Preliminary screening of downstream proteins of Sox2 and role of Sox2 in colonic cancer cell migration and invasion / 南方医科大学学报

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To screen the down-stream proteins of transcription factor Sox2 and explore the role of Sox2 in the proliferation and migration of colonic cancer cells in vitro.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The cellular proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis and stained with Coomassie blue and amine plated silver. The differentially expressed proteins was identified by mass spectrometry and verified by QPCR and Western blotting. A cell counting kit-8 (CCK8) assay was performed to evaluate the cell proliferation, and the cell migration was assessed using Transwell assay.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>S3a was identified by proteomics technology as a Sox2-downregulated protein while ENO1 and gama-actin the up-regulated proteins. QPCR and Western blotting analyses showed that overexpression of Sox2 significantly decreased the expression of S3a (P<0.005) and increased the expression of ENO1(P<0.05), but had no significant effect on gama-actin expression. Sox2 overexpression obviously promoted cell proliferation and migration (P<0.05), while inhibition of Sox2 produced contrary effects (P<0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Sox2 negatively regulates S3a expression and positively regulates ENO1 expression to promot the proliferation and migration of colonic cancer cells.</p>