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Loss of PPM1A expression enhances invasion and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in bladder cancer by activating the TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway
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Abstract
Jiang Geng1*, Jie Fan2,3*, Qi Ouyang2,3, Xiaopeng Zhang1, Xiaolong Zhang1, Juan Yu2, Zude Xu2,3, Qianyu Li5, Xudong Yao1, Xiuping Liu2,4, Junhua Zheng1
1 Department of Urology, Tenth People’s Hospital; Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2 Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
3 Department of Pathology, Huashan Hospital; Fudan University, Shanghai, China
4 Department of Pathology, Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
5 Department of Pathology, Tenth People’s Hospital; Tongji University, Shanghai, China
* Jiang Geng and Jie Fan contribute equally to this work.
Correspondence to:
Dr. Junhua Zheng, e-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Xiuping Liu, e-mail: [email protected]
Keywords: urinary bladder cancer; PPM1A; TGF-β signaling; muscle-invasive; EMT.
Received: May 19, 2014 Accepted: June 20, 2014 Published: July 01, 2014
ABSTRACT
The transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling pathway is believed to contribute to carcinoma development by increasing cell invasiveness and metastasis and inducing the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Protein phosphatase PPM1A has been reported to dephosphorylate TGF-β-activated Smad2/3, thus inhibiting the TGF-β signaling pathway. In this study, we investigated the role of PPM1A in bladder cancer. PPM1A protein expression was analyzed in 145 bladder cancer specimens. The loss of PPM1A expression was predictive of poor survival and high muscle-invasiveness. PPM1A was more commonly deficient among muscle-invasive relapse samples compared to primary tumors in twenty paired bladder cancer tissues. Functional studies indicated that blockade of PPM1A through lentivirus-mediated RNA interference significantly promoted urinary bladder cancer (BCa) cell motility, the EMT in vitro and metastasis in vivo, and these effects were dependent on the TGF-β/Smad signaling pathway. The increase in p-Smad2/3 induced by TGF-β1 correlated with the degree of PPM1A depletion in BCa cells, which resulted in an altered expression profile of TGF-β-inducible genes. The correlations between PPM1A and biomarkers related to the TGF-β signaling pathway and tumor invasion were also detected in BCa samples. These results demonstrate that loss of PPM1A is associated with the development of tumor invasion in bladder cancer.
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