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UCH-L1 Promotes Invasion of Breast Cancer Cells Through Activating Akt Signaling Pathway

UCH-L1 Promotes Invasion of Breast Cancer Cells Through Activating Akt Signaling Pathway

Yanhong Luo, Jianfeng He, Chunlin Yang, Matthew Orange, Xingcong Ren, Nick Blair, Tao Tan, Jin-Ming Yang, Hua Zhu

J Cell Biochem. 2018 Jan;119(1):691-700.

PMID: 28636190

Abstract:

As a de-ubiquitin enzyme, ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase (UCH)-L1 has been shown to be overexpressed in several human cancers. However, the function of UCH-L1 in invasion of breast cancers is still unclear. Here we report that the expression of UCH-L1 is significantly higher in cancer cells with higher invasive ability. While ectopic UCH-L1 expression failed to alter cell proliferation in MCF-7 cells, it caused a significant upregulation of cellular invasion. Furthermore, siRNA mediated knockdown of UCH-L1 led to suppression of invasion in UCH-L1 overexpressing MCF-7 cells. In order to identify molecular mechanisms underlying these observations, a novel in vitro proximity-dependent biotin identification method was developed by fusing UCH-L1 protein with a bacterial biotin ligase (Escherichia coli BirA R118G, BioID). Streptavidin magnetic beads pulldown assay revealed that UCH-L1 can interact with Akt in MCF-7 cells. Pulldown assay with His tagged recombinant UCH-L1 protein and cell lysate from MCF-7 cells further demonstrated that UCH-L1 preferentially binds to Akt2 for Akt activation. Finally, we demonstrated that overexpression of UCH-L1 led to activation of Akt as evidenced by upregulation of phosphorylated Akt. Thus, these findings demonstrated that UCH-L1 promotes invasion of breast cancer cells and might serve as a potential therapeutic target for treatment of human patients with breast cancers.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
IAR42411778	AKT2, active, His tagged human			Price
IAR4248208	UCHL1, His tagged human			Price

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