A role of fukutin, a gene responsible for Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy, in cancer cells: a possible role to suppress cell proliferation
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- DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2613.2008.00599.x
A role of fukutin, a gene responsible for Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy, in cancer cells: a possible role to suppress cell proliferation
Abstract
Fukutin, a gene responsible for Fukuyama type congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD), is presumably related to the glycosylation of alpha-dystroglycan (alpha-DG), involved in basement membrane formation. Hypoglycosylation of alpha-DG plays a key role for the pathogenesis of FCMD. On the other hand, fukutin and alpha-DG are also expressed in various non-neuromuscular tissues. Recently, a role of alpha-DG as a cancer suppressor has been proposed, because of a decrease of glycosylated alpha-DG in cancers. In this study, function of fukutin was investigated in two cancer cell lines, focusing on whether fukutin is involved in the glycosylation of alpha-DG in cancer cells and has any possible roles related to a cancer suppressor. Localization of fukutin and a result of laminin-binding assay after RNA interference suggest that fukutin may be involved in the glycosylation of alpha-DG in a small portion in these cancer cell lines. In Western blotting and immuno-electron microscopy, localization of fukutin in the nucleus was suggested in addition to the Golgi apparatus and/or endoplasmic reticulum. Immunohistochemically, there were more Ki-67-positive cells and more nuclear staining of phosphorylated c-jun after knockdown of fukutin in two cell lines. Fukutin appears to suppress cell proliferation through a system involving c-jun, although it is unclear this process is related to alpha-DG or not at present. The result may propose a possibility of another function of fukutin in addition to the glycosylation of alpha-DG in cancer cells.
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