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ADAMTS12, a novel prognostic predictor, promotes cell proliferation, migration, and invasion in head and neck
Ming Li1, Zhenying Yuan2, Zhangui Tang1
1Hunan Key Laboratory of Oral Health Research & Hunan Clinical Research Center of Oral Major Diseases and Oral Health & Xiangya Stomatological Hospital & Xiangya School of Stomatology, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Objectives:
The prognostic significance and potential carcinogenic mechanism of ADAM metallopeptidase with thrombospondin type 1 motif 12 (ADAMTS12) in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC) remain unclear.
Materials And Methods:
Immunohistochemistry was used to analyze the correlation between ADAMTS12 protein expression and clinicopathological factors in tumor samples from 195 patients with HNSC. Based on clinicopathological data of patients, Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier analysis were used to identify the prognostic significance of the ADAMTS12 expression. The carcinogenicity of the ADAMTS12 in HNSC cells was analyzed by CCK-8 assay, the wound-healing assay, and transwell assays after transfection of ADAMTS12 overexpression or knock-down vector.
Results:
The expression of ADAMTS12 was up-regulated in HNSC compared with normal tissue, related to pathology grade and lymph node metastasis of patients with HNSC, which was an independent prognostic factor. ADAMTS12 overexpression facilitated cell viability, invasion, and migration of HNSC cells, while ADAMTS12 knock-down had inverse results. Moreover, enrichment analysis, ADAMTS12 overexpression assay, and ADAMTS12 knock-down assay confirmed that ADAMTS12 mediated the activation of P13K/Akt pathway in HNSC.
Conclusions:
Our studies indicated that ADAMTS12 was a novel prognostic biomarker and potentially therapeutic target in HNSC.
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