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Published on: April 18, 2025
SUMO-specific protease 1 regulates pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and invasion by targeting MMP-9
Chenchao Ma1, Bo Wu, Xinyu Huang
1Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
SUMOylation is a dynamic process which can be reversed by a family of sentrin/SUMO-specific protease (SENPs). Recently, SENP1, a member of SENPs family was shown to have a pro-oncogenic role in many types of cancer. Here, we showed that SENP1 was upregulated in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. Moreover, clinical data showed that SENP1 was positively associated with lymph node metastasis and TNM stage. Furthermore, knockdown of SENP1 by SENP1-siRNA inhibited pancreatic cancer cell proliferation, migration, and invasion, suggesting that SENP1 played an important role in PDAC progression and metastasis. Mechanistically, silencing of SENP1 results in downregulation of MMP-9, which is pivotal for PDAC cell growth and migration. Taken together, these results suggest that SENP1 may serve as a potential novel diagnostic and therapeutic target of PDAC.
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