Dysregulation of BAG‐1 in hepatocellular carcinoma predicts patient outcome and mediates increased resistance to doxorubicin‐induced apoptosis via NF‐κB pathway
ABSTRACT
Bcl‐2‐associated athanogene‐1 (BAG‐1) is a multifunctional anti‐apoptotic protein which regulates an array of cellular processes, including apoptosis, signaling, proliferation, transcription, and cell motility and has been reported to be over‐expressed in a number of human malignancies. To investigate the possible involvement of BAG‐1 in tumorigenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), we performed Western blot analysis in eight paired samples of HCC and adjacent peritumoral tissues and immunohistochemistry in 65 paraffin sections of HCC, which both showed an enhanced expression of nuclear BAG‐1 isoform in HCC tissues. Statistical analysis confirmed that overexpression of nuclear BAG‐1 in HCC tissues was significantly associated with histological grading (P <0.001), poor prognosis (P = 0.004), and was found to be an independent prognostic indicator for HCC (P = 0.023). We also noted that BAG‐1 was overexpressed in four HCC cell lines compared with a normal hepatocyte cell line, and BAG‐1 overexpression increased resistance of HCC cells to doxorubicin, a common chemotherapeutic agent for HCC. Furthermore, we observed that knock down of BAG‐1 with siRNA in HepG2 cells increased the chemosensitivity of cells, a process mediated through inhibition of doxorubicin‐triggered NF‐κB activation; and knock down of BAG‐1 suppressed proliferation and cell cycle transition of HepG2 cells. In consequence, our results for the first time indi...
Source: Journal of Cellular Biochemistry - Category: Biochemistry Authors: Wenkai Ni, Buyou Chen, Guoxiong Zhou, Cuihua Lu, Mingbing Xiao, Chengqi Guan, Yixing Zhang, Song He, Aiguo Shen, Runzhou Ni Tags: Article Source Type: research
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