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- Title
TGF-β1 Facilitates TAp63α Protein Lysosomal Degradation to Promote Pancreatic Cancer Cell Migration.
- Authors
Gao, Guohui; Chen, Jie; Wang, Dongbo; Li, Qiao; Yang, Xiaojiao; Wang, Jindan; Pan, Zhiyong; Xiao, Zhi-Xiong Jim; Yi, Yong
- Abstract
Simple Summary: Numerous studies demonstrate that the activation of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling is a critical driving force for promoting cancer cell migration and tumor metastasis. Our recent study indicates that TGF-β1 promotes FBXO3-mediated ΔNp63α protein degradation to facilitate cancer metastasis. In this study, we show that TGF-β1 can inhibit TAp63α protein stability in a lysosome-dependent, but canonical Smad pathway-independent manner, which leads to upregulation of p53-R248W expression, and consequently results in increased pancreatic cancer cell migration. TGF-β signaling plays a pivotal role in promoting tumor cell migration and cancer metastasis. ΔNp63α and TAp63α are two major isoforms of p53-related p63 protein. Our recent study has shown that TGF-β1 promotes ΔNp63α protein degradation to facilitate cancer metastasis. However, whether TAp63α is involved in TGF-β1-induced cancer metastasis remains unclear. In this study, we show that, in human pancreatic cancer MIA PaCa-2 cells harboring p53-R248W allele, TGF-β1 can significantly inhibit TAp63α protein stability in a Smad pathway-independent manner. Lysosome inhibitor, chloroquine, but not proteasome inhibitor MG132, can rescue TGF-β1-induced downregulation of TAp63α protein. In addition, we show that either TGF-β1 treatment or silencing of TAp63α can dramatically increase migration of MIA PaCa-2 cells. Importantly, the restored expression of TAp63α can effectively block TGF-β1-induced migration of MIA PaCa-2 cells. Mechanistically, we show that TGF-β1 promotes TAp63α protein degradation, leading to upregulation of p53-R248W protein expression, and consequently resulting in elevated MIA PaCa-2 cell migration. Together, this study indicates that lysosomal degradation is an important way for regulating TAp63α protein fate and highlights that TGF-β1-TAp63α-mutant p53 axis is critically important in pancreatic cancer metastasis.
- Subjects
PROTEOLYSIS; PANCREATIC cancer; CANCER cell migration; PROTEIN stability; METASTASIS; CELL migration; SMAD proteins
- Publication
Biology (2079-7737), 2021, Vol 10, Issue 7, p597
- ISSN
2079-7737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biology10070597