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Chang-Lun Huang1, Shubham Suresh Ghule2, Yu-Hsiang Chang3
1Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Changhua 500, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Abstract:
Esophageal cancer, one of the most prevalent types of cancer worldwide, frequently exhibits distant metastases. The adipokine visfatin is implicated in cancer progression and metastasis. However, the mechanisms by which visfatin regulates motility in esophageal cancer remain unclear. Bioinformatics analysis showed levels of visfatin were higher in patients with metastatic esophageal cancer than in those with primary esophageal cancer. Cell motility assay revealed that visfatin stimulation enhanced the migration and invasion of esophageal cancer cells. Treatment with or without visfatin (30 ng/ml) in KYSE410 cells followed by miRNA sequencing, revealed that miR‑3613‑5p controlled visfatin‑induced cell motility. Further cell migration, invasion, qPCR and western blot assay shows that visfatin promoted esophageal cancer cell migration by decreasing miR‑3613‑5p expression and subsequently increasing vascular endothelial zinc finger 1/versican production. Thus, the visfatin/miR‑3613‑5p axis may be a promising target for inhibiting esophageal cancer cell migration and invasion.
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