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VEGF-induced Nrdp1 deficiency in vascular endothelial cells promotes cancer metastasis by degrading vascular basement membrane

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Vascular endothelial cells (VECs) are key players in the formation of neovessels and tumor metastasis, the ultimate cause of the majority of cancer-related human death. However, the crosstalk between VECs and metastasis remain greatly elusive. Based on our finding that tumor-associated VECs present significant decrease of Nrdp1 protein which is closely correlated with higher metastatic probability, herein we show that the conditional medium from hypoxia-incubated cancer cells induces extensive Nrdp1 downregulation in human and mouse VECs by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which activates CHIP, followed by Nrdp1 degradation in ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent way. More importantly, lung metastases of cancer cells significantly increase in conditional VECs Nrdp1 knockout mice. Mechanically, Nrdp1 promotes degradation of Fam20C, a secretory kinase involved in phosphorylating numerous secreted proteins. Reciprocally, deficiency of Nrdp1 in VECs (ecNrdp1) results in increased secretion of Fam20C, which induces degradation of extracellular matrix and disrupts integrity of vascular basement membrane, thus driving tumor metastatic dissemination. In addition, specific overexpression of ecNrdp1 by Nrdp1-carrying adeno-associated virus or chemical Nrdp1 activator ABPN efficiently mitigates tumor metastasis in mice. Collectively, we explore a new mechanism for VEGF to enhance metastasis and role of Nrdp1 in maintaining the integrity of vascular endothelium, suggesting that ecNrdp1-mediated signaling pathways might become potential target for anti-metastatic therapies.

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Fig. 1: VECs in tumors present lower expression of Nrdp1 protein.
Fig. 2: Cancer cells secreted VEGF induces Nrdp1 degradation in VECs.
Fig. 3: Deficiency of ecNrdp1 facilitates cancer cell metastasis in vivo.
Fig. 4: EcNrdp1 deficiency has no effect on VECs-tumor cell adhesion and VEC gap junctions.
Fig. 5: EcNrdp1 deletion disrupts the integrity of vascular basement membrane.
Fig. 6: Deletion of ecNrdp1 facilitates metastasis by Fam20C expression.
Fig. 7: Increased ecNrdp1 by gene delivery or chemical induction alleviates lung metastatic burden in mice.

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This work is supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFA0803403), National Natural Science Foundation (82293661, 82070893, 92253303, 82200185), Shanghai Scientific and Technological Innovation Action Plan (20JC1410100), Innovative research team of high-level local universities in Shanghai (SHSMU-ZDCX20211800). We thank Yao-Yao Τu for kindly providing human umbilical cord (International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, SJTUSM), Prof. Dr. Sorakin for kindly providing laminin α5 antibody (Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry University of Muenster) and Prof. Lei Wang for kindly providing Fam20C antibody (Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

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Li, QQ., Guo, M., He, GH. et al. VEGF-induced Nrdp1 deficiency in vascular endothelial cells promotes cancer metastasis by degrading vascular basement membrane. Oncogene (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-024-03038-9

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