Human homolog of NOTUM, overexpressed in hepatocellular carcinoma, is regulated transcriptionally by beta-catenin/TCF

Cancer Science
Yuichi TorisuHiroyuki Aburatani

Abstract

The Drosophila Notum gene, which is regulated by the Wingless pathway, encodes a secreted hydrolase that modifies heparan sulfate proteoglycans. In comparative analysis of the gene expression profiles in primary human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) and normal organs, we observed that the human ortholog of Drosophila Notum was overexpressed markedly in a subset of HCC, but expressed rarely in adult normal tissues. Immunoblotting confirmed the overexpression of NOTUM protein in 12 of 40 primary HCC cases (30%). High levels of NOTUM protein were significantly associated with intracellular (nuclear or cytoplasmic) accumulation of beta-catenin protein: all 10 HCC with high intracellular beta-catenin also had high NOTUM expression, whereas only 2 of 30 cases (6.7%) without intracellular beta-catenin had high NOTUM expression (P < 0.00001). NOTUM expression in HepG2 cells was downregulated significantly by induction of a dominant-negative mutant of TCF4, a beta-catenin partner. In vivo binding of the beta-catenin/TCF complex to the NOTUM promoter was demonstrated by chromatin immunoprecipitation in HepG2 and SW480 cells, where canonical Wnt signaling is activated constitutively. These findings provide evidence that NOTUM is a novel t...Continue Reading

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