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AEG-1 knockdown in colon cancer cell lines inhibits radiation-enhanced migration and invasion in vitro and in a novel in vivo zebrafish model
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Abstract
Sebastian Gnosa1, Alessandra Capodanno1, Raghavendra Vasudeva Murthy1, Lasse Dahl Ejby Jensen2, Xiao-Feng Sun1
1Department of Oncology and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
2Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Correspondence to:
Sebastian Gnosa, email: [email protected]
Xiao-Feng Sun, email: [email protected]
Keywords: MTDH, colon cancer, zebrafish, transwell migration and invasion, radiation
Received: August 15, 2016 Accepted: October 13, 2016 Published: November 07, 2016
ABSTRACT
Background: Radiotherapy is a well-established anti-cancer treatment. Although radiotherapy has been shown to significantly decrease the local relapse in rectal cancer patients, the rate of distant metastasis is still very high. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether AEG-1 is involved in radiation-enhanced migration and invasion in vitro and in a novel in vivo zebrafish model.
Results: Migration and invasion were decreased in all the AEG-1 knockdown cell lines. Furthermore, we observed that radiation enhanced migration and invasion, while AEG-1 knockdown abolished this effect. The results from the zebrafish embryo model confirmed the results obtained in vitro. MMP-9 secretion and expression were decreased in AEG-1 knockdown cells.
Materials and Methods: We evaluated the involvement of AEG-1 in migration and invasion and, radiation-enhanced migration and invasion by Boyden chamber assay in three colon cancer cell lines and respective stable AEG-1 knockdown cell lines. Furthermore, we injected those cells into zebrafish embryos and evaluated the amount of disseminated cells into the tail.
Conclusion: AEG-1 knockdown inhibits migration and invasion, as well as radiation-enhanced invasion both in vitro and in vivo. We speculate that this is done via the downregulation of the intrinsic or radiation-enhanced MMP-9 expression by AEG-1 in the cancer cells. This study also shows, for the first time, that the zebrafish is a great model to study the early events in radiation-enhanced invasion.
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