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- Title
The Functions of PCNA in Tumor Stemness and Invasion.
- Authors
Wang, Yuan-Liang; Wu, Wan-Rong; Lin, Pei-Le; Shen, Yi-Chun; Lin, You-Zhe; Li, Hong-Wei; Hsu, Kai-Wen; Wang, Shao-Chun
- Abstract
Invasion is the most prominent lethal feature of malignant cancer. However, how cell proliferation, another important feature of tumor development, is integrated with tumor invasion and the subsequent cell dissemination from primary tumors is not well understood. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is essential for DNA replication in cancer cells. Loss of phosphorylation at tyrosine 211 (Y211) in PCNA (pY211-PCNA) mitigates PCNA function in proliferation, triggers replication fork arrest/collapse, which in turn sets off an anti-tumor inflammatory response, and suppresses distant metastasis. Here, we show that pY211-PCNA is important in stromal activation in tumor tissues. Loss of the phosphorylation resulted in reduced expression of mesenchymal proteins as well as tumor progenitor markers, and of the ability of invasion. Spontaneous mammary tumors that developed in mice lacking Y211 phosphorylation contained fewer tumor-initiating cells compared to tumors in wild-type mice. Our study demonstrates a novel function of PCNA as an essential factor for maintaining cancer stemness through Y211 phosphorylation.
- Subjects
PROLIFERATING cell nuclear antigen; DNA replication
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 10, p5679
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23105679