WDR76 degrades RAS and suppresses cancer stem cell activation in colorectal cancer

Cell Communication and Signaling : CCS
Eun Ji RoKang-Yell Choi

Abstract

Stabilization of RAS is a key event for the hyper-activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling and activation of cancer stem cell (CSC) in colorectal cancer (CRC). WD Repeat protein 76 (WDR76) mediates the polyubiquitination-dependent degradation of RAS in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We investigated whether WDR76 destabilizes RAS and acts as a tumor suppressor inhibiting CSC activation in CRC. We generated mice with deletion of Wdr76 (Wdr76-/-) and crosses of Wdr76-/- with ApcMin/+ (Wdr76-/-; ApcMin/+) and compared them with wildtype mice (Wdr76+/+) and ApcMin/+ mice (Wdr76+/+; ApcMin/+), respectively. Intestinal crypt lengthening, tumorigenesis and CSC activation were analyzed by histology, immunohistochemistry, and immunoblotting. CRC cell line was engineered to stably express or knockdown WDR76 or control vector and was analyzed after spheroid culture. Wdr76-/- mice, with increased Ras level, displayed crypt elongation and hyper-proliferation. Wdr76-/-; ApcMin/+ mice developed more tumors with bigger sizes than ApcMin/+ mice and their tumors showed increased proliferation and CSC activation with elevated RAS and β-catenin levels. In CRC cells, overexpression or knockdown of WDR76 decreased or increased the numbers and sizes of ...Continue Reading

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
GSE21510

Methods Mentioned

BETA
immunoprecipitation assay
ubiquitination
flow cytometry
confocal microscopy
genotyping
profiler

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Image J
Excel
GraphPad Prism5
IHC profiler

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