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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a prevalent malignancy worldwide, poses significant challenges in terms of prognosis, necessitating innovative therapeutic approaches. Ferroptosis offers notable advantages over apoptosis, holding promise as a novel therapeutic approach for HCC complexities. Moreover, while the interaction between long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and mRNAs is pivotal in various physiological and pathological processes, their involvement in ferroptosis remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we constructed a ferroptosis-related lncRNA-mRNA correlation network in HCC using Pearson correlation analysis. Notably, the SLC7A11-AS1/SLC7A11 pair, exhibiting high correlation, was identified. Bioinformatics analysis revealed a significant correlation between the expression levels of this pair and key clinical characteristics of HCC patients, including gender, pathology, Ishak scores and tumour size. And poor prognosis was associated with high expression of this pair. Functional experiments demonstrated that SLC7A11-AS1, by binding to the 3'UTR region of SLC7A11 mRNA, enhanced its stability, thereby promoting HCC cell growth and resistance to erastin- induced ferroptosis. Additionally, in vivo studies confirmed that SLC7A11-AS1 knockdown potentiated the inhibitory effects of erastin on tumour growth. Overall, our findings suggest that targeting the SLC7A11-AS1/SLC7A11 pair holds promise as a potential therapeutic strategy for HCC patients.
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Sistema de Transporte de Aminoácidos y+ , Carcinoma Hepatocelular , Ferroptosis , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica , Neoplasias Hepáticas , ARN Largo no Codificante , Ferroptosis/genética , Humanos , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/genética , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/patología , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/metabolismo , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/tratamiento farmacológico , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patología , Neoplasias Hepáticas/metabolismo , Neoplasias Hepáticas/tratamiento farmacológico , Sistema de Transporte de Aminoácidos y+/genética , Sistema de Transporte de Aminoácidos y+/metabolismo , ARN Largo no Codificante/genética , ARN Largo no Codificante/metabolismo , Animales , Línea Celular Tumoral , Masculino , Femenino , Ratones , Pronóstico , Proliferación Celular/genética , Ratones Desnudos , Persona de Mediana Edad , ARN Mensajero/genética , ARN Mensajero/metabolismo , Piperazinas/farmacologíaRESUMEN
Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent programmed cell death (PCD) enforced by lipid peroxidation accumulation. Transferrin receptor (TFRC), one of the signature proteins of ferroptosis, is abundantly expressed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, post-translational modification (PTM) of TFRC and the underlying mechanisms for ferroptosis regulation remain less understood. In this study, we found that TFRC undergoes O-GlcNAcylation, influencing Erastin-induced ferroptosis sensitivity in hepatocytes. Further mechanistic studies found that Erastin can trigger de-O-GlcNAcylation of TFRC at serine 687 (Ser687), which diminishes the binding of ubiquitin E3 ligase membrane-associated RING-CH8 (MARCH8) and decreases polyubiquitination on lysine 665 (Lys665), thereby enhancing TFRC stability that favors labile iron accumulation. Therefore, our findings report O-GlcNAcylation on an important regulatory protein of ferroptosis and reveal an intriguing mechanism by which HCC ferroptosis is controlled by an iron metabolism pathway.
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Carcinoma Hepatocelular , Ferroptosis , Neoplasias Hepáticas , Receptores de Transferrina , Receptores de Transferrina/metabolismo , Receptores de Transferrina/genética , Humanos , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/metabolismo , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/patología , Carcinoma Hepatocelular/genética , Neoplasias Hepáticas/metabolismo , Neoplasias Hepáticas/patología , Neoplasias Hepáticas/genética , Procesamiento Proteico-Postraduccional , Línea Celular Tumoral , Hierro/metabolismo , Ubiquitinación , Glicosilación , Estabilidad Proteica , PiperazinasRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide, with the fifth highest mortality rate among all cancers and high risk of metastasis. However, potential biomarkers and molecular mechanisms underlying the stratification of breast cancer in terms of clinical outcomes remain to be investigated. Therefore, we aimed to find a novel prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target for breast cancer patients. METHODS: Unsupervised hierarchical clustering was used to perform comprehensive transcriptomic study of total 185 glycogenes in public datasets of breast cancer with clinicopathological and survival information. A glycogene-based signature for subtype classification was discovered using Limma packages, and relevance to four known molecular features was identified by GSVA. Experimental verification was performed and biological functions of B3GNT7 were characterized by quantitative RT-PCR, western blot, transwell assays, and lectin immunofluorescence staining in breast cancer cells. RESULTS: A 23-glycogene signature was identified for the classification of breast cancer. Among the 23 glycogenes, B3GNTs showed significantly positive associations with ER-/Her2- subtype in breast cancer patients (n = 2655). Overexpressed B3GNT7 were correlated with poor prognosis in breast cancer patients based on public datasets. B3GNT7 depletion inhibited cell proliferation, migration, and invasion, and decreased global fucosylation in MDA-MB-231 and HCC1937 breast cancer cells. CONCLUSIONS: Herein, we discovered a unique 23-gene signature for breast cancer patient glycogene-type classification. Among these genes, B3GNT7 was shown to be a potential biomarker for unfavorable outcomes and therapeutic target of breast cancer.