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    Title: ASPM promotes prostate cancer stemness and progression by augmenting Wnt-Dvl-3-beta-catenin signaling
    Other Titles: ASPM promotes prostate cancer stemness and progression by augmenting Wnt−Dvl-3−β-catenin signaling
    Authors: Pai, VC;Hsu, CC;Chan, TS;Liao, WY;Chuu, CP;Chen, WY;Li, CR;Lin, CY;Hwang, SP;Chen, LT;Tsai, KK
    Contributors: National Institute of Cancer Research;Institute of Cellular and Systems Medicine
    Abstract: Recurrent and hormone-refractory prostate cancer (PCA) exhibits aggressive behaviors while current therapeutic approaches show little effect of prolonging the survival of patients with PCA. Thus, a deeper understanding of the patho-molecular mechanisms underlying the disease progression in PCA is crucial to identify novel diagnostic and/or therapeutic targets to improve the outcome of patients. Recent evidence suggests that activation of Wnt signaling in cancer stem cells (CSCs) contributes to cancer progression in malignant tumors. Here, we report that a novel Wnt co-activator ASPM (abnormal spindle-like microcephaly associated) maintains the prostate CSC subpopulation by augmenting the Wnt-beta-catenin signaling in PCA. ASPM expression is incrementally upregulated in primary and metastatic PCA, implicating its potential role in PCA progression. Consistently, downregulation of ASPM expression pronouncedly attenuated the proliferation, colony formation, and the invasive behavior of PCA cells, and dramatically reduced the number of ALDH(+) CSCs and inhibited cancer stemness and tumorigenicity. Mechanistically, ASPM interacts with disheveled-3 (Dvl-3), a cardinal upstream regulator of canonical Wnt signaling, and inhibits its proteasome-dependent degradation, thereby increasing its protein stability and enabling the Wnt-induced beta-catenin transcriptional activity in PCA cells. In keeping with the role of ASPM as a CSC-regulator, ASPM co-localizes with ALDH in PCA tissues and its expression exhibits high intra-tumoral heterogeneity. The proportion of high-ASPM-expressing cells in the tumor inversely correlates with the relapse-free survival of PCA patients. Collectively, our data points to ASPM as a novel oncoprotein and an essential regulator of Wnt signaling and cancer stemness in PCA, which has important clinical and therapeutic significance.
    Date: 2019-02
    Relation: Oncogene. 2019 Feb;38(8):1340-1353.
    Link to: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41388-018-0497-4
    JIF/Ranking 2023: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=NHRI&SrcApp=NHRI_IR&KeyISSN=0950-9232&DestApp=IC2JCR
    Cited Times(WOS): https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000459249800014
    Cited Times(Scopus): https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85054385002
    Appears in Collections:[Kelvin Kun-Chih Tsai] Periodical Articles
    [Li-Tzong Chen] Periodical Articles
    [Chih-Pin Chuu] Periodical Articles

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