J Cell Mol Med
2021 Feb;25(4):2121-2135.
doi: 10.1111/jcmm.16172. Epub 2020 Dec 20.
The intracellular domain of UNC5B facilities proliferation and metastasis of bladder cancer cells
Yexiang Huang 1, Zhe Zhang 1, Miao Miao 1, Chuize Kong 1
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PMID: 33345442
PMCID: PMC7882925
DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.16172
Abstract
The intracellular domain of UNC5B contains both death domain and caspase-3 cleavage site, and is regarded as a functional domain that mediates apoptosis. However, in our previous studies, we found that the death domain of UNC5B in bladder cancer cells could not be activated to promote apoptosis. In this study, different UNC5B truncates (residue 399-945, residue 412-945) were created to explore whether the caspase-3 cleavage site (site 412), as another potential functional domain of its intracellular portion, could be activated to induce apoptosis in bladder cancer cells. Using mass spectrometry, we acquired a comprehensive and detailed identification of differentially expressed proteins by overexpressing UNC5B and its truncates. Protein-protein-interaction (PPI) network analysis was also applied to investigate the aggregation of related proteins and predict the functional changes. EDU assay, apoptosis, xenograft tumour implantation, migration, invasion and tumour metastasis were performed to comprehensively identify the effects of UNC5B truncates on bladder cancer cells. We demonstrate that the intracellular domain of UNC5B promotes cell proliferation in vitro and tumour formation in vivo, by binding to a large number of ribosomal proteins. The overexpression of intracellular domain also facilitates cells to migrate, invade and metastasize by interacting with fibronectin, beta-catenin and vimentin. In addition, we reveal that overexpressing the intracellular domain of UNC5B cannot bind or activate cleaved caspase-3 to trigger apoptosis in bladder cancer cells.
Keywords: UNC5B; apoptosis; bladder cancer; mass spectrometry; metastasis.
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