Research Paper|Volume 13, Issue 11|pp 15384—15399

CXCR5 induces perineural invasion of salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma by inhibiting microRNA-187

Mei Zhang¹, Jia-Shun Wu¹, Hong-Chun Xian¹, Bing-Jun Chen¹, Hao-Fan Wang¹, Xiang-Hua Yu¹, Xin Pang¹, Li Dai¹, Jian Jiang², Xin-Hua Liang¹, Ya-Ling Tang¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology (Sichuan University), Chengdu 610041, China
²Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Sichuan Cancer Hospital, Sichuan Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Received: December 3, 2020Accepted: March 11, 2021Published: June 10, 2021

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203097

Copyright: © 2021 Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

CXCR5 played critical roles in tumorigenesis and metastasis. Nevertheless, little was known about the involvement of CXCR5 in perineural invasion (PNI) of salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma (SACC). Here, we confirmed upregulation of CXCR5 in SACC specimens and cells and identified that CXCR5 exhibited a significant positive correlation with PNI. Functionally, knockdown of CXCR5 suppressed SACC cells migration, invasion and PNI ability, whereas CXCR5 overexpression displayed the opposite effects. Moreover, CXCR5 downregulated microRNA (miR)-187, which could competitively sponge S100A4. The PNI-inhibitory effect of CXCR5 knockdown or miR-187 overexpression could be reversed by elevated expression of S100A4. Conjointly, our data revealed that CXCR5 facilitated PNI through downregulating miR-187 to disinhibit S100A4 expression in SACC.