferes with HMGA1b on the SPP1 promoter and counteracts the positive transcriptional activity of HMGA1b on the SPP1 expression.

Furthermore, since we found that also the NF-κB complex resulted involved in the modulation of the SPP1 expression in thyroid cells, we suppose that CBX7/HMGA1b/NF-κB could take part in the same transcriptional mechanism that finally leads to the regulation of the SPP1 gene expression.

Taken together, our data show the important role played by CBX7 in the negative regulation of the SPP1 gene expression, thus contributing to prevent the acquisition of a malignant phenotype.


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