Nuclear Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein D is Associated with Poor Prognosis and Interactome Analysis Reveals Its Novel Binding Partners in Oral Cancer

Overview

Journal J Transl Med

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
General Medicine

Date 2015 Aug 31

PMID 26318153

Citations 18

Authors

Manish Kumar

Ajay Matta

Olena Masui

Gunjan Srivastava

Jatinder Kaur

Alok Thakar

Nootan Kumar Shukla

Ajoy Roychoudhury

Meherchand Sharma

Paul G Walfish

K W Michael Siu

Shyam Singh Chauhan

Ranju Ralhan

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Abstract

Background: Post-transcriptional regulation by heterogeneous ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) is an important regulatory paradigm in cancer development. Our proteomic analysis revealed hnRNPD overexpression in oral dysplasia as compared with normal mucosa; its role in oral carcinogenesis remains unknown. Here in we determined the hnRNPD associated protein networks and its clinical significance in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).

Methods: Immunoprecipitation (IP) followed by tandem mass spectrometry was used to identify the binding partners of hnRNPD in oral cancer cell lines. Ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA) was carried out to unravel the protein interaction networks associated with hnRNPD and key interactions were confirmed by co-IP-western blotting. hnRNPD expression was analyzed in 183 OSCCs, 44 oral dysplasia and 106 normal tissues using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and correlated with clinico-pathological parameters and follow up data over a period of 91 months. Kaplan-Meier survival and Cox-multivariate-regression analyses were used to evaluate the prognostic significance of hnRNPD in OSCC.

Results: We identified 345 binding partners of hnRNPD in oral cancer cells. IPA unraveled novel protein-protein interaction networks associated with hnRNPD and suggested its involvement in multiple cellular processes: DNA repair, replication, chromatin remodeling, cellular proliferation, RNA splicing and stability, thereby directing the fate of oral cancer cells. Protein-protein interactions of hnRNPD with 14-3-3ζ, hnRNPK and S100A9 were confirmed using co-IP-western blotting. IHC analysis showed significant overexpression of nuclear hnRNPD in oral dysplasia [p = 0.001, Odds ratio (OR) = 5.1, 95% CI = 2.1-11.1) and OSCCs (p = 0.001, OR = 8.1, 95% CI = 4.5-14.4) in comparison with normal mucosa. OSCC patients showing nuclear hnRNPD overexpression had significantly reduced recurrence free survival [p = 0.026, Hazard ratio = 1.95, 95% CI = 1.0-3.5] by Kaplan-Meier survival and Cox-multivariate-regression analyses and has potential to define a high-risk subgroup among OSCC patients with nodal negative disease.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest novel functions of hnRNPD in cellular proliferation and survival, besides RNA splicing and stability in oral cancer. Association of nuclear hnRNPD with poor prognosis in OSCC patients taken together with its associated protein networks in oral cancer warrant future studies designed to explore its potential as a plausible novel target for molecular therapeutics.

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