Abstract
Purpose
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most malignant subtype of astrocytic tumors with the worst prognosis in all its progressive forms. Breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1 (BRMS1) is a metastasis suppressor gene that controls malignancy in multiple tumors. As yet, however, its clinical and functional significance in mutant P53 GBM remains inconclusive. Here, we attempted to study the importance of BRMS1 in mutant P53 GBM.
Methods
BRMS1 expression was evaluated in 74 human astrocytoma tissues by qRT-PCR, Western blotting and immunohistochemistry. BRMS1 expression in the astrocytoma tissues was correlated with clinicopathological parameters, the P53 mutation status and BRMS1 downstream targets, and compared with TCGA and NCI-60 datasets. siRNA-mediated knockdown of BRMS1 was performed in selected GBM cell lines to evaluate the functional role of BRMS1.
Results
Our study revealed an enhanced expression of BRMS1 in GBM which was associated with a poor patient survival, and this observation was corroborated by the TCGA dataset. We also found a positive correlation between BRMS1 expression and a mutant P53 status in GBM which was associated with a poor prognosis. In vitro BRMS1 silencing reduced the growth of mutant P53 GBM cells and repressed their colonization and migration/invasion by modulating EGFR-AKT/NF-κB signaling. Transcriptional profiling revealed a positive and negative correlation of uPA and ING4 expression with BRMS1 expression, respectively.
Conclusion
Our data indicate upregulation of BRMS1 in high grade astrocytomas which correlates positively with mutant P53 and a poor patient survival. Silencing of BRMS1 in mutant P53 GBM cell lines resulted in a reduced cellular growth and migration/invasion by suppressing the EGFR-AKT/NF-kB signaling pathway. BRMS1 may serve as a predictive biomarker and therapeutic target in mutant P53 GBM.
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Abbreviations
- GBM:
-
Glioblastoma
- BRMS1 :
-
Breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1
- wt/mut P53:
-
wild/mutant P53
- MSG:
-
Metastasis suppressor gene
- UPA :
-
Urokinase plasminogen activator
- ING4 :
-
Inhibitor of growth family-4
- EGFR :
-
Epidermal growth factor receptor
- siRNA:
-
Small interfering RNA
- NT-siRNA:
-
Non-targeting-small interfering RNA
- qPCR:
-
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
- IHC:
-
Immunohistochemistry
- TCGA:
-
The Cancer Genome Atlas
- CPTAC:
-
Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium
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The authors thank Dr. Chandra Sekhar from the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, India, for helping in the clinicopathological assessments. We also acknowledge all members of the PPB laboratory, especially Dr. Anwita Mudiraj and Dr. Ravindra Pramod Deshpande for their valuable contributions to the manuscript.
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We acknowledge the financial assistance to the Lab from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, DST- SERB Core grant, file No. SR/CSRI/196/2016, and CRG/2020/005021, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, BT/PR18168/MED/29/1064/2016, BT/PR17686/MED/30/1664/2016, and financial support to the University of Hyderabad-IoE by the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India F11/9/2019-U3 (A), and DST-FIST, and UGC-SAP for the department. D.B. acknowledges the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India for the student fellowship (Award no: DBT/2013/UOH/79).
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Babu, D., Chintal, R., Panigrahi, M. et al. Distinct expression and function of breast cancer metastasis suppressor 1 in mutant P53 glioblastoma. Cell Oncol. 45, 1451–1465 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13402-022-00729-x
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