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Method for Measuring the Activity of Deubiquitinating Enzymes in Cell Lines and Tissue Samples
Published on: May 10, 2015
Deubiquitinating enzyme PSMD7 promotes bladder cancer development: Involvement of RAB1A stabilization
Jun Wang1, Tao Wang1, Yuan-Kang Feng1
1Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China.
Background:
Proteasome 26S subunit, non-ATPase 7 (PSMD7) is a deubiquitinating enzyme that is involved in the stability of ubiquitinated proteins and participates in the development of multiple types of cancer. The roles of PSMD7 and its potential mechanisms in bladder cancer (BC) remain elusive.
Methods:
In this study, we identified that PSMD7 was overexpressed in BC tissues based on gene expression omnibus (GEO) database and TNMplot web. To investigate the functional role of PSMD7, two BC cell lines, T24 and 5637, were selected. The cells were transfected with vectors containing short hairpin RNAs against PSMD7 or plasmids containing full-length PSMD7 to knockdown or overexpress PSMD7.
Results:
Our results revealed that silencing PSMD7 inhibited cell proliferation, cycle progression, migration, invasion, and promoted cell apoptosis, whereas PSMD7 overexpression led to the opposite effects in the BC cells. Mechanically, PSMD7 influenced the protein expression but not the mRNA expression of the Ras-related protein Rab-1 A (RAB1A). PSMD7 combined with RAB1A and negatively regulated its ubiquitination, indicating that PSMD7 enhanced the stability of RAB1A through post-transcriptional modification. Moreover, the rescue experiment demonstrated that RAB1A was an important downstream effector molecule of PSMD7. Besides, the negative regulation of silencing PSMD7 on tumor growth was confirmed in mice.
Conclusions:
Our study substantiated a novel mechanism by which PSMD7 stabilized RAB1A to accelerate the progression of BC.
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