Role of BAG2 gene in A549 cell proliferation and its clinical implications / 中国病理生理杂志

ABSTRACT

AIM:To investigate the role of Bcl-2-associated athanogene 2(BAG2)in the proliferation of human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells and its clinical implications.METHODS:The abundance of BAG2 protein in A549 and lung bronchial epithelium(HBE)cells were measured by Western blot.After down-regulation of BAG2 by transfection of siRNA in A549 cells, the expression of cell proliferation and cell cycle related proteins were detected by CFSE assay, WST-1 assay and Western blot,respectively.Moreover,the expression of BAG2 in cDNA array which contained 10 pairs of lung cancer and adjacent tissue was verified.Meanwhile, BAG2 expression in GEO database, which included the human lung cancer and adjacent tissue microarray data was analyzed.The prognosis power of BAG2 was evaluated by the Kaplan-Meier survival curve analysis.RESULTS:BAG2 had remarkably higher expression level in A 549 cells than that in HBE cells.Knockdown of BAG2 resulted in significantly inhibition of proliferation in A 549 cells,accompany with the significant-ly down-regulation of cyclin B1 and cyclin E1.BAG2 was over-expressed in the lung cancer tissues,as compared with the adjacent normal tissues.Kaplan-Meier plotter and cDNA microarray results showed that patients with higher BAG 2 expres-sion were significantly associated with poorer survival.CONCLUSION:The BAG2 gene tends to regulate A549 cells pro-liferation via cyclin B1 and cyclin E1.BAG2 has significantly prognostic power on the survival of lung cancer patients.