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Objective To identify the mediators of CDC42 signaling pathway involved in hepatitis B virus X protein (HBx)-mediated cellular transformation.Methods The mass defect-based pseudo-isobaric dimethyl labeling method (pIDL)was used to detect the differentially expressed proteins with a deficiency of CDC42.Furthermore,we conducted a gene ontology (GO)of differentially expressed proteins.Results and Conclusion We totally qualified 3409 proteins and found 220 differentially expressed proteins.Palladin,formin-like 1 (FMNL1)and keratin-19,which were implicated in cytoskeleton organization,were down-regulated with the deficiency of CDC42.Our results have provided candidate genes and proteins that may play an important role in HBx-mediated cellular transformation.
ABSTRACT
Cell division cycle 42 (CDC42)is a member of Rho guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) family,which plays an important role in cell proliferation , cell migration and cell transformation .The activity of CDC42 can be regulated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs),GTPase activating proteins (GAPs) and guanine nucleotide-dissociation inhib-itors (GDIs).Recently,CDC42 has been reported as abnormally expressed in many human cancers ,suggesting that CDC42 performs complex functions in tumorigenesis .Therefore,this paper aims to shed light on the functions of CDC 42 in cancers in terms of the alteration of CDC42 activity,CDC42 regulators,as well as its effectors.