1. Correlations between chromobox homolog 8 and key factors of epithelial–mesenchymal transition in hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Zhu, Xiaonian, Luo, Wei, Bei, Chunhua, Kong, Juan, Zhang, Shidong, Fu, Yuanyuan, Li, Di, and Tan, Shengkui
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HEPATOCELLULAR carcinoma ,RANK correlation (Statistics) ,STATISTICAL correlation ,METASTASIS - Abstract
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, especially in China, with high metastasis and poor prognosis. Recently, as the core component of the polycomb repressive complexes 1 (PRC1), chromobox protein homolog 8 (CBX8) is considered as an oncogene and prognostic marker in HCC. Methods: A tissue microarray of 166 paired HCC and adjacent non-tumor samples were collected to identify the relationship between CBX8 and epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) associated proteins by Spearman correlation analysis. Knock-down of CBX8 in HCC cells was conducted to detect the biologic functions of CBX8 in HCC metastasis. Results: We found out that CBX8 was over-expressed in HCC and its expression was closely related to the metastasis of HCC patients. In addition, knock-down of CBX8 was found to inhibit the invasion and migration ability of HCC cells. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between expression of CBX8 and EMT associated proteins both in HCC cells and tumor tissues. Conclusions: Our results indicate that CBX8 promotes metastasis of HCC by inducing EMT process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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