Epithelial membrane protein 2(EMP2), a growth arrest specific-3/peripheral myelin protein-22(GAS3/PMP22) family member, is a tetraspan protein. In prior study identified EMP2 in endometrial cancer was an oncogene, but in B-cell lymphoma was a tumor suppressor gene. The effects of EMP2 on various cancer cell lines precise molecular mechanisms are not clear until now. We observed EMP2 was down-regulated following the progressive grades of bladder cancer cell lines. So, we clone the EMP2 full-length cDNA into the pEGFP-N3 vector as an tool. Then, we overexpressed EMP2 in bladder cancer cell line J82 cells and knockdown EMP2 by shEMP2 in bladder cancer cell line RT4 cells in order to examine its effects on functions of cells like proliferation, cycle , apoptosis and metastasis. Conclusion, we can get cell proliferation of EMP2-overexprssed cells were decreased through arresting G2/M phase of cell cycle. On the other hand, knockdown of EMP2 in RT4 cells increased cell proliferation. Moreover, the ability of migration were decreased by EMP2 in both J82 and RT4 cells.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0824110-115841 |
| Date | 24 August 2010 |
| Creators | Kuo, Chun-Lin |
| Contributors | Hurng-Wern Huang, Shiue-Yow Ling, Ming-Hong Tai |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0824110-115841 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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