RBM5-AS1 Is Critical for Self-Renewal of Colon Cancer Stem-like Cells

Overview

Journal Cancer Res

Specialty Oncology

Date 2016 Aug 14

PMID 27520449

Citations 36

Authors

Serena Di Cecilia

Fan Zhang

Ana Sancho

Side Li

Francesca Aguilo

Yifei Sun

Madhumitha Rengasamy

Weijia Zhang

Luigi Del Vecchio

Francesco Salvatore

Martin J Walsh

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Abstract

Cancer-initiating cells (CIC) undergo asymmetric growth patterns that increase phenotypic diversity and drive selection for chemotherapeutic resistance and tumor relapse. WNT signaling is a hallmark of colon CIC, often caused by APC mutations, which enable activation of β-catenin and MYC Accumulating evidence indicates that long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) contribute to the stem-like character of colon cancer cells. In this study, we report enrichment of the lncRNA RBM5-AS1/LUST during sphere formation of colon CIC. Its silencing impaired WNT signaling, whereas its overexpression enforced WNT signaling, cell growth, and survival in serum-free media. RBM5-AS1 has been little characterized previously, and we determined it to be a nuclear-retained transcript that selectively interacted with β-catenin. Mechanistic investigations showed that silencing or overexpression of RBM5-AS1 caused a respective loss or retention of β-catenin from TCF4 complexes bound to the WNT target genes SGK1, YAP1, and MYC Our work suggests that RBM5-AS1 activity is critical for the functional enablement of colon cancer stem-like cells. Furthermore, it defines the mechanism of action of RBM5-AS1 in the WNT pathway via physical interactions with β-catenin, helping organize transcriptional complexes that sustain colon CIC function. Cancer Res; 76(19); 5615-27. ©2016 AACR.

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