CARF enrichment promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition via Wnt/β-catenin signaling: its clinical relevance and potential as a therapeutic target

Oncogenesis
Rajkumar S KalraRenu Wadhwa

Abstract

CARF (Collaborator of ARF)/CDKN2AIP was discovered as a novel ARF-binding protein. It has been established as an essential cell survival, p53-, and cell proliferation-regulatory protein. Although a moderate upregulation of CARF caused growth arrest and senescence, its excessively enriched levels were shown to facilitate aggressive proliferation and malignant transformation of cancer cells. Here, we examined the relevance of CARF levels in clinical tumors and found its amplification (both at gene and transcript levels) in a variety of invasive and metastatic malignancies. Consistent with the clinical readouts, enrichment of CARF in cancer cells promoted epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Cancer database and molecular analyses revealed that it activates Wnt/β-catenin signaling axis, as evident by enhanced nuclear localization and function of β-catenin marked by increased level of SNAIL1, SNAIL2, ZEB1, and TWIST1 and its downstream gene targets. Of note, targeted knockdown of CARF led to decrease in nuclear β-catenin and its key downstream effectors, involved in EMT progression. Consistent with this, CARF targeting in vivo either by naked siRNA or CARF shRNA harboring adeno-oncolytic virus caused suppression of tumor progres...Continue Reading

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