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Intratibial Osteosarcoma Cell Injection to Generate Orthotopic Osteosarcoma and Lung Metastasis Mouse Models
Published on: October 28, 2021
Overexpression of p62 is associated with poor prognosis and aggressive phenotypes in osteosarcoma
Yao Lu1, Qian Wang1, Yong Zhou2
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hong Hui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710054, P.R. China.
Abstract:
p62 (also known as sequestosome 1) protein, is a small regulatory protein that accumulates in autophagy-defective cells that has been demonstrated to be involved in the prognosis and survival of patients with several types of cancer. However, to the best of our knowledge, there have been no such studies for osteosarcoma (OS). In the present study, the expression of p62 in 70 OS samples was determined using immunohistochemistry and its association with various clinicopathological factors was assessed. The results demonstrated that the overexpression of p62 protein was detected in 77.1% (54/70) samples, and the expression levels were significantly associated with tumor size (P=0.001), metastasis (P=0.036), clinical staging (P=0.003) and poor prognosis (P=0.0058). Furthermore, suppression of the p62 expression by short hairpin RNA interference in F5M2 and F4 cells lines led to decreased cell proliferation, migration and invasion in vitro. These results suggested that increased expression of p62 may be involved in OS progression, and therefore the excess expression of p62 may serve as a novel prognostic biomarker for patients with OS.
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