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Hai-Yan Song1,2,3, Li Zhou1,2,3, Xin-Fang Hou4
1School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xinxiang Medical University Xinxiang 453003, Henan Province, China.
Abstract:
Pancreatic cancer (PC) has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers. Anoctamin (ANO) inlcudes a family of Ca2+-activated Cl- channels (CaCCs) that participate in tumorigenesis and progression. However, the exact role of ANO5 in PC has not yet been clarified. Our previous study showed that ANO5 is highly expressed in the epithelial cells of the digestive tract, but there have been no reports of ANO5 expression in normal pancreatic tissue and in PC tissue. In the present study, we investigated the expression of ANO5 in normal pancreatic tissues and PC tissues using immunohistochemistry. The results indicated that ANO5 expression was significantly elevated in PC tissues compared with normal pancreatic tissues. Next, we investigated the expression of ANO5 in pancreatic ductal epithelial cells and PC cells using western blotting and quantitative real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). The results indicated that ANO5 expression was significantly elevated in PC cells compared with pancreatic ductal epithelial cells. The impact of siRNA-mediated ANO5 knockdown on PC cell proliferation and migration was detected using CCK-8 assays and scratch experiments. The results indicated that ANO5 siRNA reduced the proliferation and migration of PC cells. Collectively, the results suggest that downregulation of ANO5 inhibits the proliferation and migration of PC cells. Therefore, ANO5 is potentially a novel therapeutic target for PC treatment.
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