Taken together, silencing circular RNA UVRAG inhibited bladder cancer growth and metastasis by targeting the miR-223/FGFR2 axis, which may provide a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for the management of BLCA.
CRISPR/Cas9-mediated deletion of the enhancer region reduced the viability of bladder cancer cells by decreasing the expression of ΔNTP63 and p63 target genes.
Bladder cancer (BC) ranks as the sixth most common cancer in the United States and is the leading cause of death in patients with urinary malignancies. p63 is a member of the p53 family and is believed to function as a tumor suppressor in human BCs.
The p63 and p73 expressions have been investigated in a variety of human tumours including bladder carcinomas; yet, this is the first study to simultaneously analyse the transcriptional levels of all p53 family members in bladder cancer.
We used real-time PCR to characterize p63 expression and several genes implicated in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in human bladder cancer cell lines (n = 15) and primary tumors (n = 101).
Our data suggest that altered expression of p63 is a frequent event in bladder carcinogenesis and might contribute to the progression of bladder tumors, possibly via the mechanism(s) distinct from the p53 pathway.