RAB10 promotes breast cancer proliferation migration and invasion predicting a poor prognosis for breast cancer.

RAB10, a member of the small GTPase family, has complex biological functions, but its role in breast cancer (BC) remains unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between RAB10's role in BC, its biological functions, and BC prognosis. An online database was used to analyze the correlation between differential expression of RAB10 in BC and prognosis. The results of immunohistochemical assays in clinical cohorts were combined with the database analysis. The chi-square test and COX regression were employed to analyze the correlation between RAB10 and pathological features of BC. MTT, Transwell, and wound healing assays were conducted to detect BC cell proliferation, invasion, and metastatic ability. Bioinformatics techniques were employed to explore the correlation between RAB10 and BC tumor immune cell infiltration, and to speculate the biological function of RAB10 in BC and related signaling pathways. Our findings suggest that RAB10 expression is elevated in BC and is associated with HER2 status, indicating a poor prognosis for BC patients. RAB10 can promote the proliferation, migration, and invasion ability of BC cells in vitro. RAB10 is also associated with BC immune cell infiltration and interacts with multiple signaling pathways. RAB10 is a potential biomarker or molecular target for BC.

The role of regulator Eha in Edwardsiella tarda pathogenesis and virulence gene transcription.

Edwardsiella tarda is a pathogen with a broad host range that infects both animals and humans. Eha is a new transcriptional regulator identified in ET13, which is involved in the bacterial hemolytic activity. This study explored the effect of the Eha in the pathogenesis of E. tarda and the transcriptional regulation of the bacterial virulence genes (eseC, fliC, pagC and fimA). Our results found that the virulence of the eha mutant was 2.5-fold less than the one of its wild ET13 by LD50 in a murine model of i.p. infection, and the bacterial loads of the mutant displayed a different profile from the one of the wild strain. Most significantly, the mice infected with the mutant have greatly reduced acute inflammation in the liver, spleen and kidney compared to the ones infected with the wild. We further demonstrated that eseC, fliC and pagC were regulated directly by the Eha with qRT-PCR and ß-Galactosidase assay, but fimA wasn't done. The promoter regions of the genes modulated and the cly gene reported before had been found to contain a common conserved motif by using software. In addition, we found that the wild strain was more toxic to RAW264.7 macrophages, and induced less the host cell apoptotic responses than the eha mutant did. Altogether, these data suggested that the Eha was required for the bacterial infection and the transcriptive regulation of the important virulence genes of E. tarda.