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EMP1 inhibits nasopharyngeal cancer cell growth and metastasis through induction apoptosis and angiogenesis

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This study aimed to analyze the expression, clinical significance of epithelial membrane protein-1 (EMP1) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and the biological effect in its cell line by EMP1 overexpression. Immunohistochemistry and Western blot were used to analyze the EMP1 protein expression in 75 cases of nasopharyngeal cancer and 31 cases of normal tissues to study the relationship between EMP1 expression and clinical factors. Recombinant lentiviral vector was constructed to overexpress EMP1 and then infect nasopharyngeal cancer CNE2 cell line. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR and Western blot were used to detect the mRNA level and protein of EMP1. MTT assay, cell apoptosis, migration, and invasion assays were also conducted to determine the influence of the upregulated expression of EMP1 that might be found on CNE2 cells’ biological effect. Immunohistochemistry and Western blot: The level of EMP1 protein expression was found to be significantly lower in nasopharyngeal cancer tissue than in the normal tissues (P < 0.05). Decreased expression of EMP1 was significantly correlated with T stages, lymph node metastasis, clinic stage, and histological grade of patients with nasopharyngeal cancer (P < 0.05). Meanwhile, the loss of EMP1 expression correlated significantly with poor overall survival time by Kaplan–Meier analysis (P < 0.05). The result of biological function has shown that CNE2 cell-transfected EMP1 had a lower survival fraction, higher cell apoptosis, significant decrease in migration and invasion, higher caspase-9, and lower vascular endothelial growth factor C protein expression compared with CNE2 cell-untransfected EMP1 (P < 0.05). EMP1 expression decreased in nasopharyngeal cancer and correlated significantly T stages, lymph node metastasis, clinic stage, histological grade, and poor overall survival, suggesting that EMP1 may play important roles as a negative regulator to nasopharyngeal cancer cell.

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  1. Department of Chemoradiotherapy, Tangshan People’s Hospital, No. 65, Shengli Road, Lunan District, Tangshan, 063000, Hebei Province, China

    G. G. Sun & W. N. Hu

  2. Department of Endocrinology, Tangshan Workers Hospital, Tangshan, 063000, China

    Y. F. Lu

  3. Department of Tumor, The First Hospital of Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, 066000, China

    Z. Z. Fu

  4. Department of Radiotherapy, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, 050017, China

    Y. J. Cheng

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Sun, G.G., Lu, Y.F., Fu, Z.Z. et al. EMP1 inhibits nasopharyngeal cancer cell growth and metastasis through induction apoptosis and angiogenesis. Tumor Biol. 35, 3185–3193 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13277-013-1416-5

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