Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 16 pp 16142—16154
LAIR-1 suppresses cell growth of ovarian cancer cell via the PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway
- 1 Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264003, Shandong, P.R. China
- 2 Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Hepato-Pancreatic Diseases of Zhejiang Province, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, P.R. China
- 3 Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264003, Shandong, P.R. China
- 4 Anti-aging Research Institution, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai 264003, Shandong, P.R.China
- 5 Department of Stomatology, Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical College, Binzhou 256603, Shandong, P.R. China
- 6 Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
- 7 School of Agriculture, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, Shandong, P.R.China
Received: August 28, 2019 Accepted: June 13, 2020 Published: July 4, 2020
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103589How to Cite
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Abstract
Recently, over-expression of LAIR-1 has been found in some solid cancers, including ovarian cancer. The role of LAIR-1 in cancer progression needs further investigation. In this study, we identified the LAIR-1 cDNA sequence of the ovarian cancer cells HO8910. Using SKOV3 cells, we confirmed the finding from our previous study that LAIR-1 could suppress in vitro cell proliferation and cell migration. We also found LAIR-1 overexpression can induce apoptosis of SKOV3 cells. We revealed LAIR-1 suppressed cell growth by inhibiting the PI3K-AKT-mTOR axis. Moreover, the LAIR-1 antitumor activity and its mechanism were also identified in vivo. We used Co-IP assay and mass spectrometry to identify potential LAIR-1-binding proteins in LAIR-1 overexpressing SKOV3 cells. MS analysis identified 167 potentially interacting proteins. GO analyses indicated a possible involvement of LAIR-1 in mRNA processing through its interaction with some eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIF4E1B, eIF2S3, eIF3D, eIF4G2, eIF5B) and eukaryotic translation elongation factors (eEF1A2 and eEF1B2). Our findings suggest that LAIR-1 may suppress the growth of ovarian cancer cells by serving as a modulator that suppresses PI3K-AKT-mTOR directly or regulating protein synthesis at the translational level. Our results indicate that a LAIR-1-based strategy may prevent or suppress the progression of ovarian cancer.
Abbreviations
LAIR-1: leukocyte-associated immunoglobulin-like receptor-1; Co-IP: Co-Immunoprecipitation; GO: Gene Ontology analysis; eIF: eukaryotic translation initiation factor; eEF: eukaryotic translation elongation factor.