Abstract
Metastasis is an important factor that causes ovarian cancer (OC) to become the most lethal malignancy of the female reproductive system, but its molecular mechanism is not fully understood. In this study, through bioinformatics analysis, as well as analysis of tissue samples and clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of patients in our centre, it was found that Forkhead box Q1 (FOXQ1) was correlated with metastasis and prognosis of OC. Through cell function experiments and animal experiments, the results show that FOXQ1 can promote the progression of ovarian cancer in vivo and in vitro. Through RNA-seq, chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA), Western blotting (WB), quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT‒PCR), immunohistochemistry (IHC), luciferase assay, and ChIP-PCR, it was demonstrated that FOXQ1 can mediate the WNT/β-catenin pathway by targeting the LAMB promoter region. Through coimmunoprecipitation (Co-IP), mass spectrometry (MS), ubiquitination experiments, and immunofluorescence (IF), the results showed that PARP1 could stabilise FOXQ1 expression via the E3 ubiquitin ligase Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP). Finally, the whole mechanism pathway was verified by animal drug combination experiments and clinical specimen prognosis analysis. In summary, our results suggest that PARP1 can promote ovarian cancer progression through the LAMB3/WNT/β-catenin pathway by stabilising FOXQ1 expression.
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This work was supported, in part, by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81972431, 82272898, 82203723, 82203723); Shanghai Sailing Program (No. 20YF1408000); Shanghai Anticancer Association EYAS PROJECT (No. SACA-CY19A07); The Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau (No. 20204Y0268; No. 20224Y0233); Shanghai Anti-Cancer Association “Young eagle” program (No. SACA-CY23C06); and the Female Tumour Project of Shanghai Key Clinical Specialty (No. SHSLCZDZK06301).
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Wu, J., Wu, Y., Chen, S. et al. PARP1-stabilised FOXQ1 promotes ovarian cancer progression by activating the LAMB3/WNT/β-catenin signalling pathway. Oncogene 43, 866–883 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-024-02943-3
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