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AZGP1 inhibits soft tissue sarcoma cells invasion and migration

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Title
AZGP1 inhibits soft tissue sarcoma cells invasion and migration
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BMC Cancer, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12885-017-3962-5
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Jiayong Liu, Haibo Han, Zhengfu Fan, Marc El Beaino, Zhiwei Fang, Shu Li, Jiafu Ji

Abstract

One of the major challenges in soft tissue sarcomas is to identify factors that predict metastasis. AZGP1 is a potential biomarker of cancer progression, but its value in soft tissue sarcomas remains unknown. The aim of this study is to determine the expression level of AZGP1 in soft tissue sarcomas, and to analyze its influence on tumor progression. AZGP1 immunohistochemistry (IHC) and RT-PCR were performed in 86 patients with soft tissue sarcomas. The relationships between AZGP1 levels and clinicopathologic features were analyzed. In vitro experiments were performed using fibrosarcoma (HT1080), rhabdomyosarcoma (RD) and synovial sarcoma (SW982) cell lines to corroborate our findings. We used lentiviral over-expression and knockdown assays to examine how changes of AZGP1 expressions might affect cellular migration and invasion. The quantitative RT-PCR results showed that AZGP1 expression was negatively correlated with metastasis and overall survival in soft tissue sarcomas (p < 0.05). Immunohistochemical staining showed lower expression of AZGP1 in patients with metastasis than in those without. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that patients with low expression of AZGP1 had shorter overall (p = 0.056) and metastasis-free survivals (p = 0.038). These findings were corroborated by our in vitro experiments. Over-expression of AZGP1 significantly decreased RD cellular migration and invasion by 64% and 78%, respectively. HT1080 cells migration was inhibited by 2-fold, whereas their invasion was repressed by 7-fold after AZGP1 knockdown. Our study reveals that reduced AZGP1 expression correlates with in vitro cellular migration and invasion. In vivo, it is associated with higher metastatic risk and shorter survival in patients with soft tissue sarcomas.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 17%
Librarian 1 6%
Student > Master 1 6%
Other 3 17%
Unknown 3 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 33%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 22%
Engineering 2 11%
Social Sciences 1 6%
Unknown 5 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 February 2018.
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#14,966,095
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#3,715
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#256,099
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#101
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