AKT serine/threonine kinase 2-mediated phosphorylation of fascin threonine 403 regulates esophageal cancer progression.
AKT serine/threonine kinase 2
Cell migration
Esophageal cancer
Fascin
Filopodia
Phosphorylation
Journal
The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology
ISSN: 1878-5875
Titre abrégé: Int J Biochem Cell Biol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9508482
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2022
04 2022
Historique:
received:
26
11
2021
revised:
20
02
2022
accepted:
21
02
2022
pubmed:
28
2
2022
medline:
6
5
2022
entrez:
27
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Fascin is the main actin-bundling protein in filopodia and is highly expressed in metastatic tumor cells. The overexpression of Fascin has been associated with poor clinical prognosis and metastatic progression. Post-translational modifications of Fascin, such as phosphorylation, can affect the proliferation and invasion of tumor cells by regulating the actin-bundling activity of Fascin. However, the phosphorylation sites of Fascin and their corresponding kinases require further exploration. In the current study, we identified novel phosphorylation of Fascin Threonine 403 (Fascin-T403) mediated by AKT serine/threonine kinase 2 (AKT2), which was studied using mass spectrometry data from esophageal cancer tissues (iProX database: IPX0002501000). A molecular dynamics simulation revealed that Fascin-Threonine 403 phosphorylation (Fascin-T403D) had a distinct spatial structure and correlation of amino acid residues, which was different from that of the wild type (Fascin-WT). Low-speed centrifugation assay results showed that Fascin-T403D affected actin cross-linking. To investigate whether Fascin-T403D affected the function of esophageal cancer cells, either Fascin-WT or Fascin-T403D were rescued in Fascin-knockout or siRNA cell lines. We observed that Fascin-T403D could suppress the biological behavior of esophageal cancer cells, including filopodia formation, cell proliferation, and migration. Co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) and Duolink in situ proximity ligation assay (PLA) were performed to measure the interaction between Fascin and AKT2. Using in vitro and in vivo kinase assays, we confirmed that AKT2, but not AKT1 or AKT3, is an upstream kinase of Fascin Threonine 403. Taken together, the AKT2-catalyzed phosphorylation of Fascin Threonine 403 suppressed esophageal cancer cell behavior, actin-bundling activity, and filopodia formation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35219877
pii: S1357-2725(22)00033-4
doi: 10.1016/j.biocel.2022.106188
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Actins
0
Carrier Proteins
0
Microfilament Proteins
0
fascin
146808-54-0
Threonine
2ZD004190S
Serine
452VLY9402
AKT2 protein, human
EC 2.7.11.1
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
EC 2.7.11.1
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
106188Informations de copyright
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