ECT2 promotes lung adenocarcinoma progression through extracellular matrix dynamics and focal adhesion signaling.

Cancer Science
Zeinab KosibatyNoriaki Sakamoto

Abstract

Lung adenocarcinoma (LAC) is the most prevalent form of lung cancer. Epithelial cell transforming sequence 2 (ECT2) is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor that has been implicated in oncogenic and malignant phenotypes of LAC. Here, we identified an oncogenic role of ECT2 in the extracellular matrix (ECM) dynamics of LAC cells. We showed that suppression of ECT2 decreased adhesion and spreading of LAC cells on ECM components. Morphologically, ECT2-depleted cells exhibited a rounded shape and cytoskeletal changes. Examination of transcriptional changes by RNA sequencing revealed a total of 1569 and 828 genes whose expressions were altered (absolute fold change and a difference of >2 fold) in response to suppression of ECT2 in two LAC cells (Calu-3 and NCI-H2342), respectively, along with 298 genes that were common to both cell lines. Functional enrichment analysis of common genes demonstrated a significant enrichment of focal adhesions. In accord with this observation, we found that ECT2 suppression decreased the expression level of proteins involved in focal adhesion signaling including focal adhesion kinase (FAK), Crk, integrin β1, paxillin, and p130Cas. FAK knockdown leads to impaired cell proliferation, adhesion, and spreadi...Continue Reading

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