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Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation
Published on: January 2, 2009
LMP2A induces DNA methylation and expression repression of AQP3 in EBV-associated gastric carcinoma
Jiayi Wang1, Wen Liu1, Xiangyan Zhang2
1Department of Pathogenic Biology, Qingdao University Medical College, 38 Dengzhou Road, Qingdao, 266021, China.
Abstract:
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated gastric carcinoma (EBVaGC) is a unique type of gastric carcinomas that promoter hypermethylation of tumor-related genes is extremely frequent to be found. Aquaporin 3 (AQP3) is a small membrane transport protein that plays a crucial role in cancer progression and metastasis. However, there is no experimental study on the expression of AQP3 in EBVaGC and the regulation mechanism of EBV on AQP3. In this study, the loss of AQP3 was contributed by the hypermethylation status of AQP3 promoter in EBVaGC which was caused by elevated expression of DNMT3a. In addition, stable and transient transfection system in SGC7901 showed that viral latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) activated phosphorylated ERK and up-regulated DNMT3a. Taken together, LMP2A induced the phosphorylation of ERK, which activated DNMT3a transcription and caused AQP3 expression loss through CpG island methylation of AQP3 promoter in EBVaGC.
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