1. Targeting CRMP-4 by lentivirus-mediated RNA interference inhibits SW480 cell proliferation and colorectal cancer growth.
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SI-LE CHEN, SHI-RONG CAI, XIN-HUA ZHANG, WEN-FENG LI, ER-TAO ZHAI, JIAN-JUN PENG, HUI WU, CHUANG-QI CHEN, JIN-PING MA, ZHAO WANG, and YU-LONG HE
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COLON cancer , *CANCER cell proliferation , *LENTIVIRUSES , *RNA interference , *CANCER cell growth , *COLLAPSINS , *PROTEIN expression - Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression level of collapsin response mediator protein 4 (CRMP-4) in human colorectal cancer (CRC) tissue and to evauluate its impact on SW480 cell proliferation, in addition to tumor growth in a mouse xenograft model. Clinical CRC tissue samples were collected to detect the CRMP-4 protein expression levels using western blot and immunohistochemistry analyses. A specific small interfering RNA sequence targeting the CRMP-4 gene (DPYSL3) was constructed and transfected into an SW480 cell line using a lentivirus vector to obtain a stable cell line with low expression of CRMP-4. The effectiveness of the interference was evaluated using western blot and reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and the cell proliferation was determined using MTT and BrdU colorimetric methods. Tumor growth was assessed by subcutaneously inoculating the constructed cells into BALB/c nude mice. The protein expression levels of CRMP-4 were markedly increased in colon tumor tissue of the human samples. The proliferation of SW480 cells and the tumor growth rate in nude mice of the si-CPMR-4 group were evidently depressed compared with the si-scramble group. Thus, the present results suggest that CRMP-4 may be involved in the pathogenesis of CRC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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