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Zhifei Guo1, Guangyuan Li1, Erbao Bian1
1Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230601, China.
Abstract:
Human gliomas are related to high rates of morbidity and mortality. TGF-β promotes the growth of glioma cells, and correlate with the degree of malignancy of human gliomas. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in the malignant function of TGF-β are not fully elucidated. Here, we showed that TGF-β induced the downregulation of MST1 expression in U87 and U251 glioma cells. Treatment of glioma cells with the DNA methylation inhibitor 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-AzadC) prevented the loss of MST1 expression. Addition of 5-AzadC also reduced the TGF-β-stimulated proliferation, migration and invasiveness of glioma cells. Furthermore, Knockdown of DNMT1 upregulated MST1 expression in gliomas cells. In addition, the inhibition of DNMT1 blocked TGF-β-induced proliferation, migration and invasiveness in glioma cells. These results suggest that TGF-β promotes glioma malignancy through DNMT1-mediated loss of MST1 expression.
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