Abstract
The homeobox gene prox1 is a transcription factor related to the Drosophila gene Prospero. It play an essential role in the development of central nervous system, lens, liver and pancreas. In addition, prox1 is a master gene controlling the early development of the lymphatic vasculature. In tumorigenesis, prox1 has been shown to function as a tumor suppressor gene in hepatocellular carcinoma and breast cancer. Conversely, prox1 is over-expressed in the majority of colorectal cancer (CRC) and it promotes dysplasia, tumor growth and malignant progression. I report the findings here and show that ectopic expression of prox1 in prox1-null DLD-1 colon cancer cells will increase cell invasion but decrease cell adhesion. In addition, prox1 may induce epithelia- mesenchymal transition (EMT) by attenuating E-cadherin expression and up-regulating other EMT markers. On the contrary, knockdown of prox1 increases E-cadherin expression in SW620 cells; reduction of prox1 increases cell adhesion but decreases invasion. In short, the transcription factor prox1 plays an oncogenic role and promotes cancer metastasis in CRC.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0816110-113029 |
| Date | 16 August 2010 |
| Creators | Lu, Mei-hsuan |
| Contributors | Long-sen Chang, Wen-Chun Hung, Shiue-Yow Ling |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0816110-113029 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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